THE EDUCATOR

Volume XI, Number 1

Winter 1998

A Publication of The International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment made possible by The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, USA

Executive Committee 1997-2002

Principal Officers

President - Dr. Coen de Jong

Bartimeus Association
Postbus 340
3940 AH Doorn
THE NETHERLANDS

Vice President - Lawrence F. Campbell

Overbrook School for the Blind
6333 Malvern Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19151
USA

Past President - William G. Brohier

37 Jesselton Crescent
10450 Penang
MALAYSIA

Acting Secretary - Neville Lawson

RNIB
224 Great Portland Street
London, WIN 6AA
UNITED KINGDOM

Acting Treasurer - Johan Gerestein

Centrum Bartimeus
Postbus 1003
3700 BA Zeist
Utrechtseweg 84
THE NETHERLANDS

Editor - Kevin J. Lessard

Perkins School for the Blind
175 North Beacon Street
Watertown, MA 02172
USA

Please direct all inquiries, correspondence and articles for future issues of The Educator to the Editor. We welcome your input and participation and encourage the submission of articles on a regular basis. When possible, please attach photographs with submitted articles.

Funding for this issue of The Educator was provided by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

The Educator is published and distributed by Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown MA, USA, a private non-profit organization dedicated to the education of students and clients who are blind, visually impaired, deafblind and multi-impaired.

Telephone: (617) 972-7221
Fax: (617) 923-8076
E-Mail: collinsm@perkins.pvt.k12.ma.us

ICEVI Regional Chairpersons 1997-2002

Africa - Desmond Frank

Arthur Blaxhall School
Box 8132
Cumberwood
PM Burg 3235 ICZN
REP. OF SOUTH AFRICA

Asia

M.N.G. Mani Resource & Development Centre
S.R.K.V. College of Ed.
Coimbatore 641020
Tamil Nadu
INDIA

East Asia - Mrs. Grace Chan

Hong Kong Society for the Blind
248 Nam Cheong St.
Shamshuipo, Kowloon
Hong Kong
CHINA

Europe - Herman A. A. Gresnigt

Theofaan International
St. Elisabethstraat 4
5361 HK Grave
THE NETHERLANDS

Latin America - Lucia Piccione

Urquiza 2659 B. Alta
Cordoba 5000
ARGENTINA

Middle East - Ghada Hasan

P.O. Box 438
Tlaja Ali 11953
Amman
JORDAN

North America-Caribbean - Bernadette Kappen

Overbrook School for the Blind
6333 Malvern Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19151
USA

Pacific - Heather Hewitt

University College
Univ. of Melbourne
College Crescent
Parkville, Victoria 3052
AUSTRALIA

Organizational Members - Founding Organizations

American Foundation for the Blind
Susan J. Spungin
USA

Perkins School for the Blind
Kevin J. Lessard
USA

Royal National Institute for the Blind
Colin Low
UNITED KINGDOM

International Organizations

Deafblind International
Rodney Clark
UNITED KINGDOM

International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness
Dr. R. Pararajasegaram
UNITED KINGDOM

World Blind Union
Enrique Ellisalde
URUGUAY

Helen Keller International
John M. Palmer III
USA

Sight Savers International
Richard Porter
UNITED KINGDOM

Christoffel-Blindenmission
Christian Garms
GERMANY

Norwegian Association of the Blind and Partially Sighted
A. J. Husveg
NORWAY

Organizacion Nacional de Ciegos de Espana
Rafael Mondaca Medina
SPAIN

Swedish Association of the Visually Impaired
Lennart Nolte
SWEDEN

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