American Jews Win Braille First Prizes for Poetry and Prose

The winners of the English language division of the Jewish Braille Review’s International Literary Competition for the Blind are Wilbur Sheron, 66-year-old retired farmer of Marion, Indiana, in poetry and Bertrand Chombeau, 42, blind choir-director of San Diego, in prose, it was announced here today by Dr. Jacob Freid, editor of the magazine. As many sightless non-Jews as Jews, and as many blind citizens of other countries as Americans entered the competition.

The judges were the poets Jean Starr Untermeyer, John Hall Wheelock and Dorothy Hobson, director of the League to Support Poetry. The judges for the prose section were Donald Lemon Clark, Professor of English at Columbia University, Dr. John Middendorf, teacher of writing at Columbia and Miss Sheena Pearce of the University of London.