Brief Descriptions of Connecticut State Agencies

Board of Education and Services to the Blind

Agency Web page | Statutory Authority |Agency History |
Published histories/articles | State Library Collections | List of Commissioners

Agency Web page :

Statutory Authority :
CGS Title 10, Chapter 174

Agency History :

1893, established as Board of Education of the Blind, per Public Acts chap. 303.

1963, January 1, name changed to Board of Education and Services for the Blind, per P.A. 386.

Published Histories/Articles :

Armstead, George B. The State Services of Connecticut. Published under the direction of the Committee on Public Information and the House Committee on Publications of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. 1946, pp. 186-192.
[CSL Call Number ConnDoc G25 ar]

Agency Documents in the State Library Collections :

The Board is closely affiliated with the Connecticut Institute and Industrial Home for the Blind, established as a private institution in 1894. Annual Reports of the Institute are in the State Library. [CSL Call Number HV 1796 .C83 H3]

Check the State Library catalog, CONSULS, under these author headings for publications by the agency available in the State Library:

Annual Reports are located in :

State Archives Record Group :
Not available

List of Heads :

Name	Years of Service
Secretary
Frank E. Cleaveland	1894-1900
Emily Wells Foster	1901-1904
John D. Rusher	1905-1917
Stetson K. Ryan	1918-1933
Executive Secretary
Stetson K. Ryan	1934-1954
Albert N. Sherberg	1955-1958
H. Kenneth McCollam (Acting)	1959
H. Kenneth McCollam	1960-1969
Director
William E. Patton	1970-1979
Executive Director
William E. Patton	1980-1989
George A. Precourt	1990-1996
Kenneth R. Tripp	1997-1999
Lawrence E. Alibozek	2000
Donna Balaski	2001-2003
Brian S. Sigman	2003-Present

 

Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 6/2008.