The Suffolk Bulletin
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- The Suffolk Bulletin
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On Tuesday this week in the glorious month of October, the gold medal of the Theodore Roosevelt award for great human achievement was to have been presented jointly to Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy, as a token of recognition to one who has never been able to appreciate the beauty of this or any other season, who has by superhuman effort managed to emerge from the utter darkness to a situation where the world is reality; and to the other, that sincere and quiet woman who has given her all as teacher, guide, and friend, with that full-measure of devotion which has no thought of self! The sad death of Mrs. Macy last week this impossible. Helen Keller alone could receive the award. And Helen Keller alone must go on, without that gentle guidance, which has for fifty years been the closest and dearest thing in her life. In her own words, "My teacher has gone from me a little while, but I shall feel her presence anew when my eyes are blessed with light, my ears have saved unto harmony and my imprisoned life set free." What a lesson for us of small courage there is in the life of Helen Keller! What a lesson in the life of Anne Sullivan Macy, who like her pupil fought the shadow of blindness from childhood! What shame we must feel, we who have gone through life magnifying our pin pricks into mortal wounds! Surely these two have exemplified the potentialities that lie buried with each individual being, and that too often are never brought into the light! In their meeting years ago, there was created a truly American epic of devotion and achievement. To Miss Keller, who fought seemingly unconquerable obstacles to free herself from her dark bondage, and to the one who dedicated her life to make that freedom possible, we bow in reverent praise.
- Name on Item:
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Evelyn Rowley, Suffolk Bulletin.
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1936
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Newspapers
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Clippings
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Perkins School for the Blind
Samuel P. Hayes Research Library - Collection (local):
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Condolence Letters and Clippings
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Blind
Perkins School for the Blind
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- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/b85164062
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Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
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Newspaper clipping from the Suffolk Bulletin, Huntington, New York on October 30, 1936. Headline: Anne Sullivan Macy and Helen Keller Stand Out As Lessons In Courage, by Evelyn Rowley.
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AG88-n-8
