[Nfbf-l] Message from Martha Harmon Pardee

[Holly Idler Ryan]

How many have written? If I write a letter, will mine be the only one?
Just asking,
Holly

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> On Nov 28, 2016, at 3:03 AM, Sherri via Nfbf-l <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Just be sure and write in her behalf. Thanks so much!
> Sherri
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "JD Townsend" <townsend.lcsw at gmail.com>
> To: "Sherri via Nfbf-l" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: "Sherri" <flmom2006 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, November 27, 2016 7:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Message from Martha Harmon Pardee
> 
> 
> 
> 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
>> NFBF Newsline Marketer
>> Phone: 877-334-2069
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