Dorothy Eustis: A Hidden Figure

&nbsp;Eustis invited Frank to Switzerland, where he spent five weeks learning to work with Buddy, the first of his six dog guides (all named Buddy).&nbsp;A year later, in December 1928, Eustis and Frank launched The Seeing Eye in Frank’s hometown of Nashville, Tennessee. For the first three years of its existence,&nbsp;The Seeing Eye&nbsp;had no permanent facility, so trainers traveled to different cities to hold their classes. That changed in 1931 when Eustis purchased a ten-bedroom mansion in&nbsp;Whippany, New Jersey&nbsp;that had enough room to house students while they were learning to work with their dogs.&nbsp;

Eustis continued the practice until 1945,&nbsp;the year before she died. Eustis died in her New York City home on September 8, 1946, aged 60. She was inducted into the&nbsp;National Women's Hall of Fame&nbsp;in 2011.

What made Dorthy Eustis do the thing she did?

After she got married with her first husband Walter Abbott Wood Jr. She got her first dog that was a German shepherd named Hans which was the inspiration for her to make the seeing eye school and train dogs!

A turning point in Eustis' life came Oct. 8, 1915, when husband Walter died of complications from typhoid fever, making her a 29-year-old widow with two young children, ages 1 and 8.

Dorothy Eustis was born on May 30 1886 and was an American dog breeder and a philanthropist. She was the first person to train and make a seeing-eye dog school.

Dorthy Eustis was the sixth and youngest child of businessman and philanthropist&nbsp;Charles Custis Harrison&nbsp;and his wife Ellen Nixon Waln Harrison.

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On November 5, 1927,&nbsp;The Saturday Evening Post&nbsp;published an article by Eustis about a school outside Berlin that trained German war veterans who had been blinded by mustard gas in World War I.

“Is what you say really true?’’ Frank wrote. “If so, I want one of those dogs! And I am not alone. Thousands of blind like me abhor being dependent on others. Help me and I will help them. Train me and I will bring back my dog and show people here how a blind man can be absolutely on his own. We can then set up an instruction center in this country to give all those here who want it a chance at a new life."

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