[nagdu] Introduction

Julie Phillipson jbrew48 at verizon.net
Thu Aug 18 16:05:08 UTC 2011


hi Maryland nice to meet you.  My name is Julie and my dog is a male yellow 
lab from Guiding Eyes who just joined me in April named Viggo.  I am the 
affiliate secretary for NYS.  Welcome to the list and to the affiliate. 
Hope to see you in Sept. if you can make it to the state convention.
Julie Phillipson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "marilyn" <t21114 at optonline.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
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Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 11:21 AM
Subject: [nagdu] Introduction


> Hi Everyone,
> My name is Marilyn and I have a guide dog named Anna. She is from GDF.
> I work as an Independent Living Skills Specialist doing Advocacy/Outreach. 
> I also run a support group at my agency for people with all disabilities. 
> I  teach disabled teenagers for a local high school Independent Living 
> Skills during the school year for one morning a week. I am a Lion and 
> volunteer for the NY Organ donor Network.  Tomorrow I am going to Rhode 
> Island for a few days. I am on vacation for this week and part of next. 
> Today i am getting together with 18 friends . Most are blind but we have a 
> few sighted coming. I go to a social group out east on Long Island on 
> Mondays so I don't work that day unless there is something special going 
> on at my agency. A new blind support group has formed  in our county. I 
> was there guest speaker . Right now I am taking on a cause trying to keep 
> Talking Books on Long Island. they want to send 4,000 patrons from here to 
> Manhattan who already can't handle there own patrons. I have a petition 
> going around and last week had over 800 signatures.
> we will be doing some media coverage in Sept. to bring more attention to 
> this. Some people told me I am wasting my time but you don't know until 
> you try. This all came about because a blind veteran called my agency and 
> said no one cares. I said I care.
>
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