MARYLAND MANUAL 66

MARYLAND WORKSHOP FOR THE BLIND

Chairman and Counsel: John G. Schilpp

Frederick A. Dolfield, Treasurer; William T. Shackelford,
Jr.; Charles M. See; C. Warren Bledsoe.

Associate Member: Francis M. Andrews
William S. Ratchford, Secretary and Superintendent
601 N. Fulton Avenue, Baltimore 17 Telephone: Gilmor 4566

The Maryland Workshop for the Blind is a State Institution, incor-
porated in 1908 (An. Code 1939, Art. 30, sec. 8). Control is vested
in a Board of five Trustees, three of whom are appointed by the Gov-
ernor, with Senate approval, and two are elected by the Board of
Directors of the Maryland School for the Blind.

The Workshop is conducted for the training and employment of
all adult blind citizens of Maryland. It operates through depart-
ments.Industrial, which manufactures medical items, textile ma-
terials, brooms, mops and also teaches chair caning; Home Service,
which provides training for the blind in their homes and aids them
in their personal adjustment to blindness; and the Vending Stand
Department which licenses and establishes vending stands in many
of the public buildings of the State.

In addition to these services, the Workshop is a distributing agent
for the U. S. Government owned talking book machines and provides
white canes, without charge, to blind persons.

Expenditures, 1949 ..................................................................$ 37,240.00

Appropriation, 1950 .................................................................. 53,000.00

Staff: 100.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

AND
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

The Board of Regents and State Board of Agriculture
Chairman: William P. Cole, Jr., 1958

Edward P. Holter, 1950; Stanford Z. Rothchild, 1952; J.
Milton Patterson, 1953; E. Paul Knotts, 1954; Peter Wood
Chichester, 1851; Harry A. Nuttle, 1957; Philip C. Turner,
1950; Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, 1956; Charles P. McCor-
mick, 1957; Millard E. Tydings, 1951.

' Officers of Administration

H. C. Byrd, LL.D., D.Sc., President and Chief Administra-
tive Officer

H. F. Cottennan, Ph.D., Dean of the Faculty

T. B. Symons, D.Agri., Dean of College of Agriculture; Di-
rector of Extension Service

Leon P. Smifh, Ph.D., Dean of College of Arts and Sciences

John T. Williams, Ed.D., President Maryland State College

Col. John C. Pitchford, U.S.A.F., Dean of College of Military
Science and Tactics

J. Freeman Pyle, Ph.D., Dean of College of Business and
Public Administration

Harold Benjamin, Ph.D., Dean of College of Education; Di-
rector of Summer School

S. S. Steinberg, B.E., C.E., Dean of College of Engineering
and Aeronautical Sciences

M. Marie Mount, M.A., Dean of College of Home Economics

Lester M. Fraley, Ph.D., Dean of College of Physical Edu-
cation, Recreation and Health