[nfb-db] Inspirational DB people past and Present

Thu Jul 19 03:15:45 UTC 2012

Hi,

I would like to let everyone know that the people on this list are a source of inspiration to me. Thank you all!

Thank you so much,

Keitei Colton
555 South 200 East
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
kekiangeles111 at gmail.com
435-901-4265

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>   1. inspirational DB people past or present (Janice Toothman)
>   2. Re: inspirational DB people past or present (RJ Sandefur)
>   3. Re: inspirational DB people past or present (The Pawpower Pack)
>   4. Re: inspirational DB people past or present (Sammons, Elizabeth)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:54:00 -0400
> From: Janice Toothman <janice.toothman at verizon.net>
> To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [nfb-db] inspirational DB people past or present
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> I was thinking about the first DB person I knew of was Helen Keller. I 
> had read her autobiography as a child. I had taught myself the manual 
> alphabet and memorized the Braille alphabet from a Braille alphabet card 
> even though I didn't know how to produces the Braille. I was inspired by 
> her for several reasons. She was a woman living in a time when most 
> women go to college let alone earn a degree. She did. She meet world 
> leaders and traveled internationally. If we think of the problems 
> associated with travel today just think late 1900 century and early 2000 
> century. She did these things as a deaf-blind woman as a result of 
> contracting rubella.
> I still admire her courage.
> Does anyone else have a DB person that has inspired or mentored them 
> past or present that they would be willing to share with the list?
> Janice
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:12:33 -0400
> From: "RJ Sandefur" <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com>
> To: "NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List" <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] inspirational DB people past or present
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> Janice, Amanda my girlfriend is an inspiration to me. In 99, Amanda had to 
> have a brain tumer removed, and in so doing, she lost some of her memory. 
> She also lost all of the sight in her right eye, and her CP has goten worse 
> to the point her mother has to care for her. I have a sighted deaf friend 
> who helps me help her with her vocabulary, and with each passing day, she 
> gets better. She has a sorenson video phone, and we were talking on it tday, 
> and she was telling me about her operation. People tell me I need to find 
> someone else if I wanted to be happy, that Amanda would never be able to 
> have children of her own, but that doesn't mater to me. We saperated for a 
> time, because I told her I wasn't hapy, because at the time, comunication 
> was really bad. However, today on our phone call, I told her I was sorry and 
> that I was not shure if she still loved me, and she said "RJ, I still love 
> you." RJ
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janice Toothman" <janice.toothman at verizon.net>
> To: "NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List" <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 7:54 PM
> Subject: [nfb-db] inspirational DB people past or present
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> 
>> I was thinking about the first DB person I knew of was Helen Keller. I had 
>> read her autobiography as a child. I had taught myself the manual alphabet 
>> and memorized the Braille alphabet from a Braille alphabet card even though 
>> I didn't know how to produces the Braille. I was inspired by her for 
>> several reasons. She was a woman living in a time when most women go to 
>> college let alone earn a degree. She did. She meet world leaders and 
>> traveled internationally. If we think of the problems associated with 
>> travel today just think late 1900 century and early 2000 century. She did 
>> these things as a deaf-blind woman as a result of contracting rubella.
>> I still admire her courage.
>> Does anyone else have a DB person that has inspired or mentored them past 
>> or present that they would be willing to share with the list?
>> Janice
>> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:30:58 -0500
> From: The Pawpower Pack <pawpower4me at gmail.com>
> To: NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List <nfb-db at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] inspirational DB people past or present
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> I read a book on Bookshare.  It was called "Walking Free; the Nellie  
> Zimmerman Story."
> It was about a DB woman who was placed in an institution after the  
> death of her father.  The reason she was institutionalized was that  
> nobody else in her family could communicate with her.  She remained  
> there from 1958 until 1976.  Eighteen years of imprisonment for the  
> crime of being deafblind.
> 
> She was discovered by someone who worked with deaf people in the  
> institution.  She was soon free.
> 
> Nellie was in her 70's when she walked away from the institution.  But  
> she didn't let that stop her.  She went to college, got a job, and  
> fell in love.
> 
> It's really a great story.
> If you are interested in her story, you can find the book on Bookshare.
> 
> Rox and the Kitchen Bitches:
> Bristol, Mill'E, Laveau, Baylee,!
> 
> "Dance, even if you have to warn others to get out of the way first."
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 12:52:25 +0000
> From: "Sammons, Elizabeth" <Elizabeth.Sammons at rsc.ohio.gov>
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> Cc: "Bachtel, Betsy" <Betsy.Bachtel at rsc.ohio.gov>
> Subject: Re: [nfb-db] inspirational DB people past or present
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> Hi, Janice and all list friends,
> 
> As an FYI, my mother was an army kid in Japan during the early 1950s, and she got to meet Helen Keller then.
> 
> When I was growing up blind, I went to a blind camp, Camp Wapanacki in Vermont. We had 2 deaf/blind girls in my cabin, and I felt sorry I cold not communicate. One of the counselors took the time to teach me the manual alphabet, and I actually was able to communicate a little with them afterwards. Looking back, I laugh, because it simply never occurred to me that there could be a barrier I couldn't overcome, I just thought of them as kids I wanted to know. I think I was ten, and I never forgot the alphabet, and when my sighted/hearing daughter was little, I also taught her the alphabet so we could have a silent conversation when walking, etc.. So that's my story and the inspiration were the two girls, Janine and Jamie, that I was able to talk with, plus the caring counselor who believed we could do it.
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> 
> Sincerely,
> Elizabeth
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