[gui-talk] anyone know Woody Anna Dresner?

[Joel Deutsch]

Well, it's certainly quirky, and damn cute. But I wish I knew where she got 
that.
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From: "Doug Lee" <dgl at dlee.org>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] anyone know Woody Anna Dresner?


You tickle a memory from way back at my first NFB convention, in which
someone named Anna Bower, guessed spelling there, won a scholarship.
If I'm not mistaken, Peggy Pinder, now Peggy Eliot, remarked in the
student division meeting that Anna preferred to be called Woody.  It
stuck out in my mind as unique, I guess.  I'm not sure I ever met her
myself though.

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 12:17:42PM -0700, Joel Deutsch wrote:
I have seen this woman on other blind technology mailing lists to which I'm
not subscribed at the moment, but I also feel as if I've seen her posting
here occasionally over the years. Maybe I misremember. Maybe she lurks? I
know she's supposed to have some access tutorials posted on the Web as
podcasts, or some instruction books?

But this seems the most likely list where I could mention that I heard her
on National Public Radio this morning, as the contestant on the word puzzle
segment with crossword puzzle master Will Shortz. Like a lot of NPR
listeners, I hear this every Sunday morning, and I was surprised and
delighted for someone I actually knew, sort of, to pop up as a contestant
who'd won the weekly lottery to be on the air by answering a word puzzle in
email.

Anyway, she did a great job, coming up with correct answers to a series of
word and letter rearrangement problems, hesitating only on one of the entire
series of questions, as I recall. That was a lot of fun. So if anyone knows
her, congratulate her. I'm not sure if the segment is included with the
segments/articles/features NPR keeps on the site for streaming under the
program name (MWeekend Edition Sunday, in this case).!

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