Helen Keller's Teacher Passes On Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, 70, (left), who for forty-Nine years was the companion teacher of Helen Keller, (right), Died Oct. 20th, in her home in Forest Hills, L.l., Mrs. Macy, as a girl of 21, Performed a seeming Miracle when she Taught Miss Keller, who had been Rendered Deaf,-Dumb, and Blind, after an Illness, to Surmount her Handicaps and Carry on A near-to-Normal Existence. October 20, 1936. (Photo by ACME).