Presidents:

1931-1933 Thekla Brin*
1933-1934 Sarah Strauss*
1934-1936 Amelia Mintz*
1936-1937 Estelle Shaw*
1937-1940 Ruth Koch*

* of blessed memory

During this decade one of the major commitments was the ongoing project for the blind. Section purchased an automobile to transport workers. Volunteers operated the Talking Book program and compiled a history of the blind in Dallas for the School Board’s edification. They found a volunteer teacher for a five year old, and by the second year of the Hard of Hearing Project eight boys were enrolled in the class. When the School Board finally agreed to take responsibility for educating the hearing impaired in 1939, nearly two hundred were enrolled in sixteen classes in eleven schools. The program continued to grow as families from rural areas came to Dallas to work in war related industries bringing children whose hearing had never been tested. Three hundred students were benefiting from the project at decade’s end. Tuberculosis still dominated health concerns, and contributions for its victims took the form of free milk. Section supplied 4,000 quarts annually at the project’s peak and added oranges and cod liver oil for those in need.