... program for worthy students in the local community. Lions focused on work for the blind and visually impaired when Helen Keller addressed the Lions International Convention in 1925 and charged them to be Knights to the Blind. Greenbrier Lions ...

... earmarks are $485,000 for a boarding school for at-risk native students in western Alaska and $1.2 million for Helen Keller International so the nonprofit can provide eyeglasses to students with poor vision. There's also dozens of projects ...

... family lore. And profound feelings of uselessness were said to have attended blind deaf mutes the world over until the Helen Keller miracle glimmered upon them the faint hope of getting their rather skeletal stories told. Oh, if you narrowed your ...

... perseverance from speakers from the past. A small group of students and teachers portrayed famous historic figures, from Helen Keller to Davy Crockett, who told stories of how trying again can make all the difference. "It really shows them successful ...

... Gaulle became premier of France, marking the beginning of the end of the Fourth Republic. In 1968, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf almost all of her life, died in Westport, Conn., at age ...

... bad men." In 1887, in Tuscumbia, Ala., teacher Anne Sullivan achieved a breakthrough as her blind and deaf pupil Helen Keller learned the meaning of the word "water" as spelled out in the Manual Alphabet. In 1895, Oscar Wilde lost his criminal ...

... too much attention to what we don't have, rather than being grateful for what we do have. If the legendary blind Helen Keller could say, "self-pity is our worst enemy," who are we to give it the time of day? In the course of our daily ...

... including actor Leslie Howard. In 1958, Charles de Gaulle became premier of France. In 1968, author-lecturer Helen Keller, who earned a college degree despite being blind and deaf almost all of her life, died in Westport, Conn. In 1980 ...

... Internet filters that are designed to prevent children from viewing sexually explicit Web sites. In a campaign visit at Helen Keller Middle School in a solidly Republican suburb of Detroit, Bush urged the television industry to voluntarily restore ...

... Bailey, Billy Campbell as Moses, Martin Landau as Abraham, Jacqueline Bisset as Sarah, Hallie Kate Eisenberg as Helen Keller and Alison Elliott as Annie Sullivan (Nov. 12); and Mercedes Ruehl as a nice Jewish girl who discovers she's a ...