April 14 -- birthday of Helen Keller's teacher who led her out of Darkness - silence

 Annie Sullivan

teacher - who overcome

first her own partial blindness

"Miracle Worker" for leading

the young Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

out of her visual / auditory 

debilitation at age 19 months,

following severe illness;

Sullivan was born April 14, 1866

near Springfield, Massachusetts

and died Oct. 20, 1936 Forest Hills,

NY