[nfbwatlk] Ronnie Milsap Receives Legend Award

[Alco Canfield]

Wow!  A lot of good got done in spite of everything else.

Alco 

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From: nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbwatlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 2:57 PM
To: amcanfield at comcast.net; NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] Ronnie Milsap Receives Legend Award

Alco, your description of the starched blind spinster whose father drove her
around, could have fit several of the rehab teachers who worked for DSB over
the years.
As I said before, my experience at the Seattle training center was a downer.

But one of my high points on the road to Independence and right-thinking, 
was my visit to the Iowa Commission for the Blind back in 1973.   First, the

blind woman who gave us the tour of the building was so professional that I
asked her what her position with the agency was.  She laughed and said, "My
position is that of a student.  I'm attending the adult training center".

As we toured, I was taping interviews with students and staff for my radio
show in Spokane, on KPBX-FM.  It was called, "NFB in Action".

Everyone I spoke with impressed me.  But one young man, just entering
college, had such a positive, can-do attitude, that I have never forgotten
him.
"What are you planning to study in college?"  I asked him.
"Nuclear physics", was his quick response.
"Do you know a blind nuclear physicist?"  I asked in surprise.
"No, but if nobody did anything for the first time, we'd all still be making
brooms, wouldn't we?"

Carl Jarvis




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