[optacon-l] Re: The Optacon User List Activities
- From: "Sherman, Becky" <RebSherman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:51:04 -0800
Hi Judy,
I used my OPTACON all the time for work for many, many years! I got my
OPTQACON teacher's certification in 1986. I did teach two people how to
use the OPTACON.
I love mine.
I remarried and moved to the Seattle area six years ago. I work with
the transition kids, 14 - graduation/21, at the Department of Services
for the blind.
I love to hear from people I've known.
Rebecca Sherman, MA
Transition Specialist, DSB
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[mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of JBliss Judy
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 2:03 PM
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Subject: [optacon-l] Re: The Optacon User List Activities
Dear Lori,
Yes, yes! How wonderful to hear from you, and I remember your class -
another romance, one of several. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying
retirement. I think of myself as semi-retired, although I do still keep
JBliss Low Vision Systems afloat and am very happy to still be working
in the access technology field, and still enjoy meeting wonderful people
(like yourself). Have you been intouch with Ronald, Ireen and Becky (do
you remember her last name). Ah, I wish I had kept some of the Optacon
training records, but we did shred them years ago because of
confidentiality issues.
Great to hear from you.
Judy Adams
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Subject: [optacon-l] Re: The Optacon User List Activities
From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:46:31 -0800
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>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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