Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Morris and Buddy The Story of the First Seeing Eye Dog by Becky Hall Morris Frank Inducted 2010. Morris Frank (1908-1980) was born in Tennessee, the youngest son of wealthy parents. As a six year old boy he lost vision in one eye from riding a horse into a tree limb and the second eye as a result of a boxing match at 16 years of age. Previously, when Morris was three years old, his mother was blinded from a horse-riding accident. He attended Vanderbilt University in Nashville during which time he sold insurance door to door. Morris married Lois in 1942 and they traveled for many years throughout the United States representing The Seeing Eye. In 1927 at the age of 20 Morris read an article in The Saturday Evening Post by Dorothy Eustis describing a European school where German shepherds were trained to guide blinded soldiers. He wrote to her and expressed a desire to obtain such a dog and set up a similar instruction center in the United States. This courageous, enterprising young man was shipped as a package via American Express (imposed conditions of travel) from Nashville by steamship to Switzerland where he met Mrs. Eustis and her head trainer/geneticist, Jack Humphrey. After training with Buddy for five weeks he returned to America with two charges: to demonstrate that dog guides are safe human guides and to get the dogs accepted in public places. With Buddy and tenacious boldness, he demonstrated that the consequences of enhanced and safe mobility were dignity, self-confidence and independence. Together with Dorothy Eustis as President, Jack Humphrey as Vice President of training and research, Morris founded The Seeing Eye, the first dog guide school in the United States. The school was moved from Tennessee to New Jersey in 1931. He served as managing director from 1929 to 1931 and as Vice President/Division of the Blind from 1931 to 1956. In this role he visited students before and after receiving their dogs, addressed many Lions Clubs, visited with newly blinded veterans, ophthalmologists and conducted countless radio interviews. He was instrumental in shaping major policies and procedures: establishing criteria for students, securing dogs with suitable mental and physical characteristics, and locating capable instructors who were able to keep up with the physical demands of working both with dogs and people. His job in public relations involved persuading leaders in agencies for the blind of the value of the dog and approval from public transportation and restaurants to allow the dog to accompany the owner. In 1956, 28 years after his arrival in Switzerland, he retired after travelling thousands of miles as a roving ambassador. Subsequently he launched his own insurance business in Morristown. In 1978 Morris became the first person to reach 50 years as a Seeing Eye dog user. On the 50th anniversary of the founding of the school, the U.S. issued a commemorative stamp in honor of The Seeing Eye at which time Morris returned to address the gathering, representing the school for the first time in 20 years. After 80 years in 2009 the school had grown from a class of 2 students with 2 dogs to having placed more than 15,000 dogs which have brought a new level of mobility, safety and self-sufficiency to almost 8,000 men and women. Morris Frank was honored in many ways. He received an appointment as Colonel by the governor of Tennessee and in recognition of his accomplishments, Morris was invited to meet with many US presidents. Together with Blake Clark, he wrote First Lady of The Seeing Eye the story of Buddy which led to the movie entitled "Love Leads the Way" in 1984. On the 75th anniversary of the school’s founding, a bronze statue of Morris Frank and Buddy, entitled "The Way to Independence" was dedicated in Morris Frank Park, Morristown, New Jersey. Photos of Morris Frank courtesy of the Seeing Eye. Photos. Video. Morris Frank: In His Own Words: Hall of Fame: Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field is a project of the entire field of blindness. It is curated by the American Printing House for the Blind, a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization. © Copyright American Printing House for the Blind, Inc. We’re on Google+, but mainly Facebook and YouTube. Morris Frank & Buddy. Morris Frank was a blind man who helped start the first school that trained seeing eye dogs. His dog Buddy is considered to be the first seeing eye dog in America. This amazing story started in 1927, when Morris Frank was a 20-year-old student at Vanderbilt University and a man unhappy about his dependency on others to get around. Frank’s father read him an article by Dorothy Eustis, a woman living in Switzerland who had seen shepherds training dogs to help blind people get around. Excited by the idea, Frank took a ship to Europe and trained extensively with a dog that had been bred specifically to lead a blind person. The training was hard. But after weeks with the dog, Frank could get around the nearby village holding tightly to a harness to which Buddy was strapped. Morris Frank returned to America with a goal of spreading the word about seeing eye dogs. From the day he got off the ship, he was successful. At one point, in front of a group of reporters, Buddy led Frank safely across a busy New York street. A statue of Morris Frank and Buddy in Morristown, New Jersey. When Frank returned to Nashville, people were amazed at the sight of the blind man and his dog successfully navigating busy sidewalks. “Now strangers spoke freely to me,” Frank wrote years later. “In the old days, I often envied two sighted persons, who obviously did not know each other, their ease in striking up a conversation. With Buddy there, however, it was the easiest and most natural thing in the world for them to say, ‘What a lovely dog you have!'” About this time, Frank, Eustis and several others cofounded The Seeing Eye, an institution set up to train guide dogs and their blind masters. It operated in Nashville for two years and then moved to Morristown, New Jersey. Buddy being lazy. Buddy remained a national hero for the rest of his life. When the dog died in May 1938, the event was noted with a long obituary in the New York Times . Today, the Seeing Eye reports that it has trained 14,000 dogs. Buddy was the first. Morris and Buddy : The Story of the First Seeing Eye Dog. This story is about a man named Morris who was blind. His dad read an article in the newspaper about a lady in Switzerland who trained German shepherds to guide humans. He travels there, gets his dog . Читать весь отзыв. LibraryThing Review. Frank Morris wants to live a fulfilled life. After losing what was left of his eyesight in a boxing batch, Morris finds himself missing out on life, or spending it alone and waiting to be assisted . Читать весь отзыв. Другие издания - Просмотреть все. Об авторе (2007) Inbsp;am a library media specialist by day. That means I teach research skills, literature and media literacy to PreK- grade five students in an independent school. By night, I am a children's writer. I have published two books and am spending more and more of my time writing. I hope to retire and become a full time writer someday. I have two kids . My husband is an artist, doing oil paintings, mostly landscapes. I also have two dogs, a black lab and a white Westie. I love to hike, ski, cycle and spend time with my family in exotic places like the Bahamas. Morris and Buddy: The Story of the First Seeing Eye Dog by Becky Hall. Morris Frank lost his sight in 1924, when he was only sixteen. But it wasn’t just his sight that he lost—he lost his independence, too. Morris wanted to lead a normal life. One day in 1928, Morris’s dad read him an article about Dorothy Harrison Eustis, an American dog trainer living in Switzerland. She had been training dogs for police and army work, but had recently visited a German school where dogs were taught to help soldiers who had been blinded in World War I. Thrilled with this new possibility, Morris set off on his own to Switzerland to meet with Dorothy and her head trainer, Jack Humphrey. Morris began training with his dog, Buddy. While he struggled—stepping on Buddy’s paws, not paying attention to her cues, and even walking into a gatepost—Buddy waited patiently at his side, allowing him to learn. At last Morris felt ready to return to America with Buddy at his side. 9780807552865 March 2015. Other Places to Buy. Reviews. The clearly written story details the difficulties and satisfactions Frank encounters as he learns to work with his dog, Buddy, and to trust him with his life…From full-page illustrations to small vignettes, nicely delineated drawings warmed with color washes give this slim volume an inviting look…A fresh and engaging nonfiction choice. - Booklist. The narrative clearly conveys the trials of man and dog as they learned to trust one another, and the beginnings of Morris’s work to bring guide dogs to the United States. - School Library Journal. Imparts revealing insights both into how blind people were treated prior to the past few decades, and how complex the job of a seeing eye dog is. Famous Dogs in History. Buddy became famous in history for impressing Americans with her ability to lead the blind, bringing about the first guide dog school in the US. Morris and Buddy Frank Morris was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1908. At the age of six he lost his right eye after hitting a tree branch while horseback riding, and at the age of 16 he lost his left eye during a boxing match. Morris was very frustrated with having to depend on others to help him get around. In November 1927, Morris's father read him an article by Dorothy Eustis, an American philanthropist living in Switzerland who operated a school that supplied dogs to the police and Red Cross. The article described schools in Germany that trained guide dogs for WWI veterans who had gone blind from mustard gas. Morris was inspired to write Eustis for help. "Is what you say really true? If so, I want one of those dogs! And I am not alone. Thousands of blind like me abhor being dependent on others. Help me and I will help them. Train me and I will bring back my dog and show people here how a blind man can be absolutely on his own. We can then set up an instruction center in this country to give all those here who want it a chance at a new life." Eustis agreed to help. Morris went to Switzerland and trained with a female German shepherd named Kiss, which he quickly renamed Buddy. The training was hard, but after a few weeks Morris was able to get around the Swiss village safely with Buddy's assistance. In June 1928, Frank returned to the US with Buddy in New York City. He notified the media and demonstrated Buddy's abilities by crossing a busy New York street. According to Morris "She [Buddy] moved forward into the ear-splitting clangor, stopped, backed up, and started again. I lost all sense of direction and surrendered myself entirely to the dog. I shall never forget the next three minutes: 10-ton trucks rocketing past, cabs blowing their horns in our ears, drivers shouting at us. When we finally got to the other side and I realized what a really magnificent job she had done, I leaned over and gave Buddy a great big hug and told her what a good, good girl she was." Morris and Buddy - the famous New York City street crossing Morris sent a one-word telegram to Eustis: "SUCCESS!" In January 1929, Morris and Eustis cofounded the first guide dog school in the US called The Seeing Eye. It operated in Nashville for two years and then relocated to New Jersey because the weather was more suitable for training dogs. Between 1929 and 1956, Morris traveled throughout the US spreading the word about the organization and the need for equal access laws for people with guide dogs. By 1956, every state in the US had passed laws allowing blind people with guide dogs access to public spaces. Buddy died on May 23, 1938. Morris named her replacement Buddy, as he would all his subsequent seeing eye dogs. On April 29, 2005, a sculpture of Frank Morris and Buddy titled The Way to Independence was unveiled in Morristown, New Jersey.