Love leads the way

January 29, 1929 –

The Seeing Eye was incorporated in Nashville, Tennessee by Dorothy Harrison Eustus and Morris Frank, on this date. A few weeks later, the first seeing-eye Dog Guide School in the United States opened in Nashville. (The name the Seeing Eye came from Proverbs 20:12 in the Bible, “The seeing eye, the hearing ear; The Lord hath made them both.“)

Frank had trained under Jack Humphrey in Switzerland at a kennel owned by Dorothy Eustis. Humphrey’s became the Seeing Eye’s first geneticist and served as chief instructor.

Buddy was Frank’s first dog and in 1936 became the first seeing-eye dog to ride as a passenger on an American commercial airline.

And so it goes