TITLE

ICEC NOMINATES ELEANOR VANCE FOR THE PRESIDENT'S AWARD

PUB. DATE

March 1958

SOURCE

Exceptional Children;Mar1958, Vol. 24 Issue 7, p319

SOURCE TYPE

Academic Journal

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article reports on the President's Award received by Eleanor Graham Vance in Edinburg, Texas. The purpose of the award is to recognize significant contributions in behalf of the employment of handicapped persons. Vance, who contracted poliomyelitis as a child, is a homemaker, teacher, lecturer, poet and writer. She was a teacher of the physically handicapped and served as a research worker for colonial Williamsburg. She has also contributed to several magazines and the author of eight children books.

ACCESSION #

19733114

Tags: AWARDS;  VANCE, Eleanor Graham;  TEACHERS;  LECTURERS;  AUTHORS;  SOCIAL services;  PEOPLE with disabilities

 

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