GE0013@SIUCVMB.BITNET (Roy Miller) (07/13/90)
Index Number: 9098
I attended the SHHH meetings (Self Help for Hard of Hearing People)
in Little Rock, Arkansas, a week ago and participated in a very
special rendezvous, which I thought I would mention here on this
conference. Late Saturday evening a group of people got together
in a room in the Capitol Hotel and "talked" for several hours like
typical keyboard junkies -- banging away on a couple of laptop
computers. Although the people in the room had come from distant
parts of the U.S. (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Oklahoma,
and California), and although they were all hearing impaired to one
degree or another, neither cultural distance nor deafness
interfered with the communications and comradery that evening. I
had not met any of the others face-to-face before that night, but
had seen their posts here on this echo. It was really exciting to
meet the "faces behind the words," and I loved every minute of it.
Thanks for the "special rendezvous" to my CMC (and now "personal")
friends -- Jack O'keefe, Ann Stalnaker, Wayne Roorda, and Frank
Hicinbothem. IT WAS FUN!!!! (And maybe nexy year we can get
several others to join us.)
Roy Miller
The Professor Who Never Listens,
But Whose Eyes Hear A Lot