Treasurer and Chairman of the Executive Committee:
Charles McC. Mathias

George R. Dennis, Jr.; D. John Markey; Bernard O.
Thomas, M.D.; Oscar E. Webb; Samuel Marvin Peach;
Wallace Williams; J. Norman Ager; Joseph H. Himes; Jo-
seph D. Baker, Jr.; Floyd J. Carter, D.C.; J. Tyson Lee;
Harry B. Shaw; J. Vincent Jamison, III; Clarence C. C.
Thomas; A. Gordon Boone; Richard L. Steiner; John K.
Shaw, Jr.; A. I. Ellin; C. Newton Kidd; Walter N. Kirk-
man; Wendell D. Allen; Charles H. Conley, Jr., M.D.; Allen
I. Green.
Lloyd A. Ambrosen, Superintendent

306 South Market Street, Frederick Telephone: Monument 8-6411

The Maryland School for the Deaf was established in 1868 as a
free public boarding school for deaf and hard-of-hearing children
who reside in the State. The Governor appoints the members of
the Board of Visitors for an indefinite term (Acts 1867, chap. 247;
1868, chap. 409; 1880, chap. 19; 1916, chap. 76; 1957, chap. 76 as
amended). The school offers an academic education similar to that
of public schools and in addition provides thorough instruction in
speech reading, speech, auditory training, and use of individual
hearing aids. It offers vocational training to boys in industrial arts,
painting, and woodworking and gives training in homemaking
courses to girls. Extra-curricular activities in athletics, scouts, so-
cial activities, and clubs are planned for all students. Vocational
rehabilitation services are available to all graduates who seek jobs
or higher education or training. The average enrollment is 150.

Appropriations 1957 1958

General Funds . $336,100 $365,003
Staff; 75, of which 26 are academic and vocational
teachers.

THE MARYLAND WORKSHOP FOR THE BLIND

Chairman: John G. Schilpp, 1959
Treasurer: William T. Shackelford, Jr., 1959

Murray T. Donoho, 1959; Henry P. Irr, 1959; Charles M. See, 1959
William S. Ratchford, Secretary and Superintendent
2901 Strickland Street, Baltimore 23 Telephone: Gilmor 5-4566

The Maryland Workshop for the Blind is a State institution in-
corporated in 1908. Control is vested in a board of five trustees;
throe 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 trains and employs adult blind citizens of Mary-
land. It operates through departments: Industrial, which manufac-
tures sterile wrappers and surgical drapes for use in hospital operat-
ing rooms, canes and repairs chairs, and makes mailing bags, corn
brooms, and mops; Home Service, which provides teaching for the
blind in their homes and aids them in their personal adjustment to
blindness; and the Vending Stand Department, which licenses, estab-
lishes, and operates vending stands in many of the public buildings
of the State. In addition, the Workshop is the distributing agency
of the Library of Congress for the U. S. Government-owned talking
book machines. It also provides white canes, without charge, to