The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-08-24
BLIND LAWYER.

No handicap is too great for the
young man who wants to get ahead
in the world and is willing to put his
| whole reserve mental strength into
| an effort to reach the goal for which
he is ambitious to attain Poverty,
surroundings physical disabilities are
no bar to the youth who applies lim-
self with purpose in view. The great
est affliction that can come to any one
is blindness, and one would suppose
that with light shut out, and the beau
ties of the world only indifferently
conveyed to the imagination through
oral or written description, for the
they can read, one so terribly handi-
capped would never be able to make
success in any walk of life. Yet we
have seen accomplished people with
out sight, and blind people more
cheerful than the great majority of
those blessed with the faculty of WIS.,
ion.
We have case before us that has
local interest wherein young man
bind since ne was four years of age,
who has finally won a place he has
been striving for for years, that of
practicing attorney. This young man
Is Clyde Troutman, son Of Mrs. C. ].
st. Hill, of East Orogille. He spent
summer and fall with his mother and
stepfather in Oroville some three
n nth
lishments Mr.. Troutman is finished
musician, and while here he advertised
to tune pianos. He secured several
pianos to tune and the owners declar-
ed that he did better work than any
tuner that they had ever employed.
Moreover Mr.. st. Hill taught Mr..
Troutman how to make apple boxes
and he turned out 1000 completed
boxes and also mastered the art of
packing apples.
But Mr.. Troutman was bent upon
being lawyer and returning to the
school for the blind in Montana where
ne took part in numerous activities,
continued his studies and finally was
admitted to the bar. The following
item from late issue of the Spokes-
man-Review gives an account of his
efforts to surmount all difficulties
and his final success:
Total blindness which usually in
capacitates its victims from entering
any of the professions, has really act
ed to spur the ambitions of Clyde
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the result that he is now full fledged
lawyer and entitled to practice in any
of the state courts of Montana.
Although blind for years Troutman
who is %, recently successfully pass
ed the state bar examination and on
order of the Supreme Court was ad-
mitted to the bar of the state. Enter
ing the examination with class of
nine, he was one of four who succeed
ed in attaining the marks set by the
state board of law examiners.
'TrOutman came to Montana nine
years ago and entered the state school
for deaf and blind at Boulder In addi-
ton to the usual courses, he studied
music and took correspondence
course in law, which he had not fin
ished at the time he left the school,
about four years ago.
mot content to subsist upon others
young TrOutman became member of
an orchestra, furnishing music for
country dances, and added to his small
earnings by acting as correspondent
for several newspapers. Later he con-
Quoted dances and in this manner
earned enough to enable him to re-
sumo his law studies in the office of a
lawyer friend.
"Tnen he succeeded in his applica-
ton for the bar examination, in which
he made an excellent showing, and
now possesses a certificate of his
right and fitness to practice law"