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National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH) Founder Awarded Honorary Doctorate

Lorraine H. Marchi, Founder and CEO of the National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH), was recently awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) by the State University of New York. Dr. Alden N. Haffner, President of the State College of Optometry, nominated Marchi for her outstanding achievement in founding the only national health agency solely devoted to the śhard of seeing,” one of AmericaĂs most prevalent disabilities, second only to hearing impairment.

Although the honor came as a total surprise, Lorraine Marchi had often been taken for a doctor because of her extensive knowledge of vision and eye disease. She founded NAVH in San Francisco in 1954, largely as a result of what she learned from investigating resources for low vision elementary school children, who, like her visually impaired young son, had special reading needs.

In addition to supporting a free-by-mail 7,000 volume large print lending library throughout the United States, NAVH provides a host of large print educational materials“in English, Spanish and Russian“on vision related issues including eye disease, nutrition, and proper lighting, and delivers direct services to visually impaired people from its national offices at 22 West 21st Street. For more information, phone 212-889-3141, or visit the NAVH website at www.navh.org.#

 

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