[Nfbf-l] Message from Martha Harmon Pardee

[JD Townsend]

Thank you for forwarding this message.  It is a sad story.  I can not count the number of books I have listened to of her voice.

jd

On Nov 26, 2016 11:25 AM, Sherri via Nfbf-l <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> 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 
> > 
> > 
>
> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the 
> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the 
> expectations 
> of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles between blind 
> people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what 
> holds you back. 
>
> Sherri Brun 
> flmom2006 at gmail.com 
> President NFB of Central Florida 
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