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  Anne Sullivan Macy: White House Dream Team
Anne attended class with Helen and spelled-out the lectures for her.
Anne's teaching success and Helen's accomplishments gained national attention, including a visit to the White House to meet First Lady Grace Coolidge, who was a former teacher of deaf children.
Anne's own health declined, however, and by 1935 she was completely blind.
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 Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan Macy overcame a traumatic childhood to become a model for others who are disadvantaged by their physical disability, gender, or class.
Anne Sullivan was born in April 1866, in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, to poor Irish immigrant farmers.
Anne was stricken with trachoma* at the age of five, which left her nearly blind.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3692.html   (833 words)

  
 Anne Sullivan en Helen Keller
Het was voor de direkteur duidelijk dat Anne Sullivan, die kort daarvoor aan zijn instituut was afgestudeerd en al de nodige ervaring had opgedaan met de doof-blinde Laura Bridgman, de meest geschikte persoon was om Helen Keller te onderwijzen en hij vroeg haar naar Tuscumbia te vertrekken.
Anne, die zelf nog geen eenentwintig jaar oud was, besefte al snel wat de oorzaak was van Helen's woedeaanvallen.
Anne ontving in 1932 een eredoctoraat van Temple University wegens haar verdiensten voor het onderwijs aan kinderen met een handicap.
www.geocities.com /couprie/historie/sullivankeller   (3774 words)

  
 History's Women An Online Magazine
Anne was born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts to Thomas and Alice Cloesy Sullivan.
Anne had contracted trachoma at an early age and her sight continued to weaken throughout her youth.
Anne was embarrassed by the praise, but full of pride in her pupil.
www.historyswomen.com /moregreatwomen/AnneSullivan.html   (892 words)

  
 Perkins School for the Blind History Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Anne Sullivan was born in April 1866 in Feeding Hills, a village in western Massachusetts.
Anne and her younger brother Jimmie were sent to live in the “poor house” in Tewksbury.
Anne Sullivan’s recollections of her early years at Perkins were mainly of feeling humiliated about her own shortcomings.
www.perkins.org /museum/section.php?id=214   (1919 words)

  
 Anne Sullivan
Anne Sullivan was born in April 1866 in Feeding Hills.
Anne Sullivan was a teacher of the blind and deaf.
Anne was married to John A. Macy in 1905.
gischools.org /parkelane/mrsbiro/AmericanBiographies/anne_sullivan.htm   (116 words)

  
 anne
The second of Bell's visitors was a Sullivan too, a student at Harvard Law School, in his mid-twenties, a cautious young fellow with cornflower-blue eyes and a formal manner that shielded a temperament inclined toward sensitivity.
It seemed that Anne Sullivan was moved more by a desire for revenge than by charity and goodness, and in thinking back over what they had created in rescuing Anne Sullivan from her dismal past some Bostonians thought with irony that no good deed went unpunished.
Anne was a woman of formidable appetites, growing fat on her own rich cooking.
www.stanford.edu /~meehan/sullivan/anne3.html   (3462 words)

  
 Anne Sullivan Macy - Anne Sullivan Macy Biography
Anne was born on April 14, 1866 in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts.
Anne spent four years at Tewksbury, enduring the grief of her brother's death and the disappointment of two unsuccessful eye operations.
Anne was Helen's educator for thirteen years and, in 1900, accompanied her to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Helen was admitted to Radcliffe College.
www.afb.org /AnneSullivan/asmbiography.asp   (694 words)

  
 The life of Helen Keller
Anne Sullivan had lost the majority of her sight at the age of five.
Although Helen and Anne made a good living from their lectures, by 1918 the demand for Helen’s lectures had diminished and they were touring with a more light-hearted vaudeville show, which demonstrated Helen’s first understanding of the word “water”.
But with the help of Anne Sullivan, through her writings, lectures and the way she lived her life, she has shown millions of people that disability need not be the end of the world.
www.rnib.org.uk /xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_keller.hcsp   (3336 words)

  
 Anne Sullivan
Sullivan was challenged at a young age by a number of unfortunate events.
Anne Sullivan didn't go to school until she was fourteen years old.
Sullivan was a teacher of a deaf, blind child, Helen Keller.
www.northstar.k12.ak.us /schools/wlr/elp/wax_museum/2005/sullivan1.html   (633 words)

  
 Anne Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Anne Sullivan was born in April, 1866 to Thomas Sullivan and Anne Cloesy.
Anne was alongside Helen all through college at Radcliffe, and their dream was fulfilled when Helen graduated with honors in 1904.
Anne, for the first time since she was young, released her childhood tales of her family and Trewksbury.
pblmm.k12.ca.us /projects/discrimination/Women/special/anesulvn.html   (945 words)

  
 Anne Sullivan
Her two siblings were taken in by relatives and Anne lived with her father for a while.
When Anne was 14, she got the chance to go to the Perkins School for the Blind.
At Radcliff College, where Anne helped Helen earn her degree, a fountain was dedicated in 1960 in memory of Anne Sullivan.
www.learningfamily.net /reiser/2kf/faces/s/sullivan1.html   (294 words)

  
 "In Search of the Heroes": Tragedy to Triumph--Helen Keller
Soon thereafter, Anne learned she was to be sent to Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston, unable to read, unable to see clearly, with a scarred childhood, but with her ambition to succeed.
Anne's stay there was a process of softening--some would say taming--a highly intelligent young woman with a sharp questioning mind, but with an exceptionally strong will, a narrow point of view, and formative training from the school of hard and bitter experience.
Anne Sullivan was offered the position and her life then became entwined with that of Helen Keller.
www.graceproducts.com /keller/anne.html   (796 words)

  
 Annie Sullivan biography
Growing up, Anne was subject to poverty and physical abuse by her alcoholic father and at the age of five, trachoma struck Anne, leaving her almost blind.
Miss Sullivan had to begin her teaching with lessons in obedience, followed by teachings of the manual and Braille alphabets.
Eventually, Miss Sullivan's own eyesight failed her but toward the end of her life received recognition from Temple University, the Educational Institute of Scotland, and the Roosevelt Memorial foundation for her tireless teaching and commitment to Helen Keller.
www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/sull-ann.htm   (537 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Annie Mansfield Sullivan Macy
Sullivan was born on April 14, 1866, to a poor family.
Sullivan took a train to Tuscumbia, Alabama, where she met her new employers, the Kellers, and her new pupil, Helen.
Sullivan did start to receive recognition for her amazing instructional skills and, at long last (in 1993), a writer named Nella Braddy published a biography about her entitled, Anne Sullivan Macy: The Story Behind Helen Keller.
myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=a_sullivan   (1215 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Macy, Anne Sullivan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Macy, Anne Sullivan MACY, ANNE SULLIVAN [Macy, Anne Sullivan] 1866-1936, American educator, friend and teacher of Helen Keller, b.
Sullivan, Anne SULLIVAN, ANNE [Sullivan, Anne] see Macy, Anne Sullivan.
In 1887 she was put under the charge of Anne Sullivan (see Macy, Anne Sullivan), who was her teacher and companion until Sullivan's
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/07834.html   (376 words)

  
 Anne Sullivan
More famously known as "The Miracle Worker", Anne Sullivan was the lifelong teacher and companion to Helen Keller.
Anne Sullivan was the daughter of Irish immigrant farmers who had fled to the United States to escape the Irish Potato Famine.
Afflicted with trachoma, Anne had begun to lose her eyesight due to corneal scarring at age three, and was virtually blind by the age of five.
www.nndb.com /people/592/000108268   (451 words)

  
 Anne Sullivan Macy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Joanna Sullivan was born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, on April 14, 1866.
In March 1887, Anne moved to Tuscumbia, Alabama, to be Helen Keller's governess.
Sadly, through all her actions, Anne had overexerted herself and her strength, health, and sight declined.
www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/macy.html   (233 words)

  
 The Official Website of Flutist ANNE SULLIVAN
Anne Sullivan is a trademark (TM) and a servicemark (SM) used in international trade and commerce by Anne Sullivan.
The linked sites are not under the control of Anne Sullivan and Anne Sullivan does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such sites.
Anne Sullivan is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site.
www.annesullivanflute.com /copyright.htm   (323 words)

  
 Part III.
Miss Sullivan, who knows her pupil's mind, selects from the passing landscape essential elements, which give a certain clearness to Miss Keller's imagined view of an outer world that to our eyes is confused and overloaded with particulars.
Although Miss Sullivan is still rather amused than distressed when some one, even one of her friends, makes mistakes in published articles about her and Miss Keller, still she sees that Miss Keller's book should include all the information that the teacher could at present furnish.
For the ease of the reader I have, with Miss Sullivan's consent, made the extracts run together continuously and supplied words of connection and the resulting necessary changes in syntax, and Miss Sullivan has made slight changes in the phrasing of her reports and also of her letters, which were carelessly written.
digital.library.upenn.edu /women/keller/life/part-III.html   (23653 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Anne Mansfield Sullivan Macy
Sullivan's life changed for the better when she transferred to a school called Perkins Institute for the Blind.
Annie Sullivan is my hero because she overcame enormous obstacles only to help another person do the same.
Anne Sullivan Macy: Miracle Worker The American Foundation for the Blind has launched an online museum dedicated to Anne Sullivan's life and work in the field of education for the blind and visually impaired.
myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=a_sullivan2   (761 words)

  
 Macy, Anne Sullivan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
As Helen Keller’s teacher, Anne Sullivan pioneered in techniques of education for the handicapped.
She based her instruction on a system of touch teaching; rather than attempt to explain the properties of an object, she would allow her student to experience it directly.
During the early 1920s, Anne Macy and her former student helped to publicize the new American Foundation for the Blind (founded 1921) and lobbied for its program of increased opportunities for the sightless.
www.bartleby.com /65/ma/Macy-Ann.html   (248 words)

  
 Sullivan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The fighting spirit of the prince carried down many generations to scores of military fighting men and the world champion prize fighter John L. Sullivan in the late 19th century.
Elyse Sullivan, born in New Zealand on the 19th of June 1986.
Sullivan is a common but illustrious Irish surname that has been applied to a number of North American towns and counties.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sullivan   (681 words)

  
 ANNE SULLIVAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
A native of New York, Anne performed in Manhattan, Newark and Trenton before settling in the Chicago area.
In 1997 Anne moved to France, accepting a one-year teaching position at a college near Paris.
In 1998 and 1999, Anne recorded two solo CDs, "Ultraviolet Café," and "Mosaic Road," the first with guitarist Muriel Anderson and the second with pianist David Van Schouwen.
www.angelfire.com /il2/DVSmusic/anne.htm   (165 words)

  
 Anne Sullivan:Southern New Mexico Travel and Tourism Information
Anne Sullivan says her lifetime as a New Yorker and a stage manager for Broadway and touring musicals did little to prepare her for life in New Mexico.
Anne has been published in New Mexico Magazine, New Mexico Wild Life, Fibrearts, Rocky Mountain EMS and Serape.
Anne Sullivan may be reached at P.O. Box 132, Datil, New Mexico, 87821.
www.southernnewmexico.com /AuthorBios/AnneSullivan.html   (519 words)

  
 Free Essays - A Book Report On Anne Sullivan Macy
I had never heard of Anne before I read this book, but while looking in the library my mom explained to me who she was and she seemed like she would be an interesting person to do it on.
Anne Sullivan Macy was born on April 14, 1866 in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts.
At the age of nine she was taken to the outskirts of Tewksbury, Massachusetts with her three year old brother Jimmie.
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 Who was Anne Sullivan?
Anne Sullivan Communication Center (ASCC) was named in honor of Anne Mansfield Sullivan Macy.
Anne's struggles to first communicate with young Helen, who was both deaf and blind, were documented in the award-winning play and movie, The Miracle Worker.
Anne was herself partly blind, and taught Helen to read and write using Braille and other tactile writing systems.
sullivan.mpls.k12.mn.us /Who_was_Anne_Sullivan.html   (306 words)

  
 DBI Anne Sullivan Award Winners
At the Deafblind International Conference, held in Canada in August, 2003, the Anne Sullivan Medal was bestowed on five recipients.
The Anne Sullivan Medal was initiated in 1966, to honor those who had made significant contributions to education and services of deafblind children and adults, especially those who have made great lifetime contributions over several decades.
It is a handsome, bronze-cast medal with the likenesss of Anne Sullivan accompanied by a beautiful certificate in a leather binder.
www.hknc.org /DBIMain.htm   (217 words)

  
 Anne Sullivan Biography (Educator) — Infoplease.com
Sullivan was the tutor and lifelong friend and assistant to Helen Keller, the famous deaf and blind activist.
Anne Sullivan - Sullivan, Anne: see Macy, Anne Sullivan.
Anne Sullivan Macy,: The story behind Helen Keller, by Nella Braddy Henney
www.infoplease.com /biography/var/annesullivan.html   (305 words)

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