FRIENDS FOR LIFE
The story of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan has been well publicized through the play The Miracle Worker. Anne Sullivan was born half blind and lost her mother at an early age and ended up in the poor house. Then surgery restored her sight at the Perkins Institute for the Blind and she devoted herself to the care of the blind. As 19-month-old child Helen Keller lost both here hearing and her sight. Anne Sullivan became her teacher and taught her to spell by touching and spelling on her hands. Under her tutelage Helen Keller rose to renown. Teacher and pupil remained inseparable for forty-nine years. Time came when misfortune befell Anne Sullivan, who meanwhile had become Mrs. Macy — she became blind. And now, turn about, Helen Keller taught her how to overcome the lack of sight. She schooled her former teacher as devotedly as she herself had been schooled. Finally Helen Keller stood at the deathbed of…
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