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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]
Jan 1, 2024 · The title for her article would become synonymous with helping thousands of people worldwide— it was called “The Seeing Eye.” Not long after, a teenage blind Nashville resident Morris Frank convinced Dorothy to open her own school.
May 16, 2017 · Morris Frank was set on the path that would become his life’s mission: to get Seeing Eye Dogs accepted all over the country. Frank and Eustis established the first guide dog training school in the US in Nashville, on January 29, 1929.
Dec 6, 2010 · The author, Dorothy Harrison Eustis, described schools in Germany that trained guide dogs for veterans who had lost their vision during World War I. A wealthy American then living in Switzerland, Eustis operated a school that supplied dogs to that nation’s customs and police services, and to the Red Cross.
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.
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Apr 27, 2016 · In January 1929, Morris and Eustis cofounded the first guide dog school in the US called The Seeing Eye. It operated in Nashville for two years and then relocated to New Jersey because the weather was more suitable for training dogs.
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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 ).
