Letter from the Editor
Dear Reader,
Welcome to the new generation ICEVI journal, The Educator. This is the first issue since the winter 2000 issue that was published by the Perkins School for the Blind.
A special thanks to former editor, Kevin Lessard who over the past years has been the guiding light of The Educator. And to all the Perkins Public Relations staff who worked so hard in producing The Educator. I know from personal experience how much time and hard effort they put into the journal.
I hope you like our new format. Each issue, as president Larry Campbell has stated, will have a theme, featuring new articles on that specific theme by leaders in the field, who have been asked to write them. In addition to the major articles it will also include summaries of articles which may be of special interest to you. These will be in areas which are not being covered by The Educator at this time. The full articles will be available by contacting the authors.
The journal will be your window on the activities of the ICEVI family in all regions of the world. In the information age, it will help you to be better informed about what is going on in the field of education of the blind.
Kevin Lessard said the torch has been passed, but that torch can only be kept burning by the fuel you provide. All the sections of The Educator need input from you, the educators of the visualy impaired, other professionals and parents.
I look forward to hearing from you. I know a number of you from my work as Research Librarian at Perkins School for the Blind, 1965-1998, others from visits you may have made to the Tomteboda Resource Centre in Stockholm, Sweden, since I retired from Perkins and from conferences. I look forward to hearing from you and others that I do not know. Hope to see you at the 50th Anniversary of ICEVI next year in The Netherlands.
Keep up the good work. And let me hear from you by regular mail, e-mail, fax, phone or even better in person.
Yours
truly,
Ken
Stuckey
The Editor