The Maryland State School for the Deaf was established in 1868.
The Governor appoints the members of the Board of Visitors for an
indefinite term. All scholarships are free to deaf children of the
State. The average enrollment over the past ten years has been 165.
The aim of the school is to make deaf children self-supporting mem-
bers of society. Academic courses extend to the equivalent of junior
high school in addition to vocational training for boys and for girls.
Speech and lip reading, aided by the use of multiple hearing aids, are
taught to all. Audiometric tests are made periodically.

Expenditures, 1950 $186,876.00
Appropriation, 1951 196,378.00
Staff: 57.

MARYLAND WORKSHOP FOB THE BLIND
Chairman and Counsel; John G. Schilpp, 1953.

Frederick A. Dolfield, Treasurer, 1953; Charles M. See,
1953; James A. White, 1953.

Associate Members: Francis M. Andrews, C. Warren Bledsoe.
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 (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, 1950 $53,000.00
Appropriation, 1951 61,777.00
Staff: 100.

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

The Board of Regents and State Board of Agriculture

Chairman: William P. Cole, Jr., 1958

Stanford Z. Rothschild, 1952; J. Milton Patterson, 1953;
E. Paul Knotts, 1954; Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, 1956; Charles
P. McCormick, 1957; Harry A. Nuttle, 1957; Edward F.
Holter, 1959; Philip C. Turner, 1959; B. Herbert Brown, Jr.,
1960; Arthur O. Lovejoy, 1960.