That was also true of Paul Sauerland. He had been a member of an organization
of blind men in NJ who believed that blind men should marry sighted women so
they would be properly cared for. Paul was a "good Catholic", by which I mean,
an extremely rigid Catholic. He married a partially sighted woman who had been
deen teaching, I think, and may also have attended the NY Institute for the
Blind, which is a whole story unto itself. She was attending social work
school. But she, too, was a "good Catholic" which meant that being a wife and
mother came first. She left graduate school and became Paul's helpmate and the
object of his scorn when she didn't perform properly. They had 6 children, one
of whom, unfortunately, was born deaf. Paul was unable to relate to him at all.
Anyway, someone who lived in their neighborhood, but who didn't know them, and
whom I met in another context years later, told me that Paul was known by the
children in the neighborhood as "that mean blind man". But Paul was good at his
job, politically liberal, and an active and helpful member of the Long Island
chapter of ACB. Mary was, and still is, at almost 90 years of age, very self
effacing. She has always sacrificed her comfort and her interests for her
husband and her children. She moved into the basement apartment of her house
and let her deaf son and his family live in her entire split level house when
they had no place to live because they were unable to pay rent to another one
of her sons for the apartment in his house. The deaf son has a deaf wife and 3
children, one of whom his deaf.
Miriam
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Ah yes! Don Nolde. It was Don Nolde whom I met and found rather aloof...or
sullen. Now I shall say a dozen Hail Nolan Crabb's and an act of condition,
and ask for forgiveness.
Speaking of blind guys bossing their wives around, a fellow I had great respect
for as an innovative genius, Manuel Urena, who also bossed his sighted wife,
Pat, like she were a naughty child. A bright woman in her own right. Still,
Pat took it from him. Over the passing years I found that I was struggling
with the two sides of Manuel, and his ugly side was beginning to overshadow his
intellectual side...maybe even impact it. I've often wondered what sort of
self image Pat must have had, in order to accept the constant put down and
disregard by a husband who would never be an equal partner.
Carl Jarvis
On 3/24/18, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Don Nolde was editor of Dialogue. I met him on some Evergreen trips.
He had a partially sighted wife whom he bossed around. They had a
summer home in Spearfish South Dakota and he eventually convinced the
branch of the U of South Dakota which was located there, to have a
summer session each year for blind people that was like Elderhostel
where you lived in the college dorms and attended classes given by
university professors. There were huge numbers of sighted volunteers
from the town, who helped out each day. It was quite a project. I
attended one year and learned all about western history and Indians
with trips to all sorts of places like the old fashioned western town,
can't remember its name, all set up for tourists. I didn't tour the
town, but spent that afternoon in the tavern. And then another year,
they did a trip to the national park near there. There was a history
professor who considered Harry Truman to be one of our greatest presidents.
Miriam
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Subject: [blind-democracy] Nolan Crabb, former editor of Braille Forum
Well, I did remember correctly the fact that Nolan Crabb was editor of
the Braille Forum in the past, before Penny R. But I think I still
confused him with some other blind person...they do all look alike, don't you
know?
Jan 6, 2013 - The Braille Forum Volume LI January 2013 No. 5.
Published by the American Council of the Blind. The American Council
of the Blind strives to ...... Former "Braille Forum" editor Nolan
Crabb received the American Council of the Blind of Ohio's Ambassador
Award at the ACBO convention on Oct.
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