Taken from this week's MoPix update.  Some of you in Massachusetts may be 
familiar with this person.

"Before we get to the MoPix news of the week, we'd like to remember in this 
particular issue of the MoPix Update an important though little-known figure 
in the history access for people with disabilities.  Phil Collyer was the 
first director of The Caption Center at WGBH, itself the first organization 
in the world created to make television accessible to people who were deaf 
and hard of hearing through captioning.  Phil spearheaded the captioning of 
Julia Child's The French Chef way back in 1972, and then took on the 
challenge of captioning a national news program in the days before live or 
real time captioning. Under his stewardship, The Captioned ABC Evening News 
became a reality. Phil passed away quite unexpectedly last Sunday here in 
Massachusetts.  All the achievements in the area of accessibility that WGBH, 
and indeed the industry we founded back then, can point to today are due in 
large measure to his can-do (in fact, must-do) spirit.  We stand on the 
shoulders of a giant who spoke softly and carried a big brain. Thanks Phil."

Harvey