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[Sherri]

Those of you long-time talking book readers will remember this reader. Just 
passing this along.
Sherri
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From: "Kenneth Chrane" <kenneth.chrane at verizon.net>
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Subject: [nfb-talk] Terry Hayes Sales Dies:


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> Terry Hayes Sales, who recorded more than 900 books for blind, dies at 94,
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> By Paula Burba.
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>
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> Terry Hayes Sales, a singer and actress who had recorded more than 900 
> books
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> for the American Printing House for the Blind, died on Monday at a nursing
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> home in Rowley, Mass. She was 94.
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> Sales moved to Massachusetts from Louisville in August 2009 to be near her
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> son, Michael Sales, who said she died of Alzheimer's disease. In December
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> 1988, Sales was inducted into the American Foundation for the Blind's
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> Talking Book Hall of Fame, one of two living charter members cited for
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> significant achievement in the narration of talking books. Sales had "this
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> remarkable ability to tell a story," according to Steve Mullins, studio
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> director for the American Printing House for the Blind, where Sales did 
> her
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> recordings. "She was very charming." With thousands of books recorded, all
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> of them staying in circulation for many years, narrators developed
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> followers, Mullins said.
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> "People, in some ways, grew up with her," he said.  Among her work are 
> three
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> narrations of "Little Women," as well as most
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> of the Nancy Drew books.
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> The recordings were produced for the National Library Service for the 
> Blind
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> and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library of Congress, which
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> honored Sales in 1998 for her dedicated service of more than 60 years as a
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> narrator.
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> Sales likely was the narrator longest affiliated with the American 
> Printing
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> House for the Blind, Mullins said. She began narrating in 1938,
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> just one year after the printing house released its first talking book,
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> "Gulliver's Travels." In 2006, though she was no longer a regularly
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> scheduled narrator at the printing house, Sales participated in the 75th
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> anniversary celebration and marathon recording session of that book with 
> 44
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> other narrators.
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> Mullins said he was almost certain Sales was the only person to have made
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> the transition from the earliest recordings made on wax through the era of
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> tape and into the current digital age, recording on all mediums.
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> Sales was a high school sophomore when she landed her first professional 
> gig
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> as a staff singer on WBBM radio in her hometown of Chicago. She met
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> Louisville native Stuart Sales while he was a student at the University of
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> Illinois, their son said, and they married in Chicago when she was 19.
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> While her husband later served in the Navy, she did a talk show on WGN in
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> Chicago as well as commercials and serial acting before the couple 
> returned
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> to Louisville.
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> In Louisville, she continued to sing on radio for both WAVE and WHAS.
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> According to her son, she inherited the show Dale Evans did at WHAS after
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> Evans left.
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> She also appeared in some ensemble television casts, and was involved in
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> numerous local theater projects.
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> When she heard about the talking books at the American Printing House for
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> the Blind, her son said she considered it an acting opportunity.
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> Sales also funded the launch of Audio Description at The Kentucky Center 
> for
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> the Performing Arts in 1991 in memory of her husband, who died in 1987. 
> The
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> program provides narrators who broadcast live descriptions of the action
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> onstage to audience members during performances.
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> She also was the voice on the center's 10th anniversary "Tour on Tape," 
> and
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> co-wrote that script.
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> A graveside service is planned for 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday at The Temple
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> cemetery.
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> A memorial service will be held sometime next year, her son said.
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> Herman Meyer & Son funeral home is handling arrangements.
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> Reporter Paula Burba can be reached at (502) 582-4800.
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>
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