From Arnold Auch, Sioux Falls, SD:

I have been a reader of the Ziegler for many years, even when it was rolled up and mailed. I liked to read it to my wife during the years she was so ill. Her name was Jeanette Elizabeth Andrews Auch, but she was better known as Betty. Betty was sighted, and came from Hopedale, MA. She graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1948.

Betty and I met in 1948 when we were members of the Harvard Perkins training class. Betty taught at Perkins School for the Blind for five years and for two years in the South Dakota School for the Blind at Gary. That was during the height of the rubella scare. She also taught in the Sioux Falls School for the Blind for four years. We were married in 1951. We have two sons: David is a doctor of medicine, and Roger is a geographer at EROS.

Many people who are visually impaired know Betty. Eight years ago she contracted ovarian cancer, and she died Sept. 7, 2006. Betty's favorite people were kindergartners who were blind. We all miss her.