Blind, Homeless and Minus
        Kin, Sapulpa Girl Splendid
        Example of Never Give Up

SAPULPA. Dec. 7.-(Special) Blind, homeless and without relatives, Mercedes Donaghy probably is Oklahoma's outstanding example of pluck and perseverance. Seventeen years ago, Mercedes was a 3-months-pld foundling on the doorstep of Sapulpa Children's home, an orphanage. Today she is a talented young lady with ambitions for a journalistic career and she has a reasonable amount of ability for achieving her plans.

 In the last 11 years. Mercedes has been a student at the Oklahoma School for the Blind in Muskogee. The first six years of her life and her successive Sumner vacations were spent at the Sapulpa orphanage until two years ago, when maintenance funds were exhausted. Mercedes and 23 other children became homeless as the depression drove them out of that shelter from the storm, where  benevolent hands had led them and comforted them.

 To get back to the story of Mercedes Donaghy, let us remember her
handicaps only as high centers in the road to success - not barriers. Mercedes has learned as all of us should learn, that success is not to be measured in terms of wealth. She believes that success may be gained in overcoming great handicap and according to that logical interpretation, she has found a real prosperity.

Mercedes is a teacher - not one of the expounders of academic theory, but one of those teachers of the profound truths of live, whose faith, hope and courage are sources of inspiration to those with whom she comes into contact.

Congenial, intelligent and cheerful Mercedes finds life to be an endless flowing fountain of pleasure for those who adjust themselves properly. Her synonym for happiness is usefulness. Skilled in culinary and textile arts, she earns her summer board and room in the homes of friends by doing general household work. She makes dresses, rugs and many useful household articles, such as baskets, desk sets and doorstops.