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Show A. PALMER. JR., 5108 Ardmora Way, Baltimore, Maryland, " lost his right eye twelve years ago. Dejected? Ha says unless you have gone through a similar experience, you have no way of know- lug the dejection he felt. He was only sixteen, and It was like losing half of his life. It meant that unless he could overcome his handicap ne was destined to be a failure. One day in a book about worrying he read "evergreen "ever-green forests know how to bend, how to bow down their branches, how to cooperate with the Inevitable." Inevit-able." These words stuck In his memory, and be followed that philosophy. Instead of worrying about his loss, he told himself how fortunate he was to have one good eye. Rather than feel bad because be bad lost half his sight, he realized how fortunate fortu-nate he was that he wasn't totally blind. In other words, he "cooperated with the inevitable." Since that fatal day he has served three and one- CARNEGIE half years in the army, traveling all over the country. coun-try. He is a graduate of the University of Denver, from which he received re-ceived an A.B. degree, and a graduate of the Southwest Photo-Arts Institute, and he says he is going right ahead bettering himself month by month. |