Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1952-01-01 (creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
Chairman's Notes including reports of retirement of three members of staff: Miss Marshall, who joined in 1915 and was an assistant in the Appeals Department and then its second-in-charge with responsibility for the Carol League, appeals by correspondence and the organisation of lectures, and also acted as secretary of the Appeals Committee; George White, who joined in 1919 and was head of the Basket department and worked in the After-care department; and Mr F.H.Edwards who also joined in 1919 and was a Poultry Visitor, part of the After-care department. Also report on the 'Lights Out' film about 'the American St Dunstan's', the United States Army Hospital, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (pp.1-2)
Report on war pensions concessions (p.4)
Letter regarding members and other blind visiting the Festival of Britain (p.5)
Letters regarding artificial aids, the Braille version of the Review, and the Braille Radio Times (pp.7-8)
Poem 'For James Bewick' by member Syd Scroggie, written to mark the birth of his son (p.8)
Piece by member John Mudge on his visit to the Information Room at Scotland Yard (p.9)
Report from Ovingdean of a visit from Miss Koula Kanelli from Greece who was studying methods of teaching blind people in this country prior to becoming a teacher at the School for the Blind in Salonika (p.11)