Christine Benninger, president and CEO of Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB), has been elected to the board of the International Guide Dog Federation (IGDF), the world’s largest membership organization
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In the photo on the left, a 10-year-old Marybeth Hearn holds her first guide dog in training, Letta, in August 1962. Over 50 years later, in the photo on the right, Hearn holds her 55th puppy raised for Guide Dogs for the Blind, in Lemoore, Calif. For over five decades, the newly retired high school teacher has volunteered as a puppy raiser for the nonprofit, training 56 dogs on her own and 170 with her students in a local program she started. (Marybeth Hearn via AP)
When Marybeth Hearn was 10, she asked her parents if she could train a puppy to become a guide dog. It turned into a lifelong mission.