MARYLAND MANUAL 591

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 (Acts 1867, ch. 247; 1868, ch. 409; 1880, ch. 19).
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 members 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. The use of individual hearing aids is encouraged, and audio-
metric tests are made periodically and form a permanent file.

MARYLAND WORKSHOP FOR THE BLIND

Chairman and Counsel: John G. Schilpp, 1955
Frederick A. Dolfield, Treasurer, 1955; Charles M. See,
1955; Henry P. Irr, 1955.

Associate Members: Francis M. Andrews, C. Warren
Bledsoe.

William S. Ratchford, Secretary and Superintendent

601 N. Fulton Avenue, Baltimore 17 Telephone: Gilmor 5-4566

The Maryland Workshop for the Blind is a State Institution, incor-
porated in 1908. Control is vested in a Board of five Trustees, three
of whom are appointed by the Governor, 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 departments—
Industrial, which manufactures medical items, textile materials,
brooms, mops and also 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 build-
ings 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
(Code 1951, Art. 30, sees. 6-8, 10, 11).

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND

AND
STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE

The Board of Regents and State Board of Agriculture

Chairman: William P. Cole, Jr., 1958

E. Paul Knotts, 1954; Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, 1956;
Charles P. McCormick, 1957; Harry H. Nuttle, 1957; Edward

Appropriations	1953			1954
General Fund	$252,564			$249,345
Staff: 57.
Appropriations		1953	1954
General Fund		$58,004	$57,242