Bravo! Miss Brown by Joan Mactavish

This is a book about a young Canadian girl, Mae Brown, who exhibited intelligence, stamina, commitment and courage under the exceptionally incapacitating condition of being both deaf and blind.
Born in 1935, the third child of a bush worker on a homestead west of Thunder Bay, she walked the six miles to and from school as long as she was able to do so. She then received teaching at a home from her devoted and determined mother through correspondence courses as her sight steadily decreased. She would lose her hearing later.

Graduating from the University of Toronto in 1972, Mae was the first person who was deaf-blind to do so in Canada, and possibly the second woman in the world since Helen Keller. How this was accomplished over 13 years, 12 months a year, how she coped with periods of loneliness, love relationships and heartbreaks, and how she strove to prove she was just a normal girl who could not see and hear is a poignant, revealing and inspiring tale, unique in every way.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Joan taught high school during World War II, married, and with her lawyer husband raised three children while volunteering with the Home&School Association, the Big Sister Association, and both the Senate and the Board of Regents of Victoria University, University of Toronto. In 1967 she was engaged by the CNIB to be Mae Brown's tutor, then assistant. A year after Mae's death she returned to develop services for all adults who were deaf-blind in Ontario.

Following her retirement, Joan became a member of the Rotary (Don Valley)-Cheshire Homes Board to provide an independent living option for persons who are deaf-blind. She was also a member of the Intervenor Program Advisory Committee at George Brown College responsible for developing a diploma program for Intervenors.

Joan has received many awards in recognition of her work including the Good Citizen Medal from the City of Toronto, the Volunteer Service Award from the Ontario Government, the CNIB Diamond Jubilee Award, the Woman of the Year Award from B'nai B'rith Women of Canada, the Paul Harris Fellow Award from Rotary International, the King Clancy Award from the Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons, and Diploma Honoris Causa from George Brown College.

BRAVO! Miss Brown

BRAVO! Miss Brown by Joan Mactavish Published by CAVU INC		$24.95 Cdn $16.95 US
HOW TO ORDER BRAVO! MISS BROWN
BRAVO! Miss Brown will be available as of May 5, 2001. Copies of the book may be ordered through General Distribution. Orders may be placed by phone or fax and paid for by Mastercard or Visa. Charges will included the cost of the book, plus GST, shipping and handling charges. When ordering, please quote the following ISBN number: ISBN 0-9688089-0-5
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