Kat,
Hope this makes the thread easier to archive!
On 5/1/07, Kendall D. Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Mike, Meg, and Burke,
>
> Kathie is a major mover and shaker in People First language adoption in
> the US, but the organization itself had other, earlier roots. Here's a link
> to a website which gives the history of the organization.
>
> http://www.open.org/people1/about_us_history.htm
>
> Here's a site that lists the People First Chapters in Colorado.
>
> http://www.aclboulder.org/speaking_for_ourselves.htm
>
> Therer's another organization, Self-Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE)
> http://www.sabeusa.org/, which does similar work. The organizations
> "cross-polinate" each other, and there are people who are members of both.
>
>
> On 5/1/07, Michael H. Collis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > I think Colorado is where the organization started. I believe Kathie
> > Snow was one of the founders, right, Kendall?
> >
> > ---- Original message ----
> > >Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:05:13 -0600
> > >From: "Meg N. Carter" <[log in to unmask]>
> > >To: [log in to unmask]
> > >
> > >TO BURKE
> > >
> > >Hi Burke:
> > >
> > >Sorry to keep bothering you. Just wondering if there is a chapter of
> > >People First in Colorado? I'd be interested in more information.
> > >
> > >P.S. If I'm too much of a bother - I apologize.
> > >
> > >Meg
> > >
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> Kendall
>
> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
>
> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
> depends on the unreasonable man.
>
> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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Kendall
An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
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