Jay Anne Spicer; Organizer for Brotherhood for the Blind
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Jay Anne Spicer, 74, who organized volunteers for the American Brotherhood for the Blind and started its Braille lending library in 1963. The free mail-order library, which began with 40 books, now has more than 30,000 to assist blind readers throughout the Western world. She also originated the first Braille pocket calendar that now prints 22,000 copies. In Northridge on Nov. 30.
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