1886*

Mrs. Dr. Harris, with the aid of prominent people in Arizona and California, has organized a campaign to raise a sufficient fund to send an Arizona girl who is totally blind and deaf to an eastern college.

This girl, Jackie Coker, is now thirteen years old, and has made six grades during the four years that she has been in the Arizona State School for the Deaf and Blind.

The Governor of Arizona and Mrs. Spencer Tracy have been guest speakers at campaign luncheons in Tucson and Los Angeles.

Mrs. Harris says of Jackie—"l wish you could hear this child recite to music. She takes her audience by storm. The wife of a former ambassador to London was so moved that she wrote a large check at the lunch table and presented it with tears in her eyes."

Dr. Harris helped to arrange for Jackie to appear at a luncheon for the members of the American Society of Otolaryngologists during their Convention in Los Angeles last June. On one side of the place card was a picture of Jackie. From the many words of tribute to her on the other side I quote: "Since her second year in school, she has been known from the west to the east as Arizona's 'Helen Keller,' because of her remarkable ability, brilliant mind and forceful character. Jackie can now converse with any one, she speaks in a pleasant, normal tone with ease and naturalness. She understands conversation through vibration by placing her finger tips on the cheek of the person speaking."

Mrs. Harris is also working on a Pageant, in the Tableau of which the public school children of Tucson, and the schoolmates of Jackie can take part in costume.

Dr. Harris also tests the hearing of students in Jackie's school.

All health and happiness to our Tommy and Lena in their loving services to "these little ones."

Secretary, 215 Walnut St., Montclair, N. J.