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For National Special Education Day, let’s celebrate Anne Sullivan. Sullivan contracted trachoma as a child and was left nearly blind. She was valedictorian of her class at Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, and garnered the top recommendation from the school’s director when Arthur Keller called looking for a teacher for his daughter, Helen. Ms. Sullivan would be Helen’s teacher, companion and friend for the next 49 years. In her valedictorian speech, she is quoted as saying, “Let us go cheerful, hopefully, and earnestly and set ourselves to find our especial part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it; for every obstacle we overcome, every success we achieve tends to bring man closer to God and make life more as He would have it.”

For National Special Education Day, let’s celebrate Anne Sullivan. Sullivan contracted trachoma as a child and was left nearly blind. She was valedictorian of her class at Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, and garnered the top recommendation from the school’s director when Arthur Keller called looking for a teacher for his daughter, Helen. Ms. Sullivan would be Helen’s teacher, companion and friend for the next 49 years. In her valedictorian speech, she is quoted as saying, “Let us go cheerful, hopefully, and earnestly and set ourselves to find our especial part. When we have found it, willingly and faithfully perform it; for every obstacle we overcome, every success we achieve tends to bring man closer to God and make life more as He would have it.”