News from the Hall of Fame
May 29, 2008
Two Giants to Enter the Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field in 2008
The Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field, founded in 2001, is housed at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in Louis-ville, Kentucky. The Hall, which belongs to the entire field of blindness, is dedicated to preserving the tradition of excellence manifested by specific individuals through the history of outstanding services provided to people who are blind or visually impaired in North America. The Hall is guided by a nine member Advisory Board.
To date, forty outstanding professionals who made significant contributions to the field of blindness in the recent and distant past have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Now joining those legends are two remarkable individuals who will be inducted on Friday evening, October 3, at a ceremony that will be held in conjunction with APH's Annual Meeting of Ex Officio Trustees and Special Guests.
The Class of 2008:
- Sally Mangold, Ph.D.
Sally Mangold served as a Resource Room teacher for students with visual impairments for 18 years. She followed that important role with that of Professor at San Francisco State University for another 18 years. Sally was a passionate proponent and champion of braille literacy throughout her career. She was a pioneer in the institution of the Distance Education Program at SFSU. She and husband Phil founded Exceptional Teaching Aids, a company promoting and selling products for visually impaired clients and teachers. Among her many achievements was the creation of the Mangold Developmental Program of Tactile Perception and Braille Letter Recognition, hailed as a landmark program for braille instruction.
According to AFB President Carl Augusto, "Sally Mangold's writings, technol-ogical breakthroughs, and teachings have not only enabled children and adults who are blind or visually impaired to learn braille, but also have raised awareness to the critical importance of braille literacy."
Among her awards and honors were the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) Josephine L. Taylor Leadership Award, the California Transcribers (CTEVH) Fred L. Sinclair Award, the Holbrook-Humphries Literacy Award, the American Foundation for the Blind Migel Medal, and the American Printing House for the Blind Creative Use of Braille Award.
- Richard L. Welsh, Ph.D.
During his illustrious career, Rick Welsh has served as an orientation and mobility specialist, a college instructor and professor, a counselor, a coordinator of rehabilitation services, and an agency administrator, most notably as President of both the Maryland School for the Blind and Pittsburgh Vision Services.
Two of Dr. Welsh's many significant contributions include co-editing the first and second editions of the primary textbook used by programs educating orientation and mobility specialists, Foundations in Orientation and Mobility, and providing the leadership in the consolidation of two prior, long-standing professional associations to form the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) in 1984. He then served as the first elected President of the organization.
Frances Mary D'Andrea observes, "Rick has that rare ability to take the long view, and with remarkable foresight to forge a vision of what could be--and then work hard to make it a reality."
Among his honors and awards are the inaugural D.C./Maryland AER Chapter Service Award, established in his honor, the American Foundation for the Blind Migel Medal, the American Association for Blind Workers C. Warren Bledsoe Award, and the AER Ambrose M. Shotwell Award.
Soon there will be additional information regarding the 2008 Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on the APH website, www.aph.org.
Visit the Hall of Fame website at http://www.aph.org/hall_fame/index.html for information on the Hall and those inducted.
The entire historic 2002 Induction Ceremony is now available for viewing.
Virtual Tour of the Hall of Fame Now Online
The 2007 Induction Ceremony is available for viewing
New Video on Biography Pages
To view historic footage of meetings, dedications, and interviews with Georgie Lee Abel, Kathern Gruber, Berthold Lowenfeld, and Josephine Taylor, visit their Hall of Fame biography pages. The Hall gratefully acknowledges Dr. Phil Hatlen for providing these amazing videos.
New Video on the Website: AER/Hall of Fame Connections
This eight-minute Hall of Fame Video was produced for a general session of the 2006 AER International Conference in Utah. The video highlights the various AER connections with the Hall of Fame, including many of the engraved stones that appear on the Wall of Tribute.
Due to the popular demand after that viewing, DVDs of the presentation were sent to all AER chapters, divisions, and International officers. Now we have made the video available here on our website. Please feel free to share this video with any person or group who might be interested in AER and the Hall of Fame.
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May 21, 2007
Two Giants to Enter the Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field in 2007 Induction
The Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field, founded in 2001, is housed at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in Louisville, Kentucky. The Hall, which belongs to the entire field of blindness, is dedicated to preserving the tradition of excellence manifested by specific individuals through the history of outstanding services provided to people who are blind or visually impaired in North America. The Hall is guided by a nine member Advisory Board.
To date, thirty-eight outstanding professionals who made significant contributions to the field of blindness in the recent and distant past have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Now joining those legends is the Class of 2007, made up of two remarkable individuals who will be inducted in October at a ceremony that will be held in conjunction with APH's 139th Annual Meeting of Ex Officio Trustees and Special Guests.
Come to the Induction Ceremony!
The Class of 2007:
- Charles F.F. Campbell (1876-1935)
Charles Campbell led the development of modern vocational rehabilitation for blind adults through the establishment of work stations that demonstrated to blind people and the public the many and varied jobs that could be done without sight. In 1907, he launched a journal which has become the Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, and he led the creation of the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) to continue the journal and to take on other projects of national significance. He then persuaded Helen Keller to dedicate her life to the support of AFB. "While I was still at Radcliffe College, his eloquent pleadings convinced my teacher and me that there was something we could do to better the condition of the adult blind." -- Helen Keller, 1936
"The modern conception of work for the adult blind throughout the entire country owes more to his inspirational, vivacious initiative than to any other single factor." -- C. W. Holmes 1936
- Everett "Butch" Hill (1943 - 1994)
Dr. Hill's significant contributions to our body of literature include his work in spatial positional concepts, preschool orientation and mobility, and the classic textbook: Orientation and Mobility Techniques: A Guide for the Practitioner, co-written with Purvis Ponder. For the last 14 years of his life he served as Professor at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University where his teaching and mentorship of O&M practitioners was legendary. As recognition to his competence in this area, he received the first Outstanding Teaching Award from Peabody in 1986. "In his all too short 28 years with us, he single-handedly accomplished what he set-out to do when he entered the field of O&M, which was to heighten the awareness and recognition of the field of O&M by creating a well defined base of research literature." -- George Zimmerman
"Through his early work on concept development with children who were congenitally blind, Dr. Hill helped to build the bridge between the approach to the systematic delivery of orientation and mobility training as it was developed for adventitiously blinded adults and O&M services for congenitally blind children." -- Rick Welsh
April 3, 2007
We've Decked the Hall with a New Website Design!
We're excited to launch our redesign of the virtual Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field.
The wealth of information on the Hall of Fame site has been reorganized for easier navigation. The site features:
- User-friendly, streamlined navigation
- Photos and bios of all 38 Hall of Fame inductees, including the new Class of 2006 inductees
- Additional photos of some inductees
- New photos of the Hall of Fame space, housed at APH
- New stones on the Wall of Tribute
- Information on how you can support the Hall of Fame
The Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field is a project of the entire field of vision and is housed at APH in Louisville, Kentucky. The Hall is dedicated to preserving, honoring, and promoting the tradition of excellence manifested by the specific individuals inducted into the Hall of Fame and through the history of outstanding services provided to people who are blind or visually impaired.
Hall of Fame: Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field is a project of the entire field of blindness. It is curated by the American Printing House for the Blind, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization.
©2007, American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.
