08/05/2007: "Lion's Club International Report #3"

The Lions Club has always worked to ease the hardships of the visually handicapped. Dr. Richard Kinney, who was himself deaf and blind...

The Lions Club has always worked to ease the hardships of the visually handicapped. Dr. Richard Kinney, who was himself deaf and blind, was the director of the Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka, Illinois. He was an amazing person. When he died in 1979, he had written four books of poetry, one textbook for the deaf blind, visited 40 foreign countries, published articles in many leading magazines, and he had received countless awards.

In 1975, at the third session of the international convention in Dallas, Dr. Richard Kinney gave a speech in which he said, “Lions, you are playing a tremendous role in attacking the most terrible blindness of all---the blindness of ignorance and prejudice that sets one man against another, one race against another, one nation against another…It was once said, ‘Live and let live’ but Lionism has raised this principle to that nobler “Live and help live."

Credit given to Paul Martin

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