Certification committee, AAWB Division IX

Print, Photographic

Accession Number: 2007.33.1.276

Description: BW print, AAWB Division IX certification committee members gathered around dining room table, (R to L) Bob Hughes, Administrative Assistant at Western PA School for Blind Children in Pittsburgh; John Malamazian, Chief, Hines VA Blind Rehabilitation Center, Hines, IL; Lloyd Widerberg, Instructor, Dept. of Blind Rehabilitation, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI; Burdell "Pete" Wurzburger, Instructor, San Francisco State University; Russell C. Williams, Chief of Blind Rehabilitation Services, Veterans Administration, Washington DC; Robert Whitstock, Vice President, The Seeing Eye, Morristown, NJ; Don Blasch (partially hidden), Chairman, Dept. of Blind Rehabilitation, Western Michigan University. AAWB formed a committee to study the certification of O&M instructors in July 1966 at their annual meeting in Pittsburgh. That committee unvealed a certification program which was adopted by the AAWB and the AAIB in July 1968. Later that winter, the AAWB President, Howard Hanson, appointed a committee to implement the program. This photograph appears to be from that committee's first meeting on March 24, 1969, at Western Michigan University, although officially the committee only consisted of Malamazian, Hughes, Whitstock, Gary Coker, and chair Stanley Suterko. Wurzburger was listed as a resource person.

Print Size: 3 x 5"

Date: 1968

Credit Line: Gift of Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired

Subjects: Orientation and mobility Accreditation