[Blindtlk] Introduction.

[Steve P. Deeley]

You sound like a remarkable lady!Steve
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Mc Gee" <mmcatitude at gmail.com>
To: <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Introduction.


> Hello, Fellow Federationists!
>
>            I'm new to this net, so I want to introduce myself and ask any
> of you who wish to do so, to either post a response or email me, as I'd 
> like
> to take my desire to correspond into the twenty-first century.
>
>            I practice law in Des Moines, Iowa and have done so since 1992,
> when I became licensed.  Prior to that, I worked for an insurance company
> because I had to work for the money to pay for the law school without 
> taking
> loans.  Before that, I trained at the Iowa Orientation Center when Kenneth
> Jernigan was Director there.
>
>            It might be interesting to note that, when I was in 
> Orientation,
> we had no computers-we had IBM Selectric typewriters.  At the insurance
> company, I used one of those MagCard machines to do policy administration.
> The Kurzweil Reader was only an experiment then.
>
>            I had the segregated education of the Iowa Braille School for
> ten years, then finished public school with no accommodation whatsoever.
>
>            As you can tell, I'm fairly "old".  Consequently, I wrote a
> narrative for the Iowa History of Blindness project, which the Department 
> is
> currently doing.  Isn't the N.F.B. working on something similar?
>
>            Believe it or not, I don't own a cell phone!  Can you believe
> it?  I just don't see the economic feasibility of it, since we have to 
> keep
> phones turned off in court, etc.  I guess I figure, if someone wants to 
> find
> me, they can leave a message on my regular phone and I'll return the call.
>
>            Since I have some vision, I never learned Braille at the 
> Braille
> School.  Sounds strange, doesn't it?  Anyway, I learned it at the
> Orientation Center, but let it go over the years.  This winter, I'm
> relearning it so I can actually read it fast.
>
>            I'm currently Chair of the Access Advisory Board of the City of
> Des Moines.  The Board's function is to advise the Mayor, City Council, 
> and
> the public with respect to accessibility matters in City programs and
> facilities.  Right now, we're working with the Art Center and I.D.B. to 
> post
> a tactile map at the entrance to a sculpture park so that blind people 
> will
> be able to get a full perspective of the park when they visit it.
>
>            There's one aspect of the art park that I haven't really 
> figured
> out yet.  We're not supposed to touch the art.  The excuse is that the oil
> in human skin will damage the finish.  What?  This doesn't make sense to 
> me
> because I can testify that the birds touch the art and they leave deposits
> behind that you'd think would be more damaging than skin oil.  Go figure!
>
>            The assistive tech I use includes a Freedom Scientific Topaz
> CCTV, ZoomText with Speech, and some kind of genius device that lets me 
> use
> the Topaz screen as a monitor for two computers.  Michael Barber and 
> Curtis
> Chong know everything there is to know about this tech stuff, believe me!
>
>            I live only a few blocks from the I.D.B., so I walk there to
> check out and return library books.
>
>            As I said, I'd be interested in hearing from any of you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mary L. McGee, Attorney
>
> mmcatitude at gmail.com
>
> mlmcgee at q.com
>
>
>
>
>
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