During this decade, NCJW Dallas focused on its ongoing project for the blind and purchased an automobile to transport workers. Volunteers operated the Talking Book program and compiled a history of Dallas’ blind for the School Board’s edification.

A volunteer started teaching a five year old, and, by the second year of the Hard of Hearing Project, eight boys were enrolled in class. When in 1939 the School Board eventually became responsible for educating the hearing impaired, nearly 200 were enrolled in sixteen classes, in eleven schools. The program continued to grow, as families from rural areas came to Dallas to work in war related industries, bringing along children whose hearing had never been tested. At the end of the decade, 300 students were benefiting from the project.

Tuberculosis still dominated health concerns, and support for its victims took the form of free milk. NCJW Dallas supplied 4,000 quarts annually at the project’s peak and added oranges and cod liver oil for those in need.

Presidents:

1931-1933 Thekla Brin*
1933-1934 Sarah Strauss*
1934-1936 Amelia Mintz*
1936-1937 Estelle Shaw*
1937-1940 Ruth Koch*

* of blessed memory