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The Guardian - UK
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David Zeitlyn

BIZARRE: Alice zeitlyn obituary - What They Never Told You

As a mature student, Alice Zeitlyn learned to read and write braille in order to help a fellow student, and later transcribed texts for the RNIB and taught braille to adults
As a mature student, Alice Zeitlyn learned to read and write braille in order to help a fellow student, and later transcribed texts for the RNIB and taught braille to adults Photograph: none

My mother, Alice Zeitlyn, who has died aged 100, was a charity volunteer for a huge range of causes in Cambridge, and the founder of the BB Zeitlyn Trust and Psychotherapy Training Fund, which continues to support trainee psychotherapists.

Depicted in an embroidered panel displayed in Cambridge Library celebrating “Cambridge Women 1918-2018”, Alice was made MBE in 2009 in recognition of her many volunteering activities.

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