HURSTHAZEL

Interview with Hazel Hurst

 

 

 

 

Hurst was the first blind graduate of Columbia University, where she studied law. She was educated at St. Mary's Academy since her parents wanted her to have a normal education, rather than attend a school for the blind about 200 miles away. She was taught Braille there. She traveled and lectured on work for the blind. She founded the Hazel Hurst Foundation in Monrovia, California, but had to give it up. Hurst also worked for the United States Navy. She married George Fuller and adopted two children. She was teaching three days a week at the San Diego Center for the Blind, braille reading and typing. She names the title of a book she published: As the Wheel Turned. The sound quality is poor. The interview took place at the Euclid Convalescent Home in San Diego, California, for the San Diego History Research Center.

Hazel Hurst; Hazel Hurst Foundation for the Blind, Inc.; San Diego History Research Center; Eleanor Roosevelt; Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Guide dogs; Seeing eye dogs; Services for the blind; Robert Kraft; Bette Davis; United States Navy; George Fuller; Beta Sigma Phi; Blindness and education; Childhood blindness; Blind people; San Diego Center for the Blind; Braille; As the Wheel Turned (book)

 

California - San Diego

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English

 

Audiotape

00:29:37

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Audio

MP3

13.56 MB