[optacon-l] Re: The Optacon User List Activities
- From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:46:31 -0800
Dear Judy,
I remember you very well from optacon training. I attended in the fall of
1977, and in fact the first day of my training was on Halloween, and TSI
held a pumpkin-decorating contest that day.
I recall that Martha was my teacher for much of the time along with Gail,
you, and Jackie Wheeler.
I attended the course at TSI, staying at the Flamingo, with Ronald Goodman
from New York, Becky from Idaho, Ireen Blum? and Susan Jones. I also
attended with Mike Castner, and we were married around a year and a half
later. He never used his optacon that much, so I always tell people tha I
got an extra optacon and he got a wife.
I used an optacon with a MagCarad machine to do word processing at UC
Berkeley for around five years. I did not use one at my other jobs, but
still use one extensively at home for reading and sorting some mail, signing
things, reading labels and recipes on boxes and cans, and checking words in
books for proofreading books for Bookshare--a volunteer activity. I also
use it for many other small tasks too numerous to mention.
Mike retired in early 2005 and I retired several months later. Life is
good!
It is great to hear from you on this list.
Lori Wyant Castner
----- Original Message -----
From: "JBliss Judy" <judy@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 11:16 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Re: The Optacon User List Activities
> Dear Maureen,
>
> Yes, it's Gayle Brugler. Martha McLaughlin is a retired RN who was an
> Optacon teacher with me for many years; we went to Spain together in the
> 80's for a teachers' training course we offered through ONCE (she had done
> a training session there a few years before with Nancy Tavis). Mary Lou
> Ramsey was a teacher in the first group, and had left teaching before I
> came - but she was the teacher who told me about Telesensory. Mary Lou
> went on to become an excellent dentist and is now retired. Martha
> continued to work for the Stanford Blood Bank after she left Telesensory,
> and retired a few years ago. I really loved and respected the Optacon
> teachers at Telesensory and the ones I met around the country in my
> travels for work.
>
> Thanks for your comments!
>
> Judy Adams
>
> ----- Original Message ---------------
>
> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: The Optacon User List Activities
> From: "maureen hogg" <m.e.hogg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:41:06 -0700
> To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>Hello Judy:
>>I'm a bit late in contributing to this discusssion due to busy holidays.
>>I
>>read with interest your reference to Gayle, formerly a teacher at TSI.
>>Would
>>that be Gayle Brugler? I believe she coordinated the on sit teachers at
>>TSI
>>when I attended training in July 1974. My instructors were Martha and Mary
>>Lou, but I couldn't tell you their last names after 35 years.
>>
>>Give my best to Gayle and her husband Steve.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Maureen
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "JBliss Judy" <judy@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 12:16 PM
>>Subject: [optacon-l] Re: The Optacon User List Activities
>>
>>
>>> Dear Merrill,
>>>
>>> Great to hear from you. I'll pass your comments on to Gayle, who last
>>> year hosted a reunion of the Optacon teachers in the SF Bay area. Their
>>> house is amazing - they have a wonderful antique juke box that is in
>>> good
>>> working order. She and her husband Steve, who was an engineer at
>>> Telesensory are retired, but for a while Gayle had an antique business.
>>>
>>> What are you doing these days? Still in New Jersey?
>>>
>>> Judy Adams
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ---------------
>>>
>>> Subject: [optacon-l] Re: The Optacon User List Activities
>>> From: "Merrill Woolnough" <merrill.louise@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:02:05 -0600
>>> To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>>Yes, Flamingo sounds right. I must have been there some time in 1974.
>>>>Linda
>>>>did my orientation. John did my instruction. We made ice cream at Gail's
>>>>house and had wonderful lunches of avocadoes outside. It was winter back
>>>>in
>>>>NJ so this was quite grand.
>>>>
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