[Nfbf-l] Message from Martha Harmon Pardee

[Sherri]

I saw this on another list.  Martha Harmon Pardee is a noted Talking Book 
reader and has been a guest at our NFB of Florida conventions several times. 
She sent the following message and I hope you will honor her request. Thank 
you.

Sherri Brun

> Hi friends,
>
> Please excuse the group/impersonal nature of this text, but I'm reaching 
> out in all humility with a request from folks like you who have been so 
> encouraging over the years.
>
> I won't bore you with all of the sordid details, but last week, as a 
> result of just feeling misunderstood and extremely frustrated, I resigned 
> as a narrator.  It was an impetuous and regretful decision made in the 
> heat of passion and I regretted it almost immediately.
>
> Within days, I asked the owner of the studio from my job back. I explained 
> that the thought of not having a relationship with people like you was too 
> much for me to contemplate. I have spent just three years short of half of 
> my life narrating audio books for NLS.  I love it and I love you and I 
> want to keep doing it.
>
> So the favor I'm asking, right before a very busy weekend, is if you feel 
> so inclined to write to our head of human resources here and express your 
> desire for me to be kept on as a narrator, I would really appreciate it. 
> Also, if you wouldn't mind forwarding this request to anyone else who 
> might be in support of my employment.
> Melissa Savage is our human resource person and her email address is 
> msavage.tbpi at gmail.com
>
> My hope is that positive words from the people who matter most in this 
> operation, which is to say all of you, might help Mr. Gregg Savage to 
> forgive me my outburst and allow me to continue doing the work I love.
>
>
> Your humble servant,
> Martha Harmon Pardee
>
>

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Sherri Brun
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President NFB of Central Florida
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