[nagdu] PA chapter

Tue Oct 26 00:13:05 UTC 2010

Marion,

You said months ago that you would set up the teleconference and I 
have been waiting on you.

Passle

>Passel,
>    I am available any evening except for Thursdays. I understand 
>that Penns convention is coming up the weekend after next, so I 
>would like to do this soon. Given this information, please set up 
>the teleconference and I will be there!If you need the call-in 
>instructions, please let me know.
>
>Fraternally yours,
>Marion Gwizdala
>
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Passle Helminski" <passle at roadrunner.com>
>To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog 
>Users" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:14 AM
>Subject: [nagdu] PA chapter
>
>>Hi Marion,
>>
>>When are we going to have the phone call to set up a PA chapter?
>>Passle
>>
>>>Marsha,
>>>    Thank you very much for the update. I am pleased that I was 
>>>able to be of assistance to you and that the trip was such a huge 
>>>success. I am also encouraged by your statements about the level 
>>>of support you received from your classmates and instructor, even 
>>>though he was a bit anxious about it all!
>>>    Another effect of this issue is that we have made an excellent 
>>>contact with the Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office and had 
>>>the opportunity to educate the Assistant AG over the Civil Rights 
>>>Division on some issues of service animal use. I sent him some 
>>>documents and he has already given them to the Attorney General. I 
>>>discussed with him our resolution and he told me he was supportive 
>>>of it. Now we need to get a division organized in Penn. and begin 
>>>working on it!
>>>
>>>Fraternally yours,
>>>Marion Gwizdala
>>>
>>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Marsha Drenth" <marsha.drenth at gmail.com>
>>>To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog 
>>>Users'" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>>Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 10:37 PM
>>>Subject: [nagdu] once in a lifetime trip to jail
>>>
>>>>Hi All,
>>>>
>>>>My trip to Jail happened. It was a once in a life time sort of trip. Emma
>>>>was the most well behaved dog ever, and no one at the prison gave us any
>>>>trouble. My professor was a worry wart about it on the way there, mainly
>>>>that the general message that I was permitted in, had not reached 
>>>>the prison
>>>>it self. We met with 4 inmates, who share their stories with us. We were
>>>>also able to ask questions, as well have a tour of the prison. It was in
>>>>total about a 2 mile walk around. On the way there, my professor and I
>>>>shared the access issue with them all, and every single one of them was
>>>>behind me. And knew that even though, granted a small chance, once we
>>>>arrived, I could still be denied, told me later, that they would 
>>>>have stayed
>>>>behind with me, to protest the injustice. I made some great 
>>>>friends from the
>>>>trip with the students. And of course not only did I learn a lot but they
>>>>did too. I am so happy I got to go, now I know what it was like, I would
>>>>have been missing out on a incredible experience. I not only educated the
>>>>prison system, but the other students, and my professor. I have to write up
>>>>a paper for my political science class, and will use that as a journal
>>>>entry. Once I get that done, if anyone wants to read, I will email it to
>>>>them directly.
>>>>
>>>>Thank you, to all of you for the support. Thank you, to Marion, for working
>>>>hard to help the state change their minds.
>>>>
>>>>If I can stress anything to anyone about this trip. Yes all that was
>>>>involved in me actually being able to go, was stressful. Yes, I had to make
>>>>a big stink about it. Yes I stood up for my rights. But see there in that,
>>>>is what it really means to change what it means to be blind. My professor,
>>>>learned more about me and blindness and generally about guide dogs. The
>>>>college learned, that blind people can visit a prison on a field trip. I
>>>>showed the prison system, about civil rights, and about blindness. I showed
>>>>the students about civil rights, standing up for those rights, and a
>>>>invaluable amount of information about blindness and guide dogs. Before all
>>>>of those people had different ideas of a blind person, about 
>>>>guide dogs, and
>>>>maybe about me. Now they do not, and little old me, has changed those
>>>>thoughts. Wow it is incredible what I have done. Never did I think I was
>>>>ever going to be put into such a position. But as blind people, 
>>>>as guide dog
>>>>users, we have/must/should to fight, stand up for our rights every single
>>>>day. So its just all in a days work LOL
>>>>
>>>>Marsha
>>>>
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