Bill.Higgins@p17.f122.n249.z1.fidonet.org (Bill Higgins) (10/05/90)
Index Number: 10885 Hi Ed, Allow me to quote the letter you mailed on 30-Sep-90 EA> From: eraEd Arnoldcar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) Date: 30 Sep 90 04:17:32 GMT EA> Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR, Boulder, CO EA> EA> Index Number: 10678 EA> EA> writes: >>Index Number: 10537 >> >>I am adressing this to you becasue you have been kind enough to be >>the ice breaker for me on the SIG. I would like to address the topic >>of marriage etc. One of the biggest griefs in my life is that it is >>felt by my community that I must NOT marry given my condition. There >>is no one that will even make me an introduction. EA> Well, Aaron: EA> EA> I assume you mean that no ABLEd person will make you an introduction. EA> That's their problem. EA> EA> Let me tell you about a little book (actually, more like a pamphlet) I EA> just read. The book is entitled "Circles of Friends", by Robert and EA> Martha Perske, and was published by Abingdon Press (Nashville), 1988. EA> EA> Story 4 in the book, "Friends Circle to Save a Life," tells the story EA> of Judith Snow. I happened to meet Ms. Snow last year and her EA> disability is quite obvious: she doesn't move much of anything below EA> her neck, except for one of her thumbs that operates the motor on her EA> chair. How did you come to meet Ms. Snow. I have heard her talk on several occasions here in Kingston Canada as I'm a member of the Board of Direct of the ILRC. I've found her views to be very interesting and informative. EA> EA> Yet, Ms. Snow was engaged in 1987, and is now married. This happened EA> because she has broad-reaching interests and is involved in virtually EA> everything, in spite of her disabilities. The key is involvement. Indeed, involvement is the key to staying active and to keep reminding people out there that we do exist and that our needs are just as many as abled bodied persons. EA> EA> Let me tell you a little secret. I am ABLEd, but I work with a EA> committee that includes a woman who is a C5-C6 quad. I like her a EA> lot. I would like to ask her out, and I think she might take me up on EA> it, but ... I'm already married. So, such things aren't impossible; EA> it's just a matter of meeting enough persons who are open enough to EA> see through the disability. Does this quad have a link to the disabled users echo?? I'd like to strike up a thread with her. TTFN!! (Just being social!!) -- Uucp: ..!{decvax,oliveb}!bunker!hcap!hnews!249!122.17!Bill.Higgins Internet: Bill.Higgins@p17.f122.n249.z1.fidonet.org
era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) (10/09/90)
Index Number: 10942 In article <14723@bunker.UUCP> Bill.Higgins@p17.f122.n249.z1.fidonet.org writes: >Index Number: 10885 > > How did you come to meet Ms. Snow. I have heard her talk on several > occasions here in Kingston Canada as I'm a member of the Board of Direct > of the ILRC. I've found her views to be very interesting and informative. Judith Snow is one of the driving forces behind the Centre for Integrated Education and Community at 24 Thome Crescent in Toronto. This is an organization that includes other well-known individuals, such as Marsha Forest, who has given a number of seminars here in the Denver area, in the areas of inclusion/Circles of Friends/MAPS/etc. On one of the occasions when Marsha Forest was in this area, Judith Snow and her husband came too. I heard her speak at an event sponsored by ARC/Colorado, and had a chance to briefly speak with her afterwards. > EA> Let me tell you a little secret. I am ABLEd, but I work with a > EA> committee that includes a woman who is a C5-C6 quad. I like her a > EA> lot. I would like to ask her out, and I think she might take me up on > EA> it, but ... I'm already married. So, such things aren't impossible; > EA> it's just a matter of meeting enough persons who are open enough to > EA> see through the disability. > > Does this quad have a link to the disabled users echo?? I'd like to strike > up a thread with her. Sorry, Bill, she does not! Sharon has a computer in her office, and on two or three occasions, I've encouraged her to get herself a modem and terminal emulator, so she can get online and meet some new people. (In fact, she could get a modem free from the Colorado Assistive Technology Project, so it wouldn't cost much.) But she hasn't quite gotten up enough steam yet to get online. I think she suffers from a mild case of Technostress/Technophobia. If you would like to encourage her via a friendly letter, please do. I'm not sure she'd appreciate my posting her address on BBSes, but if you'd like to mail me a sealed note I could send her, that would be fine. My home address is 2005 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, CO 80303. Her full name is Sharon Mikrut. -- Ed Arnold * NCAR * POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000 * 303-497-1253(voice) 303-497-1137(fax) * era@ncar.ucar.edu [128.117.64.4] * era@ncario.BITNET era@ncar.UUCP * Edward.Arnold@f809.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG