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78, UNFOLDING TALES In October of that same year the American Red Cross held its National Convention in Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Rider and I attended. We had a booth where we explained and demonstrated braille. We had as assistants some volunteer brailllists from the Chicago and St. Paul Red Cross Chapters; also a blind veteran, Barney Corcoran from "Evergreen" in Baltimore, Md. The meeting at Columbus stimulated the spread of Braille Transcribing and the organizing of many new groups in various Red Cross chapters. In the spring of 1922 I nearly had a nervous breakdown. I could not sleep and had no appetite. Friends said I should try a change and rest in Atlantic City, so Emma and I went there for a week. i did not like Atlantic city at all and was sick in bed most of the time I was there; nevertheless, I think it did me good and strengthened me for even more strenuous days ahead. By this time the work had so expanded that it was no longer possible for me to handle the correspondence and also the technical part of the work. in July 1922, Miss Violet M. Savage, a sighted secretary , was employed. This greatly relieved me for I could now dictate correspondence and that gave me more time for other things. During the next two or three years we added another stenographer, Miss Agnes Jones, and two blind assistants, Mr. B. L. Frisbie and Miss Catherine L. Grady. Mrs. Rider and I had worked out a correspondence course of ten lessons, designed especially for sighted volunteers. At first these were typed, then mimeographed and finally printed in a pamphlet entitled "Braille Transcribing -- A Manual" At the Annual Convention of the American Red Cross held in Washington D.C, in October 1922, there was a braille exhibit of books, apparatus and literature. The work was explained and demonstrations given by Washington and out of town transcribers. In the program of Volunteer Service, Miss Anna C. Koerper, a braillist of the District of Columbia Chapter, gave a short talk on braille, followed by discussion which was participated in by
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78, UNFOLDING TALES In October of that same year the American Red Cross held its National Convention in Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. Rider and I attended. We had a booth where we explained and demonstrated braille. We had as assistants some volunteer brailllists from the Chicago and St. Paul Red Cross Chapters; also a blind veteran, Barney Corcoran from "Evergreen" in Baltimore, Md. The meeting at Columbus stimulated the spread of Braille Transcribing and the organizing of many new groups in various Red Cross chapters. In the spring of 1922 I nearly had a nervous breakdown. I could not sleep and had no appetite. Friends said I should try a change and rest in Atlantic City, so Emma and I went there for a week. i did not like Atlantic city at all and was sick in bed most of the time I was there; nevertheless, I think it did me good and strengthened me for even more strenuous days ahead. By this time the work had so expanded that it was no longer possible for me to handle the correspondence and also the technical part of the work. in July 1922, Miss Violet M. Savage, a sighted secretary , was employed. This greatly relieved me for I could now dictate correspondence and that gave me more time for other things. During the next two or three years we added another stenographer, Miss Agnes Jones, and two blind assistants, Mr. B. L. Frisbie and Miss Catherine L. Grady. Mrs. Rider and I had worked out a correspondence course of ten lessons, designed especially for sighted volunteers. At first these were typed, then mimeographed and finally printed in a pamphlet entitled "Braille Transcribing -- A Manual" At the Annual Convention of the American Red Cross held in Washington D.C, in October 1922, there was a braille exhibit of books, apparatus and literature. The work was explained and demonstrations given by Washington and out of town transcribers. In the program of Volunteer Service, Miss Anna C. Koerper, a braillist of the District of Columbia Chapter, gave a short talk on braille, followed by discussion which was participated in by
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