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VIDBE - Q Volume 62 Issue 4
Sally Schreiner
Administrator
www.ncecbvi.org
Figure 1. Front of the current school built in the 1950s.
History
Founded in 1875, the Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who are
Blind or Visually Impaired (NCECBVI) sits on a 9 - acre campus full of trees and beautiful
landscaping in Nebraska City which is known as the Home of Arbor Day, a community
with a rich tradition of tree planting.
Samuel Bacon, our founder, was stricken at the age of 11 with scarlet fever that
left him blind himself. Mr. Bacon was born in Courtland, Ohio, on March 10, 1823. He
Nebraska Center for the Education of Children who
are Blind or Visually Impaired: Past and Present
