MARYLAND MANUAL. 81
Jacob Rohrback .........................................................................Frederick
Frank L. Stoner......................................................................Frederick
Charles M. Conley, M. D......................................................Frederick
Bernard O. Thomas, M. D..........................................................Frederick
Marion T. Hargis....................................................................Snow Hill
M. Ernest Jenkins..................................................... .......Baltimore
Oscar E. Webb...........................................................................Baltimore
Vacancy.
Auditor and Principal, Ignatius Bjorlee, M. A.
Board consists of 30 members. Governor appoints to fill vacancies
only. No term. (Ch. 247, 1867, and Ch. 767, 1916.)
All scholarships are free to deaf children of the State.
Deaf Children are so educated as to become self-supporting elements
of society. Beaides the regular course of study, including high school
branches, every boy at graduation has become master of some trade,
such as Printing, Cabinet-making, Shoemaking, Tailoring etc., while
the girls will have completed a course in Domestic Science and House-
hold Arts.
In connection with speech and lip-reading, vocal exercises, with aid
of the piano, are given to encourage the speech habit, develop the vocal
organs and to aid in correct enunciation and pitch of voice.
Military training is given to all the boys. The school is strictly
nonsectarian. Enrollment, 160 pupils.
State Appropriation for the next two years is $63,250.00 for each
year.
Address all applications or other communications pertaining to the
school to ignatiua Bjorlee, M. A., Superintendent and Principal.
MARYLAND WORKSHOP FOR THE BLIND.
601 N. Fulton Avenue, Baltimore.
(All Terms Expire 1924.)
Name. Postoffice.
Sewell S. Watts...........................Md. School for Blind.................Baltimore
John G. Schilpp...........................Md. School for Blind..................Baltimore
Wm. T. Shackelford...................................................................Baltimore
Arthur G. Barrett.......................................................................Baltimore
George R. Bellows............... ....................................... .........................Baltimore
The Maryland Workshop for the Blind; located 601 N. Fulton Ave.,
Baltimore, was founded by an Act of the Legislature of 1908, Chapter
566.
it is governed by a Board of Directors, three members of which
are appointed by the Governor and two by the Board of Directors of
the Maryland School for the Blind.
The Board, under the law, is made a body corporate with power to .
employ a secretary and other necessary employees and fix their com-
pensation.
It has been e custom for the Board to elect a Superintendent and
the other employees, including a manager; teachers, janitor, etc., are
chosen by the Superintendent, with the approval of the Board of Di-
rectors.
Blind men and women are admitted to the workshop for training.
It has been customary to pay the men a handicap of $3.00 per week
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