The AER O&M Division Bledsoe Archives : The Professionalization of Orientation & Mobility
Object ID:
2007.33.1.270
Title:
Rod Kossick giving O&M lesson in Vietnam
Place:
Saigon, Vietnam
Date:
1967
Description:
O&M trainer Rod Kossick in dark trousers and short-sleeved white shirt on right, guides hands of Vietnamese trainee in light shirt on left; cane is white, rigid aluminum with small crook and putter grip; building in background and motor-scooter; sign reads "BAN KHIEM-THU BLIND SECTION."
Kossick graduated from Western Michigan in 1962, the O&M program's first graduate. He established a rehabilitation center in Saigon, where he worked from February 1967-September 1968 as an employee of the United States International Development Fund.
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11 x 14"
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Rodd Kossick training O&M in VietnamRodd Kossick training O&M in Vietnam