[Nfb-idaho] Brett Windchester my memories of.

[Bill Morgan]

Thank you,
Bill
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From: "Ramona Walhof" <rwnfbi at q.com>
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> That was nice, Bill.  I forwarded it to Marie.
> Ramona
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> From: "Bill Morgan" <billmorgan124 at cableone.net>
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> Cc: "Raelene Thomas" <Raelene.Thomas at icbvi.idaho.gov>
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> Subject: [Nfb-idaho] Brett Windchester my memories of.
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>>I met Brett and Marie shortly after moving here to Boise from the Bend 
>>Oregon area in 1982.
>> At that time Brett was working for I believe A.T.T here in downtown 
>> Boise.
>> Marie was just getting started working in the banking industry if I am 
>> correct.
>>
>> I remember so well when Brett would come in to the Cafeteria down stairs 
>> in the Blind Commission almost daily dressed up in his suit and tie 
>> carrying his brief-case everywhere he would go.
>>
>> After several months of Brett coming in all dressed up with no place to 
>> go, I asked him to sit down with me and have a cup of coffee with me.
>> Of course Brett didn't drink coffee, he was a big tea guy.
>>
>> We had sat and talked many times over the months after he was laid off at 
>> A.T.T.
>> We hit it off for some strange reason.
>> Brett as we all know was the huge brain that happened to be carried 
>> around by this guy named Brett Winchester!
>>
>> I had heard a few days before that the guy who was working in the radio 
>> reading room was gone, and they were looking for a replacement.
>> That day when we sat down to talk, I told Brett what I had just heard 
>> about that job, and that it was now open.
>> Brett didn't think he wanted to do that, but I said to him. "Brett, why 
>> not go upstairs and ask about it?"
>> Aren't you really tired of getting all dressed up, and having no place to 
>> take your brief-case?"
>>
>> Brett then told me "Alright, I'll go upstairs and see what it is about, 
>> but I don't know if I want to do that?"
>>
>> The rest is history, as we know. Not only did Brett take the job, what a 
>> job he did with that job. Not just radio reading of the local newspaper 
>> and all the adds, but all the tapes of books for blind students he got 
>> volunteers to read.
>> He also got Braille produced long before we had a Braille Embosser.
>> There was so much Brett did behind the seen, most of us will never have 
>> any idea what a asset he was working out of that back hallway.
>>
>> I will never forget his sense of humor, and his intellect, and mastery of 
>> so many different tecknowledages.
>>
>> We had many many conversations back there in his office.
>>
>> Of course always ready and willing to do anything he could was Brett's 
>> faithful quiet helper always there no matter what, was Don.
>>
>> Brett thank you, you helped so many blind people in the state of Idaho, 
>> and never said a word about it.
>>
>> Brett and Marie were also very long term faithful and very active 
>> outstanding members of the National Federation of the Blind here in 
>> Boise.
>>
>> Thank you Marie for all those many hours you put in behind the wheel 
>> getting people where they needed to go.
>>
>> I will miss Brett greatly! As I sit here writing I can't help think that 
>> Brett and Becky were the first two people teaching me about what a thing 
>> was called "A computer."
>>
>> Thanks again Brett.
>>
>> Bill Morgan
>>
>>
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