Show helen keller observes birthday helen keller was seventy years old las monday june 26 through her extraordinary achievement of overcoming the triple handicap of deafness blindness and the inability ability to speak she has won worldwide world wide fame and has done more than any other single individual helping others who live in the darkness of the blind born in alabama in 1880 miss keller el gave promise of becoming an unmanageable uncouth social problem until ann sullivan an irish immigrant was engaged to help her as a tutor almost from the start the young youn girl responded c d to the understanding love of miss sullivan and her ability to convey her thoughts were soon rewarded by a wonderful response in her pupil at 70 miss keller is fit and healthy and does long hours or of work every day writing to institutions and individuals championing worthy causes and studying her numerous books in braille |