Mary Bierman, apparently the first blind girl to receive a master's degree fom a New York college, graduated from Teachers College at Columbia University on June 5, 1928 with high honors.
She received her bachelor's degree a year earlier.
She was a musician and helped pay for college by teaching dancing. She specialized in speech education. (info from The New York Times)
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