APH Corporate Memory Project

Recording
2000.75.1-2
Tina Lou Wallace: An Interview with Andy Chappell, recorded November 4, 1995 [Sound recording]
Digital sound reproduction made April 2000 of a recorded 1995 interview of Tina Lou Wallace, retired APH proofreader, with interviewer Andy Chappell, an APH narrator. The original recording was made on an audiocassette tape. Tina Lou Wallace, who b... View Full Record
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2000.54
Interview with June Morris, APH Executive Vice President
June Morris, Executive Vice President of APH from 1989-1996, retired on December 31, 1996. She talks about her college degrees, employment, and the highlights of her career at APH. The interview by Scott Blome provided supplemental information gath... View Full Record
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2006.13.1
Hilda Caton interview [Sound recording]
Hilda Caton talks about her work in the Educational Research Department at the American Printing House for the Blind, beginning in 1970 through the 1980s. During this time, she supervised research for and development of several braille projects, incl... View Full Record
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2006.13.2
Waunda Cox interview [Sound recording]
Waunda Cox talks about her work as a tactile graphics tooler, braille transcriber and copyholder at the American Printing House for the Blind. She discusses new technology used in braille and tactile graphics production, including the use of compute... View Full Record
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2006.13.4
Louis Kraus interview [Sound recording]
Louis Kraus talks about his work at the American Printing House for the Blind from 1937 until his retirement as Machine Shop Supervisor in 1981. The Machine Shop primarily maintained plant equipment and provided other maintenance services, including... View Full Record
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2006.13.3
Carson Y. Nolan interview [Sound recording]
Carson Y. Nolan, retired APH President, talks about his work at the American Printing House for the Blind, which began in 1957 when he became director of the Educational Research Department. He mentions research projects (braille reading, map symbols... View Full Record
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2006.13.5
Charlie Norman interview [Sound recording]
Charlie Norman talks about his work in the Large Type Department of the American Printing House for the Blind, where he worked as a supervisor in the printing press room from 1970 until his retirement in 1990. He describes plate set-up, use of the pr... View Full Record
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2006.13.6
June Morris interview [Sound recording]
June Morris, retired APH Executive Vice President, talks about her work at the American Printing House for the Blind. She describes the Educational Research Department, which she directed; its organization and some of the department's research and pr... View Full Record
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2006.13.7
Bob Phelps interview [Sound recording]
Bob Phelps talks about his work at the American Printing House for the Blind, from 1963 until his retirement as manager of Technical Research in 2002. He describes electronic projects that he worked on, including installing and maintaining equipment... View Full Record
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2006.13.8
Betty Hardin interview [Sound recording]
Betty Hardin, retired APH Tape Duplication Supervisor, talks about her work at the American Printing House for the Blind. She describes manufacturing processes for Talking Book production from 1967, when she started working at APH, until 2004, the ye... View Full Record
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2006.13.9
John Siems interview [Sound recording]
John Siems talks about his work at the American Printing House for the Blind, primarily in the Data Processing Department. He describes the introduction of computers at APH in the 1960s for braille transcription and production and explains the role o... View Full Record
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2006.13.10
Terry Hayes Sales interview [Sound recording]
Terry Hayes Sales talks about her experiences as a Talking Book narrator at the American Printing House for the Blind. In 1938, when she began her narrating career, recordings were made on wax masters. She describes working in the APH studios and the... View Full Record
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2006.13.11a
Irene Moore interview [Sound recording]
Irene Moore, retired APH press operator, talks about her work at the American Printing House for the Blind. From 1966 until her retirement in 1993, Moore worked primarily with large type presses. She also describes using a clamshell press in braille... View Full Record
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2006.13.11b
Verna Bell interview [Sound recording]
Verna Bell talks about working as a stereograph operator at the American Printing House for the Blind from 1957 until her retirement in the 1970s. She describes stereotyping and correcting braille printing plates for use on the presses. She also talk... View Full Record
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2006.13.11c
Margaret (Peggy) Cunningham interview [Sound recording]
Margaret (Peggy) Cunningham, 2001 APH retiree, talks about working in the Accounts Payable office at the American Printing House for the Blind. She also describes working at the switchboard and assisting with fundraising mailings.... View Full Record
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2006.13.12a
Mary Lou Monroe interview [Sound recording]
Mary Lou Monroe talks about her work at the American Printing House for the Blind from 1959 until her retirement in 2002. She describes collating and binding in braille production and working as a copyholder in proofreading. She also discusses produc... View Full Record
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2006.13.12b
Carole Jones interview [Sound recording]
Carole Jones talks about her work as a braille proofreader at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH). She was hired at APH in 1977 and retired in 1993. She proofread materials in Nemeth Code, as well as other braille materials. She describes... View Full Record
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2006.13.12c
Bonnie Williamson interview [Sound recording]
Bonnie Williamson, retired APH Braille Production Supervisor, talks about working at the American Printing House for the Blind during the 1960s until her retirement in 2005. She describes stereograph operator and braille transcriber training and the... View Full Record
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2006.13.13a
Loretta Curry interview [sound recording]
Loretta Curry talks about working at the American Printing House for the Blind from 1970 until her retirement in 1999. She describes braille bookbinding, silk screening, braille typesetting, making page layouts for large type books, and using a Heide... View Full Record
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2006.13.13b
Beverly Hassan interview [Sound recording]
Beverly Hassan talks about working in various departments at the American Printing House for the Blind. She describes using hard record presses for Talking Book production when she began at APH in 1954 and other jobs that she held in the company unti... View Full Record
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2006.13.13c
Betty Wommack interview [Sound recording]
Betty Wommack talks about working as Assistant Braille Editor at the American Printing House for the Blind from 1955 to 1960.... View Full Record
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2006.13.14a
Flora Long interview [Sound recording]
Flora Long talks about working in the Shipping Department at the American Printing House for the Blind. She describes the packing, receiving, and shipping processes. She also talks about earlier work at APH as a braille press operator (1973) using cl... View Full Record
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2006.13.14b
Ted Herps interview [Sound recording]
Theodore (Ted) Herps talks about working in the Machine Shop at the American Printing House for the Blind from 1952 until his retirement in 1993. Machine Shop employees maintained plant machinery and made braille slates. Herps also talks about workin... View Full Record
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2006.13.14c
Jim Hill interview [Sound recording]
Jim Hill began working at the American Printing House for the Blind in 1962. He describes the departments under his supervision: Housekeeping, Security, and Slate (Braille), and describes in detail the making of braille slates. Also mentioned are the... View Full Record
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2006.13.15a
Albert Jarboe interview [Sound recording]
Albert Jarboe, retired APH employee, talks about his work experiences at the American Printing House for the Blind. Hired in 1958, Jarboe worked primarily in Talking Book production, where he set up and ran record presses. Mention is made of a Banbur... View Full Record
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2006.13.15b
Fred Tumbrink interview [Sound recording]
Fred Tumbrink talks about working as a machinist in the Maintenance Department of the American Printing House for the Blind from 1941 until his retirement in 1986. He mentions welding frames for braillewriters, repairing stitching machines for the Bi... View Full Record
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2006.13.15c
Milton Metz interview [Sound recording]
Milton Metz talks about his experiences as a narrator for the American Printing House for the Blind, where he began reading Talking Books in 1946. He describes early wax recordings, and the teamwork between the narrator and the monitor. He also recal... View Full Record
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2006.13.16a
Fred Gissoni interview [Sound recording]
Fred Gissoni talks about working at the American Printing House for the Blind as a customer service specialist. He joined the company in 1988 as the first technical support representative to APH customers and, in 1993, developed and organized Custome... View Full Record
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2006.13.16b
Mary Lee Frye interview [Sound recording]
Mary Lee Frye, retired APH copyholder, talks about working at the American Printing House for the Blind from 1968 to 2004. She describes working in APH Braille Production with braille proofreaders and talks about running a proofing press when she fi... View Full Record
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2006.13.16c
Naomi Page interview [Sound recording]
Naomi Page, retired APH Housekeeping Supervisor, talks about working at the American Printing House for the Blind from the 1940s until her retirement in 1973.... View Full Record
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2006.13.17a
Anne Harlan interview [Sound recording]
Anne Harlan talks about working in the Talking Book Studio at the American Printing House for the Blind, where she began working as a monitor in 1978. She describes the teamwork that goes on between monitors, narrators, and proofreaders. She also tal... View Full Record
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2006.13.17b
Raymond Randles interview [Sound recording]
Raymond Randles talks about working in the Talking Book Studio at the American Printing House for the Blind, where he retired as Studio Supervisor in 1999. He describes proofreading of Talking Books, his first job when he came to APH in 1973, under t... View Full Record
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2006.13.18
Robert Steffen interview [Sound recording]
Robert (Bob) Steffen talks about working in the Educational Aids Department at the American Printing House for the Blind since 1970. He describes changes in production processes, including the making and painting of globes and maps and the silk scree... View Full Record
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2006.13.19
Ronald Gadson interview [Sound recording]
Ronald (Ron) Gadson, APH Maintenance Division Manager, talks about working at the American Printing House for the Blind, where he began as a machinist in the Machine Shop in 1965. He describes machinery that maintenance employees have worked on over... View Full Record
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2006.13.20
Gary Jones interview [Sound recording]
Gary Jones, who retired from the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 2004, talks about working as a proofreader in the company's Talking Book Studio and about checking recorded materials and repaired braillewriters in the Quality Control D... View Full Record
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2006.13.21
Dale Carter Cooper interview
Dale Carter Cooper talks about her work as a Talking Book narrator at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), where she started recording in 1952. She describes the variety of books that she read, and some of the challenges of narrating. She... View Full Record
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2006.13.22
Janet Williams interview [Sound recording]
Janet Williams talks about her work at the American Printing House for the Blind, where she retired as a braille proofreader in 2006. She describes the proofreading process, types of materials being proofread, and mentions supervisors, copyholders, a... View Full Record
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2006.13.23
Jack Decker interview [Sound recording]
Jack Decker, Vice President of Production at the American Printing House for the Blind, talks about APH production management and processes and how they have changed since 1981, when he began working at the company. Production areas that are mentione... View Full Record
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2006.13.24
William Scholl interview [Sound recording]
William (Bill) Scholl describes the electroplating process used at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) to create masters for both rigid and flexible Talking Book records. He retired from APH in 1985, where he worked as the supervisor in t... View Full Record
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2006.13.25a
Marilyn Cheatham interview [Sound recording]
Marilyn Cheatham talks about her responsibilities as Health Nurse and Safety Coordinator in the Human Resources Department at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), where she worked from 1979 until her retirement in 2006. She discusses OSHA... View Full Record
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2006.13.25b
Eutiva Frank interview [Sound recording]
Eutiva "Tiva" Frank, Development Assistant, talks about the processing of fundraising mailings and donations in the Development Department of the American Printing House for the Blind, and about the introduction of computerized data management in the... View Full Record
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2006.13.25c
Scbeulah Hoppes interview [Sound recording]
Scbeulah Hoppes, a 1993 retiree of the American Printing House for the Blind, talks about braille transcription and working in the Stereograph Department, under the supervision of Nelle Edwards, where she stereotyped braille plates for the production... View Full Record
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2006.13.26a
Will Evans interview [Sound recording]
Will Evans, APH Products and Services Director, became an employee of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1995, following his retirement as superintendent of the Kentucky School for the Blind. He talks about product development and pr... View Full Record
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2006.13.26b
Carol Tobe interview [Sound recording]
Carol Tobe, the first director of the Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind, retired in 2005. She talks about the establishment of the museum, which opened in 1994; the renaming of the museum in 1999 to the Marie and Eugene Callahan Mus... View Full Record
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2006.13.27
Mary Crawford interview [Sound recording]
Mary Crawford talks about her work as a press operator in braille and large type production at the American Printing House for the Blind; the machinery and changes in processes; and her work in the company's ATIC (Accessible Textbooks) Department, wh... View Full Record
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2006.13.28
Loretta Devore interview [Sound recording]
Loretta Devore, a 2007 retiree of the American Printing House for the Blind, describes the various jobs that she held while working for the company. These include the production of braille book covers and labels, collating of printed materials in the... View Full Record
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2006.13.29
Gary Mudd interview [Sound recording]
Gary Mudd, Vice President of Public Affairs, talks about his career at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), which began in 1986 in the Marketing Department. He later worked in Customer Relations and traveled throughout the country providi... View Full Record
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2006.13.30
Debbie Willis interview [Sound recording]
Debbie Willis, the director of the Accessible Tests Department at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), talks about her role in the development of educational materials, which began in 1974, when she was hired as a research assistant in th... View Full Record
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2006.13.31
Phyllis Williams interview [Sound recording]
Phyllis Williams talks about her work in the Cost/Inventory Department of the American Printing House for the Blind, supervising product inventory control. She describes the inventory process and the changes from manual to computerized inventory and... View Full Record
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2006.13.32
John Zinninger interview [Sound recording]
John Zinninger, Senior Technician, joined the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) as an electronics technician in 1978, initially working on the electronic set up of three new studios for recording of the World Book Encyclopedia. He describes... View Full Record
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2006.13.33
Tuck Tinsley interview [Sound recording]
Tuck Tinsley III, returned to his home state of Kentucky in 1989, when he became president of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), after serving as a teacher, principal and interim-superintendent at the Florida School for the Deaf and the... View Full Record
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2006.13.34
Mary Nelle McLennan interview [Sound recording]
Mary Nelle McLennan, Executive Advisor to the President, joined the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1982 as a braille editor and field representative. She became director of the company's newly formed Department of Educational and Adv... View Full Record
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2006.13.35
Tom Poppe interview [Sound recording]
Tom Poppe began working as a model maker at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1980. He talks about some of the product prototypes and patterns that he has designed and made over the years, including the Light Box, which was his first... View Full Record
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2006.13.36
Larry Skutchan interview [Sound recording]
Larry Skutchan, Technology Project Leader at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), talks about his work at APH, which began in 1985 when he was hired as a systems programmer to develop software products designed for accessibility, the firs... View Full Record
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2006.13.37
Jo Ann Hardesty interview [Sound recording]
Jo Ann Hardesty talks about her work as a support specialist in the Computer Technical Services (CTS) Department of the American Printing House for the Blind, recalling changes in the computer environment and in her work responsibilities over the yea... View Full Record
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2006.13.38
Rita Mudd interview [Sound recording]
Rita Mudd came to work at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1963 and worked as a braille stereograph operator, keying braille text onto metal embossing plates until she left in 1968. In 1971, she resumed working for APH, by which tim... View Full Record
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2006.13.39
Lou Harpenau interview [Sound recording]
Lou Harpenau was working in radio and television at WAVE (Louisville) when he started as a part-time narrator for the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1970. Some twenty years later, he became a full-time narrator in the Talking Book Stu... View Full Record
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2006.13.40
Mitzi Friedlander interview [Sound recording]
Mitzi Friedlander started narrating audio books at the American Printing House for the Blind in the early 1960s. She describes the narration process; talks briefly about recognition/awards she has received (including the Didymus Award for being the f... View Full Record
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2006.13.41
Roberta Williams interview [Sound recording]
Roberta Williams joined the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1994 to work with the company's InSights Art competition. She describes the history of the competition, which is open to artists who are visually impaired of all ages, how it'... View Full Record
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2006.13.42
James Robinson interview [Sound recording]
James Robinson, an electronics manufacturing specialist at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), joined the company in 1984. He talks about his work in the Technical Research Division, working on the development of new products, some of wh... View Full Record
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2006.13.43
Arthur Vaughn interview [Sound recording]
Arthur Vaughn joined the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1978. Before becoming the Chief Quality Officer in 2002, he had worked in shipping and receiving at APH. He talks about some of the work-safety improvements that have occurred at... View Full Record
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2006.13.44
Leo Logsdon interview [Sound recording]
Leo Logsdon started working at the American Printing House for the Blind in 1978. He talks about the various jobs that he has held, which included, initially, unloading mail trucks and salvaging material used for record pressing, and later record-pre... View Full Record
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2006.13.45
Margaret Cosby interview [Sound recording]
Margaret (Margie) Cosby started working at the American Printing House for the Blind in 1969. She talks about working in the braille bindery, large type production, and in shipping and receiving. She also describes changes at the company over the yea... View Full Record
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2006.13.46
Carolyn Nutter interview [Sound recording]
Carolyn Nutter started working at the American Printing House for the Blind in 1965, making covers for braille books. She also prepared plates for large type production, and then worked as a collator in braille production until her retirement. She de... View Full Record
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2006.13.47
Pat Packer interview [Sound recording]
Pat Packer, a braille materials planner at the American Printing House for the Blind, talks about joining the company in 1971, when she started in APH's then-Editorial Department where she compiled lists of braille and large type books for the compan... View Full Record
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2006.13.48
George Gill interview [Sound recording]
George Gill became a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1981, while he was the CEO of the Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky) newspaper. He served as APH board chairman from 1997-1999. He talks ab... View Full Record
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2006.13.49
Virginia Keeney interview [Sound recording]
Dr. Virginia Keeney, a Louisville psychiatrist, became the first female member of the Board of Trustees of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1981. She talks about some of her experiences as a board member, including: committees on wh... View Full Record
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2006.13.50
David McGee interview [Sound recording]
David McGee joined the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1979, starting out in the Tape Duplication Department as an electronics technician, where he was responsible for mechanical repairs of equipment that included master-tape machines,... View Full Record
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2006.13.51
William Daugherty interview [Sound recording]
William Daugherty, superintendent of the Texas School for the Blind, became an Ex Officio Trustee (EOT) of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1993, when he was appointed superintendent of the Kansas State School for the Blind. He tal... View Full Record
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2006.13.52
Leslie Durst interview [Sound recording]
Leslie Durst, director of the Indiana Educational Resource Center, located at the Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, in Indianapolis, began serving as an Ex Officio Trustee (EOT) of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) ove... View Full Record
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2006.13.53
Barbara McCarthy interview [Sound recording]
Barbara McCarthy, director of the Library and Resource Center, Virginia Department for the Blind, in Richmond, has served as an Ex Officio Trustee (EOT) of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) for over twenty-five years. She describes how... View Full Record
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2006.13.54
Rosie Pridgen interview [Sound recording]
Rosie Pridgen, superintendent of the Mississippi School for the Blind, talks about her experience serving as an Ex Officio Trustee (EOT) of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) since 1998. She is asked about EOT committee work, including t... View Full Record
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2006.13.55
Eva Brewer interview [Sound recording]
Eva Brewer talks about her work at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), where she runs clamshell (platen) presses and PEDs (plate embossing devices) as a machine operator in braille production. She first worked for APH in 1972, in the Hou... View Full Record
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2006.13.56
Frank Hayden interview [Sound recording]
Frank Hayden, director of the Technical Research Division at the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), joined the company in 1980, initially working as a technician in the Talking Book Studio. From 1980-1988, he was director of Quality Assuran... View Full Record
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2006.13.57
Rosanne Broome interview [Sound recording]
Rosanne Broome, a retiree of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) , came to work at the company in 1977, as a switchboard operator. She later worked as an APH receptionist. In 1993, she became the manager of the company's new Customer Serv... View Full Record
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2006.13.58
Phil Moore interview [Sound recording]
Phil Moore joined the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) in 1981. He talks about his job as the company's Operations Planning Manager, as well as work done previously in other APH departments, including the Talking Book Studio, where he firs... View Full Record
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2006.13.59
Phil Hatlen interview [Sound recording]
Phil Hatlen served as an Ex Officio Trustee (EOT) of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) from 1990-2007, while he was superintendent of the Texas School for the Blind. He talks about his experiences as an EOT; APH's role as a producer of... View Full Record
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2006.57.7
Radio interview with Tuck Tinsley, Gary Mudd, and Scott Blome [Sound recording]
Recording of an interview conducted by Larry Page, host of the radio public affairs program "In Depth," about the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), its role and function in the blindness field. Page interviewed: Tuck Tinsley, III, APH Pres... View Full Record