Accession Number: 2007.33.1.245
Description: Loyal "Gene" Apple (left), Sumner Whittier (center) and Russell C. Williams (right); all three men wear suits, Apple and Williams hold bright aluminum long canes of the Hines model; VA seal in left background. Apple succeeded Williams as head of the Blind Rehabilitation Center at Hines VA Hospital. Whitter was Administrator of the Veterans Administration from 1958-68. Whittier is credited with rescuing the BRC at Hines, when doctors within the VA decided to get rid of the Chief of Blind Services. Under pressure from Kay Gruber, Richard Hoover, Father Thomas Carroll, and others, Whittier resolved the situation by promoting Williams to Chief of Blind Services within the VA and placing Apple in Williams' former job at Hines.
Print Size: 8 x 10"
Date: 1960
Credit Line: Gift of Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired
Subjects: Orientation & mobility Rehabilitation
