Jim Cummins
In this photo provided by the Helen Keller National Center, Bob Smithdas, the center's director of community education, embraces television personality Barbara Walters, and his wife Michelle Smithdas, at his retirement luncheon in Sands Point, N.Y., Friday, Jan. 16, 2009. Smithdas, 83, retired Friday as the center's director of community education, a post that capped a 65-year-career as an inspiration and an instigator for improvements in the way deaf and blind people lead their lives. (AP Photo/Helen Keller National Center, Jim Cummins)
