Independent Vision: Dorothy Harrison Eustis and the story of The Seeing Eye

Independent Vision: Dorothy Harrison Eustis and the story of The Seeing Eye

by Miriam Ascarelli
Independent Vision: Dorothy Harrison Eustis and the story of The Seeing Eye

Independent Vision: Dorothy Harrison Eustis and the story of The Seeing Eye

by Miriam Ascarelli

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Overview

Mention the words "Seeing Eye," and most people will associate them with guide dogs for the blind and partially sighted. Mention the name "Dorothy Harrison Eustis," and most people will not recognize it, even though she is the woman responsible for founding The Seeing Eye, the first guide dog school in the United States. Since its inception eighty years ago, The Seeing Eye has trained thousands of people who are visually impaired to use guide dogs. The success of the program has spawned guide dog schools across the country and around the world, and the concept has been further expanded to include service dogs for people with other kinds of disabilities. Drawing on correspondence, private papers, and newspaper accounts of the day, Miriam Ascarelli chronicles the life of Dorothy Harrison Eustis revealing both a driven woman and a very private person who shunned media coverage of herself but actively courted it for her organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781557535634
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Publication date: 08/15/2010
Series: New Directions in the Human-Animal Bond
Pages: 124
Sales rank: 979,269
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Miriam Ascarelli is a lecturer in the Humanities Department at New Jersey Institute of Technology. She worked for many years as a journalist at various newspapers in New Jersey and in the Midwest. Her freelance work has appeared in the New York Times, New Jersey Monthly, and on FSB.com, the Web site for Fortune Small Business.

Table of Contents

Photo list vii

Acknowledgments xi

Preface xiii

Chapter 1 Fancy Homes and Foxhunting 01

Chapter 2 Married Life 13

Chapter 3 A Second Marriage 21

Chapter 4 A Fortunate Experiment 27

Chapter 5 Paw Prints 33

Chapter 6 Envisioning the Future 39

Chapter 7 Assembling the Team 49

Chapter 8 Dear Students, Your Dog Will Protect You 55

Chapter 9 A Second Venture: L'Oeil Qui Voit, the Swiss Seeing Eye 63

Chapter 10 "Hell, I was the first Hippie!": The Rise and Fall of Adelaide Clifford 71

Chapter 11 Swimming against the Tide: Bold Moves in a Time of a Depression 79

Chapter 12 Lessons from Her Father 85

Chapter 13 The Tea Party Strategy: How Public Access was Achieved 93

Chapter 14 Dorothy and Her Boys 99

Chapter 15 A Family Tragedy: Harrison's Death 105

Chapter 16 The Curtain Closes 109

Afterword 115

Index 119

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