Hall of Fame: Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field

The Hall of Fame for Leaders and Legends of the Blindness Field is now accepting nominations for 2025 inductees. If you are interested in submitting a nominee, please read the information below and submit the form. The nomination process will close April 30, 2025.

What are the Criteria?

Persons who have made transformative contributions to improve the lives of those who are blind or low vision in such areas as:

• Contributing to the Body of Knowledge
  • Scholarship
    • Program Development
    • Curriculum Development
    • Published Writing
      • Scientific Research
      • Practitioner Research
• Contributing through Communication
  • Compelling Oral and Written Presentations
  • Staff and Parent Development
  • Public Education
  • Continuing Education
•  Contributing through Leadership
  • Visionary and Strategic Planning and Implementation
  • Administrative Planning
  • Interagency Collaboration
  • Pioneering Innovations
  • Service in and through Professional Organizations
• Contributing through Advocacy
  • Systems Change
  • Public Policy (federal, state, local)
  • Community Organizing
  • Capacity Building
    • Resource Development
    • Revenue Generation
• Contributing through Mentorship and Role Modeling
  • Advancement of the Blindness Community
  • Assisting Practitioners and/or Administators
  • Serving as Exemplars
  • Public Attitudinal Change Agents
• Contributing through Professional Practice
  • Exemplary and Transformative Direct Service
  • Innovative Practices
  • Sharing Knowledge and Experience
  • Impactful Presentations
• Distinguished Champion of the field of Blindness and Low Vision
  • Legislative
  • Parental Contribution
  • Entrepreneurial/Commercial Enterprises
    • Access Technology
    • Pharmaceuticals
    • Adaptive Equipment
• Sustainability
  • Contributions that have stood the test of time

Who is Eligible?

• Persons are eligible five years after departure from positions where their significant lifetime body of work was made.
• Individuals from North America are eligible for nomination. (North America is defined as US, Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean).

What is Required to Nominate Someone?

Nominators must submit a comprehensive nomination packet including a thoroughly completed Hall of Fame Nomination Form and three letters of support. If more than three letters are received, only the first three will be used. Electronic submission of the form and the support letters is preferred. Letters of support may be emailed to Justin Gardner at jgardner@aph.org or mailed to him at APH, Hall of Fame, 1839 Frankfort Avenue, Louisville, KY 40206 or faxed to 502-899-2367.

Where and when is Hall induction?

• Although there is an annual call for nominations, inductions are not necessarily on an annual schedule.
• The induction ceremonies will occur during the October Annual Meeting of the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky.

How long do nominations remain active?

• Nominations that are not selected are held and reconsidered the following year. If not chosen in the second year, nominations must be resubmitted as a new nomination.
• Nomination forms and letters may be updated for the second year.

Check back soon for more information about the 2025 Hall of Fame Induction.

A

Georgie Lee Abel
Edward Ellis Allen
Lulu (Lou) Johnson Alonso
Loyal Eugene Apple
Samuel Ashcroft
Robert Atkinson Carl Augusto
Carl Augusto

B

Samuel Bacon
Edwin Albert Baker
Natalie Barraga
Mary K. Bauman
Donald Blasch
Warren Bledsoe

C

Charles F.F. Campbell
Sir Francis Joseph Campbell
Thomas Carroll
Michael Collins

D

Cleo Dolan

E

William H. English
Jane Erin

F

Eleanor E. Faye
Kay A. Ferrell
Martha Louise Morrow Foxx
Morris Frank
Sir Charles Frederick Fraser

G

Kathern Gruber

H

William Allen Hadley
Frank H. Hall Verna Hart facing camera and smiling
Verna Hart
Phil Hatlen
Euclid Herie
Everett “Butch” Hill
Richard Hoover
Samuel Gridley Howe
Kathleen M. Huebner

I

Douglas Inkster
Robert Irwin

J

Kenneth Jernigan
Laurence C. Jones
Randall T. Jose

K

Ruth Kaarlela
Helen Keller
Alan Koenig
Roy Kumpe

L

Berthold Lowenfeld

M

Ann MacCuspie
Sally Mangold
Durward McDaniel
M.C. Migel

N

Abraham Nemeth

P

Arnall Patz
Newel Perry

R

Alice Raftary
Louis Rives
Sally Rogow

S

Peter Salmon
Ambrose M. Shotwell
Robert J. Smithdas
Susan J. Spungin
Anne Sullivan
Stanley Suterko
Mary Switzer

T

Josephine Taylor
Tuck Tinsley
Dean Tuttle

V

Louis Vieceli

W

William Bell Wait
Donald Wedewer
Richard Welsh
Robert H. Whitstock
Russell Williams
James Max Woolly
Berdell “Pete” Wurzburger

Z

Trischa Zorn-Hudson

• Bill Wiener (NC), Past Chair
• Mike Bina (MD), Chair
• Julie Hapeman (WI), Vice Chair
• Kim Zebehazy (BC-CAN), Secretary
• Justin Gardner (KY), Treasurer
• Bernadette Kappen (NY)
• Lee Nasehi (FL)
• Mark Richert (DC)
• Mary Nelle McClennan (PA)
• Kay Ferrell (WA)