OA r asv VR Clients at North Georgia Technical Priscilla Edmondson top panel 22 of Monroe enrolled in the prac tical nursing training course at the North Georgia Technical and Voca tional School is shown taking the blood pressure from acting patient Hazel Thomas Priscilla a diabetic since she was 15 months old leads a normal ac tive life and controls her diabetes with proper medication Referred to vocational rehabilita tion by her high school counselor Priscilla applied for VR services and the local VR Counselor con tacted her and found that she was eligible VR is furnishing room and board maintenance books and uniforms Dwight Isenhower left in second panel 19 from Crandall who has a congenital speech deficiency was referred to Vocational Rehabilita tion by his high school counselor Dwight is enrolled in the masonry course and VR is furnishing room and board and maintenance Born with a congenital hearing deficiency George W Leavell of Chickamauga right 2nd panel is enrolled in a small engine repair course at the North Georgia Trade School Vocational Rehabilitation is fur nishing him room and board main tenance and batteries for his hear ing aid Dale Clark of Atlanta left in 3rd panel who suffered an attack of polio when he was three years old is studying courses in frontend alignment and balancing brakes and engine tuneup at the North Georgia Technical and Vocational School Referred to vocational rehabilita tion by his high school counselor Dale is receiving room and board from vocational rehabilitation John Strozier 21 right in 3rd panel from College Park is taking the general photography course at the North Georgia Technical and Vocational School Born with cerebral palsy John also contracted polio when he was seven and his drive and determina tion have enabled him to get up and around by himself Referred to vocational rehabilita tion by his school counselor John is receiving room and board and necessary supplies from vocational rehabilitation Michael T Chrystal of Gaines ville who suffers from a lymph gland problem in his legs contacted the local Vocational Rehabilitation Office to see if he was eligible for VR services Economically ineligible Chrystal received counseling and guidance from the local office and a plan was laid out for him to attend the body and painting course at the North Georgia Technical and Vocational SchoolGRC DEDICATION ANNOUNCED The dedication of the Georgia Rehabili tation Center at Warm Springs has been set for Monday November 22 1965 at 330 pm Governor Carl Sanders will deliver the dedicatory address and James S Peters Chairman State Board of Education will preside at the ceremony Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su perintendent of Schools in Charge of Vo cational Rehabilitation Services stated that the work being done at this modern new facility has greatly increased the services available to the seriously dis abled of our state and is opening the door to job opportunities for those heretofore who have had no employment possibility A tour of the facility will be available for all who wish to view this modern com prehensive rehabilitation center before the dedication ceremony Nathan Nolan Director of the Center has extended an invitation to all Geor gians who are interested in the services being afforded to the seriously disabled of our state to attend the ceremony and learn at first hand the advances being made in the rehabilitation of the serious ly impaired Pictured above are the complex of buildings that comprise the com prehensive Georgia Rehabilitation Center The building at extreme left serves as the recreational cafeteria and 133bed dormitory area the center building houses the vocational training area where evaluation aptitude testing work experience and training are conducted and at extreme right the administration building The Governors Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped conducted one of the most successful NEH Weeks in the history of the program in Georgia Pictured above from left to right during the signing of the proclamation by Governor Sanders declaring October 39 as National Employ the Handicapped Week are William A Sims Jr Chair man Governors Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped J K Strain Director Georgia State Employment Service Rogers Hutchinson Supervisor Special Services Employment Security Agency Department of Labor H E Van Orden Executive Secretary Gov ernors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and seated Governor Carl Sanders Governor Sanders stated The Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Georgia Department of Labor work cooperatively in rehabilitating and plac ing qualified handicapped workers in a variety of trades throughout the state This past fiscal year the Vocational Re habilitation Agency under the leadership of Dr A P Jarrell rehabilitated 7221 back to remunerative employment This was an alltime high and ranked the Georgia Agency 4th in the nation in the total number of rehabilitations Shown at a recent meeting of the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind Inc are from left to right Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Gene Patterson Editor Atlanta Constitution Mr Sartain Lanier of Oxford Manufacturing Company Inc Norman Elses Presi dent Nemo Industries and President Board of Directors Georgia Co operative Services for the Blind George Craft President Trust Com pany of Georgia Glenn Boggs Consultant Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind W B Gaines Supervisor Program for the Blind and J C Camp Assistant Supervisor Business Enterprises Business Enterprises Program Advances The Business Enterprises Program continues to make a significant contribu tion in the rehabilitation of blind persons who are capable of operating vending stands in public and private buildings hospitals and other facilities Vocational Rehabilitation in coopera tion with the Georgia Cooperative Serv ices for the Blind Inc a nonprofit or ganization is presently supervising the operation of 104 stands employing over 140 blind individualsJJBrtnSpJErNrage salary earned by ySjflg MliAMftr3 for the year 196Afvas 4117 arM total gross salef for the year amount to 2185024 LIBRARIES OfORGiMabilitatioajVews EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR Vol 14 SeptOct No 1 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9245148 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 165 Central Ave SW MU 80525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2349481 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Technical School Phone 7542922 Rome314 West Building Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine St Suite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus305 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings and Loan Bldg Phone AM 56541 Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilita tion Services was named as the GEX 1965 State Employee of the Year by the Government Em ployee Exchange Advisory Council Awards were given to the oustand ing Federal State City and Coun ty Employees who were selected through the following four main criteria Significant contribution to parent service Significant con tribution to unit in which em ployed Significant contribution to the community and personal quali fications such as industry re sourcefulness initiative loyalty and attitude Dr Jarrell was selected from en tries submitted from all Depart ments of State Government Marion T Nunn Buildings Man ager General Service Administra tion Atlanta received a citation from the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped for Meritorious Service in Appre ciation for Exceptional Contribu tions for Furthering Employment of the Handicapped William A Sims Jr Chairman Governors Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped made the presentation in behalf of the Presi dents Committee Chairman Sims stated that Mr Nunn had made every effort possible to see that the Federal buildings were easily accessible to handicapped people and that service areas and rest areas within the buildings were designed for easy use by those with handicaps From left to right above Dr Allen C Smith Associate State Su perintendent of Schools Adminis trative Services making the pres entation in behalf of the Depart ment of Education to Dr A P Jarrell Seated at extreme right is Joe Lerner Jr Assistant Manager At lanta GEX Marion T Nunn shown receiving citation from William A Sims Jr Scott Allen is shown receiving congratulations from Dr Jarrell during the final delegate assembly as Dr Jarrell turns over the NRA Presidency Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su perintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services pre sided over the 1965 Annual NRA Confer ence held at the Schroeder Hotel Mil waukee Wisconsin September 29Octo ber 1 and turned the presidency of the national organization over to Scott Allen during the last delegate assembly In his address on the opening day of the confer ence Dr Jarrell spoke on the theme The Courage to Change and challenged the NRA members to have this courage and to better lead the movement of re habilitation During the last day of the conference word was received that the 1965 voca Continued on page 6 Scenes during the 1965 Annual Na tional Rehabilitation Association Meeting in Milwaukee Top panel left shown at the Georgia exhibit featuring the Georgia Rehabilita tion Center at Warm Springs are from left to right Harold Harpe Rehab Spe cialistPsychiatric Cases Bill Tomlin Counselor Georgia Rehabilitation Center Second panel left from left to right Adrian Towne Director of Rehabilitation Services in Wisconsin is shown receiving a deskpen set for the leadership in the 1965 membership campaign from Dr A P Jarrell Second panel right from left to right Dr Lillian Moller Gilbreth is shown re ceiving the NRA Presidents Award from Dr Jarrell Third panel shown during one of the sessions of the delegate assemblies are from left to rightE B Whitten Execu tive Director NRA C Esco Obermann author of History of Vocational Re habilitation and Dr A P Jarrell Pres ident of NRA Bottom panel left shown receiving his award for outstanding counselor of the year from Williams Elkins is John Pan za Counselor West Virginia Others in picture seated from left to right are Mary Sweitzer commissoner VRA Dr Lillian Moller Gilbreth Bottom panel right Dr Jarrell re ceives a 3 piece luggage set from Scott Allen to replace the set he wore out during the year C Jarrell Signs Agreement With EOA The Georgia Division of Vocational Re habilitation signed an agreement on Oc tober 4 1965 with the AtlantaFulton County Economic Opportunity Authority to establish and operate the Atlanta Em ployment Evaluation and Service Center Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su perintendent of Schools in Charge of Vo cational Rehabilitation Services signed the contractual agreement for the re habilitation agency and C O Emmerich Administrator Economic Opportunity Atlanta Inc signed for EOA Dr Jar rell stated that the Center is designed to provide a comprehensive and system atic method of determining the training work potential capacity attitude apti tude and other motivating factors as well as social and related financial needs of the unemployed underemployed and eco nomically needy youths and adults be tween the ages 16 and 65 The main objective of the program is to place the client in a job or in training or subsequent job placement as deemed appropriate with complete and system atic followup of the client throughout the entire placement process continuing for a minimum period of six months as employment is secured This will be ac complished by the establishment of a multidisciplined service program with adequate facilities whereby the functions of work evaluation accompanied by medi cal andor psychological examinations casework service vocational counseling job training and job placement and sub sequent employment can be so coordi nated as to result in such persons earn ing wages which will remove them from the poverty group in the Atlanta metro politan area The Georgia Rehabilitation Agency will develop the programs and methods nec essary for the evaluation and followup process establish specialized systematic evaluation for those individuals whose work potentials are difficult to determine by use of normal routine methods co ordinate the various services provided by the Center with training and job place ment programs that are available from other agencies eliminate duplications of services that may already be in operation allow other agency potential or present employees of the Center and staff of other governmental and voluntary organ izations opportunities to observe the pro grams being conducted in the Center in order to better prepare them for partici pation in other similar work programs providing a basic maintenance grant dur ing evaluation phase of the project of persons accepted provided they are not eligible for similar financial assistance under programs administered by other organizations with whom working agree ments will be entered into participation in a systematic program for which the Georgia State Employment Service ac cepts responsibility to organize and to make surveys of job opportunities in dif ference trades or professions cooperate in research and program evaluation ac tivities establish a program within the organizational structure of the Center to determine what other appropriate train ing work experience and job placement programs should be established provide opportunities for those who are deemed especially poor that participate in the operations of the Center and demonstrate Above from left to right during the signing of the contract between Fulton County Economic Opportunity Authority and the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation are Charles O Emmerich Administrator EOA Dr Paul West Superintendent Fulton County Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Dan Sweat Associate Director EOA Pictured above is the site of the Atlanta Employment Evaluation and Service Center at 1599 Memorial Drive S E Atlanta S Cantey Gordon Jr has been ap pointed Director of the Atlanta Employ ment Evaluation and Service Center Mr Gordon a native of Kingstree South Carolina is a graduate of the School of Business Administration from The Citadel Charleston South Carolina He is also a graduate of the School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh in hospital administration and completed his administrative residency in Green ville General Hospital in Greenville South Carolina He has been superin tendent or administrator of various hos pitals in the South Carolina area and prior to coming to Georgia was hospital administrator for Whitten Village Clin ton South Carolina His activities include participation in church and civic activities and being a member of many local state and na tional organizations closely related to his work S Cantey Gordon Jr the feasibility of establishing similar evaluation Centers as components parts of community action programs in other areas of the United States1966 Ability Counts Contest The Presidents Committee and the Georgia Governors Committee on Em ployment of the Handicapped have an nounced the theme of the 1966 Ability Counts Contest Governors Committee Chairman William A Sims Jr stated that the participation is open to any Junior or Senior high school student in a public private or parochial high school and includes those students at an equiva lent educational level in public or private institutions such as handicapped students taking separate training or courses Parchment Awards signed for the President will be given to the first five winners in Georgia in addition to cash prizes First place winner in Georgia will receive 100 Second place 50 Third place 25 Fourth place 15 Fifth place 10 and national winners will re ceive 1000 first place 600 second place 500 third place 400 fourth place 300 fifth place The Georgia win ner will also receive an expensepaid trip to Washington for the annual meeting of the Presidents Committee plus 100 for personal expenses in addition to the first place cash award A special award will be presented to the teacher of the firstplace winner in recognition of her contribution and lead ership in the efforts of the Annual Re port Contest Reports should be mailed to H E Van Orden Secretary Gover nors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped 129 State Office Building Atlanta Georgia30334 so as to arrive no later than March 1 1966 Reports should not exceed 750 words and should be typed doublespace on 82 x 11 white paper with the students full name age home address school ad dress and teachers signature on a cover sheet stapled to the report The report must be original in all respects and re flect the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the writer in gathering pertinent in formation and relating it to the theme of the report Short quotes and excerpts may be included in the report if an exact source is given in a footnote reference Personal interviews and quotes will be effective and should also be fully identi fied as to the source The theme and title of this years re port is What Handicapped Workers are Contributing to my Community Local offices of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Em ployment Services Veterans Administra tion public libraries handicapped indi viduals and employers may be contacted as a resource for gaining information or insight into the program of rehabilitation in job placement The reports will be judged on their originality content or ganization clarity of expression signifi cance of content evidence of research and relation to the report theme Participation in the 1966 Ability Counts Contest must come from a participating high school with no limit as to the num ber of students entering from a school Schools may only participate through the Georgia Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped State judges for this years contest will be Clifford Clark Executive Direc tor Associate Industries of Georgia W H Montague State Director American Federation of LaborCIO Marion Wil liamson Director Employment Security Agency State Department of Labor Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superin tendent of Schools in Charge of Voca tional Rehabilitation Services State De partment of Education William A Sims Jr Chairman Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped The 1965 Ability Counts Contest as in previous years has been placed on the approved list of national contests and activities for 196566 by the National As sociation of Secondary School Principles Previous Georgia winners are Miss Rebecca Ethel Hair Jordan High School Columbus Georgia196465 Miss Pa tricia Ruth Lumpkin A L Miller High School Macon Georgia196364 Miss Audrey Dell Hammerich Baker High School Columbus Georgia196263 Winners of the Ability Accounts Essay Contest pictured above are from left to right Rebecca Ethel Hair Jordan High School Colum bus and Patricia Ruth Lumpkin A L Miller High School Macon In his speech to the Conference Dr Jarrell stated This year the Association has made an all out social action effort to make major changes in the rehabilita tion in this country Let me begin by saying that I subscribe to the view that the only thing constant in all life is change itself The greatest minds in the world concerned with biolo gy physiology physics chemistry as tronomy emphasize to us again and again that constant change is taking place not only in ourselves and in our world but in our universe as well The short life span of man perhaps gives him the illusion that things are relatively static but viewed from even a short per spective of time the essence of life is changeconstant irrevocable unending limitless change and more change Modern concepts of education and psy chology have well documented the fact that there can be on learning or growth within the individuals without change Although it is true that change ultimate ly results in mans biological degenera tion it is equally true that change is essential to mans creation his develop ment and his fruition Relatedly change in our society does not just happen It is developed and evolved by imaginative pioneers by peo ple who have vision the will and ambition to try something new the ability to break away from a statusquo existence the capacity to reach out to new frontiers and to lead others to want to change for the better In the history of the development and growth of our great country the facts clearly indicate that during critical peri odsour system of government along with our free enterprise system have survived because of the willingness of our people to follow leadership offering a program of change to alleviate what then appears to be often almost insur mountable problems and conditions We now in rehabilitation are faced with a very critical period in our program of services to the disabled The handicapped of our nation are pleading for more ade quate and more comprehensive services for new opportunities and for a chance to become contributing members to our society The questions we must answer immediately are Have we the will to change our methods and seek new tech niquesDo we have the courage the perseverance and the willingness to be a leader in this revolution in rehabilita tion Or will we be like Rip Van Winkle who slept twenty years to wake up in a world he hardly recognized It will indeed be tragic and unfortunate if any of us were to sleep through the oppor tunities of this revolution in rehabilita tion which is now moving so rapidly and which provides such great opportunity for progressive changes In the first five years of this decade of the 60s we have witnessed more favorable changes in legislation to improve health education welfare and employment than happened between 19401960 a score of years With the present positive rehabilitation cli mate we may hopefully anticipate equal ly rapid changes in rehabilitation to rival the changes in the areas stated above that will provide us with the wherewith all to substantially improve or correct many of the medical psychological so cial and economic problems faced by our present disabled population Changes are occurring so rapidly in re habilitation that what is innovation to day is common place tomorrow It would appear that we must take calculated risks when there is little opportunity to STOP LOOK AND LISTEN Our times demand leadership in the immediate implementa tion of a broad comprehensive program of service much more adequate to meet the needs of all the disabled people This conference program was designed to stress change in rehabilitation on all levels and in many ways ranging from programming and finances to organiza tional structure to facilities to the pro fessional person serving the handicapped and to the handicapped themselves Each one of us in our own private happy or quietly desperate lives as the case may be must somehow find and summon the necessary courage to face the changes in ourselves and the world around us Continued from page 4 tional rehabilitation act amendments were passed by congress and this made a fitting tribute to the leadership of Dr Jarrell and a highnote on the closing day of the conferenceDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 257 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 V0 EUEUV ABILITY COUNTS The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Magazine is updating its mailing list with this current issue If you wish to remain on the mailing list plrase fill out the card attached below and return prior to December 30 1965 If you wish to discontinue receiving the Rehabilitation News or wish to change a name or an address check the appropriate box and return To continue receiving the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News Notify the Circulation Department Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation News 129 State Office Building Atlanta Georgia 30334 by Dec 30 REHABILITATION NEWS THE GEORGIA REHABILITATION CENTER STORYftfajf EVALUATION The evaluation program at the Georgia Rehabilitation Center is de signed to help severely disabled individuals seek out and find what potentials abilities and aptitudes they have and to capitalize on these traits in planning training pro grams leading to employment Many times the handicapped in dividual is unaware of his abilities and needs guidance and direction in seeking out the proper vocation to follow The staff at the Georgia Re habilitation Center uses every re source available in pinpointing the most appropriate vocation taking into consideration the individuals handicap past experience educa tion aptitude and may evaluate an individual in several areas before a field is chosen that both the GRC staff and the individual feel most appropriate Illustrated in the pictures to the left are some of the many phases which the client goes through in the evaluation process The client is tested to seek out certain basic traits and skills to see what direction an individuals apti tude may point Counseling with the client en ables the staff to evaluate and make sure the individuals attitude personal feelings and program planning are all compatible so as to afford the client the greatest pos sible chance of developing a mar ketable skill that will lead to em ployment To assist the client to realize what his own capabilities and potentials are and to help in eval uating those areas in which the client has the greatest potentials the client works in several different job situations during the evaluation process Physical therapy is an important aspect in the evaluation process for many of the clients may be able to reduce their disability to such an extent that other vocations and job situations that are not possible now would be possible as the client im proves his physical condition To evaluate fully the program as outlined for each client the eval uation staff meets regularly to de termine the progress each client is making and discuss thoroughly any improvements or necessary changes in their evaluation programTHE RESIDENCE BUILDING The residence building at the Georgia Rehabilitation Center is a fivestory beautifully designed and planned structure with accom modations for 133 clients Architec tural features incorporated into the residence building as well as all other buildings on the Centers ground include easy access to all areas automatic doors wide halls and doorways providing easy acces sibility for wheelchairs and clients on crutches light switches placed within reach of those in wheel chairs bathroom facilities recrea tion areas and study areas all designed for use by the severely disabled Many activities are in operation each day in the residence building A canteen or snack area is located on the lower floor Here clients can relax and talk about the days activities and accomplishments Ad jacent to the snack shop is the active recreational area and an arts and crafts area During their free time clients can play ping pong shuffle board chess pool and many other recreational activities A quiet recreation area is located on the first floor for those who would rather watch television read or participate in quiet games In the arts and crafts area students enjoy creating some of their own pieces as well as using the ceramic molds or other designs that are available for them The rooms in the residence build ing reflect the thoughtful archi tectural features that are designed to give the severely disabled clients an easy opportunity for adequate comfort in the normal routine of daily living Clients eat their meals in the cafeteria on the first floor of the residence building The food is de liciously prepared and all guests and visitors to the Center should always plan their schedules to be at the residence building at serving time The Centers library and informal meditation and prayer room are in adjacent rooms to the right of the lobby as you enter the residence building i SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Training Training an individual in an occupation in which he has the best possible chance of success is the endresult of proper evaluation and placing the client in a job is the endresult of proper training The Georgia Rehabilitation Center has developed a curriculum of courses that will best fill the overall needs of the severely disabled and as the needs change both from the labor demands from within the community and the needs from the clients changes in curriculum will be made to meet these needs Vocational training at the Georgia Re habilitation Center includes courses in the following areas Business Education Clerk Steno Secretary Bookkeeper Receptionist PBX Operator Accounting General Drafting Mechanical Drawing Small Instrument and Watch Repair Small Gasoline Engine Repair Duplicating Machine Operator Radio and TV Repair Small Electronic Engine Repair E INING Placement Sewing Garment Alteration Power Sewing Machine Operator Slip Cover and Drapery Construction Reweaving Homemaking Small Business Management OntheJob Training Placement In top center panel above a Georgia Rehabilitation Center client is performing onthejob training at a local store in the community as a hardware salesman A customer is shown making a purchase while the store manager supervises the transaction In bottom center panel we see the culmination of the effects of the Georgia Rehabilitation Center Staff as a client is placed in employment During his evaluation the client demonstrated suf ficient knowledge to be considered for training in business education and en rolling in the courses in accounting office machines and small business manage ment The client is now employed by the Federal Government and is supporting himself his wife and one child Mr BUSINESS EDUCATIONThe Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Vol 14 NovDec 1965 No 2 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Dr Claude Purcell State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Ofbice Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 43G0347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9245148 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peaehtree St NW Phone 8759941 165 Central Ave SW MU 86525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2349481 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Technical School Phone 7542922 Rome102 West 5th Ave Barron Bldg Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine St Suite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus305 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings and Loan Bldg Phone AM 56541 Mary E Switzer Commissioner of Vo cational Rehabilitation Administration Department of Health Education and Welfare WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM Washington DC 112265 1012 AM Dr A P Jarrell GRC Att Mr Nolan Warm Springs Ga Warmest congratulations on the dedication of the beautiful new Georgia Rehabilitation Center This is a great day for the Georgia Rehabilitation program and especially significant from my point of view since it combines forces with the fine work done by the National Foundation at the Warm Springs Center Over the years many hundreds of people have known the benefits of this voluntary service under the leadership of Basil OConnor Now we combine this with the leading public pro gram of vocational rehabilitation This offers great promise of fulfillment of our dreams under our new law Greet everyone for me I am with you in spirit MARY E SWITZER Commissioner of Vocational Rehabilitation DHEWTHE DEDICATION REHABILITATION NEW The dedication of the Georgia Re habilitation Center at Warm Springs will be remembered as a focal point in Georgias history and will mark an era in which the severely disabled citizens of Georgia were able to receive compre hensive rehabilitation services at a Cen ter designed and built for their needs The facilities at the Georgia Rehabilita tion Center include a residence building which contains housing for 133 people a cafeteria active and quiet recreation areas arts and crafts area library and prayer area and a canteen area an evaluation and training building where skills that are especially adaptive to the disabled are being taught work eval uation where clients are being assisted in training for the most appropriate voca tional area to follow a rehabilitation ad justment workshop where work experi ence is provided and an administration building where the operational activities of the Centers functions are carried on Services available at the Georgia Re habilitation Center include medical treat ment and consultation orthopedic sur gery physical therapy occupational ther apy speech and hearing therapy artifi cial appliances braces nursing vocation al training psychological counseling and testing social casework vocational coun seling rehabilitation workshop therapy and work experience Governor Carl Sanders in delivering the dedication address stated that the Center is expected to roll back the fron tiers of employment opportunity for the many who before now could only look forward to living out their lives as observers rather than full participants This facility will offer the opportunity to many of them to become useful pro ductive happy citizens who will take their rightful place in our modern society Governor Carl E Sanders delivering the dedicatory address at the dedi cation ceremony of the Georgia Rehabilitation Center Warm Springs Carl E Sanders James S Peters Basil OConnor Dr A P Jarrell Governor Sanders stated I am proud to point out that Georgia has provided and is providing herenothing short of the best for its disabled citizens James Peters Chairman State Board of Education noted The Georgia Rehabilitation Cen ter is indeed a step forward in providing the best in rehabili tation services to the severely disabled of our state Basil OConnor President Georgia Warm Springs Foun dation stated To day two great insti tutions stand here to advance the art of healing and each representing an es sential service each complementing the other Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su perintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabili tation Services said The dedication of this Center has a dual significance First this Center represents the reali zation of a dream long nurtured by those of us who recognize the need of a modern comprehensive rehabilitation fa cility in Georgia and second it marks the beginning of a new era in rehabili tation services for the severely disabled of our State I feel confident that the person re sponsible for Warm Springs becoming internationally known in the medical care of polio victims the late Franklin D Roosevelt would view with pride and pleasure this facility we are dedicating today It is very fitting that our distinguish ed Governor has taken time out of a busy schedule to come here today to dedicate this facility Governor Sanders throughout his career as a public ser vant has not only shown deep concern for our disabled disadvantaged and under privileged people of all ages but like President Roosevelt has taken positive action in implementing programs of services to help alleviate the problems of the disabled and give them the op portunities to develop their talents to the maximum potential mentally physi cally socially and vocationally During the dedication ceremony the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation pre sented Governor Sanders with a plaque and in remarks prepared by Dr Jarrell stated in recognition of your personal interest and support of the disabled serv ed by the Rehabilitation Division the staff of this Agency wishes to present to you a plaque which carries the fol lowing inscription To Governor Carl E Sanders for his outstanding dedication support and action in advancing the cause of the disabled through the Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation ProgramDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 257 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 T09CK 0 susmv uojsiAK suonieinboy ABILITY COUNTS The work adjustment area at the Georgia Rehabilitation Center teaches individuals to adjust to the work world schedulalnmg eXperlence m work habits the demands of employers and the many different types of employer production The professional staff emphasizes the importance and meaning of job situations and presents the clients situations which are demanding meaningful and within their capabilities Many individuals receive their first experience in work situations here at the Center and other individuals who have been out of the labor market for a considerable length of time can readjust and regain confidence through these simulated job activities t mSEE STORY ON PAGE 5GEORGIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF The Georgia School for the Deaf functions as an accredited elemen tary and high school for resident and day pupils The school cur riculum and program provides con tinuous preparation for deaf boys and girls to live and function suc cessfully in a hearing society The academic program parallels that of the regular public school program with special emphasis placed on speech lip reading language de velopment and training in the utilization of residual hearing The schools curriculum has been de signed to meet the special needs of boys and girls who desire to enter college as well as offering a strong vocational program for those who wish to seek employment in industry after graduation The staff at the school seeks continuously to improve the cur riculum in order to better meet the needs of multihandicapped children and to offer the best possible ad vantages in the learning process to the children of our state Students compete with other schools in both academic and athlet ic events and rate high in all areas of participation Extra curricular activities include participating in scouting church community and vocational activities Pictured at left are some of the many academic recreational and fun activities at the Georgia School for the Deaf Top panel shows stu dent participation in a math class and students preparing their as signment in chemistry Second panel demonstrates the learning process in word formation and speaking and a student demonstrat ing the color wheel in physics Third panel shows deaf students participating in a rhythm band and a student studying an astrology problem Fourth panel shows an English class and a happy child playing in free time Bottom panel finds a student learning English composition and a class in biologyGRA HIGHLIGHTS The Georgia Rehabilitation As sociations Annual Meeting is re viewed with some highlights of va rious activities James S Segars Director of the Division of Medical Care Depart ment of Family and Children Serv ices was elected President of GRA and is shown in top left panel dur ing his acceptance remarks Nathan Nolan Administrator Georgia Rehabilitation Center in top right panel is presenting the outstanding Case of the Year Award to Harold Harpe for the Sighted Program and to Marshall Dixon for the Program for the Blind In second panel left Shelton McLellon Associate Regional Rep resentative VRA is shown deliver ing his final remarks before turn ing over the presidency to James Segars A D Puth 3rd panel left bet ter known to most persons as Al Assistant Director of the National Rehabilitation Association is shown delivering the luncheon ad dress He reported on the impact of the new 1965 amendments and how it will affect the rehabilita tion programs in the various states In center insert Nathan Nolan presents the Georgia Rehabilita tion Association Professional Award to Clyde L Pennington MD in recognition of his out standing contribution to the reha bilitation of the disabled As a physician he has long had a repu tation for his capabilities in the treatment of individuals with im pairments of the ear nose and throat and his medical skill has enabled many individuals to con tinue their work or return to em ployment In second panel right Alton Ray is shown receiving the Elkins Award as the Outstanding Coun selor of the Year from a represen tative of Elkins Radio and TV In bottom panel left Nathan Nolan presents the Organizational Award for Advancement of Reha bilitation to the Disabled to Mor risons Cafeteria recognized for their hiring practices in employ ing handicapped workers Mr William A Roughton who has been the instrumental and influen tial factor in the establishment of this policy is shown receiving the award for Morrisons Cafeteria In bottom panel right Nathan Nolan and Dr A P Jarrell As sistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services are both shown congratulating Dr Thomas P Goodwyn in recognition of his receiving a life membership in the National Rehabilitation and the Georgia Rehabilitation Association Dr Goodwyn was active in reha bilitation prior to the formation of NRA and GRA and he has played an active role in rehabilitation for many yearsThe Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Vol 14 JanFeb 1966 No 3 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2349481 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings and Loan Bldg Phone AM 56541 B 1W 1 Bin m i t T m 1 V i MmXi0m 4f i fc mB bi i Shown during the signing of the Atlanta Federal Offenders Re habilitation Project are from left to right standing Jack M Tipton Rehabilitation Specialist W Scott Fulton Rehabilitation Specialist Lee B Jett Chief Classification and Parole U S Penitentiary Atlanta Percy Bell National Director Federal Offenders Rehabili tation Program Seattle Washington J C Taylor Assistant Director U S Bureau of Prisons Washington D C C J Eckenrode Associate Warden for Treatment U S Penitentiary Atlanta Seated left to right John Carbo Chief U S Probation Officer Northern District of Georgia O G Blackwell Warden U S Penitentiary Atlanta and Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Atlanta Federal Offenders Rehabilitation Project The Atlanta Federal Offenders Reha bilitation Project is primarily designed as a Collaborate Research Study Pro gram whose purpose is to test and dem onstrate the effects of providing inten sive vocational rehabilitation services to Federal Offenders at specified stages in the correctional process Clients of this program will be randomly divided into demonstration and control groups In cluded in these groups will be those per sons normally eligible under Federal State requirements through physical or mental handicaps plus those with special handicaps who are not otherwise eligi ble The special objectives of the project are 1 To determine the needs of fed eral offenders for vocational rehabilita tion services according to their physical mental or social handicaps 2 To pro vide intensive vocational rehabilitation services to federal offenders who have been randomly assigned to demonstra tion groups 3 To develop a measure of success in the vocational rehabilita tion of federal offenders in terms of the effectiveness of intensive versus cur rent services 4 To compare the suc cess of the demonstration groups with the control groups 5 To study the im pact of providing intensive rehabilita tion services upon the attitudes and practices of the professional staff in volved in the correctional process 6 To develop recommendations for changes in administrative procedures and public laws relating to the correctional and re habilitation fieldsrehabilitation news ALTO Rehabilitation Center The Vocational Rehabilitation Center for Handicapped Young Offenders at the Georgia Industrial Institute Alto is a pioneering effort on behalf of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili tation and the Board of Corrections in reshaping the lives of young public of fenders Vocational Rehabilitation serv ices were first introduced at the Geor gia Industrial Institute on October 1 1963 and these services have been broadened greatly since that time Each inmate admitted to the Institute has been provided with a medical psy chological and vocational evaluation with approximately 70 of the inmates meeting the agencys standards of eligi bility Services afforded these clients through eligibility include individual and group counseling personnel and work adjustment prevocational and onthe job training When the inmate is re leased from the Institute he is trans ferred to the vocational rehabilitation counselor for further vocational counsel ing specific vocational training job placement and followup services It is necessary and very essential for many of the inmates to be placed in foster homes or rehabilitation halfway houses The pictures on this page showing vo cational training counseling and free time reflect just a few of the many ac tivities that occur each day at the Cen ter The Vocational Rehabilitation Cen ter contains a major work sample unit diagnostic and evaluation unit offices for staff members a rehabilitation resi dence for 132 clients and a cafeteria Inmates are brought into the residence during the last year of their sentence for intensive counseling services de signed to help them reevaluate them selves establish more socially acceptable goals in life and select a feasible voca tional objective During fiscal year 196465 seven hundred and fortythree offenders were referred to Vocational Rehabilitation and each was given a orientation to Vocational Rehabilitation b medical examination and c psy chological evaluation Followun studies reveal that out of the first 96 clients transferred to local counselors 53 were continuing their re habilitation program in their commu nity thirtythree were engaged in full time employment and twentythree were rehabilitated Only 9 of the first 96 clients had returned to custody Atlanta Committee Awards Pictured above during the Annual Metropolitan Atlanta Commit tee on Employment of the Handicapped Awards Night left to right Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Miss Magnoia Hunt selected as the Outstanding Bind Person of the Year Mrs Janice Hice selected as the Outstanding Handicapped Individual in the Sighted Division William A Roughton representating Mor risons Cafeteria and receiving their award as Employer of the Year and Dr Irving Goldstein Chairman Metropolitan Atlanta Committee on Employment of the Handicapped p B Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilita tion Services congratulates Jack Nix on his appointment as State Superintendent of Schools succeed ing Dr Claude Purcell Superin tendent Nix pledged his continued support to the Program of Services as offered to the handicapped Georgians through the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Shown above receiving their 40 year Service Awards from Governor Carl Sanders are in left panel Rochester Watt Jr and in right panel E K Bell Mr Watt and Mr Bell District Supervisors for Voca tional Rehabilitation received their awards in recognition of 40 years of faithful and devoted service to the State of Georgia Mr Watt has served 19 of these years with the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Mr Bell has served 23 years with the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Bell is Dis trict Supervisor for the Savannah Dis trict and Watt is District Supervisor for the Albany District Metropolitan Atlanta Mayors Com mittee on Employment of the Handi capped has announced the winner of the Outstanding Handicapped Metropolitan Atlantan of the Year and Employer of the Year For the first time the com petition was so keen that the committee decided to give an award to both the outstanding blind individual and the out standing handicapped individual in the sighted division Miss Magnolia Hunt blind since birth and an efficient switchboard operator at the Citizens Bank and Trust Com pany in Atlanta and Mrs Janice Hice stricken with polio when she was 12 and paralyzed from the waist down and with only partial use of her arms were designated as the recipients of the awards The Employer of the Year Award was presented to Morrisons Cafeteria in rec ognition of their hiring practices of em ploying handicapped individuals on their ability to perform specific jobs Mr Wil liam A Roughton District Supervisor for Morrisons Cafeteria who was instru mental in formulating these policies re ceived the award in behalf of Morrisons Cafeteria Jarrell Elected To National Post Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su perintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services has been elected Secretary of the Joint Commission on Correctional Manpower and Training The Commission was established as the outcome of an Arden House Con ference in June 1964 to help resolve critical shortage of correctional man power Representatives and members of over 80 national and regional organizations have been named to the Joint Commis sion on Correctional Manpower and Training Other officers elected were Ellis C MacDougall Chairman and Dr Earl H Hanson ViceChairman1965 Amendments In Review The 1965 Vocational Rehabilitation Act Amendments Public Law 89333 will enable the Georgia Division to serve many more handicapped persons pres ently eligible for service The new law changes the Federal financial provisions in the basic FederalState Vocational Rehabilitation State Program and will increase the allotments of Federal funds for Georgia to 10016492 Had the new amendment not been passed Geor gias share of Federal funds would have only been 7156788 The Federal al lotments for Georgia in 1967 will in crease to 11685907 and in 1968 to 13355322 Extension and Improvement Grants to states have now been replaced by In novation Grants which will cover two general areas 1 The development of methods or techniques which are new in the state for providing services 2 Projects which serve those who have catastrophic or particularly severe dis abilities Federal funds for these grants will be alloted on basis of population Funds are being increased to conduct statewide planning for rehabilitation during the fiscal years 196667 and any funds appropriated for those two years which are not spent will remain avail able to complete the planning in 1968 Federal grants covering 100 of the costs for statewide planning are authorized with the amount of any state not to exceed 100000 annually The Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation has been designated as the agency to conduct the statewide planning pro gram in Georgia The planning activi ties are designed to accomplish three general objectives 1 To develop a well defined picture of state resources for John S Prickett Director Geor gia Division of Vocational Rehabili tation and National Membership Chairman of the National Rehabili tation Association rehabilitating the disabled and formu late an understandable estimate of fu ture needs 2 To help assure an or derly expansion growth and develop ment with minimum duplication of serv ices 3 To develop and organize state wide plans for which all disabled per sons needing rehabilitation services can receive such services by the year 1975 Expansion grants designed to expand and increase vocational rehabilitation services to facilitate the rehabilitation of more disabled persons at a faster rate are available to both state agen cies and voluntary nonprivate agencies Both the Administration and Congress strongly desire to increase the number of rehabilitants each year and the ob jectives of the expansion grants must be the rehabilitation and return to gain ful employment of larger numbers of disabled individuals The organizational structure of re habilitation agencies in the past has been required under the previous law to be located under the State Board of Vocational Education or organized as a separate agency or state commission Under the new act the agency may be a separate agency or commission it may be located within the State unit administering or supervising the admin istration of educational or vocational education or it may be part of a larger State organizational unit which includes two or more of the following State func tions Education health welfare or la bor Economic need was required pre viously by Federal law before certain services of the vocational rehabilitation NRA Report National NRA Membership Chairman John S Prickett reported that as of February 28 1966 we have 497 more members and 7684 more total points than at this same time last year Total membership as of February 28 was 16303 and 179318 total points Florida Region IV with 11047 members has passed Pennsylvanias total of 11030 members Delaware is well ahead in percentage of membership quota at 1699 with Tennessee remaining in challenging distance with 1583 of membership quota Pennsylvania is still in the lead on subscriptions display and classified ads amassing 22037 total points with Florida far behnd in second place with 12028 total points Tennes see the newest chapter in NRA leads the nation with 2154 of total point quota followed by Delaware with 1212 of total point quota Regional leaders have remained the same with Region IV E G Mander field Chairman in first place in all program could be provided without costs The new law eliminates economic need as a prerequisite of VR services to satisfy Government requirements Each state however is at liberty to apply such economic need tests as it wishes or as may be required by State law Federal funds to help in the con struction of new Rehabilitation Centers and Workshops are authorized for the first time through the new amendments The new grant program will assist in the acquisition of existing buildings and the expansion remodeling altera tion and renovation of rehabilitation centers and workshops Funds will be available also to aid in the construction with the cost of initial equipment and the acquisition of land The new law authorizes Federal ap propriations of 15 million for fiscal year 1966 7 million for fiscal year 1967 and 9 million for fiscal year 1968 There is no statutory allotment system for the construction of new facilities as funds will be granted on a project basis In connection with this construction effort the new Act authorizes Federal grant assistance in the costs of initial staffing of rehabilitation facilities and workshops including not only those con structed through this grant program but other facilities and workshops con structed with other financing after the date of enactment cf the new law Fed eral assistance with initial staffing is authorized at a maximum of 75 per cent of staffing costs in the first year 60 percent in the second year 45 per cent in the third year and 30 percent in the fourth and final year One of the major objectives of the 1965 Act is to begin the expansion and improvement of sheltered workshops for the disabled throughout the United States The 1965 amendments authorize appropriation for the two grant pro grams for workshop improvement train ing services projects and improvement grants as follows For fiscal 1966 1500000 for 1967 9000000 and for 1968 14000000 four categories and Region III F A Tarbutton Chairman in second place in all categories with exception of total points in which Region II Ben Stein light Chairman is leading Fourteen states have passed the 100 of membership quota and 14 states have passed their total point quota Highlights of the competition in Reg ion IV show Georgia with 10827 points in second place just 1056 points behind Florida with a state total of 11883Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 257 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 T09OS sue UOIST Region IV NRA Conference Plans Completed Region IV NRA President Joe Hise stated that the Annual Conference Pro gram has been completed and his in dications are that this years Confer ence will be one of the most successful held in Region IVs history The Con ference dates are Monday April 4 through Wednesday noon April 6 with registration beginning on Sunday at 200 pm Atlantas new Marriott Motel has been selected as the site of this years Conference and offers fine meeting rooms good food and is easily acces sible from and to downtown Atlanta Atlantas Mayor Ivan Allen will open the program on Monday followed by greetings by Jack Nix State Superin tendent of Schools and the address by Governor Carl Sanders The keynote address of Monday morning will come at 1100 am when Honorable Charles A Weltner Representative of the Fifth District of Georgia United States Con gress speaks to the conferences Topics covered during the conference will include Impact of New Legisla tion On The Total Rehabilitation Serv ice Programs Opportunities Under New Legislation for Research and Training Working with the Disabled Through Federal Offenders Program Health Referral Services and Social Security Administration Sectional meetings will be held on the following areas Blind Workshop and Facilities Special Education Deaf and the Disability Determination Unit At the Annual Banquet on Tuesday evening the banquet toastmaster will be E B Whitten Executive Director NRA Washington DC and the Banquet Ad dress will be delivered by Hubert A Baldy White Humorist and Lecturer on the topic Hopping the High Hur dles Outstanding individuals from every area of rehabilitation will be present to speak at the Annual Conference These will include Louis R Schubert Region al Representative Region IV Vocational Rehabilitation Administration Atlanta Jayne Shover Associate Director Na tional Society for Crippled Children and Adults Chicago Robert E Wat kins Executive Vice President Elect Goodwill Industries of America Wash ington DC O F Wise Director Di vision of Vocational Rehabilitation Montgomery Alabama William J Page Jr Regional Director Department of Health Education and Welfare At lanta Paul C Howard Assistant Com missioner Vocational Rehabilitation Ad ministration Washington DC Percy Bell Director Federal Offenders Re habilitation Program Seattle Washing ton Dr James C King Chief Health Referral Section Division of Community Health Services Public Health Service Washington DC Alvin M David As Joe Hise President Region IV NRA and Assistant Director Georgia Di vision of Vocational Rehabilitation sistant Commissioner for Program Plan ning and Program Evaluation Social Security Administration Baltimore Maryland A C Suazo Executive Direc tor National Association of Sheltered Workshops and Homebound Programs Inc Washington DC E B WhHten Executive Director National Rehabilita tion Association Washington DC Scott Allan President National Reha bilitation Association Boston Massa chusettsJ i 11 i TION NEWS John S Prickett Receives Cummings AwardGeorgia Academy For The Blind The Georgia Academy for the Blind at Macon operated by the State Department of Education Division of Vocational Re habilitation is teaching the blind children of our states to live in this fast moving and dynamic society of ours The Acad emy teaches any child with visual acuity of 20200 or less in the better eye with best correcting lenses provided he is capable of receiving an education The Academy a fully accredited school teaches generally the same academic pro gram that is taught in the public schools of Georgia and uses special aids speci fically designed for use by blind students to aid them in the learning process A wide range of both academic and voca tional courses is taught with special em phasis on music physical education arts and crafts and vocational subjects The picture at the left illustrates some of the many academic literature and vo cational subjects taught at the school At top left a student is shown working on the wood lathe in a woodworking At top right students are shown study ing geography and using the relief map as an aid to better illustrate the geogra phy of the world In second panel left an instructor works with a student at the braille type writer By learning the use of this type writer a student can take notes and write reports much the same way as a sighted person would use a typewriter Second panel right shows an instruc tor working with a student in the horti culture and landscaping course In third panel left a math student studies her math lesson with the use of an abbacus Third panel right shows a group of children enjoying their course in music appreciation at the Academy The stu dents learning music in this class will eventually be part of the choral glee club that is well known throughout the state for its musical contributions In fourth panel left an instructor in the primary department works with a young girl in teaching her to use large print Students whose eyesight is good enough to use the large print books for reading are encouraged to use this method In fourth panel right students are shown enjoying themselves in an arts and crafts class Here they receive per sonal instruction in the various ways in making useful items that may someday develop into a profitable hobby In bottom panel left a student in the typing class is shown in the act of pre paring her lesson Bottom panel right shows a class in biology studying the human anatomy The use of models that can be broken down into their component parts is most instrumental in helping the students learn each part of the body1966 Ability Counts Winners Honored Pictured above attending the 1966 Ability Counts Contest Awards Ceremony are from left to right Rogers Hutchinson Supervisor of Special Services Georgia State Employment Service Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Governor Carl Sanders J K Strain Director Georgia State Employment Service Ernest Franklin Williams Jr firstplace winner Clifford Clark Executive Director of Associated Industries of Georgia Kenneth Rogers secondplace winner W H Montague President State AFLCIO Thomas Nemetz thirdplace winner Dale LaFaye Willis fourthplace winner and Randy Jones fifthplace winner Governor Presents Awards to the 1966 Ability Counts Winners Governor Carl Sanders presented the winners of the 1966 annual Ability Counts Report Contest their awards and certificates at a special ceremony held in the Governors chambers The contest sponsored by the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and the Governors Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped is for 11th and 12th grade students The theme of this years contest was What Handicapped Workers are Con tributing to my Community Ernest Franklin Williams Jr was awarded first place and received 100 firstprize money plus an expense paid trip to Washington for the annual Presi dents Committee Meeting on Employ ment of the Handicapped A Pelham high school senior he plans to attend Presby terian College in Clinton South Carolina this fall and states that his present choice for a major in college is personnel man agement Other winners and their prizes were second placeKenneth Rogers Atlanta 50 third place Thomas Nemetz Athens 25 fourth placeDale LaFaye Willis Pelham 15 and fifth place Randy Jones Thomasville 10 In addi tion to these prizes parchment awards signed for the President were given for the five best reports in the state Williams firstplace entry was entered in the national competition with over 2500 in cash awards Georgias cash awards and prizes were provided by the Associated Industries of Georgia and the Georgia State AFLCIO William A Sims Jr Chairman Gov ernors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped stated that the participa tion in this years contest was the best that we have experienced in recent years Williams winning report is reprinted below What Handicapped Workers Are Contributing to my Community How can handicapped people possibly contribute to my town when they have to strive to even get a job and lead normal lives This question can be an swered with a quotation from the BhagavadGita the mind is restless turbulent strong and unyielding as difficult to subdue as the wind Pel ham has its share of handicapped people and they can be listed as assets to the welfare of the city In this small southern city people with serious mental and phy sical defects are contributing to the pulse of Pelham in 3 areas 1 By participating in various civic and religious organizations 2 By being conscientious citizens with their civic minded spirit 3 Through displaying an aggressive and optimistic attitude A more detailed look into the individual accounts of handicapped citizens will give a greater insight into the extensive areas of their contributions Mr W has polio Here is one person who has indeed gone above and beyond the call of duty By overcoming this serious handicap Mr W contributes to Pelham in a dynamic manner Outside of his teaching profession he is a leader of three recognized groups As a YMCA club advisor Mr W must render pa tience and discipline for 29 boys If there was ever an example for young people who admire courage and a goodnatured attitude this is it He also provides vast assistance to the excellent school chorus and a local church choir by being the efficient leader of both One of the most pleasing personalities and open minded and compassionate dispositions is pos sessed by Mr W Mrs X is crippled with infantile paralysis She works at a local plant and Above Ernest Franklin Williams Jr receives his certificate of merit from Governor Carl E Sanders in behalf of the Presidents Committee and Governors Committee on Em ployment of the Handicapped has indeed one of the friendlier and more industrious outlooks of anyone in her of fice department Mrs X is also a local church choir member and is very active in that church Mr Y crippled also gives a stir ring example of social interest For this mans unfortunate confinement he ef fectively exercises his civic rights By writing letters to a local daily news paper Mr Y is showing his interest in society and how well he is versed on cur rent affairs Very often the letters of Mr Y have given people courage and inspiration Although Mr Z is considered a mis fit in this fast moving society due to substantial shortcoming in his outward actions he presents valuable benefits to the consumer Mr Z possesses an asset of being talented in the field of electron ics which is utilized by consumers as they patronize Mr Zs radio and tele vision repair service These few individuals reflect the at mosphere seen in the lives of the handi capped people of Pelham It can be seen that the contributions to the city by the people are numerous and impressive These people sustain their civic responsi bilities push aside welfare and neglect pity Simply by being employed and having the will to work handicapped workers are benefitting the city A major consideration of new industrial prospects is the labor forces availability strength and quality Through providing a com petent business firm a handicapped per son also helps Pelham grow Trading dol lars so valuable to a city in an area closely surrounded by other small towns are injected into the local economy when consumers take advantage of these handi caps competent service These economic contributions are evident reasons for tipping the hat to the towns handi capped working force Continued on page 7HIGHLIGHTS1966 REGION IV John S Prickett Jr receives Cummings Award from Dr A P Jarrell The 19th Annual Region IV Conference of the National Rehabilitation Associa tion was held Monday April 36 1966 at the Marriott Motor Hotel Atlanta J L Hise Chairman Region IV NRA presided during the first general session Dr Cecil Meyers Pastor Grace Meth odist Church gave the invocation and was followed by Atlantas Mayor Ivan Allen Jr who gave a welcome to the Conference attendees Mayor Allen stated that Atlanta itself has been working through a period of rehabilitation and the very area in which the meeting was being held the site of the Marriott Hotel had been completely and totally rehabilitated Jack Nix State School Superintendent extended greetings to the Conference and stated that Vocational Rehabilitation is an enterprise that touches both the heart and the mind Top panel left shows E K Bell Sa vannah District Supervisor and in charge of door prizes for the convention getting underway with the drawing Top panel right shows Van Powell Counselor from Augusta receiving the grand prize as E K Bell checks his ticket to make sure he is the winner Second panel left shows the banquet room just prior to dinner Second panel right Hubert A Baldy White speaking on his topic Hopping the High Hurdles Third panel left Louis R Schubert Regional Representative VRA and wife as they leave the banquet with their bowl of fruit Third panel right NRA President Scott Allan speaking to the group on Where do we go from Here Bottom panel left Representative Charles L Weltner delivering the key note address Bottom panel right the first general session in full swingRA ANNUAL CONFERENCE It touches the heart because all of us are concerned with the maintenance of human dignity It is important that we involve ourselves in making these brave people who labor under some handicap aware that we value them as members of the human community and that we in tend to exert our utmost effort to giving them a chance to develop their talent and their powers We need them They need us It is a good partnership Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su perintendent of Schools in Charge of Vo cational Rehabilitation Services intro duced Governor Sanders who delivered the opening address In speaking of NRA Governor Sanders said In a very real sense you the members of the NRA are pioneers Having chosen to devote your lives to serving others you have dis covered that it is not enough merely to fit yourselves into some niche in an existing organization or program Rather you have found that you must create the pro grams and the projects that you must break a trail into a new area of social service and that you must give every ounce of your energy intelligence and imagination to discovering the most adequate methods of rehabilitating the handicapped Charles L Weltner Representative Fifth District of Georgia United States Congress delivered the keynote address and touched briefly on the 1965 rehabili tation act amendments and the growth of rehabilitation over the years The Conference program was wide and varied and included a detailed discussion of the 1965 amendments and their impact on the vocational rehabilitation program new legislation for research and training working with the disabled through Fed eral Offenders Program health referral services and Social Security determina tions Continued on page 7 Top panel left E B Whitten Execu tive Director National Rehabilitation Association Washington D C speaking to the group on NRA in the New Era Top panel right Governor Carl San ders delivering the morning address Second panel left Jack Nix State School Superintendent shown during the first session extending his greetings to the Conference Second panel right J W Cowan re ceiving the CaseoftheYear Award in the Sighted Program for fellow Ala bamian Bob Couch from Dr A P Jar rell Third panel left J L Hise Chairman Region IV for NRA getting warmed up during the first general session and stay ing that way for the remainder of the conference Third panel right Bill Coleman Flor ida receiving the CaseoftheYear Award in the Program for the Blind from Dr Jarrell Bottom panel left Dr A P Jarrell extending the welcome to the 19th An nual Region IV Conference prior to in troducing Governor Carl Sanders Bottom panel right Atlantas Mayor Ival Allen extending his welcome to the Conference from the city of Atlanta The Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS New State Federal Agreement I Vol 14 MarchApril 1966 No 4 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education A tlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2349481 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings and Loan Bldg Phone AM 56541 Shown signing the new StateFederal Agreement designating the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation as the agency to continue making disability determinations for local residents who apply for benefits under the Social Security Disability Program are from left to right Paul Webb Director Division of State Disability Operations Jack Nix State School Superintendent Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Josiah A Flournoy Regional Representative Bureau of Disability Insurance The Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State Department of Education has signed a revised StateFederal Agreement with the Social Security Administration designating the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to continue to make disability determinations for local residents who apply for benefits under the Social Security Disability Program The signing of the new agreement was necessary because of a recent liberalization of the Social Security law permitting workers with non permanent disabilities to qualify for payments Dr Jarrell emphasized that this and other changes in the disability provisions means that more Georgia residents can qualify for monthly payments Formerly a person was eligible if he had a severe condition that was expected to last a long and indefinite time Jarrell said Now benefits can be paid to an individual whose severe disability has lasted or is expected by his doctors to last for as little as 12 months Also more liberal qualifying requirements exist for certain persons who are severely blind Another important change in the law permits the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to receive funds from social security to provide vocational rehabilitation services to disabled beneficiaries with the objective of helping them to return to work Jarrell pointed out at the ceremony the importance of disability benefit payments to Georgias economy Today he said more than 50000 disabled Georgia workers and their dependents are receiving cash disability benefits totaling more than 33000000 per year from social securityGovernors Committee Meets J L Head representing Morri sons Cafeteria receives the Em ployer of the Year Award from D Douglas Barnard Executive Secre tary to the Governor The Georgia Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped held its annual meeting March 23 at the Georgian Terrace Hotel with representatives from over 40 Mayors Committees in atten dance William A Sims Jr Chairman Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped opened the morning session John S Prickett Director of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and Ben T Huiet Commissioner State De partment of Labor welcomed the group to the Conference The morning session was devoted to activities and responsibilities of the local committees within the community Dur ing the Awards Luncheon Morrisons Cafeteria was awarded the Governors Trophy as the outstanding Employer of the Year because of their recognized practices in hiring handicapped persons on their ability to do a specific job Walter Leroy Abell Jr of Columbus was awarded the Governors Trophy as the outstanding handicapped Georgian of the Year because of his tremendous ef forts in overcoming his handicap and the outstanding strides he has made in de veloping his own business NRA CONFERENCE Continued from page 5 Paul C Howard Assistant Commis sioner Vocational Rehabilitation Admin istration Washington D C spoke on the progress vocational rehabilitation has made and where do we hope to go from here Mr Howard said in part the first vo cational rehabilitation legislation in 1920 carried with it a Federal appropriation of 1 million Total Federal and State spending was 2 million until about 1931 The Presidents budget request for 1967 calls for well over 200 million in Fed eral funds for basic support to be matched by State funds which should bring total expenditures to over 300 mil lion In the early days of the program State participation came slowly Not all States participated until 1939 and for many States participation was a real Walter Leroy Abell Jr of Columbus receives the Governors trophy as the outstanding handicapped Georgian of the Year from D Douglas Barnard Executive Secretary to the Governor William A Sims Jr Chairman Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped is shown standing behind Mr Abell struggle Today we have 50 States three Territories and the District of Columbia participating fully In addition we now have as partners in the program a wide array of private voluntary agencies The number of people rehabilitated grew very gradually to 5825 in 1925 Last year there were 135000 rehabili tantswe hope to have 168500 this year and over 200000 next year and we can look forward to the day when we will rehabilitate 300000 persons a year When the program started the focus was primarily on training Gradually physical restoration and other services were added to make up the broad scope of service which we offer for the handi capped today We become used to change and so it is easy to forget how dramatically the pro gram has grown We can take pride in this growth Many of you have helped in bringing this about and many of you in NRA have helped in shaping a situ ation under the new legislation in which we have even greater opportunity In fact the growth projected under the new legislation is impressive to the point of making one run scared The challenge that lies ahead is per haps most clearly underlined by the plan ned growth in rehabilitations Over the past several years there has been a nor mal growth of about 10 or 11 a year in rehabilitations To achieve our goals of 168500 in 1966 requires a 25 growth and similarly in 1967 another 25 growth will be required if we are to re habilitate 210000 people These figures reflect the imperative of a quickened pace and a greater rate of achievement said Howard Sectional meetings were held covering specific areas in rehabilitation programs and topics discussed were Program for the Blind Workshops and Facilities Spe cial Education Deaf and the Disability Determination Unit E B Whitten Executive Director Na tional Rehabilitation Association Wash ington D C served as Toastmaster for the annual Conference Banquet at which Hubert A Baldy White Humorist and Lecturer was guest speaker on the topic Hopping the High Hurdles The H B Cummings Award for the outstanding individual in rehabilitation during the past year was presented to John S Prickett Director of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation CaseoftheYear winners were Bob Cole man Program for the Blind and Bob Couch Sighted Program Continued from page 3 Most essential to a survey on this groups contributions is the moral and social benefits When a normal individual sees the manner in which a handicapped person overcomes his barriers he in turn is inspired to do his utmost The list of economic and social contributions is end less Realization should now prevail of the contributions of handicapped citizens lives by their profound personal achieve ments in society and their manner of channeling unyielding spirit into con tributions of sizable dimensionsDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 257 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 is Ion tries jOI ABILITY COUNTS Dr Herschel C Crawford Passes Away I Dr Herschel C Crawford Atlanta physician for 46 years and former Presi dent of the Geogia Medical Association passed away recently and will be long re membered for his invaluable work in the field of rehabilitation with the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation He was one of the original members of the Medical Advisory Committee when it was organized in 1943 and served as an officer as well as a member of the Execu tive Committee He was instrumental in formulating and developing the policies pertaining to the physical restoration program when it began in Georgia Until recent years Dr Crawford had attended every meeting of the Executive Commit tee and the Medical Advisoy Committee His major area of concern was in the field of visual and hearing disabilities and played an importnat role in the de velopment of services to handicapped in dividuals within this area of disability As a result of the policies which he helped to develop a great many handicapped Georgians received services which en abled them to resume employment Dr Crawford a native of Toccoa grad uated from Emory Medical School in 1919 and did postgraduate work in Vienna Austria and New York City He was past president of the Georgia Baptist and Piedmont Hospital staffs and also served on the staff of Crawford W Long St Joseph and Henrietta Egleston hospitals Dr Crawford was past president of the Fulton County Medical Society past president of local and state Eye Ear Nose and Throat societies and a member and officer of the board of trustees of Piedmont Hospital since 1932 He was a member of the board of di rectors of Blue Cross past president of Blue Shield member of the American College of Surgeons and officer and member of the advisory board of the State Vocational Rehabilitation Service Dr Crawford was a member of the Second Ponce de Leon Baptist Church the Capital City Club Piedmont Driving Club Homosassa Pishing Club a Scot tish Rite Mason a Shriner a member of the Phi Chi medical fraternity and Ca duceus honorary medical fraternity Dr Crawford resided at 3000 East Pine Valley Road NWX REHABILITATION NEWS mi 4ik Stroke Victim Proves Himself Top panel left Mr Fussell lacquers one of his finished articles Top panel right Mr Fussell points out his calliope circus wagon Second panel left he stands in the middle of his parade of circus wagons Second panel right he is shown carving and putting the finishing touches on one of his articles Third panel left Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor T G Louder milk looks at circus pictures as Mr Fussell explains what they represent Third panel right Mrs Fussell stands in all her radiance behind a displaycase during the grand opening Bottom panel left an exact scale replica of one of the well known circus wagons Bottom panel right from left to right Mr M Ringle owner of the building Mr Fussell and Mr Loudermilk stand in front of the circus sign at the shop James E Fussell owned and managed his own prosperous Insurance Agency in Columbus Georgia in early 1958 During that year he suffered a stroke and was forced to become inactive This was heightened in 1959 when he suffered an additional stroke which paralyzed all extremities He had gone from leading an active life as an insurance agency owner and manager to the inactive life of being an invalid He remembers now how he used to be placed in a wheelchair in front of the TV set and left to watch the pro grams One one particular day he saw a program on physical restoration The program illustrated what could be done if a person had the determination and willingness to strive to overcome his handicap Watching the program so moved him that he forced himself out of the wheelchair and fell on the floor and struggled and strived with utter determi nation to move The program had emphasized that a person should try to develop some trait or ability He got a 984 knife some blocks of wood and began to carve He had decided that his therapy would come through the use of the knife in carving articles out of wood He only had the use of two fingers on one hand when he be gan and he would hold the knife with the paralyzed hand and push the blade along with the two good fingers of his other hand Slowly but gradually his eagerness and determination to be able to move by himself began to pay off He was re ferred to vocational rehabilitation in 1964 and when the VR Counselor came by to see him he was sitting in the mid dle of the floor whittling By now he was able to walk with the use of a crutch on one side and the help of a person on the other side After examinations voca tional rehabilitation found him eligible for services and furnished him the nec essary tools and equipment required to advance himself in a career of wood carving All his life Mr Fussell had been in terested in circuses and the big parade when they came to town As a boy in his home county of Telfair he would climb up in a tree to watch the parade and would help the circus people by putting up their tents in order to earn money to buy a ticket to see the show Because of this deepseated interest in the circus he decided to carve the circus parade that would enable all of those children of to day who had never seen real honest to goodness circus parades an opportunity to see one through his carvings While he was recuperating he read up on the various circus wagons that be longed to circuses all over the country Continued on Page 7AEESC Holds Formal Opening The Atlanta Employment Evaluation and Service Center held its formal open ing May 3 1966 During the formal opening ceremony S Cantey Gordon Program Director at AEESC acted as moderator Reverend Lee Branham Bel vedere Methodist Church gave the invo cation and John S Prickett Jr Direc tor Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion introduced the guests Charles 0 Emmerich Administrator Economic Op portunity Atlanta Inc and Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Re habilitation Services spoke on the pur pose and meaning of the Center Mr Emmerich said that the new Cen ter is an indication of what can be ac complished when agencies with similar interests coordinate their efforts and join together to bring about community action to get the desired results It is significant to note that this Center re flects the work of many for many In his remarks Dr Jarrell stated Today marks the culmination of the ef forts of many dedicated individuals who have worked diligently to secure better opportunities for their fellowman The opening of the Atlanta Employment Evaluation and Service Center is just one step in the ladder of progress that we have seen our city take during the past few years This step could not have been taken by any one individual but was made possible by the pooling of thoughts and the joining of energies of many agencies all striving for the same unified objectivea central evaluation center to service the needs of all metropolitan Atlanta We are not beginning with easily at tainable goals but we have set our sights high and hopefully reachable This year alone between 4000 and 5000 peo ple all from families of low income in the metropolitan Atlanta area will re ceive help toward achieving selfreliance and productivity in this unique program which begins full scale operation to day The purpose of the Center has been structured and designed so as to provide a comprehensive and systematic method of determining the work potential ca pacity aptitude training attitude social and financial needs of the unemployed underemployed and economically needy In top left Boisfeuillett Jones President Woodruff Foundation Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Charles O Emmerich Ad ministrator Economic Opportunity Atlanta Inc officiate at the rib bon cutting Bottom left evaluators are shown working with clients at the Center Top right John S Prickett Director Division of Vocational Reha bilitation is shown introducing the guests Second panel right an overall view of those attending the formal opening Bottom right shows a counselor two evaluators and a social worker working with client center in the team approach youth and adults within the age range of sixteen to sixtyfive 1665 The end result of the Centers overall operation is suitable and satisfactory em ployment and the program is geared to place the client in an employment situ ation or training for subsequent employ ment A complete and systematic follow up of the client will be underway for a minimum period of six months following employment so as to insure proper and satisfactory adjustment The operational divisions of this com prehensive Center are composed of counseling work evaluation work ad justment casework education psychia try researeh statistical and medical Each division works as an integral part in the attainment of a complete picture of the needs problems and goals of the client The Atlanta Employment Evaluation and Service Center holds the distinction of being the first of its kind in the na tion and we can be justly proud that Atlanta was chosen as the location to initiate such a venture The programs conducted at the Center will serve as a demonstration project for other states to follow in rehabilitating this allim portant segment of our population and also aid in determining the need for simi lar Centers in other areas of the coun try Following their remarks Boisfeuillett Jones President of the Woodruff Foun dation Dr Jarrell and Mr Emmerich participated in the ribbon cutting mark ing the formal opening of the Center A tour of the facilities followed the cere mony and was conducted by the staff of the CenterThe Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Superintendent Nix Speaks At Cave Spring Commencement Exercise I I Vol 14 MayJune 1966 No 5 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex ALBANY DISTRICT Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens110 Hancock Avenue Liberty 33865 Battey HospitalRome Phone 2349481 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin105 N Franklin St Phone BR 22230 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 209 First Federal Savings and Loan Bldg Phone AM 56541 In top left Superintendent Nix delivers the commencement address while Fred Sparks Superintendent of the Georgia School for the Deaf signs for the students Top right Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services introduces Superintendent Nix as John Bull Minister to the Deaf First Methodist Church Tulsa Oklahoma signs Bottom left Henry Stewart Cedartown member of the State Board of Education congratulates the students and delivers their diplomas Bottom right Fred Sparks Henry Stewart Jack P Nix and Dr A P Jarrell are shown after the commencement exercises State School Superintendent Jack P Nix gave the commencement address for the graduating class at the Georgia School for the Deaf Cave Spring In his remarks Superintendent Nix said in challenging the group to greater attainments Let us go forth The torch has been passed to a new generation born in this century tempered by war dis ciplined by a hard and bitter peace Proud of our ancient heritage and unwilling to permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed These are words spoken by the late John Fitzgerald Kennedy on the event of his Inauguration as President and I believe they are most appropriate here tonight The torch has been passed to a new generation you who are graduating here tonight will be the torch bearers You must hold your torches high and light the way to a better world for those who will come after you Can you do this Are you prepared to be a torchbearer It can be as simple as A B C I am referring to my own set of ABCS a accept yourself b better yourself c consecrate yourselfThe Yorks Are Truly A Remarkable Family They say lightning never strikes twice in the same spot but for the York family it has struck four times Maggie Alvin Ava and Jimmy were all healthy babies when they were born but after several months for some and several years for the others they all developed Muscular Dystrophy The Yorks are becoming well known as a gospel singing group and are constantly becoming more and more in demand throughout the Southeast They sang as a quartet up until a few months ago when Ava who sang tenor for the group passed away second from left in cover picture They have had to completely reorganize and start all over as a trio Maggie left in cover picture who formerly sang alto has now switched over to tenor and Alvin second from right in cover picture who used to sing bass is now singing lead and soprano Jimmy extreme right in cover picture fills in as baritone They say that they dont necessarily sing the same part in all of the songs in their repertory but swap around to get the best possible effect while singing The Yorks are appearing in gospel concerts and allnight sings churches and other groups and are quite exhilarat ing to see and hear Vocational Rehabilitation and the Yorks first came together when Maggie was just a little girl and was referred to VR through the Summerville Department of Family and Children Services Voca tional Rehabilitation furnished her a course in sewing through the mail and later sent her to the South Georgia Voca tional Technical School for training in leather work and additional training in sewing Unfortunately she was only able to stay for eight weeks because a nurse was not available for services on the campus during the late 1940s The Yorks have had no steady means of support and have been receiving as sistance from the Department of Family and Children Services They had sung together for many years as a group but had never thought about doing it as a Continued on Page 7 In top panel Alvin Maggie and Jimmy are shown during a re hearsal at their home of some of their gospel singing Middle panel left Alvin is shown with part of his coin collection Middle panel right Maggie whose hobby is sewing and crochet ing is putting the finishing touches on a beautiful crocheted table cloth In bottom panel Jimmy is shown with Mrs York as they display Jimmys first oil painting which was drawn from a picture post card sent to Mrs York 50 years ago by her brother AAWB Holds First Regional Conference m I Miss Mary Switzer Commissioner Vocational Rehabilitation Administra tion Washington D C delivered the keynote address on Monday May 9 1966 at the first Southeastern Regional Con ference of the American Association of Workers for the Blind The threeday Conference was designed to exchange ideas for better understand ing and for improved development of programs and services to the blind In her address Miss Switzer said With the help of new legislation passed by Congress that will make possible great expansion and improvement of vocational rehabilitation services for people with various types of disability we confident ly expect that the State rehabilitation agencies will double the 5450 blind individuals they are now rehabilitating to suitable employment each year Only 1293 of this 5450 total were placed in professional occupations semi professional managerial and official jobs and other skilled work Miss Switzer noted The rest went into service oc cupations agriculture or forestry clerical or sales work unskilled or semiskilled jobs sheltered workshops and home making or family work In the coming years we will place more emphasis on preparing blind persons for higher grade employment Miss Switzer said Many more than the po tential for creative work and jobs carry ing important responsibility than are presently being placed in such positions Even today more than 2000 blind men and women are enrolled in about 400 colleges where they are training for all kinds of professions Approximately 95 percent of these people are being trained with support from the Vocational Re habilitation Administration Twelve blind students at the Univer sity of Cincinnati are graduating soon as trained computer operators Eleven of them have jobs waiting for them Blind people who are not fortunate enough to go to college are entering the service occupations in increasing num bers The 704 placements in this kind of work in 1965 were the largest number in any category except homemaking and family work Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services wel comed the group to its first conference during the opening session and chal lenged the group to continue to advance in its program of services to this dis ability group Mrs Mary K Bauman CoDirector of the Personnel Research and Guidance Center Philadelphia Pennsylvania dis cussed psychological evaluation and ser vices for the blind Mrs Bauman is a leading authority on the development of scientific methods and techniques for evaluating the aptitudes and abilities of the blind individual Chief of the Division of Services to the Blind in the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration Douglas C MacParland who is blind himself spoke on the voca tional rehabilitation act amendments of 1965 and Frederick G Storey of Atlanta reported on the work of the commission on standards and accreditations of agen cies serving the blind The subject of medicare and its effect Vocational Rehabilitation Commissioner Mary Switzer is shown addressing the first southeastern regional conference of the American Association of Workers for the Blind Inc in top left photograph At top right Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services is shown wel coming the group Sitting Dr Norman M Yoder President American Association of Workers for the Blind Inc on state programs for the blind was discussed during the Conference Georgia served as host state to the Conference at which representatives from nine states were present These included Kentucky Virginia North Carolina Florida Georgia South Carolina Ala bama Mississippi and Tennessee Pictured above are students from Atlanta University who are doing college work to prepare themselves for special education teachers Through a cooperative agreement with the A P Jarrell PreVoca tional Center for the Mentally Retarded Dr Mildred Barksdale head of the Special Education Department at Atlanta University sends her special education students to the Center as part of their practicum They supervise and work with students in all phases of the Centers activities under the supervision of the evaluators in each unit at the Center At extreme right in picture Kenneth Reynolds Coordinator of Services at the Center discusses with the students the proper approach and teaching methods for best results at the CenterSTROKE VICTIM Continued from Page 2 and wrote a brief history on each wagon that he decided to carve Mr Fussell had decided to carve a circus parade out of wood Georgia pine was used in all of his carvings a fact that makes Mr Pussell very proud When he completed carving his circus parade VR assisted Mr Fussell in get ting material with which to build show cases for each of the wagons Mr Fussell now carves with great accuracy and speed and the results of his work are on display at his business location on High way 41 three miles north of Marietta near the town of Kennesaw He is located in the former Battlerama Building which was built as a model of the old Hurt Building the landmark of the war be tween the states where much of the bat tle of Atlanta was fought The big beams which run through the ceiling of my store remarked Mr Fus sell came from the old Kimble House in Atlanta and the walls are made of old handmade bricks The front door to his shop also came from the famous Kimble House When entering the room where Mr Fussell has his circus parade on display you come into contact with an atmosphere of the real oldtime cir cus By working slowly around the room you can actually see a complete circus parade pass in revue while all the time you hear circus music and a clear narra tive of the bygone days of the circus Mrs Fussell works with her husband in the shop and is a great asset to him in his work It is indeed a great thrill and a wonderful experience to visit and review the circus memories of the past As Mr Fussell so aptly puts it you re ceive a history and first hand knowledge of a mode of life that has come and gone a mode of life that many of the chil dren of today do not see There are many souvenirs for sale in the front of the shop and it is awfully hard not to buy something to remind you of the days of the circus history of the past and the craft that Mr Fussell has developed and so aptly uses YORK FAMILY Continued from Page 5 profession For ten years they used to sing for local groups but the man who acted as their driver moved away and they no longer had transportation For over seven years the Yorks were unable to travel as a singing group and only sang occasionally at their own church One night while attending their church a lady asked them if they would sing for the group as it had been some time since she had heard them The Yorks sang and one individual was so impressed that she came forward and asked if she could have a friend of hers contact them about the possibility of making a record Sure enough in a few days Chester Capps came to their home to hear them sing and could hardly wait to contact his partner to come hear them also In June of 1965 they cut their first record and have just recently cut their first LP record for Chescamp Enterprises In the fall of 1965 Jimmy contacted the VR Office in Rome to see if they would possibly be eligible for services as they needed sound equipment when they made their singing appearances They were pleased to find that they were eligible for services and vocational reha bilitation furnished them the necessary sound equipment which included tape re corders microphones amplifiers speak ers and other necessary component parts for good sound reproduction They realized they needed some form of transportation to get them to the various churches civic groups and gospel sings so they decided to see what they could do about getting a small van In Summerville they applied and received a small business loan from the County Agent and were told that this was the first time that they had made a loan to help in the purchase of a transportation vehicle but they felt that it was for a good cause The Yorks all have hobbies and spend much of their spare time cultivating these interests Alvin paints and the re sults of his labor are shown in the picture with his mother holding one of his recent paintings He first started to paint by taking a correspondence course in paint ing and has progressed rapidly for a person who has had no personal instruc tions Jimmy has been a coin collector for many years and sold the major portion of his collection a few years ago and is just starting back again It is best not to have any loose coins jingling in your pocket if Jimmy is around as he will want to know the date and condition of the Maggies favorite passtime is crochet ing and she has become quite adept at all the intricate patterns The Yorks grew up in the Chattooga County area in the Harrisburg communi ty Maggie was eleven months old when she started walking and at 15 months d JL Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilita tion standing is shown extending a welcome to the Regional Training Conference on Heart Disease Can cer and Stroke sponsored by Emory University Rehabilitation Research and Training Center and Region IV Vocational Rehabilita tion Administration held May 11 13 1966 Representatives from Florida South Carolina Alabama Tennessee and Mississippi were in attendance at the threeday con ference she suffered a severe fever that was later diagnosed as Muscular Dystrophy She went to the ScottishRite Hospital in Atlanta at the age of six and con tinued going for different intervals of time until the age of 14 They all went to Lexington Kentucky in 1938 and to Warm Springs in 1940 for examinations to see if any physical therapy could alleviate or help their condition Jimmy and Alvin were able to move about by themselves by crawling Jimmy until the age of 13 and Alvin until the age of 17 All of the Yorks have the talent of writing songs and each has written some of the songs they sing at some of their performances The Summerville Depart ment of Family and Children Services has recognized the effort that the Yorks are putting forth in utilizing their talents to the best of their ability in becoming self supporting independent citizens The Yorks realize that if and when they receive a substantial income that the assistance which they are now drawing from the Department of Family and Children Services can be used elsewhere to help other needy citizens The Department of Family and Chil dren Services is giving the Yorks every opportunity to gain their selfsupport and is continuing their assistance until such time they feel the Yorks are self sustaining If you ever hear about a gospel sing be sure and check to see if the Yorks are on the program for if they are you had best plan to be in the audience or you will miss a real treatDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 257 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 jOoOl ABILITY COUNTS I Open House Held At Gracewood Rehabilitation Residence The Vocational Rehabilitation and Gracewood State School and Hospital staff held an Open House Friday June 3 1966 at the Rehabilitation Residence Mod erator for the Open House Program was John S Prickett Director Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion Ruben V Johnson Chaplain Gracewood State School and Hospital delivered the invocation and William A Crump Program Supervisor Services for the Mentally Retarded and Handicapped Young Of fenders introduced the guests Remarks were heard from Lewis Davis Assistant Regional Representative VRA Dr Norman Pursley Superintendent Grace wood State School and Hospital and Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Dr Jarrell in his remarks stated that this reha bilitation residence was made available through a cooperative agreement between the Department of Public Health and the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and represents one of many joint ventures being conducted by the two state agencies He stated that this gathering of individuals dedi cated to the rehabilitation of their fellowman portrays a vivid picture to me of the untiring efforts that are culminating here today with this offical opening of this Rehabilitation Residence A tour of the Rehabilitation Residence was conducted at the conclusion of the ceremony and refreshments were served This is the second transitional rehabilitation residence for the mentally retarded The first residence was opened in Atlanta in March of 1966 and similar residences are planned for Augusta and other areas throughout the state jmm Above left to right Lewis R Davis Asst Reg Rep VRA Ruben V Johnson Chaplain GSSH Dr A P Jarrell John S Prickett Jr William A Crump and Dr Norman Pursley Bottom right Dr Jarrell and Dr Pursley cut the ribbon at the openingREHABIL NEWS hronic alcoholic court offenders receive VR SERVICES under new project MMM SEE STORY ON PAGE 5Top picture shows members of the group therapy project discuss ing similar problems with Dr Norman Kaplan Psychological Counsul tant Savannah District and Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist Pete OMillian as another vocational rehabilitation counselor sits in to observe the sharing of ideas within the group In bottom picture Mr OMillian left in picture and Dr Kaplan discuss the progress that is being made by the group They are plan ning similar group therapy sessions in other vocational rehabilitation programs where they feel that this will be an invaluable tool in helping the clients readjust to employment situations Group Therapy Project In Savannah The Savannah District has under taken a rather unique approach in helping some of the vocational re habilitation clients gain selfconfi dence and the proper attitude to ward employment Dr Norman Kaplan Psychological Consultant to the Savannah District suggested that it might be advantageous to offer group therapy to the AD AFDC clients as well as VR clients The suggestions of this idea came in September of 1965 and it was presented to the Savannah District for approval The project actually got underway in May of 1965 and has been working extremely well since that time Some of the members of the original group who were receiving group therapy are still with the group Others have gone on to ac cept employment and work in a confident manner In all 14 voca tional rehabilitation and ADAFDC clients have received services through the group therapy ses sions Vocational Rehabilitation Speci alist Pete OMillian who works closely with Dr Kaplan with the group stated that the sessions offer a tremendous learning situation They represent a good inservice type training and give the VR Counselor an opportunity to gain insight into the dynamics feelings and thoughts of the group and give the counselor an opportunity to see how he relates to the group Many clients do not feel compet ent or feel that they are ready for employment The group therapy sessions give the client an oppor tunity to express himself and talk about these problems that tend to make him unemployable by discuss ing what they feel to be inadequa cies They are able to alleviate tensions and anxiety that might keep them from obtaining a job These discussions help them to de termine and accept the fact that they are employable and competent and have the ability to seek em ployment and maintain a proper attitude toward their work The group therapy sessions offer good motivation to the client and help him understand his own per sonal situation By hearing other clients in similar situations talk about their problems and how they have overcome them all the clients are able to benefit from these ex periences and realize that they all have similar obstacles to overcome The sessions have been so well accepted that in the near future others will be started so as to offer the client every possible opportun ity to gain satisfactory employment through understanding that the right attitude toward employment must be evident before he can make a satisfactory and competent em ployeeAlbany Rehabilitation Residence Dedicated Georgias third rehabilitation residence for the emotionally ill was dedicated Friday July 1 1966 Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Rehabilitation Ser vices Dr Addison Duval Director Divi sion of Mental Health Department of Public Health Dr James Craig Super intendent Milledgeville State Hospital and Mrs G Frank Dye Chairman Re habilitation Residence Community Advis ory Committee and Vice President Geor gia Association of Mental Health deliv ered brief remarks during the dedication ceremony Dr Jarrell said in part The dedica tion of this rehabilitation residence marks another milestone in our efforts to provide adequate aftercare and reha bilitation programs in the communities of our great state Today more than 100 rehabilitation residences are operating successfully throughout the United States with the majority of these having been developed within the last 10 years This illustrates the rapid and widespread acceptance by communities of the nead for such specialized aftercare facilities Living in a Rehabilitation Residence permits people to maintain continuity of life secure jobs keep jobs friends con tacts while escaping from domestic tensions with which they or their families cannot cope Upheavals on both ends cutting ties with the community to enter the hospital and problems of rehabilita tion and reemployment on leaving may be prevented by moving into a Rehabili tation Residence Our first Rehabilitation Residence opened November 1964 and the second one became operational in April 1965 Unquestionably these programs have proven the value of transitional facilities in the rehabilitation of chronic mentally ill individuals As of this date 118 clients have had the benefit of services offered through the Rehabilitation Residence Program and seventyfive per cent have been placed in employment or training This effective demonstration is an incen tive for other communities in the State to request similar facilities A fourth residence will be dedicated in Columbus July 28 1966 and one is scheduled to open in Augusta within four months and within two years one in Savannah Ma con and Rome Dr Duval outlined a threepoint pro gram for solving many of the problems now facing the state mental health pro gram 1 To develop a fine modern and dispersed state hospital system with facilities located in seven to nine of the larger populated Centers in Georgia 2 The development of community mental health programs which is an integral part of any health program 3 The development and training of qualified professionals to work in the mental health field It may be necessary Dr Duvall said to build our own training and research centers to produce the re quired number of qualified personnel Mrs Dye spoke of the local people who cooperated to help make the rehabilita tion residence possible and spoke of the outstanding cooperation among the many committees commissions and civic or ganizations who assisted in bringing the residence into a reality Continued on page 7 Albanys first Rehabilitation Residence is pictured above which will house up to 16 women and will serve as a transitional residence while they are being reorientated into community living The Residence is located at 518 Oglethorpe Avenue Albany Georgia Participants in the dedication of the rehabilitation residence in Albany are from left to right Albany Mayor James V Davis Daniel Mowrey Dr James Craig superintendent Milledgeville State Hospi tal Dr David M Wolfe director Public Health Department District No 20 Mrs Frank Dye vice president Georgia Association of Mental Health Dr Addison Duval director Division of Mental Health De partment of Public Health Dr A P Jarrell assistant state super intendent of schools in charge of rehabilitation services and R Watt Jr district supervisor Vocational RehabilitationThe Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Vol 14 JulyAugust 1966 No 6 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education A tlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex albany district Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 AtlantaGrady Hospital 5234711 Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE 8735341 DECATUR DISTRICT ADCUR OFFICE Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Decatur Room 255 New First National Bank Bldg 3783671 Carrollton116 Rome Street 8328204 East Point 1777 West Washington Ave Room 108 7664711 Marietta Professional Arts Building 644 Cherokee St NE 4276521 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens901 CS Bank Bldg Phone 5491241 Cave Spring7773319 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Dalton132 W Gordon 2261322 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin107 N Franklin St Phone 2726700 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5 Phone AM 56541 State Representative And Rome Commissioner Visit Rome Office Above pictured during a recent Open House at the Rome Voca tional Rehabilitation Office are F L Hancock Rome 1st Commis sioner Richard L Dick Starnes Jr Representative District 13 Post 3 Floyd County P D Bush former Gainesville District Su pervisor who retired June 30 and C L Zipperer Counselor Rome area State Representative Richard L Starnes and Rome 1st Com missioner F L Hancock visited the new Rome office of Vocational Rehabilitation during a recent Open House Representative Starnes a former Vocational Rehabilitation client himself exemplifies what can be accomplished through determination drive and a personal will to succeed He graduated from the Mercer Law School and began practice in Rome His capabilities allowed him to handle everything from civil cases to criminal trials Mr Starnes felt the call to represent Floyd County in the State Legislature and he was elected as Post 3 Representative from District 13 Representative Starnes will be an asset to the Vocational Re habilitation Program in Georgia and to other agencies whose primary purpose is increased services for the disabled citizens of GeorgiaAlcoholics Receive Expanded Services REHABILITATION NEW Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State School Superintendent in Charge of Re habilitation Services and Dr Bernard Holland Chairman of Emory University School of Medicine jointly announced a grant in the amount of 338853 to ex pand vocational rehabilitation services to the chronicdrunk court offenders The Federal share for the first year of the three year grant from the Vocational Re habilitation Administration is 304968 with a local matching share of the grant coming from Fulton County and the City of Atlanta of 33885 The need for such a project was de monstrated viiJn officials representing the City of Atlanta Fulton County and a group of interested business leaders a greeing to provide the funds for a one year study of chronicdrunk problems in the City of Atlanta The study was de signed to gather pertinent data and make necessary recommendations based upon this information as to methods in which the problems of the chronicdrunk of fender could be handled more effectively and efficiently The study began on July 1 1962 and was completed on June 30 1963 The study covered the year 1961 The study was continued in 1963 by Ful ton County and the City of Atlanta on a 5050 basis until January 1 1966 when Fulton County financed the study by itself until initiation of the current pro ject on June 15 1966 The study revealed that 30000 court cases for drunkenness were accounted for by 12000 individuals Of these 12000 individuals onehalf appeared in court only one time and the other 6000 in dividuals accounted for the remaining 20000 court appearances Thus the study clearly demonstrates that the role of a small number of people in Atlanta could be considered in the class of chronic drunk court offender More than 650 appeared in court five or more times and nearly all came from homes of social dep rivation and economic needs Many came from broken homes but a majority of these individuals suffered from past or present crippling illness andor injuries Practically all suffered from neurosis of one kind or another and approximately 10 were psychotic Those suffering from tuberculosis in this group was ap proximately 10 higher than those of the general population During the four Above Dr A P Jarrell Assist ant State School Superintendent in Charge of Vocational Rehabilita tion Services Project Director James A Alford and Dr Bernard Holland Chairman of Emory Uni versity School of Medicine look over the current status of the pro ject At right Dr Holland and Dr Jarrell discuss the plans for the project during the first year The first year budget for the three year project will be 338853 year period from 19571960 the number arrested from public intoxication in At lanta increased by 14 from 40821 to 46650 In 1964 records of the Atlanta Police Department show that 12650 fewer arrests during 1964 than in 1960 A 27 decrease in number of arrests from 46650 to 34500 This decrease in arrest came during the period which the Emory University Alcoholic Project car ried out the study and experimental treatment in rehabilitiation services and shows clearly that the upward trend in arrests for public intoxication has been stopped and actually reversed for a signi ficant decrease The new project will directly expand and provide a full range of rehabilitation services to the chronicdrunk court of fender who heretofore received very limited services Project objectives will be to ascertain which applicants for re habilitation services have the greatest potential to return to and remain with a job comparable with their ability and based on their physical mental social and vocational conditions Site of the new project headquarters of the Emory Vocational Rehabilitation Center will be the Kemper Building 41 Exchange Place and will occupy 9500 square feet on the Third Floor The space occupied by the present alcoholic study personnel in Grady Memorial Hospial will also be utilized and afford additional space These two facilities located only three blocks apart will make it conveni ent for the medical staff and other per sonnel to work close with the staff at the Kemper Building The Georgia Division of Vocational Re habilitation will furnish an associate director and five vocational rehabilitation counselors to work in conjunction with this project The Vocational Rehabilita tion counselors will provide specialized VR service throughout the rehabilitation need of the patient and until he has been Continued on page 7Annual Staff Conference Preview Plans for the 1966 Annual Staff Train ing Conference to be held at Jekyll Is land Georgia August 1418 1966 have been announced by Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Rehabilitation Ser vices Dr Jarrell stated Each successive conference has been one of the highlights of each years activities and have proved highly educational and informative Al though they have reached such a high level the program planning committee somehow manages to find ways for im provement and offers an even more out standing group of conference partici pants Some of the program highlights this year will include Corbett Reedy Region al Representative Vocational Rehabilita tion Administration Charlottesville Virginia who will deliver the inspiration al address Vocational Rehabilitation Faces New Challenges Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Re habilitation Services The Status of the Disability Program Today Paul Webb Director Division of State Operations Bureau of Disability Insurance Balti more Maryland A New Approach to the Rehabilition of Alcoholics Dr James A Alford Director Vocational Rehabilitation Emory University Al coholic Project Atlanta Banquet speak er Dr George P Donaldson Executive Secretary of the Georgia Agriculture Commodity Commission for Peanuts Tifton Georgia as well as many other outstanding and informative panels and speakers A copy of the Conference program fol lows August 1418 1966 Aquarama Jekyll Island Georgia PROGRAM Sunday August 14 1966 600 800 P M Registration Monday August 15 1966 730 830 A M Registration PRESIDING E K BELL 840 850Welcome Ralph Croft 850 900Welcome Judge A J Hartley 900 905Response E L Craft 905 920Devotional Rev M S May 920 950Inspirational AddressCorbett Reedy 9501020Vocational Rehabilitation Faces New ChallengesDr A P Jarrell 10201040Break PRESIDING J L HISE 10401100Implications of the 1965 Amendments to the Social Security Act Paul Webb 11001130PanelNRA and Its Con tribution to Vocational Re habilitation E L Craft Moderator John S Prickett Jr C E Thomas James A Ash 11301200Why Dont We Make Up Our Minds Jack P Nix 1200 130 P M Lunch PRESIDING SHELTON McLELLAND 130 430Introduction S McLelland SelfAppraisal Dr D Wade Appraisal of Clients Dr Thomas L Porter and Dr John Barry Summary S McLelland 230 250Break 250 430 OASI Sectional Meeting The Status of the Disability Program Today Paul Webb Question and Answer Period Tuesday August 16 1966 PRESIDING T M McCOLLUM 830 835 A M Invocation S Mitchell 8351200Introduction S McLelland Improving Quality of Ser vice Through Better Use of Consultation Rehabilitation Con sultation E E Kennedy Psychological Consulta tion Dr H O Harasch Medical Consultation Dr Caroline Williams Psychiatric Consultation Dr L W Marshall Social Work Consultation Dr Charles A Stewart SummaryS McLelland Twenty minute break will be takentime determined by Mr McCollum 1200 130 P M Lunch PRESIDING JOHN S PRICKETT JR 130 430Services Available at Cen ters and Facilities W A Crump Cantey Gor don Dr Robert L Bennett Robt M Long W C Petty Vernon Vinson Twenty minute break will be takentime determined by Mr Prickett 130 430OASI Sectional Meeting The Status of the Disability Program in the Atlanta Re gion and the Developments in the Regional Office Josiah A Flournoy Discussion of Work Evalua tion Center Cases Wednesday August 17 1966 PRESIDING GORDON HAYGOOD 830 835 A M Invocation W Seats 835 905Appraisal Procedures for Vocational Technical School Students Dr G Bottoms 9051135Introduction S McLelland The CounselorEmployer Relationship Gordon Haygood Moderator Lou Ortale W A Sims Jr A B Eckerson Summary S McLelland 11351200Medical Research in the Field of Ophthalmology Dr Froncie A Gutman Twenty minute break will be takentime determined by Mr Haygood 1200 130 P M Lunch PRESIDING M B BRAMBLETT 130 150Report from the Merit System E L Swain 150 250PanelNew Hope in Re habilitating Pulmonary and Other Respiratory Diseases M B Bramblett Moderator Dr Frank And erson Dr Samuel B Chy atte A E Kitchens T Z Tatum 250 310Break 310 500PanelA New Approach to the Rehabilitation of Al coholics Dr James A Alford Moderator Lyndon Wade Rev Bob Jones Bruce Herrin Dr David Wade R Gerald Kersey BANQUET 730930 P M Invocation Rev McCoy Johnson Toastmaster John S Prickett Jr Music Presentation of Awards S McLelland Introduction of Speaker Dr A P Jarrell Address Dr George P Donaldson Benediction Rev McCoy Johnson Thursday August 18 1966 PRESIDING DR THOMAS P GOODWYN 900 905 AM Invocation W C Dendy 9051000Research in Cancer and Its Implications for Vocational Rehabilitation Dr A H Letton 10001015Break PRESIDING DR RIVES CHALMERS 10151200Rehabilitation Potential in Heart Cases Frank Creech Moderator Dr Mary Skorapa Dr Samuel B Chyatte 1200 Closing Remarks Dr A P JarrellRehabilitation Pioneers Retire After 23 Years P D Bush left receives a certi ficate of appreciation from Dr A P Jarrell for his outstanding ser vice as a member of the Vocational Rehabilitation Staff Powell D Bush Gainesville District Supervisor retired July 1 after 23 years of service with the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Mr Bush came with the VR Program in 1943 after serving 22 years in the field of education On his retirement he had served a total of 45 years with the Department of Education He was pro moted to Gainesville District Supervisor in October of 1963 and held this position until his retirement Mr Bush was honored with a retire ment dinner on July 8 and was presented with an electic trolling motor for his boat and a photograph album with a picture of all the staff members in it He returns to teaching this fall as a professor at Brenau College Albany Rehabilitation Continued from page 3 Milledgeville Hospital Superintendent Dr James Craig said The patient needs to stand on his own feet after release from the hospital Dr Craig praised the local residences as a vital part of mental rehabilitation Albany Mayor James V Davis extended greetings to the crowd of over 100 per sons attending the dedication and called the opening of the residence a new de velopment in the attitude of the com munity in recognition of mental rehabili tation The rehabilitation residence has a maximum capacity of 16 clients Refer rals to the residence are accepted from the state mental hospital andor the com munity on the basis of need and capabili ty of functioning satisfactorily both vo cationally and socially The residence has two bedrooms downstairs and eight bedrooms upstairs a kitchen den living room dining room and plans for a re creation room will be completed soon The clients are in charge of cleaning and maintaining the fully furnished and equipped residence and are encouraged to participate in community social and civic activities as well as the vocational aspects The staff at the residence in cludes houseparents Mrs Elizabeth Mowrey and Mrs Prudence Musgrove Mrs Jeanette Davis dietician Allan Russell psychiatric social worker Dr Above Beverly and Mrs Gaines are shown smiling with delight after Mr Gaines was presented with a 19 inch television set William Beverly Gaines Supervisor Program for the Blind retired July 1 after over 23 years of service with the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili tation Mr Gaines came with the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in 1943 after serving 17 years as an educator He recently received a certificate from Gov ernor Carl Sanders in recognition of 40 years of faithful and devoted services to the state of Georgia all of which were conducted in the Department of Educa tion He was promoted to Supervisor of Services for the Blind on July 1 1952 a position which he held until retirement A retirement dinner was held in his honor on July 5 and he was presented with a 19 inch GE Television Set as a token of appreciation from the staff members of Vocational Rehabilitation Mr Gaines recapped some of the high lights of his years with Vocational Re habilitation and brought back many fond memories for the many other Rehabili tation staff members who have been with the Agency over the years Dr A P Jarrell presented Mr Gaines with a certificate of appreciation for his years of service with the Vocational Re habilitation Division Mr Gaines challenged the Division to continue on in their upward surge for greater services to the blind of our state and offered his many years of service and experience to the Division at any time we need assistance Allen Turner psychiatric consultant and Hugh Mitchell Rehabilitation Specialist from the Albany office of vocational re habilitation Alcoholics Receive Continued from page 5 able to achieve optimum employment ad justment The Atlanta Employment Evaluation and Service Center administ ered by Vocational Rehabilitation will be a major resource for the project The Center provides a complete and systematic method of training placing the client on a job or in training with a systematic followup of the client con tinuing for a minimum of six months The Emory Rehabilitation Center will be staffed by an interdisciplinary team consisting of social workers physicians psychiatrists VR counselors psycholo gists and eventually a nurse and health educator The patients eligible for service will be referred to the Center from Evaluation Centers Economic Opportuni ty of Atlanta Municipal Court Police Department hospitals and other social and health agencies Upon entering the Rehabilitation Center extensive examina tions and testing to include psychiatric psychological and physical examinations and social and vocational screening will be conducted Based on results of these examinations the patient will be classed according to the degree of his ability and suitable rehabilitation procedures will be initiated Director of the new project is James A Alfred who conducted the original study of the chronic drunk court offender in 1962 The project offers the metropolitan Atlanta area a great opportunity to drastically reduce one of the problems affecting society today With the initia tion of the project the alcoholics within the community will receive greater bene fits and service than in the past The project has received much as sistance from Economic Opportunity of Atlanta in initiating the project and Grady Memorial Hospital for furnishing space and other services where necessaryDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 257 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 Acquisitions Tivision University of Georgia Libraries Athens Ga 30601 VIliZmerCiMyindUStriMy bHnd VendinS Stand 0perator manaes an effieit snack bar at 200J CompatnyP Swafford makes chane fr Margaret Phipps secretary in the Rome office of Hartford Insurance stand Option PiCtUr6 ShS Vera Vi6W f the Stand 3nd Et right is shown the convenient corner location of her vending placeSti A e Blind and received training and o2l X REHABILITATION NEWS Georgia Statewide Planning Project Underway umvEBsrrY os Georgia OCT 4 1966 UBBARI STATEWIDE PLANNING FOR VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION A 1965 amendment to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act has made it possible for the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to receive a federal grant to finance a statewide comprehensive plan for the development of vocational rehabilitation services The amendment passed Nov 8 1965 made available to each state sums to 100000 each year for two fiscal years Georgia was one of the first states in the Union to apply for and receive these funds On May 15 1966 the Georgia Di vision of Vocational Rehabilitation was notified that Georgia was granted 99767 for the fiscal year 196667 to finance a proposed study Funds are available to continue the study during the next fiscal year A fourmember professional staff is being recruited In the words of the Amendment to the Vocational Rehabilitation Act Public Law 89333 this grant is to meet the cost of planning for the development of a comprehensive vocational rehabilitation program with a view to achieving the orderly development of vocational F E Wynn Assistant Program Supervisor rehabilitation services in the State in cluding vocational rehabilitation services provided by private nonprofit agencies and making vocational rehabilitation services available to all handicapped in John L Jackson Associate Coordinator dividuals in the State by July 1 1975 Congress in commenting on the amend ment said that the purpose of this new program of twoyear grants was to pre pare States for the development of their vocational rehabilitation services for the next decade The objectives of the plan call for the cooperation of all agencies in the state interested in the rehabilitation of the handicapped including state agencies and private nonprofit organizations Dr A P Jarrell assistant state super intendent of schools in charge of voca tional rehabilitation said this planning project is the first attempt in Georgia to put together and develop a comprehen sive plan to coordinate all efforts made by both private and public agencies to rehabilitate the disabled citizens of the state It is generally recognized he said that there is duplication of services in some areas and a growing need for better coordination of services between agen cies Dr Jarrell added that it is too easy for a planning project to concentrate on data collection and to neglect the processing of the data into a functional or operational plan A goal of this study is the implementation of its findings he said Guidelines for conducting the study project were supplied by the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration Accord ing to these guidelines the specific ob jectives of the project are these 1 To identify by number and cate gory those disabled within the state who are in need of vocational rehabilitation services by means of sample studies of the handicapped population and use of past studies and reports 2 To prepare a written plan which will identify analyze and evaluate pro gram goals the staff and financial sup port needed to achieve these goals with full geographic coverage by all programs offering vocational rehabilitation serv ices This will include planning for special facilities and workshops for the handicapped 3 To identify the barriers that pre vent or delay needed vocational rehabili tation services for the handicapped 4 To identify vocational rehabilita tion resources required to meet future needs including the necessary legislative action community support costs and steps required to facilitate the achieve ment of statewide goals among the government and voluntary programs at state and local levels These should be expressed in both interim and longterm goals 5 To determine the ways in which governmental and voluntary programs may be coordinated and reorganized if necessary in developing services to meet more effectively demonstrated needs The planning project has been planned to insure contact with all major profes sional lay groups in the state known to have or likely to have an interest in rehabilitation of the disabled The project will be carried out by a Policy Board and Citizens Advisory Committee in addition to the professional staff The Policy Board at the top of the organizational structure will be com posed of leaders from the State Legisla ture governmental agencies voluntary agencies business and the professions The Policy Board will be charged with the responsibility of determining broad policy under which the project will operate The Citizens Advisory Committee will be made up of representatives from or ganizations which already are active in or interested in rehabilitation fields such as civic church and service organiza tions Some of these are Associated Indus tries of Georgia Mental Health Associ ation Georgia Association for Retarded Children Georgia Heart Association Georgia Tuberculosis Association Geor gia Association for Cerebral Palsy Geor gia Society for Crippled Children and Adults Alcoholics Anonymous and Pa rentTeacher Associations Like the Policy Board members of the Citizens Advisory Committee will be named by the governor Four major task forces will work un der the leadership of the Policy Board and the primary staff Task Force I will be for data collec Paul Carden Project Information Officer Continued on page 6Fourth Rehabilitation Residence Dedicated Georgias fourth Rehabilitation Resi dence for the Emotionally Disturbed was dedicated July 8 1966 in Columbus Georgia The new ColumbusMuscogee County Rehabilitation Residence is the realization and the results of efforts of many individuals agencies and organi zations and can truly be termed a com munity effort Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services stated at the dedication ceremony that the vocational rehabilitation goal is to raise the number of rehabilitated emo tionally disturbed individuals from 1000 this year to a minimum of 2500 by 1970 He stated Today more than 100 half way houses are operating successfully throughout the United States with the majority of these having been developed within the last ten years This illustrates the rapid and widespread acceptance by communities of the need for such special ized aftercare facilities He mentioned the recommendations regarding after care and rehabilitation made by the Joint Commission on Mental Health in 1961 The objective of modern treatment of persons with major mental illness is to enable the patient to maintain himself in the community in a normal manner To do so it is necessary 1 to save the patient from the debilitat ing effects of institutionalization 2 to return him to home and community life as soon as possible and 3 there after to maintain him in the commun ity as long as possible Dr Jarrell stated that transitional facilities such as Rehabilitation Resi dences can fit this prescription for people who have no home to which they can return from the hospital or who are not able to live satisfactorily alone or with their families When a person is hospitalized for an extended period of time he is faced with problem situations which are precipitated by his illness and the accompanying period of hospitaliza tion The individual is seldom free from complications which may provide a basis for malfunctioning and rehospitalization For many their vocational pursuits have been disrupted and to further compli cate the problem such persons have lost status in the community and too the period of illness and hospitalization has frequently interfered with and changed the persons social role especially his familys The individual has been alien ated from conventional social values and rendered susceptible to abnormal pres sures and more than likely he does not have the degree of emotional strength he once had to deal with the problems and stresses of life This of course makes the person feel apprehensive and insecure Handicaps that must be com pensated for and coped with in a con structive fashion become highly accentu dated reality factors when the client en ters the commmunity Living in a Rehabilitation Residence permits people to maintain continuity of ijfesecure jobs keep jobs friends contactswhile escaping from domestic tensions with which they or their fami lies cannot cope Upheavals on both ends cutting ties with the community to en ter the hospital and problems of rehabili tation and reemployment on leaving Continued on page 7 In top panel is shown Columbus Rehabilitation Residence located at 518 Oglethorpe Avenue In middle panel from left to right are Morton Harris Past President Columbus Jaycees Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Rehabilitation Services Dr Addison Duval Direc tor Division of Mental Health De partment of Public Health Mrs Charles R Smith Chairman Re habilitation Residence Community Advisory Committee and President Muscogee Mental Health Associa tion Rev C B Parker Minister of Education First Baptist Church Alton R Ray Specialist Vocational Rehabilitation and Lee R Grogan President Georgia Junior Chamber of Commerce In bottom right panel George Cor radino Chairman Columbus Jaycees Fund Raising Program for the Re habilitation Residence and Alcoholic Clinic receives a national award in behalf of the group from State Jay cee President Lee Grogan The Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS AWARDS PRESENTED I Vol 15 SeptOct 1966 No 1 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex albany district Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Wayoross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 AtlantaGrady Hospital 5234711 Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE 8735341 DECATUR DISTRICT ADCUR OFFICE Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Decatur Room 255 New First National Bank Bldg 3783671 Carrollton116 Ms Rome Street 8328204 East Point 1777 West Washington Ave Room 108 7664711 Marietta Professional Arts Building 644 Cherokee St NE 4276521 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens901 CS Bank Bldg Phone 5491241 Cave Spring7773319 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Dalton132 W Gordon 2261322 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin107 N Franklin St Phone 2726700 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5 Phone AM 56541 Shelton McLellan Associate Regional Representative Vocational Re habilitation Administration Atlanta Georgia left in above picture is shown presenting plaques to Alton Ray Rehabilitation Specialist Columbus recipient of the Curry Award George Mau Counselor for the Blind and James Miller Assistant Program Supervisor of Services at Milledgeville State Hospital recipients of the CaseoftheYear Awards from the Georgia Rehabilitation Association At the Awards Banquet during the 22nd Annual Staff Training Conference Shelton McLellan Associate Regional Representative Vocational Rehabilitation Administration Atlanta Georgia presented Georgias outstanding counselors awards m recognition of their contributions to rehabilitation Alton Ray Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist for psy chiatric cases in the Columbus area was presented GRCAs Curry Award He has won both the state and Region IV NRA nomination for the Elkins Award for outstanding counselor of the year and is currently competing for the national award to be announced at the National Rehabilitation Association Meeting m Denver Colorado during the first week of October George Mau Counselor for the Blind and James Miller Assistant Program Supervisor of Services at Milledgeville State Hospital were recipients of the CaseoftheYear Awards for the Blind and Sighted Programs Criteria used for judging evaluating and selecting the Counselors CaseoftheYear are 1 Quality and complete ness of survey information 2 The severity of problems to be solved 3 The adequacy of services provided to solve these problems and 4 The suitability of job placement and justification for closureStaff Training Conference Draws 1000 Georgias 22nd Annual Staff Training Conference drew over 1000 individuals as the leaders in all phases of vocational rehabilitation gathered together to re port on the latest developments accom plishments and future endeavors of vo cational rehabilitation In the inspirational address of the Con ference Corbett Reedy Regional Repre sentative Vocational Rehabilitation Ad ministration Charlottesville Virginia spoke on the new meaning of rehabilita tion He compared the traditional meas ures which included the economic values and humanitarian values He talked to the group about the new context of vo cational rehabilitation and our concern for disadvantaged people This new con cept includes the culturally deprived the chronically dependent the poor the school dropout the chronically ill and the disabled Each year he stated an additional 450000 Americans become dis abled and are added to the roles of the handicapped For each person rehabili tated last year three others were in the process making the total served last year of approximately 600000 Dr Jarrell speaking on Vocational Rehabilitation Faces New Challenges stated that it was necessary to expand services and facilities and to increase the use of all available resources to improve the states services to the handicapped To stay up with the challenges current ly facing the Georgia Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation we must move ahead with the following programs 1 A statewide planning study for the purpose of finding out what serv ices will be needed to provide reha Contd on page 7 In top left panel Dr George P Donaldson Executive Secretary Georgia Agricultural Commodity Commission for Peanuts Tifton presents the banquet address as those in picture in top right panel listen attentively Second panel left shows a scene during a conference session Second panel right Dr David Wade Administrative Medical Consultant Texas Education Agency Austin Texas is shown speaking on his topic SelfAp praisal In third panel left Lou Ortale President Job Placement Division National Rehabilitation Associa tion and State Placement Consult ant Division of Vocational Rehabi litation Des Moines Iowa is shown speaking on the counseloremployer relationship In third panel right is Brunswick counselor E L Craft Brunswick City Manager J Ed Hulse and John S Prickett talking prior to opening session Bottom panel left Dr Jarrell is shown receiving a special award from J Kirby Strain Director Employment Service Division Em ployment Security Agency Geor gia Department of Labor Bottom panel right shows State School Superintendent Jack Nix addressing the Conference during its first day GEORGIA FIRST IN REGION FIFTH IN NATION Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Vocational Rehabilita tion Services In reporting on the progress during the past fiscal year Dr Jarrell states that Georgia placed first with 8010 re habilitations in Region IV with Florida placing second with 6742 Georgia achieved 10678 percent of its goal again leading the states in Region IV For the nation as a whole Dr Jarrell stated that the Department of Health Education and Welfare has announced that more than 154000 disabled men and women were rehabilitated for jobs dur ing the year ending June 30 1966 In the number rehabilitated by states nationally Georgia placed fifth with its total of 8010 Illinois fourth with 8303 North Carolina third with 9184 New York second with 9 512 and for the fifth successive year Pennsylvania lead the nation with 12 338 In the number rehabilitated per 100 000 population Georgia again ranked fifth with 184 as compared against a national average of 78 North Carolina and Arkansas were tied for third with 187 the District of Columbia second with 217 and West Virginia first with 222 Dr Jarrell stated that the continued success in the Georgia Rehabilitation Program is due in large to the dedicated and conscientious work by our states vocational rehabilitation counselors The prime aim of our entire program is to offer the best possible service to any eligible disabled citizen and this can be accomplished by continuing to move for ward as we have in the past STATEWIDE PLANNING Contd from page 2 tion and analysis Task Force II will analyze previous statewide and local studies Task Force III will be responsible for experimenting with the implementation of results of selected previous studies Task Force IV will assimilate the find ings of the other three task forces and derive a master plan for development of Vocational Rehabilitation based on these findings The majority of the professional staff has been selected The staff will be headed by a project coordinator that has yet to be selected Already filled are the positions of as sociate coordinator assistant program supervisor and informational officer Three secretaries will also be retained Heading the project during its forma tive stages and holding the post of asso ciate coordinator is John L Jackson a graduate of the University of Texas Mr Jackson 28 comes to the Georgia Divi sion after work with a statewide plan ning project for the mentally retarded in his home state of Texas He is a native of Austin Tex and re ceived kis BBA degree from the Uni versity of Texas in 1959 and his MBA degree from the University of Texas in 1963 He also has completed a years work toward a doctors degree In describing the planning project Mr Jackson said We must survey what we have in the way of services determine what we will need in the decade to come and formulate a plan for getting there Mr Jackson married the former Kay Carter of Austin They have one child a son Jay 2 F E Wynn a longtime veteran in vocational rehabilitation who has 24 years of experience with the Georgia Division is assistant program supervisor of the project Before being named to the statewide project Mr Wynn was district super visor for the Atlanta district for 10 years He was vocational rehabilitation counselor at Thomasville for 10 years and counselor for four years at Albany Prior to entering the field of voca tional rehabilitation Mr Wynn was a school teacher and school administrator He was school superintendent at Ash burn for three years He holds an A B degree from Emory University and was graduated from the University of Georgia with a masters degree in 1937 Mr Wynn 56 married the former Martha Reynolds of Hawkinsville Ga in 1936 They have two grown sons He is a native of Pulaski Tenn and moved to Georgia as a young man Information officer for the planning project is Paul Carden a former Atlanta newspaperman Mr Carden 26 was a reporter and copy editor for the Atlanta Times He held a similar position with the Atlanta Journal Before coming to Atlanta Mr Carden was a reporter and columnist for the Nashville Tennessean Nashville Tenn He is a native of Washington D C and received his B A degree from George Peabody College for Teachers in 1963 During the 196566 school year he taught English in the Cobb County pub lic schools He married the former Mary Lee Montgomery of Belmont Miss Mr William A Sims Jr Chair man Governors Committee on Em ployment of the Handicapped William A Sims Jr Chairman of the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped spoke at the 22nd Annual Staff Training Conference of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili tation Jekyll Island Georgia Speaking on the Relationship between Employers Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors and Department of Labor Placement Specialists he stressed the importance of understanding the position of each and their purpose in aiding the handi capped individual return to employment He called the attention of the group to the fact that the properly trained and placed disabled individual has a better work record in the area of better produc tion less absenteeism and has fewer ac cidents These he said are known facts that make the handicapped indi vidual one to be desired because of his attitude toward work and its meaning to him Sims formerly announced that the first full week of October is National Em ploy the Physically Handicapped Week Governor Carl Sanders will officially make the announcement for Georgias observance of this Week on September 19 Chairman Sims urged that all local committees on Employment of the Handi capped begin their preparations for this allimportant weekRESIDENCE DEDICATED Contd from page 3 may be prevented by moving into a Re habilitation Residence Georgias Rehabilitation Residence Program for the Mentally Restored be gan in 1964 and is a cooperative pro gram involving the Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation State Department of Education the Division of Mental Health Department of Public Health and local communities involved Our first rehabilitation residence opened No vember 1964 and the second one became operational in April 1965 A third one was dedicated in Albany July 1 1966 Unquestionably these programs have proven the value of transitional facilities in the rehabilitation of chronic mentally ill individuals As of this date 144 clients have had the benefit of services offered through the Rehabilitation Resi dence Program and 75 have been placed in employment or training This effective demonstration is an incentive for other communities in the State to request similar facilities A fifth resi dence is scheduled to open in Augusta within three months and within two years one in Savannah Macon and Rome Dr Addison Duval director of the Mental Health Division State Dept of Public Health emphasized that Georgia for the first time has a definite blue print for a comprehensive statewide mental health plan In speaking of the changing attitudes toward emotional illness he stated We are getting away from the stigma and disgrace which has historically plagued the mentally ill the mentally retarded and alcoholics He emphasized that there is nothing strange about mental illness that it is just as understandable as gout flat feet cancer or heart disease Mrs Charles R Smith chairman of the rehabilitation residences community advisory committee and president of Muscogee Mental Health Association served as moderator for the program which included greetings by Chairman J R Allen of Muscogee County Commis sion remarks by Lee R Grogan presi dent of the Georgia Junior Chamber of Commerce and Alton R Ray vocational rehabilitation specialist and an invoca tion and benediction by the Rev C B Parker During the ceremony Mr Grogan pre sented the National Mental Health Award of the National Jaycees and the National Mental Health Association to George Corradino who accepted the award in behalf of the Columbus Jaycees The Jaycees Community Services Coun cil Area Mental Health Planning Coun cil and Muscogee Mental Health Asso ciation were four organizations which helped raise more than 18000 to aid in the establishing of the Rehabilitation Residence Following the dedication ceremony a tour of the Rehabilitation Residence was conducted by the Houseparents Mrs L Jinright and Mrs B Connor and re freshments were served STAFF TRAINING Contd from page 5 bilitation aid to all disabled in the state by 1975 2 A statewide planning study of faci lities and workshops 3 To secure additional state funds for matching federal allotment for the purpose of building needed work shops evaluation and rehabilitation centers and expansion of staff 4 Expand rehabilitation services to the emotionally ill so as to rehabili tate a minimum of 2500 by 1970 5 Expand program of services to the mentally retarded 6 Develop methods for recruiting staff 7 Increase our work in research 8 Educate the public on the new a mendment to the state Constitution which permits local funds to be used as state money for matching fed eral allotment Paul Webb Director of the Division of State Operations Bureau of Disabili ty Insurance Baltimore Maryland speaking on the status of the disability program stated that today over 56 mil lion workers are insured against disabili ty and adding dependents to the figure fully 87 percent of the nations popula tion under 65 is protected should the breadwinner become disabled A worker together with his wife and children can receive up to 30900 monthly if he has a mental or physical impairment that pre vents all substantial work how this affects the people of Georgia is as fol lows As of December 31 1965 about 30000 disabled workers in Georgia were receiving monthly benefits totaling 2660000 about 27000 dependents of these workers were receiving monthly benefits totaling 1310000 This brings the total that the disabled program is paying to the people of Georgia to almost 4000000 per month Nationally the average for each state is only 27 million State School Superintendent Jack Nix spoke on the topic Why Dont We Make Up Our Minds He stated We talk about education parents say they want it teachers say they want it politicians put it first in their platforms we know we need it why dont we make up our minds to have it The presentday debate about educa tion can be turned to our advantage We can take it as evidence of a desire on the part of the public to improve our educa tional program Let us capitalize upon it The debate indicates a tremendous faith in the power of the public schools If the critics thought we could not do better they would leave us alone If we take advantage of the favorable climate for educational improvement now current we can profit from the criticism and realize some of our goals In speaking on the role of self ap praisal for the vocational rehabilitation counselor Dr David Wade Administra tive Medical Consultant Texas Educa tion Agency Austin Texas stated that the rehabilitation counselor is a human being like other human beings He is a professional but in spite of this he may have certain biases or there may be cer tain factors which may hinder his maxi mum effectiveness How the self apprais al is done individually or as a group is not quite as important as the fact that it is being done and the Counselor asking whether indeed he may have certain bia ses and then identifying these biases A second area of bias may very well be a socioeconomic bias or for that matter an educational background bias A Coun selor may not feel that persons from cer tain socioeconomic groups or certain races or certain religions are quite as good risks for rehabilitation as other groups He may be absolutely correct in his assumptions The important aspect here is whether he recognizes these as sumptions and is then prepared to put them to the test Outstanding speakers dominating the 22nd annual Staff Training Conference and participating in the program as specialists in the field were Dr James A Alford Director Vocational Rehabili tation Emory University Alcohol Proj ect Emory University School of Medi cine Department of Psychiatry Atlan ta Dr Frank Anderson Pediatrician Augusta Dr Robert L Bennett Execu tive Director Georgia Warm Springs Foundation Warm Springs Dr Gene Bottoms Supervisor Vocational Guid ance Division of Vocational Education Atlanta Dn Samuel B Chyatte Psychia try Atlanta Mr Frank Creech Counse lor Atlanta Mr A B Eckerson Chief of Occupational Dictionary and Classifi cation Section U S Employment Serv ice U S Department of Labor Wash ington D C Mr Josiah A Flournoy Regional Representative Bureau of Dis ability Insurance Atlanta Dr Froncie A Gutman Assistant Professor Emory University Medical School and Director of Graduate and Undergraduate Oph thalmology Program at Emory Universi ty Atlanta Mr Gordon Haygood As sistant Regional Representative Voca tional Rehabilitation Administration At lanta Mr Bruce Herrin Assistant Di rector Vocational Rehabilitation Emory University Alcohol Project Emory Uni versity School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry Atlanta Dr A H Letton General Surgeon Atlanta Mr Shelton McLelland Associate Regional Repre sentative Vocational Rehabilitation Ad ministration Atlanta Dr L W Marsh all Consultant Psychiatrist Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Yarbrough Rehabilitation Building Milledgeville Mr Lou Ortale President Job Placement Division National Rehabilitation Associ ation and State Placement Consultant Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Des Moines Iowa Dr Mary Skorapa Psychiatry Atlanta Mr W A Sims Jr President Master Manufacturing Com pany Inc Atlanta Dr Charles A Stew art Dean College of Social Work Uni versity of Georgia Athens Mr E L Swain Director State Merit System Atlanta and Dr Caroline Williams Dis trict Medical Consultant Savannah The Annual Staff Training Conference banquet was highlighted by a surprise award presented to Dr Jarrell in recog nition of his contributions to public service and employment security The presentation was made by J Kirby Strain Director of Employment Service Division Employment Security Agency Georgia Department of Labor in behalf of Labor Commissioner Ben T Huiet He cited Dr Jarrell for his efforts which he said enabled the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to receive in ternational acclaim for meritorious serv ice Dr Jarrells closing remarks to the Conference on Thursday morning Au gust 18 challenged the group to continue their efforts to furnish the citizens of Georgia the best possible services avail ableDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 257 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 ABILITY COUNTS Planning Committee On Manpower Needs For Correctional Rehabilitation Holds Meeting The Planning Committee for Meet ing Manpower Needs for Correc tional Rehabilitation held a recent meeting in Atlanta Members of the Committee and alternate mem bers include Mr Ellis MacDougall Columbia South Carolina Mr Charles L Newman Louisville Kentucky Mr Maurice Harmon Frankfort Kentucky Mr George Beto Huntsville Texas Dr A Polk Jarrell Atlanta Georgia Mr James E Murphy Washing ton D C Mr William T Adams Washington D C Dr John M McKee Elmore Alabama Mr Richard A Chappell Athens Geor gia Miss Margaret M Ryan Washington D C Mr Louis Schubert Atlanta Georgia Mr Shelton McLelland Atlanta Geor gia Mr W A Crump Atlanta Georgia Members from the Southern Re gional Education Board include Dr Harold L McPheeters and Dr Carl A Bramlette REHABILITATION y RAH5 Si I 1 Vocational Rehabilitation Trade School to be built at Alto Rehabilitation Center See Story Page 5 GEORGIA REHABILITATION CENTER OFFERS VARIED TRAINING PROGRAM The Georgia Rehabilitation Cen ter in Warm Springs continues to improve and expand its curricula and services of vocational training Vocational rehabilitation train ing areas currently available at the rehabilitation center are Gen eral Drafting Mechanical Draft ing ClerkStenography Secretari al Bookkeeping Receptionist Du ties PBX Operation Small Instru ment and Watch Repair Small Engine Repair Duplicating Machine Operation Radio and T V Repair Small Electronic Machine Repair Garment Altera tions Power Sewing Machine Operation Slip Cover and Drapery Construction Reweaving Home making Business Management Practices and OnTheJob Train ing The pictures at the left show active vocational training and evaluation in process and are ex plained below TOP PANEL LEFT Student left and Ralph Drumwright drafting instructor check progress being made on assignment TOP PANEL RIGHT and SEC OND PANEL LEFT GRC stu dentclients at work in the small engine repair training course SECOND PANEL RIGHT Small instrument and watch repair in structor Gerald Walters watches closely as student follows instruc tions while making a repair on one of his costudents watch THIRD PANEL LEFT Vivi Erickson physical therapist at GRC works with student client in helping him develop confidence and skills necessary to walk un aided THIRD PANEL RIGHT Student client is making a purchase from the vending stand operator at the center The vending stand opera tion is also used as a training area for studentclients in small busi ness and vending stand manage ment m BOTTOM PANEL LEFT Willis Hall business course instructor checks the progress students are making in becoming familiar with the many types of business ma chines required by modern busi ness BOTTOM PANEL RIGHT Stu dentclient is shown making re pairs in the radio TV repair courseHIGHLIGHTS OF GRA CONFERENCE The Eighth Annual Meeting of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association was held at the Biltmore Hotel on December 12 in Atlanta with nearly 1000 in at tendance representing the various disci plines of rehabilitation both public and private Robert A Abell Jr president of the Georgia Rehabilitation Counseling As sociation presided at the opening session Outstanding speakers and topics on Thursdays program included Counsel ing As A Profession by Dr Thomas L Porter Coordinator of the Rehabilita tion Counseling Program at the Univer sity of Georgia Greetings and Welcome were given by J J Segars President of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association Cardiovascular Disease Scope and Magnitude by Dr Harold W Whiteman with a panel discussion on the Implica tions composed of Linwood Beck Ex ecutive Director of the Georgia Heart Association Mrs Bruce Schaeffer Di rector of the Georgia Department of Family and Childrens Service L K Peet Assistant Business Manager At lanta Newspaper Inc John S Prickett Director Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation On Friday at the Second General Ses sion Nathan B Nolan PresidentElect of the Georgia Rehabilitation Associa tion presided over discussions on Re habilitation Following a Heart Attack Various parts of the program included Coronary Thrombosis Cause and Ef fect by Dr Joseph A Wilber Treat ment Management Physical Rehabili tation by Dr Gordon Barrow Emotion al and Social Rehabilitation by Miss Merle Foeckler Associate Professor of the school of social work at the Univer sity of Georgia Vocational Rehabilita tion by Dr Frank H Echols Coordina tor Rehabilitation Counseling Florida State University The climax of the Conference was the Awards Luncheon at which B R B Davis was presented the Georgia Coun selor of the Year Award in recognition of his outstanding work with the handi capped This selection automatically nominates Mr Davis for the National Elkins Award GRA PresidentElect Nathan Nolan presented the Georgia Rehabilitation Associations Professional Award to Dr Robert L Bennett Executive Director of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation This award is presented annually to the individual who has made the most signif icant contribution in the rehabilitation of the physically handicapped in Georgia Dr Irving Goldstein chairman of the Metropolitan Atlanta committee on Em ployment of the Handicapped announced the winners of the Metropolitan Atlanta Area Handicapped Woman of the Year Handicapped Man of the Year and Em ployer of the Year the awards were presented to Marjorie Kendell Douglas Leland Meeks and the International Optical Company respectively The plaques were awarded to the Handicapped Man and Woman of the Continued on page 6 TOP LEFT PHOTO James J Segars left Outgoing President of GRA presents Dr Robert L Bennett with the associations Profes sional Award TOP RIGHT PHOTO E B Whitten Executive Director of the National Rehabilitation Association giving luncheon address CENTER PHOTO Robert Abell presenting B R B Davis with his award as Georgia Counselor of the Year Shown seated are the incoming President Nathan Nolan and his wife Ida Bell BOTTOM PHOTO Dr Irving Goldstein presenting the Metropolitan Atlanta area awards to Left to Right Leland Meeks Handicapped Man of the Year International Optical Company Employer of the Year John Payne receiving the award and Kendell Douglas Handicapped Woman of the YearThe Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Vol 15 NovDec No 2 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex albany district Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 AtlantaGrady Hospital 5234711 Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE 8735341 DECATUR DISTRICT ADCVR OFFICE Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Decatur Room 255 New First National Bank Bldg 3783671 Carrollton116 Rome Street 8328204 East Point 1777 West Washington Ave Room 108 7664711 Marietta Professional Arts Building 644 Cherokee St NE 4276521 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens901 CS Bank Bldg Phone 5491241 Cave Spring7773319 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Dalton132 W Gordon 2261322 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin107 N Franklin St Phone 2726700 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5 Phone AM 56541 LOUIS SCHUBERT RECEIVES SUPERIOR WORK PERFORMANCE AWARD Louis R Schubert Regional Representative Region 4 Vocational Rehabilitation Administration Louis R Schubert Regional Representative for Vocational Rehabilitation Administration in Atlanta received the Superior Work Performance Award for his leadership to the States in Region IV in developing and expanding vocational rehabilitation services to meet their goals Mr Schubert has been Regional Representative of the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation of the US Department of Health Educa tion and Welfare since October 1948 He was transferred to Region IV in August 1957 with headquarters in Atlanta and serves the following Southeastern States Alabama Florida Georgia Missis sippi South Carolina and Tennessee This Region consists of six Vocational Rehabilitation General Agencies and four separate Agencies for the Blind The Atlanta region has a history of being in the forefront of the rehabilitation movement Mr Schubert is playing an important role in sustaining this tradition and in moving the region even further in bringing services to all the handicappedVocationalTechnical School to be Erected at Alto Pictured above is the architectural rendering of the proposed 12 million vocationaltechnical school to be constructed at the Georgia Industrial Institute at Alto The Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the State Board of Corrections have entered into a coopera tive agreement for the construction of a 12 million vocationaltechnical school to be built at the Georgia Industrial In stitute Alto Governor Carl Sanders in making the announcement of the new school stated that 300000 is being transferred from the prison rehabilitation fund to the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili tation State Department of Education The Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion will utilize the funds for matching purposes to receive an additional 900000 from the Vocational Rehabilitation Ad ministration The Governor further stated that As a result of this cooperation between de partments the State Board of Corrections and the Division of Vocational Rehabili tation a trade school four times the size we originally anticipated will be con structed and we expect to let bids on this project about December 21 Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools In Charge of Rehabilitation Services stated The new facility will make available an ad ditional 40000 square feet and will in clude space for vocational training in 11 major trade areas along with a medical unit which includes a laboratory several hospital beds and nursing services for intercurrent illness In addition to the above space will be available for the development of the social service unit and chaplaincy services Specific vocational training will be provided in the following trade areas Automobile mechanics automobile body and fender repair service station up holstery woodworking welding key punch office machine repair masonry plumbing and barbering These expanded services will create the first comprehensive Vocational Reha bilitation Center within a state prison setting in the United States These ser vices will enable an increasing number of young public offenders to enter gain ful employment upon their release and over a period of time should greatly reduce the number of public offenders who return to prison Current services offered at the Voca tional Rehabilitation facility include psychological psychiatric social and vocational evaluation individual and group counseling activities of daily liv ing personal social work adjustment training and onthejob training Upon his release from the Institution the inmateclient is transferred to the Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor in his home community for further vocation al counseling specific vocational training job placement and followup services Vocational Rehabilitation services were first initiated at the Georgia Industrial Institute Alto in October of 1963 and through joint financing plans were formulated to build a rehabilitation facility Construction began in the latter part of 1964 and in April of 1965 Governor Sanders dedicated the Alto Vocational Rehabilitation Facility VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION CLIENT RECEIVES AWARD FOR SUGGESTION James C Powell an employee of the Regional Post Office received a certifi cate of award and a check for 25 in recognition of the benefits to be derived from his suggestion to eliminate using paper clips on correspondence and other files He had observed that the tendency of many post offices to use paper clips resulted in chipping of the blade of the electric opener in the mail room and also the problem of correspondence belonging to the file becoming separated when fastened only with paper clips His pro posal to ask all postmasters to staple all attachments with the regular stapling machine was adopted and a Bulletin notice was issued If this suggestion is followed through the life of the blades on the electric opener will be increased and there will be less annoyance in the Regional Office Divisions at receiving partial files WORLD DAY FOR LEPROSY SUFFERERS DECLARED Miss Mary Switzer Commissioner of Vocational Rehabilitation U S Depart ment of Health Education and Welfare has accepted the chairmanship of a na tional committee to promote the 14th an nual observance of World Day for Lepro sy Sufferers on January 29 1967 World Day for Leprosy Sufferers was originated in 1954 by Count Raoul Fol lereau of Paris founder of the Order of Charity The Day has been endorsed by President Lyndon B Johnson and the late President John P Kennedy More than 100 countries now observe it In accepting the chairmanship of the committee promoting its observance Miss Switzer said Only a small percentage of the millions afflicted with leprosy are now receiving treatment This is extreme ly unfortunate As a result of interna tional research programs there are ef fective drugs new methods of physical rehabilitation and new surgical techni ques that could be used more extensively to help bring leprosy under worldwide control to master this problem here and abroad we need the understanding and support of every individual Effec tive action cannot be taken until there is more general knowledge of the prob lems extent and what can be done to solve it Leprosy known as Hansens disease presents one of the worlds most serious health problems There are an estimated 10 to 15 million victims who labor under severe economic and social burdens as a result of it Not only is their working capacity greatly reduced but because of the unjustifiable stigma attached to the disease they are denied a normal place in society even when they have jobs At least 25 of the worlds leprosy sufferers are in need of reparative sur gery and less than 20 receive any kind of treatment despite the great increase in recent years in programs to provide itJ B BUDDY HAMMOND PASSES AWAY Charles McClure left receives Alumnus of the Year Award from Robert L Bennett MD during the ceremonies commemorating the founding of the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation ALUMNUS OF THE YEAR NAMED AT WARM SPRINGS Ceremonies to commemorate the found ing of the Georgia Warm Springs Found ation hospital in 1927 by the late Presi dent Franklin D Roosevelt were held on Wednesday November 30 They were highlighted by the presentation of the Alumnus of the Year Award to Charles McClure of 115 Carnes Drive Marietta Georgia The award is presented each year to a former patient who had made an outstanding adjustment to his physical impairment Charles McClure became a paraplegic as a result of an automobile accident on April 12 1960 and was admitted to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation hospi tal for treatment on September 6 1960 In addition to medical care he received training in feeding himself typing and other functional activities Upon his return home he managed with great difficulty to complete his final year at the Osborne High School in Marietta Georgia In 1963 under the auspices of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili tation he enrolled in the Marietta Center of the University of Georgia and com pleted two years of college In the winter of 1964 Charles Manner offered McClure a job with the Marvend Company as a bookkeeper He proved to be an invaluable employee and today holds the position of purchasing agent with the company where he works a full 8hour day McClure drives his own car equipped with hand controls is an enthusiastic bowler and loves to camp and swim Following the ceremonies the Alumnus of the Year was guest of honor at a reception held at the hospital J B Hammond J B Hammond 65 who provided speech therapy services to the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation passed away recently Mr Hammond was Director of the Georgia Laryngectomy Society and active in the Atlanta Cancer Society He was a member of the First Methodist Church of Atlanta Mr Hammond better known as Buddy to the members of the Vocation al Rehabilitation Staff will long be re membered for his outstanding service both to the Vocational Rehabilitation Division and to individuals who received laryngectomy aid from him Recently he was awarded a citation for meritorious service from the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handi capped He is survived by his widow a daugh ter Mrs Claude G Home a son Frank Seer a sister Mrs Roy Tomson and a brother W G Hammond all of Atlanta GRA CONFERENCE Continued from page 3 Year in recognition of their performance of their jobs in an exemplary manner and thus aiding the employment of other handicapped persons The plaque award ed to the International Optical Company was for their outstanding efforts extend ed in promoting equal job opportunities for the handicapped After the awards were presented E B Whitten Executive Director of the Na tional Rehabilitation Association gave the luncheon address on some of the strengths and weaknesses of the associa tion as we move into the next decade He stated that one of our major weaknesses quite often is too much emphasis being placed on getting a person ready for a job and his job opportunities without thoroughly noting the other aspects of the individuals needs He stated that our programs are not uniform in all the fifty states a person may apply for aid in one state and be turned down whereas if applying in another state he would surely be accepted We must work for more unification in the application of our rules and regulations Mr Whitten pointed out the fact however that we have the best educated and organized staffs serving any public agency Over 95 of the Vocational Rehabilitation staff have a minimum of a Bachelors Degree while over 50 have their Masters Degree Immediately following Mr Whittens remarks the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association was concluded Jack H Williams Appointed Coordinator Of the StateWide Vocational Rehabilitation Planning Project Jack H Williams former assistant professor of sociology at Western Illinois University has been named coordinator of the statewide Vocational Rehabilitation Planning Project of the Division of Voc ational Rehabilitation Mr Williams holds a masters degree in sociology from Northern Illinois Uni versity He is now a candidate for a PhD degree at Emory University where he is completing his doctoral dissertation on Decision Making in Family Plan ning He also served as an assistant profes sor at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 196566 While at Virginia Polytechnic Institute Mr Williams was director of the Upward Bound Project and he also served as a parttime instructor and research assistant at Emory University in 196465 SVRPP the project he will coordinate is a federally financed study and plan ning project on services provided by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili tation and other agencies to the handicap ped persons in the state Its purpose is to formulate a plan for the development of vocational rehabilita Jack H Williams Coordinator tion services during the next decade of the Statewide Planning Project Deadline Nears For 1967 Ability Counts Contest The 19th annual national ability counts report contest sponsored by the Presi dents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and the Georgia Governors Committee on Employment of the Handi capped will have junior and senior high school students in public and private schools writing on the theme Handicap ped Workers Community Assets this year To participate students are asked to investigate how handicapped workers in their communities are proving that Ability not disability counts Ways in which the students may acquaint them selves with the facts needed to write a brief report are a field trip to local places of employment the local offices of the State Employment Service Geor gia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Veterans Administration talks with labor union officials contact with public and private organizations provid ing services to the handicapped and interviews with handicapped persons themselves These sources will give the stated insight into the program of re habilitation and job placement Through independent research in the students community he will become aware of the fact that handicapped workers are surmounting barriers to perform skillfully in hundreds of jobs in commerce industry and agriculture These people have good records in ef ficiency safety and reliability which are helping to prove their ability to work and to be selfsupporting to prove they can contribute their share to the welfare of the community once given the right chance Students will find that it is truely Good Business to Hire the Handicapped The Cash Prizes in the national and state contests will be NATIONAL PRIZES GEORGIA 1000 First 100 600 Second 50 400 Third 25 300 Fourth 15 200 Fifth 10 In addition to their monetary prizes the students will receive an expensepaid twoday trip to Washington for the first place winner from each State to attend the Annual Meeting of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handi capped Included on the full schedule planned for the stay in the Nations Capital are a welcoming reception sponsored by the Disabled American Veterans a luncheon hosted by the National Headquarters of the AFLCIO and a guided bus tour in and around Washington as guests of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers The winners will also receive 100 for personal expenses in addition to the first place cash award and certificates signed for the President As in previous years the Disabled American Veterans will contribute the prize money to the five national winners The first prize of 1000 known as the Judge Robert S Marx Award is named after the first National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans The wall plaques for the five schools of the winners are donated by Mrs A B Dolly Cohen Cincinnati a member of the Ohio Governors Committee Cash prizes for the State will be pro vided by local Georgia companies The Georgia AFLCIO will pay the transport ation and expenses of the firstplace State winner Contest rules for this years Ability Counts Contest are 1 ELIGIBILITY Any 11th or 12th grade student in a public or private high school including those students at an equivalent educational level in public or private institutions ie handicap ped students taking separate training 2 PRIZES In addition to the cash prizes parchment awards signed for the president will be given for the five best reports in each state Five honorable mention national certificates will be awarded Also five plaques will go to the high schools of the top na tional winners The first place win ner will go to Washington all ex penses paid for the Annual meeting of the Presidents Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped 3 AWARD TO TEACHER A special award will be presented to the teacher of the firstplace winner in recogni tion of her contribution and leader ship in the efforts of the Annual Ability Counts Contest 4 DATES Reports must be mailed to H E Van Orden Executive Secretary Governors Committee 129 State Of fice Building Atlanta Georgia 30334 NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 1 1967 5 INSTRUCTIONS Reports should not exceed 750 words typed double spaced on 8y2 x 11 white paper Students full name age home address school address and teachers signature must be on the attached cover sheet only The report must be original in all respects It should reflect the inge nuity and resourcefulness of the writer in gathering pertinent information and relating it to the theme of the re port Short quotes and excerpts may be included if exact source is given in a footnote reference Personal inter views and quotes are very effective and sources should also be fully iden tified 6 PARTICIPANTS He must come from a participating high school with the number of students entering from a school unlimited Schools may only participate through the Georgia Gov ernors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped 7 STANDARDS Major credit will be given for significance of content evidence of research originality im pact organization clarity of expres sion and neatness This years National judges are Mrs Betsy Talbot Blackwell EditorinChief Mademoiselle Carl J Megel Washing ton Representative American Federation of Teachers AFLCIO and Dr Ivan E Taylor Head Department of English Howard University This years State judges will be Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superin tendent of Schools In Charge of Reha bilitation Services W H Montague President of Georgia State AFLCIO Edward E Fortson Supervisor of Tech nical Services for Georgia State Em ployment Service Georgia Department of Labor and representatives from the other sponsoring agencies Last year first prize was awarded to Ernest Franklin Williams Jr Pelham High Other winners were Second place Kenneth Rogers Drexal High Atlanta third placeThomas Nemetz Athens High School fourth placeDale LaFaye Willis Pelham High School and fifth place Randy Jones Thomasville High School Previous Georgia winners are Miss Rebecca Ethel Hair Jordan High School Columbus Georgia196465 Miss Pat ricia Ruth Lumpkin A L Miller High School Macon Georgia196364 Miss Audrey Dell Hammerich Baker High School Columbus Georgia196263 Georgia schools have been participat ing in the national Ability Counts Con tests for the past 18 years The National Association of Secondary School Princi pals has placed the event on the pro gram of its approved list of national con tests and activities for 196768Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 257 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 I tions Division Univ Libraries Athens Ga ABILITY COUNTS Members of the National Citizens Advisory Committee to Vocational Rehabilitation visited the Georgia Rehabilitation Center at Warm Springs recently This group stud ied the local facility in order to better advise the Vocational Re habilitation Association in regard to its continuing program for Re habilitation Facilities Develop ment The visitors toured the facil ity and in the picture at right are gathered around student Ira John son at his workbench in the Small Instrument and Watch Repair Sec tion From left to right they are Nathan Nolan GRC Administra tor B C Hernandez attorney and member of the Advisory Commit tee Albuquerque New Mexico Burt Risley Executive Secretary and Director State Commission for the Blind Austin Texas V L Vinsor Assistant Program Super visor for facilities Georgia Divi sion of Vocational Rehabilitation Atlanta Miss Jean Halcrow Oc cupational Therapist in Charge at Royal South Sydney Australia Hospital and Henry Redkey Chief Rehabilitation Facilities Development Washington D C Miss Halcrow is studying at the Center under a special grant from her country X A ITATION r J Ground Breaking for Vocational Trade School to be built at Alto Rehabilitation Center See Story Page 3Shown above are pictures taken at the Second Annual Presentation of the Boy Scouts Charter for the post TOP PANEL shows the committee members for the post Front row left to right Harold Barron Fred Schwager Harry Turner and Walter Matthews On the back row left to right are Milton Stewart Jr William Ford Sam Richwine Sidney Ross and Curtis Snipes SECOND PANEL Richard Coleman is reading the Explorer Code aloud as Richard Gonzales and Larry Jones hold it up for all to see BOTTOM PANEL Bob Campbell District Scout Executive is pre senting Harry Turner Institutional representative for the post with the renewed charter for the post BOY SCOUT EXPLORER POST ACTIVE AT ALTO The Georgia Industrial Institute at Alto is thought of mainly as a place where hardened young public offend ers are sent Quite often it is forgotten that our state has only one institution to house both the first offenders who may have made slight mistakes in grow ing up and the hardened criminal all of the states young male public of fenders between the ages of 16 and 19 are housed at Alto What is done at Alto to help the struggling lad find himself and adjust to society For approximately one and a half years now the Boy Scouts of America have had a post organized at the Institute The post is the only Senior Boy Scout group in existence in a penal institution The idea of using a scouting program inside a Georgia penal institu tion for character building and recrea tion is very new but also very effective The idea of organizing a Boy Scout Post at Alto was originated by Walter Matthews Superintendent of the Geor gia Industrial Institute and the dona tion of time and money by twentyfive of the communitys leading citizens made the post possible However the road was not easy for this new concept of scouting and rehabilitation one of the first obstacles encountered by the De partment of Corrections was that of get ting permission from Boy Scout Head quarters in New York for the organiza tion of the post and for the boys to wear the uniforms After a great deal of ef fort the post was organized in June of 1965 Georgia Industrial Institutes Ex plorer Post No 601 has given a number of boys who ordinarily would have no such chance the opportunity to join in the program of exploring and partici pating in numerous constructive activi ties that provide the type of recreation necessary for the development of good character Some of the activities the boys partici pated in during their first year of operation included cookouts swimming parties camping trips including the spring Rugged Road Camporee a visit to the Tallulah Falls Power Station a program on fire prevention along with a tour of the Clarkesville Fire Station and numerous other activities The post has also aided the local com munity with several service projects namely The Post 601 boys raked the fall accumulation of leaves from around the local community center and trimmed the hedge they also planted a number of tulip bulbs around the fountain at the center at Christmas the Post helped decorate the city of Cornelia by using colored red rocks and writing in big letters Merry Christmas Another service area that the boys participate in allows them to see all the home games of the University of Geor gia The members of Post 601 along with several hundred other scouts are the ushers for the Bulldog fans then they enjoy the game along with every one else After the games the boys help with the lost and found articles The opportunities offered by Explorer Continued on page 7Ground Breaking For Alto Vo Tech School REHABILITATION NEW On April 20 1965 the first step in the development of a comprehensive re habilitation program of services for the prison system of Georgia was achieved when Governor Carl E Sanders dedi cated the Vocational Evaluation Center at the Georgia Industrial Institute at Alto Now the second major step has been initiated by the ground breaking fir the new facility which will be an expansion of the current facility and will greatly augment and enhance the existing services available through the center Funds to construct and equip this new addition were made available through the transfer of 300000 from the Board of Corrections to the Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation which was matched by 900000 from Vocational Rehabilita tion Administration Funds When the expansion is completed the 12 million Vocational Technical School will accommodate 500 pupils daily and will offer every eligible inmate the op portunity of being taught a trade to qualify him to seek employment consist ent with his interests aptitudes and abilities In addition those who have the capability for entering a professional career will be assisted in obtaining the necessary training required to insure em ployment Vocational training in 11 major trade areas will be offered they are automobile mechanics body and Continued on page 6 TOP PANEL Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Re habilitation Services is shown ad dressing those in attendance at the ground breaking ceremonies Seated behind Dr Jarrell are other pro gram participants SECOND AND THIRD PANELS Photographs representing the voca tional and counseling activities be ing conducted at the center BOTTOM PANEL Governor Carl E Sanders shakes hands with the first group of Alto inmates leaving for the new Correctional Honor Institution at Indian Springs The Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS A MOST REMARKABLE MAN ft Vol 15 JanPeb 1967 No 3 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex albany district Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 AtlantaGrady Hospital 5234711 Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE 8735341 DECATUR DISTRICT ADCVR OFFICE Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Decatur Room 255 New First National Bank Bldg 3783671 Carrollton116 Rome Street 8S28204 East Point 1777 West Washington Ave Room 108 7664711 Marietta Professional Arts Building 644 Cherokee St NE 4276521 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens901 CS Bank Bldg Phone 5491241 Cave Spring7773319 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Dalton132 W Gordon 2261322 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin107 N Franklin St Phone 2726700 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5 Phone AM 56541 Mr Foskey is shown performing his duties as a jailer at East Dublins police station East Dublin Police Chief Edward Tanner described his new city jailer who has only been working for the city in this capacity since April by saying He is a most remarkable man Woodrow Wilson Foskey age 53 is the man that Chief Tanner cannot praise highly enough Mr Foskey raises the American Flag every morning takes care of the prisoners operates the police radio takes messages and dispatches the latest bulletins and sometimes he even sweeps and mops the City Hall floors What is the background of such a versa tile man Woodrow Foskey is totally blind He has been blind since birth but has not let this slow him down His childhood was much like that of other children He followed his dad everywhere he went in the local country side of Laurens County where Woodrow was born Everything his father did he did whether it was cutting wood with a crosscut saw or rafting wood down the river to Darien His formal education took place in a regular public elementary school and he used the same books and materials that his classmates did His parents helped by reading his lessons to him in the evening He actually attended school only through the fifth grade but says he can still remember standing in line for the spellingbees and the various recitations the children used to have to give in history geography and other sub jects Mr Foskey was not bragging but he said that his other senses seem to have more than compensated for his lack of sight because he can remember very well that he could spell with the best of them However more than his formal education Mr Foskey credited his as sociations with other children with much of his learning During the War Years of about 1941 45 Mr Foskey sang and played the guitar on the street and received dona tions for his efforts Then as the 50s came Mr Foskey decided to invest the money he had saved in a woodpulp busi ness with his brother He was in charge of a group of men and was responsible for them accomplishing their work relat ing to all of the processes of the timber business After clearing all of the timber on their property the brothers closed the business Some of Mr Foskeys friends told him about Vocational Rehabilitation and he decided to ask his friends to help him help himself In 1963 surgery became necessary to remove his right eye because of ulcers and Vocational Rehabilitation worked with him during this period After his operation Mr Foskey was furnished with a prothesis for his right eye Now Mr Foskey is very happy and content in his work although he works very long hours During the week he works from 530 pm to 830 am and on weekends from 12 noon Saturday to 830 am Monday He enjoys his work very much and doesnt seem to mind the hours He said Radio work and musical instruments are my two main interests I belong to the Citizen Ban Radio Club and just love being with everyone who has the same interests I do We have a good time Lester Walker with the Augusta Office of Vocational Rehabilitation is Continued on page 6GOVERNOR SANDERS DEDICATES TWO DORMITORIES Governor Carl E Sanders dedicated two new dormitories at the Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring on January 4 This school is the largest school for the deaf east of the Missis sippi River The student enrollment has grown tremendously over the years The original structure housed only four scholars while the present enrollment of nearly 600 pupils would easily be ex ceeded were it not for a lack of housing facilities for those on the long and steadily growing waiting list These new dormitories will help to alleviate the problem At present the school has the largest student body of any residential school for the deaf in the United States The Superintendent of the Georgia School for the Deaf Fred L Sparks Jr said The entire school staff and stu dent body has been looking forward with great anticipation to the comple tion and dedication of these new dormi tories We have never wished to deny any deaf child the opportunity to re ceive an education because of a lack of adequate housing at the school and with these new facilities we are hoping that no deaf child in Georgia will go wanting for an education The dormitory for 72 high school age girls will be named Carl E Sanders Hall The building is located on Geor gia Avenue and was erected at a cost of 279000 Individual desks bookcases and wardrobes are provided for each student The girls who will live in the dormitory were allowed to participate in the selections of design and color of all the interior and furnishings Each room is decorated in different colors and the interior decorating was done through the compliments of Ray Lang Inc of Atlanta The new dormitory located at Perry Farm was built at a cost of 182393 and will be named at a later date The building will accommodate 60 primary pupils 30 girls and 30 boys ranging in ages from 69 Individual desks book cases and wardrobes are also provided for each student The interior design of the girls rooms was done in pink and the boys rooms in blue Colonel Henry Stewart Seventh Dis trict Member of the State Board of Edu cation presided at the dedication Dr A P Jarrell recognized all of the hon ored guests and remarks were given by Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr James Peters Chairman of the State Board of Education intro duced Governor Sanders who delivered the dedicatory address In the text of his remarks Governor Sanders said My primary goal was the improvement of the educational oppor tunities available to Georgians an education which prepares a young man or woman for the richest and most re warding life possible For most young Georgians such an education entails the development of latent talents and interests and the in stillation of necessary principles of in tegrity responsibility and character Continued on page 7 TOP PANEL Carl E Sanders Hall new girls dormitory at the Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring SECOND PANEL From left to right are Dr James S Peters Chairman of the State Board of Education Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Governor Carl E Sanders and Jack Nix State School Super intendent shown making remarks during the dedication ceremonies BOTTOM PANEL Governor Sanders cuts the ribbon officially dedi cating the new dormitory Left to right in the picture are Henry Stewart State Board of Education Jack Nix Governor Carl E Sand ers Dr A P Jarrell and Fred Sparks Jr Superintendent of Georgia School for the DeafGround breaking At Alto Continued from page 3 fender repair service station operation upholstery woodwo rk welding keypunch office machine repair masonry plumbing and barbering Space in the medical unit will include areas for a laboratory several hospital beds and nursing services for intercur rent illness In addition to the above space will be available for the develop ment of the social service unit and chaplaincy services The new addition will increase floor space by slightly more than 40000 square feet and will incor porate all the major services required for a comprehensive rehabilitation center medical psychological social and vo cational training These expanded services will create the first comprehensive Vocational Re habilitation Center within a state prison setting in the United States These services will enable an increasing num ber of young public offenders to enter gainful employment upon their release and over a period of time should greatly reduce the number of public offenders who return to prison Governor Sanders officially broke ground Thursday January 5 initiating the construction of the VocationalTech nical School and Medical Unit at the Georgia Industrial Institute at Alto Governor Sanders stated The over worked phrase that Rome wasnt built in a day is very true in this instance But the important thing the thing which every concerned Georgian must rememberis that we are improving Alto as rapidly as possible The Alto which surrounds us today is a far more modern far more adequate facility than we would have found had we assembled here four years ago When this Vocational School and Medical Complex are finished and when further funds are made available for still other projects Alto will be a far better in stitution than we find today The Governor further stated Ed ucational and vocational inadequacies have been prime contributors to crime and to detention here at Alto They will not be contributors to crime and to de tention here at Alto They will not be contributors to another visit here be cause the young men who will leave this facility will go forth possessing an im portant marketable skill In the text of his speech Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Rehabilitation Services stated the introduction of vocational rehabilitation into the cor rectional process in Georgia will stand out as a monumental humanitarian serv ice Vocational Rehabilitation services provided currently in the rehabilitation facility include medical diagnosis psy chological psychiatric social and voca tional evaluation personal social work adjustment training and onthejob training A professional staff of counselors and evaluators and a consulting staff of psy chiatrists psychologists and sociologists evaluates all new admissions to the Geor gia Industrial Institute develop a re habilitation plan for each inmateclient who will be released within 18 months ABOVE Mr Foskey is shown using the tape recorder furnished by Voca tional Rehabilitation Mr Foskey con stantly uses the tape recorder for taking notes and recording messages from the telephone and police radio RIGHT Police Chief Edward Tanner and Woodrow Foskey talk over police matters in front of the police station in East Dublin actively participates in the classification staffing and provides indicated rehabili tation services to approximately 700 in mateclients annually on a continuing basis Vocational training is important to the rehabilitation of public offenders not only because of the skills it provided but also because it affects the offenders conception of himself and influences his postrelease associates A Most Remarkable Man Continued from page 4 Mr Foskeys Counselor and is one of the men Mr Foskey gives credit for helping him so much recently and for getting him into his current job at the police station A tape recorder was needed to assist Mr Foskey in taking and deliver ing messages at the police station so vocational rehabilitation furnished a tape recorder with a special attachment for a radio or telephone The city of East Dublin is very pleased to have such a conscientious employee Chief Tanner is still amazed every day He says Woodrow can do more things better than some people with sight The way he moves around without the help of a seeingeye dog and the different jobs he does so well sometimes I think surely he must be able to see The rehabilitation program also pro vides work sampling personal social and vocational adjustment training as well as individual and group counseling to approximately threefourths of the in mateclients Vocational Rehabilitation Services were first offered at the Georgia Indus trial Institute at Alto through a co operative agreement initialed in October of 1963 between the Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation and the Board of Corrections Dr A P Jarrell pauses from a chat with 8year old Nancy Pudvin State Easter Seal Poster Girl Nancy was born with spina bifida and has received Easter Seal Services over five years as Miss Mary Webb executive direc tor of the Georgia Society for Crippled Children and Adults and Easter Bun ny Jackie Dick admire Nancy during the kickoff of Coffee Day for Crip pled Children sponsored by the Geor gia Restaurant Association Nancy and Vince Dooley State Easter Seal Chairman were greeting legislators and governmental dignitariesPictured above are the boys of Explorer Post No 601 Front row left to right are Billy Glenn Billy Myers Terry Sullivan Larry Daryl Richard Gonzales and Raymond Lane On the back row left to right are Richard Coleman Alvin Kane James Chambley Wayne Pebbles James Black and Larry Jones BOY SCOUT EXPLORER POST ACTIVE AT ALTO Continued from page 2 Post 601 aid immeasurably in the con tributions to the development of charac ter and to the rehabilitation of Georgias young offenders at the Georgia Indus trial Institute The post is cosponsored by the Institu tion and the Kiwanis Club The post is operated by a committee of men from the institution the Vocational Rehabilita tion Unit at the institution and promi nent local citizens The post is financed by contributions from local businessmen The Post Committee includes the fol lowing Harry Turner Committee Chair man Don Moody Institutional Repre sentative Sidney Ross Post Advisor Curtis Snipes Assistant Post Advisor Carroll Milam Secretary of the Post Committee and Committee members William Ford Bruce Brown Bomar Olds Garris Parker Harold Barron Fred Schwager Milton Stewart Jr and Sam Richwine Governor Dedicates Two Dormitories Continued from page 5 But for many Georgians an adequate education means not only these things but also the courage and the training required to overcome some physical emotional or psychological handicap Such a group of young Georgians is found here at the Georgia School for the Deaf For 121 years this school has been helping those who are born deaf help themselves Untold thousands of Geor gians have left this school fully pre pared to lead satisfying lives as con tributing members of our society Many of them have gained positions of out standing leadership within their com munity and throughout the State This School not only operates at the lowest cost per pupil of any similar school in the Nation but it does so with out losing the slightest amount of its quality Both the elementary and the high school departments have been given full accreditation by the Georgia Ac crediting Commission In the past many deaf children had to be turned away from The Georgia School for the Deaf simply because there was not room for them all And as a result their hopes for a life of satisfaction and productivity were great ly reduced Now this problem will be somewhat alleviated by the new housing facilities as the students who attend the school are from all parts of the state the majority of them are resident students without adequate housing fa cilities these students could not attend the school ERNEST E KENNEDY Macon District Supervisor Ernest E Kennedy passed away after a brief illness and services were held on Febru ary 6 Mr Kennedy had been working with the State for 35 years and he had spent the last 25 years with Vocational Rehabilitation A feature article on Mr Kennedy and the role he played in Georgias Rehabili tation program will be published in the next issue of this magazineDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 257 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 vision 01 ABILITY COUNTS Ray Godbee Jr industrially blind is the manager of the 115th vending stand operated by the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services in cooperation with the Georgia Cooperative Services for the Blind The new vending stand is located at the Albany area Vocationaltechnical School at South Slappey Bouleard and provides sandwiches soft drinks and other concessions to students attending the school Above in left picture Mr Godbee makes change for two students who have just made a purchase In picture at right from left to right are R V Bankston Casework Supervisor Albany District Leon Hall Supervisor of the Business Enterprise Program Atlanta Robert G Crates Night Director of the Area Vocationaltechnical School John E Rainwater Jr Counselor for Business Enterprises Program and Howard Waters Director Albany Vocationaltechnical School at L X I I w i Jr T V Kl Pf A y Winners of 1967 Ability Counts See Story on Page 5 Governor Addresses Joint Meeting TOP PHOTO Governor Lester G Maddox and Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in Charge of Rehabilitation Services discuss some vital points of the Statewide Planning Project during the luncheon meeting BOTTOM PHOTO Governor Left to right in picture are wide Planning Project Louis missioner of VRA J L Hise John S Prickett Jr Director Maddox Dr A P Jarrell University of Georgia and Rehabilitation Facilities Maddox addresses the luncheon group Jack Williams Coordinator of State R Schubert Regional Assistant Corn Director Division of Special Services Division of General Services Governor Dr O C Aderhold President of the Nathan Nolan Director Division of Leon Meenach New Director Leon Meenach The Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion under its new organizational struc ture will add a new director to the staff on the first of May Leon Meenach who previously served as director of the Vocational Rehabilitation Program in Frankfort Kentucky has accepted the position as Director of Special Disabili ties Division Mr Meenach stated that his primary interest was working with the mentally ill and the mentally retarded In the past he has served in this area being first a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Counselor a Supervisor for Rehabilitation of the Men tally and Physically Disabled and As sistant Director of Rehabilitation of the Mentally Disabled before becoming Di rector of Rehabilitation for the state of Kentucky He was instrumental in the develop ment and pioneering of joint Rehabilita tion facilities halfway houses and work training centers in mental institutions and hospitals and schools for the re tarded He has also been actively in That None Shall Go Unserved was the challenge of the Statewide Planning Project for Vocational Rehabilitation Services Governor Lester Maddox com mended the theme of the planning study to the members of the Advisory Com mittee and Policy Board for the project The occasion was the initial meeting of the two groups on March 1 Established under a Federal grant the Planning Project was created to deter mine the needs for vocational rehabilita tion services within the state for the next ten years The Advisory Committee and the Policy Board are comprised of members appointed by Governor Maddox and former Governor Carl E Sanders J L Hise Director Division of Special Services noted in his address to the luncheon group that Vocational Rehabili tation is not a new program but did in fact begin nearly fifty years ago and that today Georiga stands out as one of the top agencies in the United States He further stated that With the help of the Advisory Committee and the Policy Board and the leadership of Mr Williams Jack Williams Project Coordinator and other members of his staff we feel that a blueprint can be drawn that will offer a plan and new hope for the dis abled citizens of our state Louis Schubert Regional Assistant Commissioner VRA presented the Fed eral observations of the planning study by pledging support without any inter ference from the Federal level in the form of guidelines He stressed the im portance of orderly planning so that the project would receive the full value of every dollar expended In reference to the planning from the state level Jack H Williams Project Co ordinator presented the general direc tions the study would take in order to present an effective report He stated that one of the major purposes of the planning project staff with the assis tance of the two committees must be to determine how the needs of the dis abled in our state are to be met from the standpoint of finances personnel organ ization and additional services During the afternoon the two groups met separately and began organizing into functional committees John Jackson Associate Coordinator was appointed temporary chairman of the Advisory Committee Dr Aderhold was named Chairman of the Policy Board A booklet entitled For Tomorrow containing the addresses of the day the purpose and the scope of the committees and the Planning Project will be avail able to all interested individuals upon request Those desiring information should write to Statewide Vocational Rehabilitation Planning Project Suite 410 159 Forrest Avenue NE Atlanta Georgia 30303 volved in the planning development and utilization of workshops joint school programs and services for the retarded Leon Meenach is married to the former Gayle Maxey and they have three daughtersKathy 9 years of age Jenny 6 and Kim 4From Wrestler To Creative Shell Arranger At the height of a wrestling match one evening things became fast and furious who would win Soon one wrestler be came over zealous picked up the other wrestler and threw him across the ring against a corner post No one knew it at the time but a future vocational rehabilitation client was created Lon Chaney is a thirtyfive year old man who has held two jobs at a time almost all of his life He had to quit school while in the tenth grade at the age of 16 and start working full time However this was not the beginning of his career as he had worked as a ma chinist with his uncle since he was 12 By the age of 17 Lon decided to enter the Marine Corp and while in the service he passed the GED high school equival ency test After his discharge from the service Lon went back to his trade as a machinist and during this period he attended four years of night study in tool and die making While attending these classes Lon still held two other jobs that of a machinist during the day and a butcher at night All of his moon lighting was necessitated by heavy medical expenses incurred in the treat ment of two of his children who were born nearly blind Finally Lon turned to professional wrestling and stayed in this profession from 1955 through 1957 He wrestled in the Southeast Conference in Georgia Florida Alabama and Mississippi Everyone thought Lon had a great deal of potential but each match after his accident caused a recurrence of his back injury Operations were soon necessitated and in the end Lon had four surgical operations During this time he used up the limit of his insurance coverage and he was unable to continue working in the machine shop without coverage Lon changed from job to job during the next several years After using all of his own personal finances for opera tions and medication he turned to the VA Hospital in Augusta for still another operation While at the hospital he was told of the work vocational rehabilitation was doing and upon release he applied for rehabilitation services in his home county In talking with his vocational rehabili tation counselor Howard Pridgen Chan ey stated I am at my wits end I have a wife and three children and I need Continued on page 6 TOP PANEL LEFT Mr Chaney prepares his colored plaster and pours it into waiting molds TOP PANEL RIGHT Mr Chaney puts the finishing touches on one of his shell arrangements SECOND PANEL Mr Chaney and his son clean the shells in an acid solution to bring out their brilliance BOTTOM PANEL Howard Prid gen counselor with the Waycross office looks over Mr Chaneys display shelves The Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Vol 15 MarchApril 1967 No 4 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex albany district Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 AtlantaGrady Hospital 5234711 Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE 8735341 DECATUR DISTRICT ADCVR OFFICE Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Decatur Room 255 New First National Bank Bldg 3783671 Carrollton116 Rome Street 8328204 East Point 1777 West Washington Ave Room 108 7664711 Marietta Professional Arts Building 644 Cherokee St NE 4276521 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens901 CS Bank Bldg Phone 5491241 Cave Spring7773319 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Dalton132 W Gordon 2261322 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin107 N Franklin St Phone 2726700 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5 Phone AM 56541 Ernest Kennedy Macon District Supervisor Passes Away Ernest E Kennedy Macon District Supervisor Ernest E Kennedy Macon District Supervisor for four teen years passed away recently after a short illness Mr Kennedy joined the staff of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in August of 1942 and spent over 24 years of service with the Division He entered public life and worked as a principal and school teacher from September 1929 to December 1940 and in January of 1941 he became County School Superintendent for Tattnall County Georgia His total years of service in the Department of Education as a state employee totaled over 37 years Mr Kennedy was recognized as a leader in the field of Vocational Rehabilitation and his devotion to duty and unselfish giving of his time to further the needs of the dis abled and handicapped of our state will long be remembered Under his supervision the Macon District has grown from a staff of two to its present staff of thirtyone Many of the programs he introduced into Vocational Rehabilita tion will have a lasting effect for years to comeGovernor Presents Awards To The 1967 Ability Counts Winners Governor Lester G Maddox presented the winners of the 1967 annual Ability Counts Report Contest their awards and certificates at a special ceremony held in the Governors chambers The contest sponsored by the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped and the Governors Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped is for 11th and 12th grade students The theme of this years contest was Handicapped Workers Community Assets Ellen Gandy was awarded first place and received 100 firstplace prize money plus an expense paid trip to Washing ton for the annual Presidents Committee Meeting on Employment of the Handi capped For the first time in the history of our contest we have a winner from a family who is extremely familiar with the contest Ellens sister Sue was Geor gias first place winner in 1962 When Ellen came to Atlanta for the presentation of the awards by the Gov ernor it was learned that Ellen has a slight handicap herself It had been dis covered when Ellen was in the ninth grade that she had scoliosis or curvature of the spine Thus she was introduced to an affliction which is not at all rare but of which little is known as to why it occurs Corrective exercises were tried but these could only keep the curve as it was not correct it An operation was necessitated and Ellen wore a plasterof paris cast from her chin to the top of her hips for 14 months of which 7 months were spent in bed Mr Gandy set up an intercom system between Ellens bedroom and her class rooms so that through the help of her teachers she was able to complete three subjects while in bed Ellen has now re turned to school for her senior year She is leading a very active life with diversi fied activities such as the Pelham High Marching Concert Band cheerleading Beta Club Glee Club TriHiY MYF and the debating team In the Pall Ellen is planning to attend Young Harris College with a major in Elementary Education Other winners and their prizes were second placeNancy Davis of Smyrna 50 third placeCarrie Georgia Gart man of Columbus 25 fourth place Pam Davis of Smyrna 15 and fifth place Dale Patrician Mason of Columbus 10 In addition to these prizes parch ment awards signed for the President were given for the five best reports in the state Miss Gandys firstplace entry was en tered in the national competition with over 2500 in cash awards Georgias cash awards and prizes were provided by Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co and the Georgia State APLCIO William A Sims Jr Chairman Gov ernors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped stated that the participa tion in this years contest was some of the best we have ever experienced The following is an excerpt from Miss Gandys winning report TOP PANEL from left to right are William A Sims Chairman Governors Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped Nancy Davis Smyrna Second Place Win ner W H Montague President of Georgia State AFLCIO Ellen Gandy Pelham First Place Win ner Governor Lester G Maddox F T Smith Vice President of Southern Bell Telephone and Tele graph Company Dale Mason Co lumbus Fifth Place Winner Leon O Foster Supervisor of Employ ment Service in the Georgia Department of Labor Pam Davis Smyrna Fourth Place Winner and John S Prickett Director Division of General Services in the Georgia Rehabilitation Agency shown after the presentation of the Presidents Committee on Em ployment of the Handicapped certificates BOTTOM PANEL Georgias first place winner Ellen Gandy re ceiving her 100 first place prize money from F T Smith W H Montague had just presented Miss Gandy with her roundtrip ticket and expense money to Washington HANDICAPPED WORKERS COMMUNITY ASSETS Rehabilitation can be so successful that the handicapped become responsible selfsupporting citizens of a community Everyday more disabled persons are able to take a job and take up their place in the community Each person has a potential ability which when developed enables him to do some worthwhile work Each person also has a basic need to be useful which when they are faced with a handicap enables them to overcome it Whole lives are renewed when the realization of a meaningful existence is brought to them Living within the limits of their disabili ties and to the full extent of their capa bilities they become valuable citizens in the community and society Handicapped workers are community assets Instead of allowing their handi cap to become a community liability harming the economy by being dependent upon public welfare most work for it by being good workers and contributing in multiple ways to community activities When the handicapped are fitted into the right jobs they prove to be very good workers If a worker is trained properly physical limitations are no hindrance Satisfied employees will vouch for this ranking them equal to nonhandicapped Right now we see what can be done for the disabled and we see what the dis abled can do for us These inspiring handicapped people have overcome much to become equal contributing citizens of my community and in others They are a vital part of our society Handicapped workers are community assetsContributors To Georgias Growth Tassie Zakas a native of Pyrgus Greece moved to Atlanta Georgia at the age of three She fit in with the American way of life and her vigorous and under standing personality made her many friends During her sophomore year at Grady High School she was in an auto bile accident which left her a paraplegic In 1959 she was called and asked to attend a meeting of the Physical Wrecks At the meeting one of the members Janie Scrubbs said you should be at work and Janie went out and found her a job While she was working she came in contact with Vocational Rehabilitation and was furnished a wheelchair How ever due to another automobile accident she was forced to remain unemployed six months Then she started work again and worked three years until a third accident caused her to stay off work and within two weeks she was involved in a fourth accident When she was well again she went to work and as luck would have it she was in still another automobile accident All of these accidents were when Tassie was riding as a passenger After her last accident she went to work with her brother in Al Labor Serv ices Then in talking with her brother they decided that she should go into busi ness for herself and hire other handi capped people She applied to Vocational Rehabilitation for help and found that she was eligible Vocational Rehabilita tion furnished the necessary office equip ment and set her up in her own business called TASSIES MAILING AND SEC RETARIAL SERVICES Tassie needed a Girl Friday to assist her in her business venture so she turned to a long time friend Nellie Mae Meks whom she had met at one of the Physical Wrecks club meetings They had worked together before and Tassie felt that Nellie was just the secretary she needed Nellie Meeks was born with Spina Bi fida and contracted osteomyelotis at the age of 14 She has had 14 operations but is an extremely active person who lives in a trailer with her husband Leland and has an eleven year old daughter Mrs Meeks became familiar with the Vocational Rehabilitation programs when she met her husband who had formerly received services from Vocational Re habilitation Vocational Rehabilitation sent her to SmithHughes Vocational Technical School in Atlanta and gave her a wheelchair to aid her mobility The girls are very excited over their new business venture and contributing this valuable service to the businesses of the Metro Atlanta Area TOP PANEL Nellie Meeks and Tassie Zakas are looking through the files in their office to keep up with clients requirements BOTTOM PANEL LEFT Nellie Meeks is using an addressograph machine in getting out a maling job BOTTOM PANEL RIGHT Tassie Zakas doing some typing for one of her customers FROM WRESTLER TO CREATIVE SHELL ARRANGER Continued from page 3 some help now Three months from now wont do me any good After counseling with Lon it was learned that he wanted to explore the possibilities of manufac turing shell novelties in a shop of his own He had done work of this nature already and felt there was a real market for this type of product Lon was very eager to get back to work and be able to support himself his wife and their three children Lon said he needed assistance in getting started and that he would be willing to repay vocational rehabilitation but at the pres ent time he was just unable to borrow the money Lon already knew of many people who were interested in buying shell novelties as soon as he could go into production So vocational rehabilita tion purchased the necessary equipment and supplies to set Lon up in his own shell arranging business and within ten days after his first shipment of shells arrived Lon was receiving an income The business has blossomed so i m mensely that now Lon trades with a great many of the states and is increasing his business every day In fact he is cur rently contemplating a shipment to Canada This is not a one man operation but a family undertaking with Mother and the children working in the business at every free moment Still very enthu siastic about his new enterprise and its potentials Lon said The best thing that ever happened to me was being referred to vocational rehabilitation When I went to Mr Howard Pridgen I had been com pletely unemployed for two whole years and now I have a good business and feel that shell arranging is the most reward ing and interesting occupation Ive ever been in I told those social security people that I dont need any more compensation because vocational rehabilitation helped me get started and I have all my bills paid off now Me and my family would have went lacking if it had not been for vocational rehabilitation servicesBusiness Enterprise Program Opens Two More Vending Stands When the 730 Peachtree Building in Atlanta was completed recently the em ployees had not one but two places readily available to have their lunches and breaks The Business Enterprise Sec tion of the Program for the Blind had made arrangements with the contractors long before the completion of the build ing to furnish vending stands for two floors of the building Mary Keith see back cover opened an automatic vending stand on the second floor Mary is congenitally blind with an 80 loss of vision but her two chil dren Nancy age 16 and Steve Jr 5 have no visual problems Mary attended pub lic schools through the fourth grade and then transferred to the Academy for the Blind After graduating from the Acad emy she then went on to Georgia Teach ers College now Georgia Southern Col lege in Statesboro Where she did her practice teaching at the Marvin Pittman School However due to a teacher shortage she left school to start teaching at the Academy for the Blind in Macon Georgia Mrs Keith said I understood those chil dren and the problems they would en counter then and in the future being blind myself After leaving the Academy she later taught at the Factory for the Blind in Bainbridge and eventually de cided to undertake the responsibilities of a vending stand operator It was in 1947 that Mrs Keith mar ried her husband Steve who was totally blind He had coincidentally also attend ed public schools through the fourth grade and then became a student at the Academy he had already graduated when his wife began her studies at the school Mr Keith is an accomplished pianist having played parttime while in in high school The versatile Mr Keith taught piano and played with bands for many years For several years Mr Keith worked as a salesman calling on retail furniture dealers selling products produced by the blind Then due to a lay off Mr Keith turned to the Division of Vocational Re habilitation He is now manager of the vending stand on the first floor of the same building in which Mrs Keith has her stand Mrs Keith manages her stand all alone but Mr Keith has one helper Vergie Parks Mrs Parks had previously been an elevator operator but had been a client of the Division of Vocational Rehabili tation for several years when this posi tion became available VR had previous ly furnished Mrs Parks with training as a cashier at a local business school She stated Im making more money than Ive ever made the job is pretty easy and I meet the most interesting people The people in the building are just so nice and I look forward to seeing them every day Mrs Parks has two children a daugh ter Athea 16 years of age and a son Elston 11 TOP PANEL Steve Keith is shown at his vending stand with left to right A W Tate Manager of Veterans Administration Regional Office in Atlanta and Joseph Parks Hill Counselor in the Business Enterprise program SECOND PANEL A sectional view of Mr Keiths vending stand located in the 730 Peachtree Building BOTTOM PANEL Virgie Parks currently a VR client works as helper in stand operations straightening up display shelvesDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta Georgia 30334 Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 I Acquisitions Division University of Georgia Libraries Ga 30t01 Athens ABILITY COUNTS Mary Keith commercially and industrially blind is shown checking her auto matic vending stand opera tion at the 730 Peachtree Building Mrs Keith blind since birth sees that all ma chines are in proper working order so that employees work ing in the building are able to enjoy quick lunches and coffee breaks Mrs Keiths vending stand is under the supervision of Georgia Co operative Services for the Blind Inc see story page 7 Jonas Dekel See Story Page 3 Chatham Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation Unit See Story Page 6 T G Loudermilk Retires T G Loudermilk BELOW Charles A Clark 55 was referred to VR with a nervous condition by the Social Security administration VR provided glasses and dentures in addition to counseling and guidance Mr Clark had owned a small hotel and operated a PBX Switchboard prior to his acceptance and upon release he worked as a desk clerk at the Jefferson Hotel where he is now the manager He obtained his job through another VR client and he now employs several clients BELOW Margaret Winkles 39 who has a congenital rheumatic heart condition was referred to VR by her husband who was a former client Vocational Reha bilitation furnished her training as a PBX operator and also made ar rangements for her to undergo heart surgery at Grady Hospital Mrs Winkles is now a telephone operator at Grady and says that she and her husband can give their family more than they have ever had before T G Loudermilk who has been with the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation since 1946 has recently retired after 21 years of service He was first employed as a Counselor under the General Pro gram In 1956 he moved to the position of a Rehabilitation Specialist working with the Aid to Dependent Childrens Program In 1963 he was transferred to a special program assigned to work with Social Security applicants under 63 years of age to help them return to employ ment At the end of one years study it was decided that a special project should be organized for the Social Security applicants This program was named the Atlanta Referral and Placement Project Mr Loudermilk has served the project for the past two years When the Case of the Year award was initiated in 1951 Mr Loudermilk was its recipient Counselors were re quested to writeup their most outstand ing case and after an analysis of reports received from all parts of the state T G Loudermilk was honored Mr Loudermilk received his A B De gree in Social Studies and English from Piedmont College in Demorest Georgia and received his M A from the Univer sity of Georgia in the same field He has done other postgraduate study at Emory University Before joining the Division Mr Loudermilk taught at the Boys High School in Decatur for 13 years and served as principal for 6 years On this and the following page are four of Mr Loudermilks outstanding cases selected from the many clients he has served over the years BOTTOM LEFT R G Givens 48 originally from Dacula Georgia had openheart surgery in 1964 He was provided transportation to and from the Mayo Clinic for treatment and was furnished nec essary tools when he started work as an automotive frontend spe cialist Mr Givens was referred to VR by the Social Security Administra tion BOTTOM RIGHT Robert Wilson 50 suffered from ulcers varicose veins and phlebitis at the time he was accepted by VR Mr Wilson had owned and operated a filling station most of his life but when he was disabled he lost his busi ness his home and his family He was referred by the Social Secur ity Administration and was given several operations dental work and dentures glasses eye pros thesis extensive counseling and treatment both in Atlanta and at Warm Springs as well as training in bookkeeping After completing his training Mr Wilson accepted a job as a desk clerk at an Atlanta HotelDetermination Pays Big Dividends In 1963 Jonas Dekel and his wife were both 26 years of age had three children and thought everything was going right for their young family They had a car a recently purchased home and furnish ings and all the little extras that spell success to our society Jonas was operat ing a manual lawn mower one afternoon in March of 1963 when he fell and could not get up Believing this accident to have caused a slipped disk Jonas went to a hospital with intense pain and was immediately placed in traction A tumor of the spine was discovered but it was too large to be removed so doctors ex tracted only a portion of it After the operation however the pain remained torturous and little could be done to relieve it no matter how many forms of barbiturates were used Doctors decided that it would be im possible for a man to live in the pain he was suffering so a bilateral chordotomy a severing of the nerves below a certain point of the spine was performed Al though he would have some severe pain for his entire life it would be something that with drugs and stamina one could survive After such an operation there is no feeling in that portion of the body below the point where the nerves have been severed but the point at which the nerves are severed is constantly painful The operation on Jonas severed the nerves leading to the midchest area and below In July of 1963 Mr Dekle was told that he would be a complete invalid and that if he lived six months it would be a miracle Through much determination Jonas was able to move into a wheel chair at the time he left the hospital in September Dr Kelly Emory University Hospital stated that he had never seen a chordotomy case in which the patient was nearly as active or as mobile as Jonas Dekle All of the medical expenses were put ting a severe strain on the family as their insurance had been cancelled not long after the discovery of the tumor although it was supposedly a noncancel able policy There had been no income for over six months Mrs Dekle decided that although she had not worked since she married Jonas in 1957 she would seek a job She is a commercial artist by trade having received a BA in Com mercial Art from the University of Geor gia After an unsuccessful attempt at finding suitable employment in Mobile Mrs Dekle turned to her hometown of Atlanta as a possible source of employ ment She found a job with Retail Credit Corp where she had worked previously The Dekles both had families living in Atlanta and Emory University Hos pital was nearby This would be the next place Jonas would have to seek treatment The Dekles moved to Atlanta and it was arranged to have members of the family take care of the children while Mrs Dekle was at work This left Jonas at home alone all day so while his wife was not around to chastize him for doing too much he tried getting out of bed doing exercises and standing By the first of the year he was able to use only crutches He felt that there must be something he could do to assist his wife so he learned to cook and started hav TOP PANEL LEFT In the record library Dekle listens to records and selects all the music to be used on the air TOP PANEL RIGHT Dekle in the main control room making an an nouncement during his morning show the Wonderful World of Music BOTTOM PANEL RIGHT Dekle edits news from the wires of the Associated Press ing supper ready when the family re turned home in the evening Jonas had a hard time adjusting at first but as time passed he realized that he had achieved much more than the doctors ever expected He said I wanted to do all I could to help Julie and the children again There was no hope of my ever returning to work its amazing what one finds he can do under certain cir cumstances My family thought I was a great cook In fact now Julie misses my being home and having supper ready when she returns from work In November of 1963 the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation heard of Jonas plight through the Social Security Ad ministration in Mobile T G Loudermilk VR Counselor with the Atlanta Referral and Placement project came in to see Jonas one day while he was sitting at home peeling potatoes for supper Jonas explained that he was living on borrowed time and knew he had no hope of ever convincing anyone to hire him due to his illness and its complications He had not heard of the VR program and was very impressed with the possibilities of having someone help him achieve some type of vocational goal He had been a radio announcer over station WTAV in Mobile prior to his accident and wanted to reenter the field if he were physically capable and could convince a station of the fact On his first attempt at finding a full time job Jonas only used his brace and crutches but as he entered the building he tripped and broke his brace He has never had it fixed instead with sheer determination fortitude and suffering he taught himself to walk He now feels that the broken brace was a good sign that with work he could manage without the aids To this day Jonas has un believably managed to walk solely on his own However the fact that his legs have no feelings presents more problems for the man who attempts to walk than one might realize If he is in bed for a very long period of time a couple of days his legs forget what to do and he must begin again even a brief nap does not relax him but instead makes him feel worse Having no equilibrium all of his actions are made even more difficult The lights must be on at any time he attempts to stand so that he can know which posture would be an upright position through association with his sur roundings Jonas stated My wife Julie is the spark that kept me going she put up with a lot Mr Loudermilk was also a big help as he was always available when I needed him I feel that he and Vocational Rehabilitation are directly responsible for my working today His advice was excel lent and he was really interested in me and my family in fact once in a while on Sundays he and his wife came by and took the family and me out for a drive I met some of his other clients and felt I was getting back into the main stream of life Mr Loudermilk obtained a tape re corder and a complete set of recording equipment for Jonas A building was secured and Jonas who had attended a basic radio school for two years taught other clients how to do basic radio repair work He got more equipment and work ed in this capacity for a year He found this to be a perfect means of reorienting Continued on page 8The Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Vol 15 MayJune 1967 No 5 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex albany district Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 AtlantaGrady Hospital 5234711 Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE 8735341 DECATUR DISTRICT ADCVR OFFICE Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Decatur Room 255 New First National Bank Bldg 3783671 Carrollton116 Rome Street 8328204 East Point 1777 West Washington Ave Room 108 7664711 Marietta Professional Arts Building 644 Cherokee St NE 4276521 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens901 CS Bank Bldg Phone 5491241 Cave Spring7773319 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Dalton132 W Gordon 2261322 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Griffin231 C Tenth Street Phone 2279176 Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin107 N Franklin St Phone 2726700 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5 Phone AM 56541 Albany Residence Receives Check Mrs Marjorie Medlin center presents a check for 600 from the Albany Hairdressers to Hugh A Mitchell VR Counselor for Psychiatric Cases and Mrs Juanita Twitty Chairman of the Albany Hairdressers Associations Welfare Committee The check is to be used for the Albany Rehabilitation Residence Six hundred dollars was presented to the Division of Vocational Rehabiliation for use at the Albany Rehabilitation Residence by the Albany Hairdressers Association at a dinner given on March 27 The Affiliate is very active in the Mental Health field and asked Hugh Mitchell to give a progress report on the Albany Residence W L Dillashaw presently in charge of the Albany Rehabilitation Residence Program announced that present plans include using the money for the purchase of additional equipment such as a fence a patio 20 x 30 tables chairs and a grill After improvements have been completed there will be a dedication ceremony involving both the Dougherty County Mental Health Association and the Albany Hairdressers Association The Albany Hairdressers Association held a Sweetheart Ball in February through which they raised several hundred dollars Other activities sponsored and participated in by various members resulted in the large contribution to the Albany Rehabilitation Residence James M Potts JAMES MARTIN POTTS 53 CASEWORK SUPERVISOR On May 2 James Martin Potts better known as Major Potts was attending the NRA Regional Conference in Jackson Mississippi when he suffered a fatal heart attack during his sleep JfnroPotts cme to work with the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation in 1958 as a Counselor working out of the Gainesville Office He was promoted in 1966 to Casework Supervisor and transferred to the Atlanta District Office where he was employed until the time of his death Mr Potts is survived by his wife Mrs Mildred Land Potts one son J M Potts Jr and his mother Mrs Maude Potts of Young Harris GeorgiaIts Coming Back In Bits And Pieces Famon Goolsby a Douglasville post office employee tired from the days work was driving home Then all of a sudden he felt a stabbing pain and im mediately total darkness When he awak ened he could neither move nor feel he couldnt even remember Ten days had somehow slipped by during this split second of his life Famon was seriously injured in a headon automobile accident His condi tion was listed as critical and he was given little hope of surviving through the night The only display of life was a slight movement of his facial muscles During the first few weeks after the accident the only way he managed to stay alive was with the help of a heart machine and a constant supply of oxy gen His excellent physical condition at the time of the accident was one of his major assets he had participated ac tively in sports all through high school and since the time of his graduation It was ten days after the accident be fore Famon regained consciousness Al though he had lapses of memory his memory started coming back to him slowly in segments first one part and then another until he had fully regained his memory One of his first thoughts was that of his son who was expected to be born about the time of Famons accident Mrs Hilda Agan Goolsby gave birth to the couples first child Kelli Suzanne an 8 pound 15 ounce baby girl on September 30 Kelli was born only 17 days after her fathers accident in the hospital where he was being treated When Famon heard of his little girl he was extremely pleased and managed a faint smile Famon could recognize all of his friends as they came to see him but could not speak as a tracheotomy had been performed and a tube extended in to his throat Eventually he learned to talk loud enough even with the tube to be plainly heard Reports were still critical and costs were mounting for around the clock hospital care It was estimated that ex penses were running in the neighbor hood of 1200 a week To help defray these costs more than 1000 was con tributed by Douglas Countians to the Famon Goolsby Fund which was spear headed by Douglas County Jaycees Georgia Baptist Hospital doctors in Atlanta were amazed at the determina tion of this wellconditioned young man The doctors said that he had made medi cal history in his fight for life We gave up on his chances of surviving many times they admitted to his relatives After six weeks the doctors decided they had done all they could at the pres ent and it might be more helpful for Famon to allow him to go home as he wanted to so desperately He and his wife had recently purchased a new home and had just finished completely furnishing it at the time of the accident Although the doctors didnt feel this thin and pale man could have lived over sixty days Mrs Luther W Agan his motherinlaw said through constant care plenty of love and home cooking we found the Magic Remedy Famon was removed from the critical list but remained completely paralyzed below the TOP LEFT Famon is boarding a train bound for New York He boarded the train through the window because the corridor of the train was too narrow to accommodate his stretcher TOP RIGHT Famon in his berth just prior to departure to New York BOTTOM Famon is shown with his wife Hilda and his baby in their home neck The doctors had been extremely dubious over his chances for survival and now they explained that if he did live he would probably be paralyzed for his en tire life The Division of Vocational Rehabilita tion came to the assistance of the Gools bys on January 27 1966 Arrangements were made for Famon to enter the Insti tute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilita tion in New York City for therapy It was decided that the train would be the most convenient mode of trans portation for the Goolsbys they went up on the train and Mrs Goolsby re turned by plane As the train was de parting with Famon lying flat his back he had his wife hold his hand up to the window so that he could wave to the family and friends outside seeing him off This wave seemed to symbolize the con stant fight Famon has waged since his accident The Goolsby family has a way of bringing out the best in everyone and it wasnt any different on the train One man according to Mrs Goolsby came in and began asking questions of Famon After talking with him he gave Famon 100 to give little Kelli Goolsby who was born while he was unconscious from his accident The man later returned and gave Famon 38 in change and bills Continued on page 6Total CARE Available In Savannah On May 28th the 70bed rehabilitation unit and the 50bed extended care unit were formally opened at a cost of ap proximately 22 million Federal Hill Burton funds will pay for 1307701 of the total cost Consultation with authorities through out the United States and Europe af firmed the fact that rehabilitation facili ties should be a part of the general hos pital As such rehabilitation care can be offered the patient at the earliest possible time Physical and emotional problems can be minimized with early recognition and care The first floor of the unit is the phy sical therapy department which includes a lobby for outpatients a hydrotherapy facility with an exercise pool a room ac commodating 16 patients for heat ther apy and massage and adult and pediatric gymnasiums The gymnasiums face an exercise patio designed to assist patients with artificial limbs and those on crutch es The second floor houses the occupa tional therapy department which includ es an area for vocational counseling and adult and pediatric arts and crafts shops It also includes a complete kitchen and a bedroom and a toilet area for use in re habilitating patients in the normal func tions of home life Adjacent to occupa tional therapy and above the psychiatric unit is a patient wing of 35 beds Another 35bed wing is housed on the third floor with a speech and hearing clinic nursing office traction and plas ter equipment room and treatment room Doctors offices conference rooms and examining rooms are located on both second and third floors Vocational Rehabilitation has offices in the new unit and five VR Counselors will be functioning as an integral part of the overall operation of the Center Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools stated at the dedication cere monies Our office of Vocational Re habilitation Services is our largest unit of operation in the Department of Ed ucation We are vitally interested in restoring health and providing knowl edges and skills needed to make the handicapped employable This rehabilitation center we are dedi cating today is representative of the kinds of things being done It demon strates how federal state and local com TOP New 70bed rehabilitation unit and 50bed extended care unit not shown Savannah were formally opened May 28 BOTTOM LEFT Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools speaking at dedicating ceremonies of new unit at Memorial Hospital BOTTOM RIGHT From left to right J L Hise Director Divi sion of Special Services VR John S Prickett Jr Director Division of General Services VR G Elliott Hagan U S House of Repre sentatives R J Weinzettel Administrator of Memorial Hospital Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools are shown at the dedi cation services munity agencies can join together ef fectively in a cooperative effort to pro vide a necessary and needed community service It also demonstrates what concerned individuals who desire progress for a community and have compassion for their fellow man can do He continued by stating The pro gressive leaders of the nation in the fields of medicine and rehabilitation see a great need for the kind of relationship that has developed here More and more we see hospitals include rehabilitation facilities within the medical complex This system affords the disabled a greater opportunity to be rehabilitated trained retrained and enables them to regain employment with greater expedi ency BITS AND PIECES Continued from page 5 stating that Famon would need it when he got to New York The man told Famon not to worry about the money that he had talked with the Lord about it and it had been approved up there After his arrival at the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in New York on March 6 1967 doctors re moved the tracheotomy tube and Famon said it was a great deal less strain for him to talk after that Famon underwent extensive physical therapy while in New York When he left home he could only move his left arm and he could not coordinate its movement Upon his arrival in New York he was given 30 minutes of physical therapy each day and at the end of ten days the doctors and nurses made an evaluation of his progress and his op portunities for the future He has re sponded so well to treatment that his stay in New York was reduced from a year to only three months Famon said My memory came back a little at a time in bits and pieces and I think this is what will happen with my body it will come back a little bit at a time Doctors are hopeful that he will be able to return to work after a year of therapy He can now stay in a wheel chair eight hours and he was recently fitted with braces It is believed that normal movement can be restored to his arms and that he will be able to work from a wheelchair He will be home on June 30 and will be sent to the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation at Warm Springs for further treatment He is looking forward to this move as it will put him much closer to his family His tentative vocational objective is a postal clerk The postmaster at the post office where Famon was working at the time of his accident has agreed to hold his job open for a year However Famon has also been offered a job as a sports editor as a sportscaster and radio announcer and other jobs doinf varied types of clerical work After receiving further treatment evaluation and training at the Georgia Rehabilitation Center Famon is looking forward with great anticipation to mak ing a decision about which job opportun ity he will acceptPhysical Medicine Unit Opened At Grady Grady Memorial Hospital dedicated its new Physical Medicine Unit on May 22 The new unit is intended primarily for outpatients and will serve between 80 and 100 patients per day Establishment of the facility was made possible by HillBurton funds and match ing funds from Grady totaling 90777 Another Vocational Rehabilitation Ad ministration grant to Emory Univer sity for research and training provides equipment for the department The primary patient load will be arthritics amputees paraplegics stroke victims those with respiratory ailments and other physical disabilities It will also provide space for electromyographic and nerve conduction velocity studies TOP PANEL LEFT Shown above are left to right Dr Mieczyslaw Peszczynski Professor Chair man of Dept of Physical Medicine Emory University School of Med icine and Director of Emory Un versity Rehabilitation Research Training Center J W Pinkston Jr Executive Director of Grady Memorial Hospital cutting the ribbon at the Dedication Ceremony TOP PANEL RIGHT Left to right J L Hise J W Pinkston Jr and Ed Forio Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Fulton DeKalb Hospital Authority dis cuss the potential of the new Physical Medicine Unit SECOND PANEL LEFT Here a group of clients are shown on the parallel bars Miss Shirley Miller Physical Therapist is observing the exercises that will strengthen their legs Shown left to right in the photograph are Thelma Wil liams Jimmy Hanlon Clinton Tur ner and George Williams SECOND PANEL RIGHT Clin ton Turner 33 suffered a stroke which resulted in his being a left hemiparesis He has been furnish ed a leg brace and extensive phy sical and occupational therapy His ambition is to return to work as a truck driver Shirley Miller Physical Therapist is shown assisting Mr Turner in his leg exercises THIRD PANEL LEFT Willie Mae Smith 53 had her right leg amputated above the knee result ing from diabetic gangrene She also suffers from a cardiac and an eye condition The Division of VR has provided her with a prosthesis and extensive physical and occupa tional therapy She worked for the past 27 years in doctors offices and plans to work as a doctors as sistant or receptionist after com pletion of her program Sue Church Physical Therapist is shown aiding Miss Smith on the practice steps THIRD PANEL CENTER Jimmy Hanlon 17 from Atlanta is shown working out with a wall pulley He was in an automobile accident Continued on Page 8 Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta Georgia 30334 Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 ABILITY COUNTS Athens Ga 30601 DETERMINATION Continued from page 3 himself to a full daily schedule again While he had been training others he did not want to lose his announcing style so he did various jobs for friends and then moved on to public services and advanced announcements One of his announcements was noted by a local Atlanta radio station executive when he heard it on the air and an interview was arranged and WIIN radio hired a new staff announcer Jonas is not only an announcer now but is also Music Director in which capacity he selects all music played on WIIN He works from six to four oclock every day He is on the air until ten oclock and spends the rest of the day selecting music for use the following day Jonas feels that life couldnt be better and he is now taking very little medica tion He is an active member of Cokes bury Methodist Church he teaches an Adult Sunday School Class and is Presi dent of the Methodist Mens Club Miraculously the doctors say that his tumor has diminished somewhat PHYSICAL MEDICINE UNIT Continued from page 7 which resulted in his loss of speech and paralysis of the right side Up on entrance to the program he could only use his left arm slight ly now he has use of all of his ex tremities Vocational Rehabilitation furnish ed physical and occupational ther apy and leg braces Jimmy is plan ning to return to Richs where he worked for a couple of weeks prior to his accident THIRD PANEL RIGHT George Williams 60 had been a com merical electrician most of his life He fell down a flight of stairs This caused a spinal cord injury which resulted in paraplegia in the lower extremities BOTTOM PANEL LEFT Dr Robert T Klingbeil Physiatrist is shown in the Electrodiagnosis and Electromyography Laboratory with Burnie Mathews a paraplegic who was injured in a fall from a ladder BOTTOM PANEL RIGHT Thelma Williams 48 is paralyzed on the left side She has received exten sive physical and occupational therapy and plans to return to work as a clinical aid in the renal laboratory upon completion of her program VR Clients Aid Cystic Fibrosis Campaign The entire month of August has of ficially been proclaimed Cystic Fibrosis Month Beginning August 6 volunteers will be knocking at their neighbors doors to ask for contributions to aid in the fight against this disease Cystic Fibrosis is an incurable disease of children attacking the lungs and pancreas of its victims It is a congenital disease from recessive genes which clogs the lungs and impairs digestion One baby in every thousand is born with this disease VR clients are aiding the drive by vol unteering their time to help recruit per sons in each neighborhood to collect funds on their street so that research may con tinue and perhaps a cure can be found A photograph and short story will ap pear in next months GEORGIA VOCA TIONAL REHABILITATION NEWS concerning the Cystic Fibrosis Campaign and its volunteersHABILITATION NEWS The Children Keep Me BusySee Story Page 5 Annual Staff Training PreviewSee Story Page 7LOYD G TRUELOVE Loyd G Truelove operated a slasher machine at Pacolet Manu facturing Company when an acci dent at the plant caused him to change professions He slipped on a patch of grease which was on the floor and received two ruptured disks in the resulting fall His condition required a laminectomy and spinal fusion operation and he was unable to do heavy work He was referred to Vocational Rehabilitation by an interested friend and after initial interviews and aptitude evaluations he was sent to barber college Vocational Rehabilitation furnished tuition and necessary barber tools equip ment and supplies to open his own shop While enrolled in barber school Truelove never missed a school day in his eight months of training Seated in the barber chair and receiving a haircut from Truelove is Joe flanes owner of the small shopping center where the barber shop is located EUGENE BROOKS Eugene Brooks born with a cleft palate contacted Vocational Re habilitation after graduating from high school and applied for serv ices Brooks is enrolled at the Uni versity of Georgia and his gradu ation objective is a major in ac counting He lacks only three courses before graduation He is currently employed fulltime by the E M Mount Company as an ac countant Vocational Rehabilitation initial ly furnished his college tuition fees books and supplies Brooks says he is looking forward to passing the Certified Public Accountants Exam and also to the opportunity of be coming a partner in the business where he is now employed FRANCIS J COLLINS Francis J Collins of Lula Geor gia suffered from a residual heart condition due to rheumatic fever when a child He was referred to Vocational Rehabilitation by the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Hos pital and he underwent openheart surgery in the Cardiac Rehabilita tion Unit of the hospital Voca tional Rehabilitation also furnished him counseling and guidance He worked as a packer on the assembly line of Georgia Broiler Inc in Gainesville and after receiv ing services and becoming physi cally able he returned to his pre vious employment James A Ash is the counselor of all three clients shown on this page Mr Ash is counselor in the Gaines ville Local OfficeHobby Turns Into Fulltime Employment Hubert B Ash became interested in woodworking as a hobby many years ago and today it is proving to be a worth while investment Hubert 47 a native of Hall County worked at Pacolet Manu facturing Company for over twentyeight years During this period of time his interest in woodworking was kept alive by little woodworking chores for friends and neighbors and for his own satisfac tion In 1963 Hubert underwent a gastrectomy in which approximately twothirds of his stomach was removed After recovery from the operation Hu bert went back to Pacolet Manufacturing Company Unfortunately he was not able to work regular hours and was required to eat every two or three hours as he also had a malabsorption problem Due to these factors he was not able to remain a fulltime employee and it was necessary for him to seek other employment This same problem remained and he was forced again to turn to new avenues for employment Vocational Rehabilitation suggested that since he had such a good background in the field of woodworking that it might prove worthwhile for him to become his own boss and open a woodwork shop This way his unusual hours and eating habits would be easier by his being his LEFT Hubert B Ash puts the finishing touches on the custom made gun rack RIGHT Hubert shapes a board prior to completing a cabinet own boss He began making cabinets cornice boards gun racks and almost every household accessory that could be made out of wood Hubert never needed to advertise as his products sold them selves by word of mouth As soon as he would deliver a completed piece of wood work someone would see it and want one just like it Hubert said I have been busy filling orders since the first day I got started One time I built a wooden toy box and before I had a chance to build anything else I had orders to build nine in a row and that is the way the business has been going Vocational Rehabilitation furnished Hubert the necessary equipment tools and initial supplies to open his wood work shop in addition to guidance and counseling Home Accident Blinded Him IM PRETTY THANKFUL After putting in a full days work for Parks Lumber Company hauling building materials and supplies truck driver Charles McDonald left for home When he arrived he found that a sink drain was clogged in the kitchen and decided to see what he could do about it He poured some lye into the sink and then poured a drain cleanser in on top of the lye When the cleaning solution came in contact with the lye it created a chemical reaction McDonald stated that the exploding chemicals made a loud noise as they discharged into his face and eyes Blinded instantly McDonald recalls that the liquid on his face and in his eyes burned like everything He called to his wife Bertha and she quickly used damp cloths to clear away as much of the solution as possible Even with this quick attention he still suffered first and second degree burns on his face and arms McDonald was taken to a doctor im mediately and after treatment was con fined to the Hall County Hospital The following twelveday period was a rough one McDonald recalls Acid burns caused his eyelids to stick to his eyeballs neces sitating careful separation each morning upon awakening When this condition cleared up he was able to open his eyes easily but could not see anything in cluding my hand right in front of my face reported McDonald During his two months of total blind ness he received continued assurance from his doctor that he would be able to see again someday For Charles McDonald however it wasnt that easy He admits that he suf fered a great deal even after the pain from the acid burns had subsided His suffering was that of a man who doubted he would ever see again Because he was out of work for six months McDonalds wife had to take a job to take care of family expenses Vocational Rehabilitation furnished Mc Donald surgery and hospitalization with the hopes that grafts to the eyes might improve his vision The tissue of his eyes rejected the graft in spite of therapy to prevent it He received further treat ment glasses therapy and medicine for his eyes and they slowly began to im prove He was not able to see well enough to return to his former job as a truck driver However he decided he would try to re gain employment with Parks Lumber Company and see if they might have an other type of job which would be better suited to his present situation The com pany was happy to see McDonald return They found employment for him as a lumber checker and loader McDonalds eyes improved so that he was fitted with special glasses and is now able to move about rather freely and read well enough to fill in reports and make the necessary checks required by his job McDonald stated I may not be able to see well enough to be a truck driver but Im pretty thankful to be able to see at all Charles McDonald checks over lumber supplies as they arrive in the lumber yard He keeps well tabulated inventories on all lum ber supplies so that orders can be filled as rapidly as they are receivedThe Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Vol 15 JulyAugust 1967 No 6 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex albany district Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 AtlantaGrady Hospital 5234711 Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE 8735341 DECATUR DISTRICT ADCVR OFFICE Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Decatur Room 255 New First National Bank Bldg 3783671 Carrollton116 Rome Street 8328204 East Point 1777 West Washington Ave Room 108 7664711 Marietta Professional Arts Building 644 Cherokee St NE 4276521 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens901 CS Bank Bldg Phone 5491241 Cave Spring7773319 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Dalton132 W Gordon 2261322 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Griffin231 C Tenth Street Phone 2279176 Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin107 N Franklin St Phone 2726700 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5 Phone AM 56541 Georgians Receive Benefits Through Social Security In 1966 Georgians at the rate of 1432 a month applied for benefits offered by the new Social Security Disability Program Every claim involved at least one physician with a few claims involving as many as five physicians The number of applicants could go much higher in 1967 Under the program liberalized by Congress in 1965 any person protected by Social Security may claim benefits for a physical or mental impairment that is or is expected to be disabling for at least a year Those who were disabled but have recovered may apply for benefits for all or part of the period of disability provided they do so within 14 months of recovery Previously disability had to be permanent as well as total The new provisions also cover childhood disability cases those who are disabled prior to attaining their eighteenth birthday and who meet the present standards by which a disability is determined Increasingly treating physicians play a pivotal role in the program and are find ing it good business Usually it is from his physician that the disabled person learns benefits are payable More and more physicians as a matter of enlightenment and sound public practice are referring patients especially those with financial prob lems to the local office of the Social Security Administration Most physicians sensibly advise patients only that they may be eligible After certification of eligibility then they assure patients their full cooperation in furnishing medical information essential for adjudication By submitting information sufficient for an independent evaluation without further investigation physicians can speed up the processing of claims and get benefits into the hands of their patient sooner Local Social Security representatives will not only help determine eligibility but will assist a claimant in filing his claim even if it is necessary to go to him because hes confined to his home hospitalized or in an institution In all cases claimants must furnish medical evidence of their illness or injury Even though a formal request for medical information may originate at the local Social Security office any charges made for examinations or reports at this juncture must be borne by the claimant Ordinarily a decision can be made on the basis of the information submitted by the treating physician provided the information satisfactorily contains the his tory physical findings laboratory and special studies diagnosis treatment and prognosis A decision can be made and a determination written the same day a claim is received by the initial reviewing authority Otherwise the case may be delayed as long as 45 days while additional information is sought from the treating physician or obtained through a consultative examination All claims filed in Georgia are initially reviewed by personnel of the Disability Determination Unit an ancillary of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State Department of Education Within the agency career specialists in evalua tion of medical vocational and social factors work together with medical consultants in reviewing the whole case and arriving at a decision From the Disability Determination Unit cases are sent to Baltimore Maryland the headquarters of the Social Security Administrations Division of Disability Operations where they are again reviewed and if necessary further investigation made before the claimant is advised on the disposition of his claim Paying cash benefits to the disabled is not the only objective of the program The program also aims at the rehabilitation of the disabled While a persons claim is being processed he also is considered for rehabilitation services If his chances for restoration seem good the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation will contact him Thus Vocational Rehabilitation usually handles cases in which job restoration IS possible and the Disability Determination Unit usually handles cases in which job restoration is NOT probable Again the treating physician having the confidence of his patient plays an important role He can and often does point out to the patient the obvious medical benefits and the safeguards against financial worries the Social Security program provides while the patient attempts his comeback A disabled person not fully recovered may attempt work without risking his benefits He will continue to receive his benefits for as long as a year even though he holds a regular job A claimant has nine months serially or intermittently in which to test himself If he proves he can work his benefits are continued for three months after the ninth trial work month In the event he fails he loses nothing for his benefits continue Should he happily succeed in working long after the trial period and then suffer a relapse his benefits will start anew as of the day he fell disabled again The knowledge that he has financial support encourages the dis abled person to make a real attempt to return to gainful employment If rehabilitation services are offered a disabled person this is done only where the best medical evidence available indicated restoration practical and he refuses the services disability benefits can be withheld from him ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION HAS NEW REGIONAL OFFICE The Arthritis Foundation has established a Regional Office at Suite 225 175 West Wieuca Road NW Atlanta Charles E Reed Area Representative for the national organization will service Arthritis Chapters m Georgia Tennessee and the CarolinasThe Children Keep Me Busy The children keep me too busy to think much about myself stated Mar tha Diane Seabolt of Gainesville Geor gia This is a pretty big statement for any woman with three children but for Mrs Seabolt a paraplegic due to an au tomobile accident the statement was made almost matteroffactly In June of 1965 Mrs Seabolt left home to pick her husband up at work At the plant he slipped behind the wheel and they started home They became too deeply engrossed in conversation and Mr Seabolt turned to look at his wife while talking to her and when he turned back he noticed he had crossed over the white line and was driving on the opposite side of the road It was raining that day and in his haste to get back on the proper side of the road he turned the wheel too sharply and the car began to skid Neither of the Seabolts were exactly sure of what happened in the resulting acci dent but Mr Seabolt thinks the car struck the bank on the opposide side of the road and turned end over end before finally coming to a stop Mr Seabolt was barely hurt but Mrs Seabolt was thrown out of the car and received a broken back The neurosurgeon who treated Mrs Seabolt in the hospital referred her to Vocational Rehabilitation Within a few days a counselor contacted Mrs Seabolt about the services offered from the agency The counselor said of Mrs Sea bolt The first day I met her she was smiling and never failed to smile on each occasion that I have contacted her Mrs Seabolt was sent to the Warm Springs Foundation for five months of extensive physical therapy Upon return ing home Mrs Seabolt easily moved back into the role of a housewife taking care of her two children and her husband The Seabolts first met while both were attending high school Mr Seabolt relates Our first date was under rather unusual circumstances Martha was dating a good friend of mine when I de cided I wanted a date with her I bor rowed some money and a car from Mar thas boyfriend and then took her out on our first date Prior to the accident the Seabolts had two little girls Teresa and Elaine During the winter of 1965 Mrs Sea bolt moved too close to an open gas heater and did not feel the extreme heat on her legs and severely burned her left leg and received slight burns on her right leg The burns were so deep that it was necessary for Mrs Seabolt to be sent to Atlanta for plastic surgery and hos pitalization After returning home her plastic sur gery healed nicely and she was again in the full swing of things as a housewife It wasnt long before she announced to Mr Seabolt that he was about to be a father again for the third time On Janu ary 23 1967 Mrs Seabolt presented her husband with a fine baby boy William Derrick Seabolt During the next few months Mrs Seabolts life was busy in deed with little Derrick Her daily routine includes keeping house the children cooking the meals and seeing to it that everyone gets off TOP Mrs Seabolt relaxes with her family CENTER LEFT The Seabolts on their front porch prior to a watermelon cutting CENTER RIGHT Mrs Seabolt reads and laughs with some chil dren from the neighborhood BOTTOM Mr and Mrs Seabolt enjoy a cup of coffee while the children are out playing on schedule As if this wasnt enough many of the neighborhood children drop in and Mrs Seabolt still finds the time to read and play with them When asked about a hobby and what she does in her spare time if she has any she stated Taking care of the children thats enoughGeorgia Public Offenders Program Makes Great Strides The third Annual Federal Offenders Rehabilitation Program Conference was held early this year in Denver Colorado Representatives were present from each of the eight participating state vocational rehabilitation agencies as well as the U S Probation System the U S Bureau of Prisons and the Vocational Rehabilita tion Administration Regional Assistant Commissioner Louis R Schubert repre sented Region IV Representing the Atlanta Project through the Georgia Division of Voca tional Rehabilitation were the following local Executive Committee members W A Crump Project Supervisor Dr Ed ward L Askren III Consultant in Psy chiatry Don Chandler Project Observer John C Carbo Chief U S Probation Officer for the Northern District of Georgia Lee B Jett Chief of Classifica tion and Parole U S Penitentiary At lanta and Jack M Tipton and Scott Fulton Project Counselors At the conference Scott Fulton who holds the distinction of being the first counselor in the nation to remove a client from active caseload under the title Adequate Social Performance being employed in the same job for at least six months not having any arrests in the six months and having a stable environment presented his winning case The client netted 530 the week before closure by working as a selfemployed welder His average income is now in excess of 200 per week and he usually makes between 900 and 1100 per month The case was sighted as an excellent example of mov ing a client from a life of crime to one of productive citizenship Scott Fulton stated that the case men tioned here was made possible through the Federal Offenders Rehabilitation Research and Demonstration Program which was launched November 1 1965 After an orientation operation the pro gram entered fullscale operation on March 1 1966 The program is financed by 90 Federal funds and 10 State funds It is designed to conclude Febru ary 28 1969 The FOR study is the outgrowth of interagency cooperation between Miss Mary Switzer Commissioner Vocational Rehabilitation Administration and James Bennett former Director of the U S Bu reau of Prisons They explored the possi bilities of applying Vocational Rehabilita tion techniques and resources to the prob lems posed by the increasing number of public offenders Since 1962 the Vocational Rehabilita tion Administration has provided sup porting funds for ten projects in which the public offender was the focus of the study or services The results of these studies suggest that vocationally ori ented services provided at the crucial time and in the right context can play a vital role in contributing to the social adjustment of the public offender whether or not an identifiable mental or physical disability is present Currently there are five Federal agen cies contributing thought personnel and or services to this program The Voca tional Rehabilitation Administration the U S Probation System the U S Bureau Scott Fulton FOR Project Counselor of Prisons the U S Board of Parole and the Federal Bureau of Investigation It was anticipated that there would be a number of separated yet coordinated projects widely distributed geographical ly which would study the problems in volved The Atlanta area to include the U S Probation Office for the Northern District of Georgia as well as the U S Penitentiary Atlanta has been desig nated as such a project and the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation was chosen as one of the eight state agencies to participate in this national program Interest generated in this study and the support given it have been tremen dous The program seeks to identify those factors which reduce the probability of success and those which lead to success in the establishment of the Federal of fender in an acceptable and productive role in society In Georgia the Vocational Rehabilita tion State Manual of Policies is utilized as a guideline to the provision of services Upon approval from Dr A P Jarrell the Federal Offenders Rehabilitation Re search and Demonstration Project Direc tor counselors can provide any addi tional service within reason beyond the boundaries of established policy if such service is determined necessary to the resocializationrehabilitation process In accordance with the research plan lists of potentialclients are developed which contain the name of all Federal Offenders The lists are gathered month ly from institutional admission records and weekly from the probation system roster of persons accepted for supervi sion There are no referrals and all cases are assigned from research headquarters in Washington No physical or mental handicap is necessary to be designated as eligible for the Atlanta Project A client need only be A male who has been incarcerated between 15 and 55 years of age a United States Citizen have a minimum expiration of sentence date prior to February 29 1968 and have a release destination to the greater At lanta area The eligible clients are then placed by random selection without any prior evaluation or testing into one of three categories 1 Intensive Service Group those to receive all vocational rehabili tation services and any other innovations needed 2 Control Group One and 3 Control Group Two Members of the control groups do not receive services and are contacted for the gathering of research material only The difference in the two control groups lies only in the varied amount of data collected from each Ultimately information gathered from all three groups will be compared in an effort to determine the effective ness of intensive services The criteria for case closure under this program are more stringent than that applied to general caseloads For ex ample client employment in the same job for at least six months is one re quirement and in addition certain fac tors of community reintegration must also be satisfactorily realized Without detailed explanations of the research design itself it may be of in terest to note that one of the experi mental goals is to attempt to define that point in the correctional process at which Vocational Rehabilitation services might most advantageously be initiated Thus the Program operates under three plans labeled Plan A Plan B and Plan C Plan A adopts cases for monitoring to probation supervision Plan B adopts cases sixty days after release from prison or sixty days after probation supervision begins Plan C adopts cases thirty to six ty days after admission to prison and thus services can begin under this plan for a period of as long as two years be fore reentry to the community The At lanta project encompasses Plan A and Plan C with two full time staff members Jack M Tipton serving clients under Plan A and W Scott Fulton serving clients under Plan C at the U S Penitentiary Dr A P Jarrell is the Project Director here in Georgia and William A Crump is the Project Supervisor Although counseling is viewed as the primary service provided through the Atlanta FOR Project innovation serv ices have been encouraged by adjusting the criteria for providing occupational equipment leading to self employment and by providing an increased amount of maintenance to an increasing number of clients pending receipt of their first pay Toward the closing moments of the Federal Offenders Rehabilitation Pro gram Conference at the Denver Confer ence Percy B Bell FOR Program Di rector singled the Atlanta Project as the national leader to date in approaching the fulfillment of the FOR research de sign He then complimented Dr A P Jarrell Atlanta Project Director and his staff and presented a certificate of award for Exceptional Contribution in Foster ing and Encouraging the Vocational Re habilitation of Public Offenders through the Federal Offenders Rehabilitation ProgramAnnual Staff Training Preview The Georgia Office of Vocational Re habilitation has completed plans for the 1967 Annual Staff Training Conference to be held at Jekyll Island Georgia August 610 The inspirational address on the open ing day of the conference will be de livered by Bishop John Owen Smith Bishop of the Atlanta Area of the Meth odist Church The keynote address will be delivered by NRA President Warren Thompson Mr Thompson is currently Assistant Regional Director Department of Health Education Welfare Region VIII which includes the states of Colo rado Idaho Montana Utah and Wy oming State School Superintendent Jack P Nix will address the conference on Our Responsibilities to Georgia Citizens Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Su perintendent of Schools in Charge of Re habilitation Services will deliver an ad dress to the conference participants entitled The Challenge Of The Second Mile Governor Lester Maddox will be the banquet speaker at the conference on Wednesday night August 9 1967 Other outstanding conference partici pants include Shelton W McLelland As sociate Regional Representative VRA Atlanta Dr E M Holmes Jr Associate Regional Representative for Health and Medical Affairs Atlanta Sam Crouch Deputy Bureau Director in Disability Insurance Baltimore Arthur E Hess Deputy Commissioner Social Security Administration Baltimore Seth Hender son Program Planning and Development Branch of Vocational Rehabilitation Washington Kenneth Matheny Director of Rehabilitation Counselor Training Program Georgia State College Atlanta Dr E T Eggers Professor of Manage ment Georgia State College Atlanta On the closing day of the conference the inspirational address will be given by Rev Orion Hutchinson Some of the outstanding speakers are shown below and a copy of Conference Schedule is given PROGRAM SUNDAY August 6 1967 600 800 PMRegistration MONDAY Augst 7 1967 730 830 AMRegistration PRESIDING E K BELL 840 850 Welcome Ralph Croft 850 900 Welcome Judge A J Hartley 900 905 Response J L Hise 9051000 Inspirational Address Bishop John Owen Smith 10001015 Break 10151100 Keynote Address Warren Thompson 11001115 The Challenge of the Second Mile Dr A P Jarrell 11151200 PM Division Plans and Objectives Division of General Services John S Prickett Jr Division of Special Services J L Hise Division of Rehabilitation Facilities Workshops Nathan B Nolan Division of Special Disabilities Leon Meenach 1200 130 PM Lunch 130 430 PM SEMINARS 1 Managing the Severely Physically Im paired Case Dr E M Holmes Wanderer MotelSky Room Gov Lester G Maddox Dr A P Jarrell Bishop Owen Smith Warren Thompson Shelton McLelland Arthur Hess Seth Henderson Rev Orion Hutchinson Jr 2 Understanding the Role of Related Agen cies in the Rehabilitation Process Shelton McLelland Stuckeys Carriage InnLounge 3 Rehabilitation of the Visually Impaired T M McCollum Wanderer MotelSuite 400 4 Rehabilitation of the Emotionally 111 Roy Williams Stuckeys Carriage InnCoach Room East Side 5 Rehabilitation of the Mentally Retarded and Public Offenders W A Crump Stuckeys Carriage InnCoach Room West Side 6 Casework R V Bankston Corsair MotelConference Room 7 Workshops Vernon Vinson Stuckeys Carriage InnSurrey Room North 8 Use of Rehabilitation Facilities Kenneth Reynolds Stuckeys Carriage InnSurrey Room South 9 PlacementMarvin Starr Lewis Davis Wanderer MotelMallard Room 10 Disability Determination Unit W A Craft Aquarama Room B TUESDAY August 8 1967 PRESIDING J L Hise 815 820 Devotional Emory Proctor 820 850 Health Insurance Benefits Medi care from a National Viewpoint Arthur E Hess 850 920 The Status of the Disability Pro gram from a National ViewpointSam Crouch 920 940 Break 9401030 Individual Counseling with the Rehabilitation Client A Point of View Dr Kenneth Matheny 10301130 The Training GroupA Living Lecture Dr William Conner 11301200 Response Seth Henderson 1200 130 PM Lunch lSt 430 PM SEMINARS Same as Monday WEDNESDAY August 9 1967 PRESIDING Leon Meenach 820 830 Devotional Rev McCoy Johnson 830 930 Our Responsibilities to Georgia Citizens Jack P Nix 9301015 Why Administration is Necessary Dr E T Eggers 10151045 Georgia Rehabilitation Counseling Association Membership Report Jake Smith Overview of Counseling Association Robert Abell FutureA Challenge B R B Davis 10451100 Break 11001200 Break up into Administrative Groups 1 Division of General Services John S Prickett Jr Aquarama Room B 2 Division of Special ServicesJoe L Hise Stuckeys Carriage InnCoach Room East Side 3 Division of Rehabilitation Facilities and Workshops Nathan B Nolan Corsair MotelConference Room 4 Division of Special Disabilities Leon Meenach Aquarama Room A 1200 130 PM Lunch 130 430 PM SEMINARS Same as Monday 730 930 PM Banquet THURSDAY August 10 1967 PRESIDING Dr Thomas P Goodwyn 8 45 9 30 AM Inspirational Address Rev Orion Hutchinson 9301130 Panel Moderator Dr E M Holmes Hemodialysis of the Severely Renal Impaired Client Dr John H Sadler Rehabilitation of Clients with Behavioral Disorders Dr John J Wright The Client with Epileptic Seizures Dr George Mushet 11301145 Memorial Service P D Bush 11451200 Closing Remarks Dr A P JarrellDivision of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta Georgia 30334 mmmmi VR Clients Join Cystic Fibrosis Volunteers The month of August has officially been pro claimed Cystic Fibrosis Month CF is the most seri ous chronic disease of childhood It is an incurable congenital disease from recessive genes which attacks the lungs and pancreas of its victims The disease strikes one baby in every thousand Experience has shown that with early diagnosis and prompt initia tion of treatment specially tailored to the individual child the outlook may be brighter than was formerly supposed The basic chemical defect in this inherited disease is not yet understood but the result is that the body produces abnormally salty perspiration and a thick gluey mucus The abnormal mucus interferes with digestion clogs air passages and lodges in the lungs In untreated patients frequent respiratory infections often lead to lung collapse Danny Overstreet right and Richard Lagasse are shown with Eric Connell center age 6 who is this years Cystic Fibrosis poster boy They are aiding the campaign by calling persons in each neighbor hood and asking that they collect funds on their street so that research may continue and perhaps Cystic Fibrosis can be conquered Danny 26 received a spinal injury in an automo bile accident He is a VR client and was furnished services at the Georgia Rehabilitation Center He is scheduled to return for additional services Danny has also received therapy and counseling Richard 33 who had polio at an early age is a paraplegic He has recently become a Georgia VR Client and is now being counseled and evaluated for job placement as a draftsman REHABILITATIO ai iuri EV7S 4 A Giant Has Fallen Story Page 2 3 Georgia Wins National Employer Of The Year Award Story On Page 5m The various stages in Dr Jarrells growth in becoming a national leader in Vocational Rehabilitation A Giant Has Fallen Youre on duty twentyfour hours a day were familiar words to the many Vocational Rehabilitation staff members the first time they met Dr A P Jarrell He expected no less from his staff than he expected of himself and twentyfour hours a day was the devotion he gave in leading Georgias Rehabilitation Program to one of national prominence and signi ficance On August 1 1967 Vocational Rehabili tation Programs nationwide suffered a great loss with the passing of Dr A P Jarrell Georgias Assistant State School Superintendent in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services Polk Jarrell first entered the field of Vocational Rehabilitation in Georgia in 1940 when the agency administered a rather small program and he became the sixth counselor for the state Although new to rehabilitation he brought with him a wealth of practical experience having been reared on a farm in Taylor County and knowing firsthand the prob lems of rural people of Georgia He held a BA and MA Degree from the Uni versity of Georgia and completed special studies at Mercer University He was principal of Central School in Taylor TOP LEFT Left to right Shelton Mc Lelland Asso Reg Rep for VR Adm Dr Jarrell Louis Schubert Reg Asst Comm of VR Adm Mary Switzer Adm Soc and Rehab Ser and Richard Lyle Reg Dir Dept of HEW are shown as Mrs Switzer arrived for the Ga Rehab Asso Conf several years ago CENTER LEFT The Yarbrough Rehab Center at Central State Hosp in Mil ledgeville resulted from Dr Jarrells co operative efforts with the State Health Dept BOTTOM LEFT Left to right Dr Jack Nix Gov Carl Sanders and Dr Jarrell at groundbreaking for Voc Trade School at Alto TOP RIGHT Left to right Dr Jarrell Dr Robert Bennett Dir Ga Warm Springs Foundation and Paul Barrett former Dir of VR initiating plans for the physical restoration services at the Ga Warm Springs Foundation BOTTOM RIGHT At the groundbreak ing ceremony for the Ga Rehab Center at Warm Springs are from left to right Nathan Nolan Dir Facilities Dr Jarrell Paul Stone Bd of Ed former Gov Ernest Vandiver James Peters Bd of Ed Zack Daniel Bd of Ed and Dr Claude Purcell State Supt of Schools County before becoming Superintendent of Chattahoochee County High School and Elementary School Just prior to his entry into the field of Vocational Re habilitation he was selected as VicePresident of the State High School Association and had previously served as VicePresident and President of the Third District High School Association During his first four years as a Voca tional Rehabilitation Counselor his work proved so outstanding that when Voca tional Rehabilitation was permitted to furnish Physical Restoration under Public Law 113 he was selected to organize Georgias Program of Physical Restora tion and was promoted to Assistant Director He overcame the medical professions opposition to Public Law 113 in Georgia through his forthright explanation of the good that could be done through the program He directed the development of facilities for this new physical restora tion area He helped create and establish a Medical Advisory Board set up pro cedures for hospitals to be evaluated and approved assisted in the scheduling of fees rewrote the Manual of Policies and aided in the selection of new counselors The success of this undertaking in Geor gia through Dr Jarrells efforts is re flected by the increase in the number of Georgians rehabilitated during the first year of operation under Public Law 113 Before 1943 Georgias program had rehabilitated on the average of only 289 clients per year but in 1943 this number jumped to over 2000 persons Dr Jarrell further realized that re habilitation or any undertaking with the scope and depth of the programs of Vo cational Rehabilitation in Georgia had to be a cooperative effort He realized that no one agency could stand alone and do a complete and satisfactory job As a result of these feelings the Vocational Rehabilitation agency developed working relations with Workmens Compensation Society for Crippled Children and Adults State School for Mental Defectives Geor gia State Employment Service Georgia Tuberculosis Association Georgia Heart Association Cerebral Palsy School and many others He was appointed to serve in positions of prominence on many local state and national boards because of his broad knowledge background and understand ing of the necessity of interagency relationships He was always seeking new and better ways to increase the program of services to disabled Georgians He was instru mental in developing an Arthritic Clinic Amputee Clinics new areas for the re habilitation of epileptics and specialized programs for disabled parents so that they could return to employment and support their family He was aware of the need for the newly blind to enter into a program of adjustment and orien TOP The last official photo made of Dr Jarrell and one of his favorites BOTTOM Dr Jarrell congratulating Dr Jack P Nix on his appointment as School Superintendent tation so that they could function more adequately His sights were always set on new and better ways to improve the program of services in any field in an effort to help the disabled return to employment Programs for the Mentally 111 the Mentally Retarded the Public Offender the Alcoholic the Socially and Culturally Deprived were extensions of Dr Jarrells deep seated desire to furnish every pos sible rehabilitative method to the disabled in an effort to help them seek their rightful place in society Vocational Rehabilitation residences for the Mentally Retarded Emotionally Continued on page 7The Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Vol 15 NovDecember 1967 No 7 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools John S Prickett Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex albany district Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 AtlantaGrady Hospital 5234711 Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE 8735341 DECATUR DISTRICT ADCVR OFFICE Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Decatur Room 255 New First National Bank Bldg 3783671 Carrollton116 Rome Street 8328204 East Point 1777 West Washington Ave Room 108 7664711 Marietta Professional Arts Building 644 Cherokee St NE 4276521 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens901 CS Bank Bldg Phone 5491241 Cave Spring7773319 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Dalton132 W Gordon 2261322 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Griffin231 C Tenth Street Phone 2279176 Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin107 N Franklin St Phone 2726700 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5 Phone AM 56541 Wish There Were More States Like Georgia The Georgia Governors Committees leadership has always been extremely imaginative and I wish there were more states like Georgia said Bernie Posner Deputy Executive Secretary to the Presidents Com mittee on Employment of the Handicapped He was in Georgia during National Employ the Physically Handi capped Week to present certificates for outstanding efforts in develop ing job opportunities for the qualified Mentally Retarded in the Federal Services and to participate in Mayor Ivan Allen Jrs ceremonies pro claiming NEPH Week in Atlanta Posner stated Georgias Vocational Rehabilitation Program is one of the best in the United States and has been for a number of years It meets all of the criteria that we look for in judging a program Posner has the responibility of advising the Governors Committees in Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Georgia Florida Alabama South Carolina and Tennessee The Presidents Committee is an independent agency which is re sponsible to the President Its main function is educational and promo tional with its two major aims that of 1 Creating a climate leading to greater acceptance of all handicapped people in the labor market by overcoming obstacles to employment and by seeing what new areas can be opened for better employment 2 Expanding opportunities for the handicapped where they never existed before and educating em ployers who have never taken an active interest in hiring the handi capped The major area of Posners responsibility is promoting and educat ing the public for employment of mentally retarded and emotionally restored individuals He said Some of the many assets the Mentally Retarded have over the average worker is that they are steady and reliable and have a greater tolerance for routine work Many employers are looking for workers in the unskilled labor market with just these attributes but do not realize that the Mentally Retarded are their answer He explained that the Presidents Committee has done a great deal of work in attempting to inform the employers that the Mentally Re tarded are the answers to their problems The Federal Government has set up special hiring practices so that the retardate may be exempt from tests when he is certified by Vocational Rehabilitation to be competent to fill the job The emotionally restored person who was only in the hospital for a short time is able to obtain a job and can usually melt into the labor force In this case there is no paramount lapse in the employment record and no one finds out his past However if the Mentally Restored person still retains some unusual behavior patterns it is slightly more difficult to find him a job and this is when Vocational Rehabilitation must extend its helping hand Employers need to know more about techniques for working with the mentally retarded and the emotionally restored One major technique being used in many states to involve the em ployers with the problems of the mentally retarded and the emotionally restored is to bring employers into the hospitals in the capacity of an Advisory Counselor This counselor would advise patients who are near ing the date of discharge about various interviewing situations they may encounter when seeking a job and also what type of jobs are available in the community These Advisory Counselors also advise the administration as to the types of vocational training that would be most beneficial to the patient when he seeks a job in the community Sheltered Workshops are another area in which these advisory counselors have proved to be an asset The committees have helped the administration set up small businesses in which to train patients in good work habits and to get them started to fulfill numerous contracts for tedious and time consuming jobs for industries Posner stressed the fact that although a great deal of progress has been made for individuals with mental problems there is still a long way to goGeorgia Employer Wins National Award The Employer of the Year Award was presented to John W Payne of Metropolitan Atlanta by President Lyndon Johnson and Harold Russell Chairman of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped President Lyndon B Johnson present ed John W Payne Executive Vice President of the International Optical Company with the National Employer of the Year Award of the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handi capped Prior to being named National Em ployer of the Year Mr Payne was honored as Metropolitan Atlantas Out standing Employer of the Year by the Georgia Rehabilitation Association and was selected by the Georgia Governors Committee on Employment of the Hand icapped as Georgias Employer of the Year The Governors Committee en dorsed and forwarded the nomination to the Presidents Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped in Washington The State Department of Educations Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and the State Department of Labor work cooperatively throughout the year in convincing more employers that they should hixe the handicapped These two agencies were instrumental in furnishing rehabilitation services and placement services to many of the handicapped in dividuals currently employed at Interna tional Optical Company Employees at the International Optical Company must exhibit care and exact ness in their work thus efficient exact ing and productive individuals must be hired Mr Payne contacts the Office of Voca tional Rehabilitation or the Georgia State Employment Service when he needs new personnel He expresses on his job orders that he prefers handicapped in dividuals The handicapped person is placed on a job he can do is given thorough training and is properly ori entated The employee is made as com fortable on the job as possible being provided with whatever is needed to help him do his job whether it is a special chair rubber gloves or a parking space near his working area The policy of International Optical Company toward the handicapped is not a new one It has existed since its foun der Bill Benedict organized the first of fice for the manufacturing of corrective eyeglasses for practioners in the eye care profession in 1959 The company grinds lenses in accordance with doctors prescriptions then assembles the finished lenses and frames To maintain its quality standards dur ing the firms outstanding growth and production and to improve services to the doctors on the Eastern Seaboard Inter national established an Atlanta laborato ry in 1964 From just eight employees in the Atlanta laboratory at its incep tion personnel now number over 65 Of this number approximately 32 are handicapped Close attention to training with a great deal of empathy seems to be the key to the sense of cooperation and family spirit which prevails throughout the largest optical prescription laborato ry in the world An unscheduled tour through the work areas will convince a visitor of this The Presidents Committee on Employ ment of the Handicapped and the Gov ernors Committee on Employment of the Handicappeds award to International Optical Company indicates that the na tion as a whole is now recognizing employers who go above and beyond in their hiring practices of placing an individual on the job because of his ability rather than his disability Inter national Optical Company is providing an opportunity for the handicapped to retain or regain their sense of dignity and pride and assume their place in society Mr Benedict says he has found in his business dealings that the handicapped are truly the better employees Thus he and Mr Payne have attempted to instill this policy in the minds of their em ployeesRehabilitation Unit Proves Success Savannahs 70bed Memorial Medical Center Rehabilitation Unit dedicated on May 28 1967 is already providing ex cellent rehabilitation services to the severely disabled from throughout the state It is the third such rehabilitation unit in Georgia to provide comprehensive services Some examples of VR clients who are currently receiving services are shown on this page TOP Mrs Maggie Bell of Ailey worked as a maid until 1962 when an ironing board collapsed falling across her right foot resulting in swelling and irritation Mrs Bell accepted the condition and never requested medical treatment She wore a special pair of shoes for several years until she aggravated her foot again Eventually the swelling increased and gangrene infection set in causing Mrs Bell to undergo an above the knee am putation of her right leg She was re ferred to VR from the Eugene Tal madge Memorial Hospital and was sent to the Memorial Medical Center Rehabili tation Unit She is receiving necessary therapy training and artificial appli ances CENTER Rudolph Nebb Jr of Savan nah was shot in the leg by unknown assailants in early 1967 His condition necessitated four operations He had worked as a painter and riggor at the Savannah Machinery and Foundry Com pany His doctor referred him to VR and subsequently to the Memorial Medi cal Center Rehabilitation Unit At the unit he is receiving necessary medical care therapy treatments and extensive evaluation BOTTOM LEFT Roseanna Cope of Ellabelle is suffering from neuralgia She married at 16 and has three chil dren ages 10 13 and 15 She first began work at the age of 13 and has been working as a domestic employee wait ress and other similar employment situ ations At 31 she finds she must make an adjustment to new job possibilities because of her disability Within the past few months she has undergone an operation for a ruptured appendix and removal of her gall bladder and the present diagnosis of neuralgia She is now receiving necessary therapy and treatment at the Medical Center and is undergoing rehabilitation evaluation to determine a suitable employment ob jective BOTTOM RIGHT Twenty year old Robert Lovett from Clyo was injured in a motorcycle accident He lost control of the motorcycle while making a sharp turn and severly twisted his knee and tore the ligaments in his leg His doctor referred him to VR and his counselor placed him in the Medical Rehabilita tion Unit to receive services He is re ceiving physical therapy and treatment to strengthen the muscles in his leg Loyetts desire to regain complete use of his leg and to join the work force again prompted the hospital staff to hire him as an employee while he is receiv ing his therapyIncreased Vision Through Optical Aids The Optical Aids Center of Grady Memorial Hospital provides services to persons with very limited vision who are unable to benefit from their local opto metrists various prosthetic aids Counselors for the Blind refer clients to the center when all prior physical restoration services are completed and there is still a visual loss of 20200 to 20480 with best correction Counselors under the general program may refer clients with a corrected visual acuity of 2070 to 20200 The pictures on the right show various clients being examined by Dr G E Wadsworth TOP Paul Rowland from Augusta has congenial visual problems He is receiving training at Davidson College and desires to teach when he graduates CENTER LEFT James Lewis Hamil ton works at the Griffin Factory for the Blind He was sent to the adjust ment and orientation training program at the Atlanta Association for the Blind and received job training He was also furnished special optical aids diagnostic and medical care CENTER RIGHT Pearl Manns vision is reduced to a 98 loss bilateral She is a native of Barnesville with an oc cupational objective of a homemaker She has received extensive diagnostic and ophthalmology treatment and lower vision optical aids BOTTOM David Hendricks 36 has conginital microopthalmia He was re ferred to the division by Florida and he is now employed by the Factory for the Blind in Bainbridge He has been fur nished optical aids and medical care A Giant Has Fallen Continued from page 3 111 Deaf and Public Offender were de veloped through his efforts The Georgia Rehabilitation Center for the severely disabled is an edifice exemplifying his determination to bring to Georgia the best comprehensive services under one roof in order that Georgia may better serve its handicapped citizens He was a dreamer in the true sense of the word His dreams were all of Georgia and what he could do in behalf of its citizens Because of his knowledge back ground and insight into the depths of the human soul he was recognized as one of the true leaders in the rehabilita tion field He was awarded the Cummings Award in 1960 as the rehabilitation person making the most exceptional contribution toward the rehabilitation of the handi capped He received the Presidents Award of the National Rehabilitation As sociation the highest honor they can bestow He was recipient of Goodwill Industrys Award of the Year and re cipient of many other outstanding awards for his contributions in behalf of the handicapped The National Rehabilitation Association elected Dr Jarrell as Presi dent of their 24000 member organization in 1964 While President of NRA he was in strumental in securing the passage of the 1965 Vocational Rehabilitation Act amendments the most important legisla Continued on page 8 Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta Georgia 30334 Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 ABILITY COUNTS faulsitions Division of Georgia Librares Athens Ga 3060L The Department of Physical Medicine at Grady Memorial Hospitals Rehabilita tion Research and Training Center in Atlanta is furnishing valuable services to the disabled of our state Two clients who are currently receiving services are shown here LEFT Ruby Griggs 50 of Chamblee went to the hospital for a routine check up and a short while later she became I paralyzed from the waist down as a re I suit of a spinal cord disease VR has I been working with her for two months I and now she can walk bend and remove I her shoes She was previously a cashier 1 bookkeeper and light accountant RIGHT Durand Tucker 57 is a bilat eral amputee who has epilepsy VR has provided him with crutches prostheses counseling and physical and occupational therapy He has previously done high window cleaning and hat blocking but now plans to train in some other field A GIANT HAS FALLEN Continued from page 7 tion passed by congress affecting Voca tional Rehabilitation during the past decade Since 1955 when he was appointed Director of the Georgia Rehabilitation Agency the state has placed First for five consecutive years in the number re habilitated per 100000 population Second for three years Third for one year Fifth three years and has always ranked within the top five Just prior to his appointment as Direc tor of Vocational Rehabilitation in 1954 Dr Donald Covalt introduced him as Mr Vocational Rehabilitation and so he has been throughout all the years of his life with complete regard for the feelings of the handicapped He endangered his own life health and physical well being by giving of himself beyond the call of duty Truly a giant has fallenW NEWS Prickett Named New Assistant State School SuperintendentThanksgiving Dinner At Atlanta Employment Evaluation And Service Center Alumni of the Atlanta Employment Evaluation and Service Center were in vited to return and bring their employ ers to share a Thanksgiving dinner Nov ember 22 Those returning are now suc cessfully placed and seem very contented in their jobs Ozie Madison was referred to the Cen ter by Economic Opportunity Atlanta She was unemployed and had no train TOP Shown at the banquet left to right are Counselor Bill Whipple John S Prickett Assistant State School Super intendent For Vocational Rehabilitation Services Cantey Gordon Administrator of A E E S C Mrs Eddie McCrary Emory University Employment Inter viewer Mrs Lela Thomas Miss Ozie Madison and Counselor J J Dalton CENTER Miss Ozie Madison and her counselor J J Dalton stop at one of the evaluation situations Lela went through as a client BOTTOM Mrs Lela Thomas stops to chat with Miss Gail Bramlett one of Lelas case workers Lelas employer and counselor Mrs Eddie McCrary and Bill Whipple respectively look on ing After eight weeks she had completed counseling testing evaluation and had been placed on a job She is employed as an attendant at Peoples Washeteria Lela Thomas who has a heart condi tion was referred by the Department of Family and Childrens Services She has three children She had no training al though she thought she would like to be a mail clerk After undergoing evalua tion she found that she would be best suited for food services So upon com pletion of six weeks of evaluation Lela went to work in the AEESC Cafeteria and was employed there about four months Lela is now employed by Emory Un iversity at the Wesley Woods Health Center in the Food Services Section The Atlanta Employment Evaluation and Service Center is a cooperative demonstration project financed under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 The Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili tation and AtlantaFulton County Econ omic Opportunity Authority agreed to establish the comprehensive center to provide all professional rehabilitation services to residents of the Atlanta Me tropolitan Area The only persons accepted by the AEESC are those referred by agencies The work potential area utilizes the TOWER Program to determine a clients vocational aptitudes interests and de sires The TOWER Program is a pro gram of Training Orientation Work Evaluation and Rehabilitation Before a client is ready for the TOWER Program however the Center utilizes the team approach to furnish the client the best possible services in the evaluation cycle enabling them to find and place him in the most suitable em ployment He is assigned to a team consisting of a Counselor a Caseworker and an Evaluator The Counselor coordinates everything that is done with and for the client The Caseworker is involved more in the home and home environment He is involved in all of the home visits and contacts It is important to find out where the clients ability lies Thus tests and a physical examination are given Psy chological examinations and remedial education are provided when needed Remedial education raises the client to the educational level required by the job and training begins Those clients who desire may study for the General Ed ucational Development Test High School Equivalency Test Thus far 85 persons have stood the test from AEESC and 73 have passed it Numerous persons among those passing are now working in jobs that require a high school diploma Work is coordinated very closely with that of the Georgia State Department of Labor in the placement of the clients More than twothirds of the AEESC clients who are currently employed are in jobs related to the field the TOWERs Program recommended that they were qualified to trainPrickett Named New Assistant State School Superintendent John S Prickett Jr has been named Assistant State School Superintendent for Vocational Rehabilitation Services by Dr Jack P Nix State School Super intendent Prickett succeeds Dr A P Jarrell who recently passed away Born in Carroll County Prickett at tended Bowden College Bowden Georgia for two years and received his BS and MS Degrees from the University of Georgia He has also completed graduate work at New York University as well as special studies at Minninger Clinic in Topeka Kansas John Prickett began serving the needs of other Georgians as a teacher and principal of schools in 1931 He joined the staff of Georgias Office of Vocation al Rehabilitation as a counselor in 1942 and served as District Supervisor from 1944 until 1951 and Assistant Director from then until his appointment in 1964 as Director of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation In January the Department of Educa tions Office of Vocational Rehabilitation TOP John S Prickett Jr at the 1967 Staff Conference of the Department of Education with left to right Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Former Governor Carl E Sanders and Dr James S Peters Chairman of the Board of Education BOTTOM John S Prickett Jr receives the H B Cummings Award from Dr A P Jarrell was reorganized into four divisions These divisions encompass the Division of General Services the Division of Special Services the Division of Re habilitation Facilities and Workshops and the Division of Special Disabilities Prickett was appointed to serve as Co ordinator of the four divisions of Voc ational Rehabilitation in addition to his duties as Director of the Division of General Services John Pricketts name has become na tionally known in the field of rehabili tation He was the first president of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association a chapter of the National Rehabilitation Association past president of the Geor gia Tuberculosis Association Regional Chairman of the National Rehabilitation Association and was elected to the National Rehabilitation Associations Board of Directors at their annual conference in Cleveland Ohio In 1961 he was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Georgia Re habilitation Association for his efforts in the development and advancement of the association Prickett received the H B Cummings Award from Region IV of the Nation al Rehabilitation Association in 1966 He received the award as the outstanding individual who had contributed the most toward the rehabilitation of the handi capped during the year Region IV NRA is composed of the six statesGeorgia Florida Alabama Tennessee Mississip pi and South Carolina The Cummings award is in honor of the late H B Cum mings former regional representative for Vocational Rehabilitation Adminis tration and one of the pioneers in re habilitation A charter member of Belvedere Meth odist Church in Avondale Estates Geor gia he has served as Sunday School Superintendent Chairman of Board of Trustees President of the Methodist Mens Club and two terms as Chairman of the Official Board In addition to serving in these local civic fraternal and rehabilitation or ganizations John Prickett has not for gotten sports He has always been athletically inclined and avidly interest ed in sports both as a participant and as a spectator He actively engaged in ten nis basketball baseball and football dur ing his high school and college years He played semiprofessional baseball in the Montgomery City League of Montgom ery Alabama and in the Georgia Alabama Baseball League He was both a pitcher and an outfielder during his semipro career Today he is an enthusiastic supporter of the Atlanta Falcons Georgias pro fessional football team and the athletic teams in his community particularly the Avondale High School teams John Prickett married the former Burnell Wright in 1931 They have four children and four grandchildren and re side in Avondale Estates a suburb of AtlantaThe Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Vol 15 DecSpecial Edition 1967 No 8 Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools John S Prickett Jr Assistant State Superintendent of Schools for Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex albany district Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 AtlantaGrady Hospital 5234711 Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE 8735341 DECATUR DISTRICT ADCVR OFFICE Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Decatur Room 255 New First National Bank Bldg 3783671 Carrollton116 Rome Street 8328204 East Point 1777 West Washington Ave Room 108 7664711 Marietta Professional Arts Building 644 Cherokee St NE 4276521 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens901 CS Bank Bldg Phone 5491241 Cave Spring7773319 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Dalton132 W Gordon 2261322 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Griffin231 C Tenth Street Phone 2279176 Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin107 N Franklin St Phone 2726700 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5 Phone AM 56541 s XAjoWaP P Sir QUjrtetmas 3fart The Christmas heart is a gentle heart Malice and envy have no part Coldness and bitterness cannot stay Where the Spirit of Christmas holds full sway Behold joy enter and grief depart When Christmas candles illume the heart The Christmas heart is a gentle place Filled with love for the human race Brimming oer with a great desire To light for another a cheery fire To comfort a strangers keen distress Bring to the sad some happiness The Christmas heart has its door thrown wide For the Spirit of Love to flow inside Holly with berries and mistletoe And flickering candles all aglow These will brighten the house awhile But the Christmas kindness and Christmas smile The Christmas love and the Christmas cheer Can live in the heart from year to year Author UnknownHighlights Of GRA Conference The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Georgia Rehabilitation Association was held at the Biltmore Hotel on December 78 in Atlanta More than 500 were in attendance representing the various dis ciplines of rehabilitation both public and private Scott Fulton was the main speaker during the Thursday morning meeting He spoke on The Counseling Future He suggested that counselors seem shocked by the realization that Federal funds like matching state funds are not inexhaustible Yet even though we may be living in changing and uncertain times he suggested that the times are also good times We are being told things openly and directly that have traditionally been held to restricted audiences Through the creation of several committees our opin ions are being genuinely sought on mat ters vital to the Division and the conduct of its programs Fulton said In sighting the committee on Technical Services Fulton specifically turned to the initial findings of Barriers to Pro viding Effective Counseling They are summed up in the following eight points 1 Counselors are charged with too many administrative and clerical responsibilities 2 There is a shortage of adequate secretarial help 3 There is too much paper work to to be done 4 The Agency emphasis is upon quantity rather than quality of services 5 Counseling receives only limited recognition as a profession 6 Counselors are not kept abreast of changes in fiscal and accounting matters 7 Poor communication exists between facilities and the field 8 Telephone calls are not properly screened and therefore counseling interviews are too frequently in terrupted Fulton also touched on our higher ed ucation courses dealing specifically with vocational rehabilitation He elaborated on the format of various courses and re lated what to expect in taking these courses Other speakers on Thursdays pro gram included Dr Michael Schwartz Indiana University who spoke on So ciological Basis of Poverty and Dr Boyd McCandless Emory University who spoke on Psychological Conse quences of Poverty Dr Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools made his appearance on Fri day with Fletcher Thompson U S Con gressman Louis Schubert Rehabilitation Services Administration and T M Par ham Office of Economic Opportunity During the luncheon George Beckmann Chairman of the Awards Committee presented awards and certificates to var ious members for their outstanding con tributions during the year TOP LEFT George Beckmann chairman of the GRA Awards Committee pre senting a silver tray to Ernest Craft Macon District Supervisor in recognition of his outstanding job as membership chairman in Georgias NRA member ship drive during the past two years TOP RIGHT Nathan Nolan congratu lates from left to right C L Zipperer Program for the Sighted and George Mau Program for the Blind for winning first place awards for the Case of the Year The awards are given in recogni tion of a client who has overcome a severe obstacle in the rehabilitation pro cess through the efforts of his counselor CENTER LEFT Mrs Jackie Shell Mil ledgeville was presented the award for obtaining the MOST members in Geor gias NRA campaign CENTER Ed Porter President of NRA made a few remarks during the luncheon CENTER RIGHT Troy A Bledsoe At lanta was presented the award for ob taining the most NEW members in Georgias NRA campaign BOTTOM LEFT Dr and Mrs Thomas Goodwyn were presented a silver tray for the Professional Award of the Year It is presented to the individual who has made the most significant contribution to the physically handicapped in Georgia The award is presented only when the association feels that someone has con tributed enough to warrant such a dis tinctive award BOTTOM RIGHT President Nathan Nolan turns the gavel over to the incom ing President Alton RaySchool For The Deaf The Georgia School for the Deaf is an educational institution for children with defective hearing Located at Cave Spring the school has a large campus where the students live during the reg ular term Children between the ages of 6 and 21 who are too deaf to attend regular pub lic schools are admitted They must be residents of Georgia and must be both physically and mentally alert Students cannot begin first grade work as it is generally considered in public schools when they enter the School for the Deaf These students must first learn to speak and must obtain a small vocabulary before actual first grade learning can begin Thus it us ually takes three years of school before deaf students are ready to begin their first grade work Emphasis is placed upon speech and speechreading The school the largest school for the deaf east of the Mississip pi River is fully accredited Graduates from the academic department may at tend Gallaudet College in Washington D C the worlds only college for the deaf These photos were taken in the first year of preparation school TOP LEFT Mrs Millie Sirmans and Sharon Sizemore work on speech using the mirror to note mouth formation of words Sharon feels the vibrations in the teachers cheek as she pronounces words TOP RIGHT Students anxiously waiting to answer teachers question during class CENTER LEFT Mrs Carolyn Shipley is teaching Diedra Elliott to match words to pictures This is one of the primary steps before students are taught to read CENTER RIGHT Mrs Wilann Powers is doing speech work with Francine Wil liams They are using the transistor hearing aid which extensively amplifies the voice Francine points to each word in her notebook and then pronounces it correctly BOTTOM Children are shown on giant straps during their recreation period The children have 15 minutes in the mornings and in the afternoons in addition to their after school playVR Evaluation Center For The Deaf The Evaluation Center for the Deaf located at Cave Spring offers both di agnostic and evaluative services to the deaf and hard of hearing clients of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabili tation and to students of the Georgia School for the Deaf 16 years of age or older In addition to diagnostic and evaluative service the Center provides all other necessary services to make a client em ployable Previously the Center has par ticipated directly in at least 90 per cent of the placements of clients served by the Center The professional staff at the Center on a fulltime basis include counselors evaluators instructors with special vo cational training skills and consultants in psychology psychiatry audiology and speech pathology on a parttime basis The staff is therefore able to offer evaluation and diagnostic services in these areas These people are available on a regular scheduled basis to each Vocational Re habilitation office Beginning January 1 1968 a representative from the Center will visit each rehabilitation counselor at least once a quarter to discuss deaf and hardofhearing clients and the feasibility of referring them to the Evaluation Cen ter and or other necessary services Any person having knowledge of a deaf or hardofhearing person needing ser vices may contact the Center directly The areas covered by prevocational and vocational training at the Center in clude work sample tryouts on machinery and equipment printing offset duplica tion business machine operation body and fender repair automotive painting house painting upholstery automotive trim power sewing laundry woodwork ing shoe repair cosmetology brick masonry custodial services and building and ground maintenance Under the Adult Basic Education Act and through the auspices of the Floyd County Board of Education the Evalu ation Center maintains 7 classes in adult and remedial education These classes serve as related subject training areas to vocational and prevocational training The classes are available both to clients and to those students from the School for the Deaf who are 18 years of age or over and who have less than an eighth grade academic achievement level Specific related subject courses of study are being developed along be havioral objective lines to enable the Center to more efficiently train unedu cated deaf persons Two private residences one for men and one for women have been set up within the community of Cave Spring so that clients coming from throughout the state are afforded a casual homelike atmosphere while receiving their evalua tion or training The Center in cooperation with the Georgia School for the Deaf and the Geor gia Association of the Deaf is taking steps to establish a registry for the deaf because the proper identification and registration of all deaf persons within the state would greatly facilitate the services and create a better understand ing of the needs and requirements of those who are deaf or hard of hearing Through the establishment of the regis try the Division of Vocational Rehabili tation will be able to offer a more com plete and comprehensive program of ser vices to more Georgians with hearing deficiencies than ever before During the 196566 fiscal year 259 clients received services Of these 70 are gainfully employed 133 are in ac ademic training 25 are receiving vo cational training 3 are attending col lege and 28 are currently receiving services at the Center TOP LEFT Counselor Tom Lawrie discusses the importance of job interviews with Miss Hazel Nickerson prior to a job interview TOP CENTER Larry Singleton Instructor Evaluator Russell Royston and William Holman are sanding and priming an automobile BOTTOM LEFT William Holman and Instructor Evaluator Russell Royston are discussing various ways of removing a bumper from a wrecked automobile BOTTOM CENTER Chief Evaluator James L Perry is instructing Arnold Price in the proper use of a crimping tool in sheet metal work Malcom Boland background is working on the me chanical assembly bench RIGHT Instructor Jack Mount assists Arnold Price in an upholstering assignment Clarence Walker foreground is shown doing machine work for one of his upholstering projects Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 275 State Office Annex Atlanta Georgia 30334 Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 0 of G 2 o r Athens aa 30601 ABILITY COUNTS Georgia Rehabilitation Center Alumni LE T Sue Hunter 22 was stricken with Polio myelitis in 1951 affecting both legs After graduation from Hiram High School Sue went to GRC for a years evaluation therapy and training Sue is now a secretary at the Atlanta Employment Evaluation and Service Center and says she enjoys working with a program that contributes to the rehabilitation of other disabled individu als Sue is shown with J D Paulk Associate Program Director Employment Training and Personnel Division RIGHT Pat Groover 22 has broken the bones in her lower limbs 18 times and has had 18 operations She will never walk again She suffers from osteogenisimperfecta or brittle bones Pat has broken a bone by just rolling over in bed Pat is now secretary to Mrs Marilyn Taylor below Assistant to the Chair man Dept of Physical Medicine Grady Memorial Hospital Emory University Rehabilitation Research Training Cen ter w Georgia Mental Health Institute VR Story pages 67 Constitutional Amendment affects Georgia VR Program page 5PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION NURSING AREA OPENED AT GRADY The ribbon was cut officially opening Gradys Physical Medicine and Rehabi litation Nursing Area on Thursday Sep tember 29 1966 Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Education in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation services stated during the ribbon cutting cere mony I am happy to be present at the opening of this area and look forward to my hospital counseling staffs active participation in implementing the reha bilitative goals inherent in this undertak ing Another milestone in the treatment of the severely physically disabled in the Metropolitan Atlanta area has been passed due to the services available now at Grady It is very satisfying to see a great Medical School like that of Emory University and an outstanding general hospital such as Grady Memorial combine forces through joint federal and state vocational rehabilitation agency sponsor ship in the establishment of a major rehabilitation center such as this With its multiphasic resources both medical and rehabilitative this center will illu strate the true elements of the team approach in the treatment of the severe ly disabled It is realized while this is primarily a service area by its nature it will en courage evaluation studies and certainly stimulate teaching and research in the medical vocational and other compre hensive care components of a program oriented to the return of the physically impaired to independent living Top panel left to right at ribbon cutting ceremony Dr Bernard L Hallman Associate Dean of Medi cine Emory University and Di rector of Professional Services Grady Memorial Hospital Dr Mieczyslaw Peszcynski Chief of Physical Medicine Services Grady J W Pinkston Jr Superintend ent Grady Dr A P Jarrell As sistant State School Superintend ent in charge of Vocational Reha bilitation Services Shelton Mc L e 11 a n d Associate Regional Representative Vocational Reha bilitation Administration Atlanta Second panel left clients partici pating in physical therapy second panel right clients practice walk ing with the aid of parallel bars as nurse watches Third panel Zack Tatum Coordinator Vocational Rehabili tation Services Grady signs the register as hostess Shirley Borders looks on approvingly Bottom panel shows a group of clients receiving physical therapy from the staff at the new Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Nurs ing areaHANDICAPPED MAN WOMAN EMPLOYER OF THE YEAR NAMED IN METRO ATLANTA The Metropolitan Atlanta Committee on Employment of the Handicapped has named the outstanding Handicapped Woman and Man of the Year and Em ployer of the Year Marjorie Kendall Douglas employee of the Citizens and Southern Bank of Atlanta was named as Outstanding Handicapped Woman of the Year Kendall was paralyzed from her neck down as a result of an automobile accident when she was a Freshman at Emory University in 1956 Much has happened to Kendall since her accident and present job at the bank She spent three months at Emory University and six months at Warm Springs receiving physical therapy treat ments then vocational rehabilitation con tacted Kendall and furnished her tuition to return to Emory and complete her college education In the Fall of 1961 she went back to school full time and lived in the college dormitory A maid helped her in the morning in getting her off to class on time and the boys from her classes would meet her and carry her upstairs and downstairs if she had to change floors between classes Her vocational reha bilitation counselor furnished her guidance and counseling and placement in her job at the Mitchell Street branch of the C S Bank One of Kendalls favorite activities is singing in the Grace Methodist choir She also helps transcribe music for the Bell Choir She drives her own car to and from work and got her first ticket just a few short weeks ago The handicapped man of the Year is Leland Meeks who was stricken with polio at the age of three and paralyzed in both legs Leland is married and makes his home with his wife and stepdaughter in Austell Georgia Always interested in physical activities Leland plays all positions on the Physi cal Wrecks basketball team and also bowls in league competition Leland was a senior in high school when a vocational rehabilitation counselor contacted him VR payed Lelands tuition to Brewton Parker college at Mt Vernon Georgia He wanted to farm and quit college after two years to find out if this should be his vocation He was able to drive a tractor and plow but he couldnt lift and carry heavy sacks and bales He realized he couldnt be a farmer Again with the help of vocational rehabilitation Leland received aptitude tests and then moved to Atlanta to attend Southern Business University taking Junior Ac counting as well as typing and short hand One year later when he completed his courses his VR counselor helped him find his first job During the next 10 years he worked in three different office jobs moving to better positions as they became available He has been employeed now at Dance Freight Lines in Atlanta for seven years The International Optical Company of Forrest Park was named Outstanding Employer of the Year due to their hiring practices of hiring employees on their knowledge skills and abilities to do a job rather than their disability John Payne Division Manager of the Company says In an economy such as ours where qualified personnel are at a premium a In top left picture above James P Cotton Assistant Operations Officer Citizens Southern Na tional Bank is checking a point with Miss Douglas Mr Cotton stated Kendall is an asset to our department Not only is she filling a key job in our Account Analysis Division but also her smile wit and general personality is invalu able as a morale booster We are all extremely proud of the honor that has been awarded Kendall and are in complete agreement In top panel right Leland Meeks is shown at his job as an interline clerk in charge of prorating ship ping rates on single shipments of rates carried by several different truck lines In center panel Leland is shown in the basketball uniform of the At lanta Wheelchair Basketball Team Leland is also a member of an At lanta group called the Physical Wrecks In bottom panel Kendall Douglas is shown getting into her car prior to driving home from work She needs a little assistance in getting in and out but can handle a car as well as anyone company cannot consider a persons phy sical handicap if he has the ability to do the job He stated that he has found that handicapped persons are very cap able on the job and that one person in his firm is in a managerial position and others are supervisory personnel Its just difficult for me to consider these people as handicapped he said If a person is doing the job he is not handi capped as far as I am concerned The International Optical Companys office in Forrest Park was opened in 1964 and today employs 60 persons Of this number approximately 20 are physically handicapped Recipients of the Handicapped Man of the Year Woman of the Year and Em ployer of the Year awards will receive their citations during the Annual Georgia Rehabilitation Association Meeting Fri day December 2 The Georgia Vocational REHABILITATION NEWS Maconite Wins State Award Vol 15 NovSpecial Edition Published by the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation State Department of Education Atlanta Jack P Nix State Superintendent of Schools Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State Superintendent of Schools in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services State Office Annex albany district Albany415 Pine Ave Bldg 4360347 Americus104 E Forsyth Phone 9246138 Bainbridge218 S West St Phone CH 64274 Thomasville518 N Broad St Phone CA 62587 Valdosta305 University Dr Phone CH 26820 Waycross706 Jane St Phone AT 30788 ATLANTA DISTRICT Atlanta 1430 W Peachtree St NW Phone 8759941 AtlantaGrady Hospital 5234711 Atlanta 1256 Briarcliff Rd NE 8735341 DECATUR DISTRICT ADCVR OFFICE Atlanta 165 Central Ave SW 6886525 Decatur Room 255 New First National Bank Bldg 3783671 Carrollton116 Rome Street 8328204 East Point 1777 West Washington Ave Room 108 7664711 Marietta Professional Arts Building 644 Cherokee St NE 4276521 Newnan44 Jefferson St Phone AL 32408 GAINESVILLE DISTRICT Gainesville311 Green St LEnox 61311 Athens901 CS Bank Bldg Phone 5491241 Cave Spring7773319 ClarkesvilleNorth Georgia Trade and Vocational School Phone 7542922 Dalton132 W Gordon 2261322 Rome1102 Avenue C Phone 2346259 MACON DISTRICT Macon707 Pine StSuite 1 Phone SH 27321 Columbus307 Fifteenth St Phone FAirfax 26755 Dublin107 N Franklin St Phone 2726700 Milledgeville Milledgeville Banking Co Bldg Phone GL 28691 SAVANNAH DISTRICT Savannah35 Abercorn Street Phone AD 46666 Augusta828 15th St Phone 7240381 Brunswick 2001 Gloucester St Suite 5 Phone AM 56541 Governor Carl Sanders awards Mrs Thelma Van Norte Administra tive Aide to the District Director of Public Health for the Bibb County area in the Medicare Program a citation for her outstand ing efforts made in hiring the handicapped Mrs Thelma Van Norte Administrative Aide to the District Director of Public Health for the Bibb County area in the medicare program was named as recipient of Georgias Public Personnel Award for her hiring and employment practices by the Governors Committee on Employment of the Handicapped The award is presented each year to an employee of an office or of a public agency who has earned public recognition for outstanding contributions in facilitating employment of the handicapped The presentation was made during National Employ the Handi capped Week in an effort to make employers more aware of the contributions that handicapped individuals can make as employees Mrs Van Norte was nominated for the award by the Macon office of the Department of Labor and received endorsements from the Macon office of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation In making the presentation Governor Sanders said that Mrs Van Norte in her hiring practices truly emulates the policy that all employers throughout the state should utilize in filling positions that of hiring an individual to do a job because of his skills knowledge and ability rather than his physical condition or handicap He said that if more employers would become aware of the attributes of the handicapped and would give them an opportunity to prove themselves we would all benefit the handicapped the employer and the state Mrs Van Norte is being considered by the Presidents Committee on Employment of the Handicapped as one of the finalists in the National Public Personnel AwardCONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT XIII ON NOVEMBER 8 BALLOT Georgians will have an opportunity on November 8 to change the Constitution so as to afford more of the states handi capped citizens an opportunity to return to useful lives Over the years the Georgia program of vocational rehabili tation has had to use all matching funds furnished by communities throughout the state on a statewide basis instead of having the opportunity of returning and spending these funds back in the com munity from which they came At the present time Georgia is one of the last states to rectify this situation by passing a constitutional amendment that will remove the statewide requirement use of funds that are furnished by com munities for matching purposes The 1965 vocational rehabilitation act amend ments have paved the way for many im provements in vocational rehabilitation One of the most important is allowing states to use funds in the community where these communities have furnished the states matching portion necessary to receive Federal funds Section I of the new resolution to amend the new constiution simply adds the following paragraph to that Section of the Constitution of Georgia relating to the financing taxation and public debt of the state as it pertains and reads as follows Notwithstanding any other provision of this Constitution whenever the State Board of Vocational Education may be entitled to receive Federal funds made available under the Vocational Rehabili tation Act 29 United States Code Chap ter 4 or any amendment thereto said Board shall be authorized to receive and administer such funds in accordance with the terms of the grant and where the grant so provides may disburse said funds to nonprofit corporations or as sociations which are engaged solely in the vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons provided however that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to authorize the expenditure of any State funds until the same shall have been appropriated by the General As sembly The ballot submitting the above pro posed amendment shall have written or printed thereon the following YES Shall the Constitution be amended so as to authorize the State Board of Voca tional Education to accept and dispense Federal funds in accordance with the terms of the grant of such NO funds including disburse ment thereof to nonprofit corporations or a s s o c i a tions engaged solely in vocational rehabilit a t i o n work Grady Eye Clinic Unveils New Equipment The Eye Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital has begun using one of its first automatically powered composite ophthalmic examining units This new equipment will play an integral part in the Eye Clinics new Visually Handicapped Project sponsored through Feder al funds under the supervision of the Georgia Division of Vocational Rehabilitation i The composite unit will allow the examining physician to carry out a full range of tests without moving the patient from one station to another as has been the case in the past Grady Memorial Hospital will now have a full complement of these units for use by its Eye Resident Staff with the units all centered in one small examining area This will increase immeasurably the teaching potential of the Ophthalmology Department in preparing young doctors for a more instructive and competent practice in their chosen specialty Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State School Superintendent in charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services stated these new examining units now being put to use at the Grady Eye Clinic will save many Georgians the loss of their vision and will help many others to use what vision they have more effectively Pictured above looking over one of the new automatically powered composite ophthalmic examining units at the Eye Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital are from left to right Dr Froncie Gutman Director Grady Eye Clinic Dr A P Jarrell Assistant State School Superintendent in Charge of Vocational Rehabilitation Services and Dr Hal H Craswell Jr Chief Resident Grady Eye Clinic The new equipment will greatly enhance the current program being conducted at the Eye ClinicVR Program At Georgia Mental Health Institute The Georgia Division of Vocational Re habilitation is operating a rehabilitation section at the Georgia Mental Health Institute that is threefold in its ap proach The section is designed to provide regular vocational rehabilitation services to the patients of the Institute to offer orientation and training and to conduct research Currently five professional VR staff members and three clerical staff work in the vocational rehabilitation section Plans in the near future are to enlarge the staff to 14 professional staff as the Institute develops At the present time the Institute is furnishing services to onethird of the patients it will even tually serve when it is in full operation Admittance to the Georgia Mental Health Institute is on a voluntary basis and all perspective patients are inter viewed individually by members of an interdisciplinary team The team then meets to decide if the patient can benefit from treatment and services offered at the Institute The team that initially in terviews the prospective patient becomes responsible for the treatment of the patient throughout his stay After the patient is admitted the various discip lines begin their services A client re ceives vocationally oriented testing In top panel shown during staff conference are from left to right Mack Spruell Vocational Reha bilitation Counselor Mrs Mary Fanning Psychiatric Aide Mrs Thelma Hardeman Senior Staff Nurse Rev Chuck Bancroft Chaplain Intern Dr E M Rascoe Staff Psychiatrist Miss Carolyn Lindsey Social Worker Assistant and Mrs Bonnie Womack Staff Nurse In second panel left client discus ses problem with Chaplain In second panel right client talks to Social Worker Assistant In third panel client discusses problems with Psychiatrist In bottom panel client talks with vocational rehabilitation counselor about future vocational opport unitiesdivided into four phases He receives psychometric tests to determine aptitudes and abilities simple hand tool testing mechanized testing and work adjust ment Usually in the work adjustment phase the client is assigned to one of the jobs on campus and may be placed as a telephone operator kitchen worker storekeeper laundry worker mail room library or work in the clerical or labora tory areas Each day the patientclient is in the institute the team of specialists discuss his case Staff members have regular rounds established and conferences are held daily to review previous steps and to plan future ones Patientclients are placed on outside jobs only after disciplinary teams have discussed all information concerning the clients individual case In addition to other regular vocational rehabilitation services provided to the patients VR section serves as a training group for the other disciplines working in the area of mental health One of the basic goals of the Georgia Mental Health Institute is to supply Georgia with a competent staff of mental health professionals to staff the other state treatment facilities for the mentally ill Vocational rehabilitation plays a large part in this training The section also trains vocational rehabilitation personnel so as to give them greater insight into the problems of the emotionally ill Internships for counselors studying for a Masters Degree are available and the VR section can train six Masters Degree candidates at one time Research in the vocational rehabilitation section is now on the formative stages and two projects are currently being considered One proj ect would deal with the best methods in training mental health personnel and the second is designed to show the best possible methods to evaluate the emotion ally ill adolescent for vocational reha bilitation services Top panel vocational rehabilitation staff at the Institute hold a con ference to plan and discuss activi ties Second panel left evaluator works with client on machine tools as part of evaluation Second panel right VR counselor watches client as he uses hand tools in part of his evaluation Third panel Psychiatric Aide talks to client about progress being made Bottom panel Senior Staff Nurse talks with client about progress being made and her medicine con trol Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Georgia Department of Education 257 State Office Annex Atlanta 3 Georgia Bulk Rate US POSTAGE PAID Atlanta Ga Permit No 935 UniVerSiI 30001 ABILITY COUNTS CONFERENCE HELD ON EMPLOYMENT OF THE HANDICAPPED Myrah C Bright Regional Veterans Federal Employment Representative United States Civil Service Commission is pictured above as he opened the At lanta Region Conference on Employment of the Handicapped The Goal of the Con ference was the Total Utilization of all Human Resources and the objective was to provide management and personnel staff officials concerned with effective manpower utilization an opportunity to better understand applicants and em ployees with physical emotional and mental handicaps and to improve utiliza tion of this source of manpower in pro ductive employment Pictured above during their part on the program of the Atlanta Region Conference on Employment of the Handicapped are from left to right James Douglas Assistant Regional Representative Voca tional Rehabilitation Administration Department of Health Educa tion and Welfare Atlanta William A Crump Supervisor Program for the Mentally Retarded Division of Vocational Rehabilitation At lanta Wallace C Petty Supervisor Program for the Emotionally 111 Milledgeville Allen Ault Assistant program Supervisor for the Mentally Retarded9 v 1 D1Kf C7 H 1