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Aug 29, 2024 · In Morristown, New Jersey, near the Morristown Green, there’s a lifelike bronze statue of a man and his dog. This man is Morris Frank, the co-founder and first Vice President of The Seeing Eye. By his side is Buddy, a German Shepherd, recognizable by his assistance animal harness.
He traveled the United States and Canada to promote the use of guide dogs for people who are blind or visually impaired, as well as the right of people with guide dogs to access restaurants, hotels, transportation, and other places that are open to the general public.
Sep 13, 2023 · 9-11. On that fateful Tuesday, sales director Michael Hingson, blind since birth, arrived for work on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center’s Tower One. Hingson’s guide dog, Roselle, settled...
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May 1, 2024 · Morris Frank was a blind man who helped start the first school that trained seeing eye dogs. His dog Buddy is considered to be the first seeing eye dog in America.
Michael Hingson embraces his guide dog Roselle. Michael Hingson has been blind since birth due to a disease called retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). In his infancy, doctors suggested his parents send him to a home for the blind, where they could take better care of him.
Mar 8, 2015 · Thunder Dog is the riveting account of their escape from death. Hingson and co-writer Susy Flory, open the book with a history of the disease called retinopathy of prematurity that blinded thousands of premature babies in the 1940s and early 1950s.
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Sep 11, 2021 · NEW YORK — On September 11, 2001, Michael Hingson and his guide dog, Roselle, were on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Michael had been blind from birth. Roselle, a...
