Dorothy Eustis and Seeing Eye
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His hopes soared when, on Nov. 5, 1927, his father introduced him to an article in the Saturday Evening Post by Dorothy Harrison Eustis, describing the guide dog training program in Potsdam, Germany. She was an expatriate from Philadelphia who moved to Vevey, Switzerland, and started the business of breeding German Shepherds for the Red Cross, the local police, and the Swiss Army. Morris Frank convinced Dorothy Eustis of his capability to further extend the use of guide dogs to civilians.
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"In the article, the author, Dorothy Harrison Eustis, described how the Germans had trained the shepherd dogs to take the place of a blind man's eyes."
-Frank's Father "One moment the blind person was as uncertain, shuffling man tapping with cane, the next he was an assured person with head up walking firmly with dog by his side."
-Dorothy Harrison Eustis |
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