Matthew Layton presents Studio 1 - Vision Australia Radio’s weekly look at life from a low vision and blind point of view.

On this week’s show…

A rather remarkable interview with a rather remarkable gentleman.

While studying at Columbia University in the early sixties, my guest on today’s Studio 1, Sanford Greenberg lost his sight to glaucoma at the age of 21.

After six months at home in Buffalo, New York, he went back to Columbia, graduated on time then went onto Harvard where he earned a Masters Degree and a PhD.

After returning to Columbia to get his MBA, he set up a company called EDP - Electronic Data Processing - which developed the computer for Apollo 11’s lunar module.

Since then, on top of multiple notable achievements in business and academia, he has been Director of America’s National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and a longstanding member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Today at the age of eighty, he is the Chair of the Ophthalmology Department at Johns Hopkins University.

Yet, in spite of all these remarkable achievements, he still talks about the fact that at University he met Art Garfunkel - of Simon and Garfunkel fame - and they became best friends.

What follows is a wonderful story from an incredibly successful yet humble and spiritual man

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--[PHOTO CAPTION: Blurry 1970s snap of Studio 1 guest Sandy Greenberg locked in a piggyback-cum-embrace with best friend Art Garfunkel]

--GUESTS AND RESOURCES

Sandy Greenberg’s autobiography “Hello Darkness My Old Friend” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Hello-Darkness-My-Old-Friend/Sanford-D-Greenberg/9781642934977 

Tammey Candeloro - Counselling 4 You WA - 0423 93 15 74

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