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Did
You Know......
Dallas Delta Gamma's
Preschool Vision Screening program has been going on since the early
50s.
At that time, the
National Association for Prevention of Blindness contacted our alumnae
group (this was before there was a PB office here). Betty Davis
and Ginny Williamson were trained to begin our project. So over
cups of coffee at Betty's kitchen table they started the ball rolling.
By the time the 60s
came, teams sometime consisted of 4 DGs— 3 got to go screen
and one baby-sat everybody's kids. Then next time it was someone
else's turn. We might even come back from screening, put the kids
down for a nap and we'd play bridge.
Evelyn Chatfield
and Pat Wallis were working girls, but they were our recorders (meaning
they counted thousands of registration forms and kept count of how
many we screened for the year) for 10 or more years. Now that they
have retired from the business world they are our most avid screeners
now...yeah!
At that time there
was no public kindergarten so you can imagine how busy we were.
Then, more and more of our ladies went to work so our roster of
volunteers became smaller. Public kindergarten came in and a lot
of the private schools closed.
Now, with more and
more kids out there the schools have blossomed on every corner and
our services are being called on all the time. Seventy-five DGs
(alumnae and collegians) family and friends screened almost 2000
kids in 2001-02 in 35 schools.
We would like to
grow, and we need more volunteers. Any of you "stay-at-home
moms", retired ladies (we can use men too), and anybody ready
to screen after taking a hiatus could give a few hours a year to
our SO worthwhile project that gives us so much pride after 50+
years of "Doing Good" in our community.
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