[Nfb-history] Russell Kletzing speeches (Anna)

[Kresmer, Anna]

Sorry, Peter. I checked and we do not have copies of these speeches available in audio. If we do put them on the website though, we'll make sure they are in an accessible text format. I can speak with Ed Morman about the possibility of recording audio versions of them, but I think getting a text version online is more likely to happen.

Have a great day,
Anna Kresmer

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Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 09:20:47 -0500
From: "Peter Donahue" <pdonahue2 at satx.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-history] Russell Kletzing speeches (Anna Kresmer)
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Hello Anna and everyone,

    Will you see if there is audio of these speeches available for inclusion 
on the NFB Web site too? Thanks for your great research.

Peter Donahue


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From: "Kresmer, Anna" <AKresmer at nfb.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2012 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-history] Russell Kletzing speeches (Anna Kresmer)


Dear NFB history enthusiasts,

>From what I can tell from the records in the tenBroek Papers, it appears 
that Russell Kletzing did not give any banquet speeches. However, he did 
give a presidential report at the 1964 NFB convention entitled "The State of 
Our Union". An abridged version of this speech is already available online 
at http://www.nfb.org/Images/nfb/Publications/bm/bm64/64BM-SEP.html#A8. If 
anyone is interested in seeing the full version of this speech, please let 
me know and I will send you a copy.

I also discovered two other interesting speeches given by Kletzing, which 
may be of interest to fellow history buffs. The first is called "From Here 
to Equality", which was published in the October 1962 edition of The Blind 
American during his presidency. The second is called "Progress through 
Internal Federationism", which was given by Kletzing in the Spring of 1967 
in his capacity as treasurer for the International Federation of the Blind. 
If anyone is interested in reading these speeches, please let me know and I 
will send you a copy.

I will be submitting all three of these speeches for possible addition to 
the NFB website, however I cannot say when or if they will be put up. Our 
illustrious library director, Ed Morman, is currently enjoying a long and 
much deserved vacation, so this decision will have to wait until after he 
returns.

Have a lovely afternoon,
Anna

Anna K. Kresmer, MSLS
Archivist
Jacobus tenBroek Library
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