The Conference of Jewish Women’s Organizations will observe March 27th as a Jewish Day devoted to the blind, according to plans outlined at a meeting held at the Y.M.H.A. Educational week for the blind will be observed under the direction of the Missouri Commission for the blind.
Mrs. Stanley Goldman, Mrs. Morris Hoffman and Mrs. Aaron Waldheim were elected chairmen of the day. Mrs. Mary Dranga Campbell, executive secretary of the commission, and Charles B. Hayes, field director for the American Foundation for the Blind, addressed the conference.
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