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Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis (May 30, 1886 – September 8, 1946) was an American dog breeder and philanthropist, who founded The Seeing Eye, the first dog guide school for the blind in the United States. [1] She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 2011. [2]
Dorothy Leib Harrison Wood Eustis was an American philanthropist and dog breeder whose work with German shepherds led her to establish and endow The Seeing Eye, Inc., and other groups for the training of guide dogs and their blind owners.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jul 1, 2003 · In October 1931, Mrs. Eustis acquired for The Seeing Eye a large country property 3 miles from Morristown in an adjacent village of Whippany. In 1932, The Seeing Eye moved into its first substantial headquarters and prepared to provide dogs for 22 blind men and women (Fig. 7).
- Gerald A. Fishman
- 2003
In 1927, a young man named Morris Frank read an article about dogs being trained as guides for blinded veterans of World War I. Frustrated by his own lack of mobility as a blind person, he was inspired to ask for help from the article’s author: Dorothy Harrison Eustis.
Mrs. Eustis has found that most of the blind need a “mental housecleaning” before anything else. The eight members of each month’s class at “The Seeing Eye,” are first “built up”...
Apr 14, 2016 · In 1927, this article about dogs being trained in Germany to help blind veterans of World War I led to a new independence for thousands of visually impaired Americans. Jeff Nilsson, Andy Hollandbeck and Dorothy Harrison Eustis. Shutterstock.
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The article, titled "The Seeing Eye", was Eustis's first-hand account about a school in Germany where blinded World War I veterans were being trained to work with guide dogs. Frank was one of many people who wrote to her asking where he could get such a dog.
