Ron, I grew up in Walnut Creek.  I knew and/or knew Sally and Phil mangold 
pretty well.  They were not my resource teachers, but I knew Sally from 
attending SF State where I got a BA in Broadcasting and an MA in Special Ed 
with emphasis in VH.  I am still good friends with Bob Wilson who was a 
Resource teacher at Canyon high and Castro Valley Elementary and maybe 
elsewhere.  he and I play music gigs together.  Of course Sally passed away 
a number of years ago from cancer.  Well, back in Walnut Creek, I had Nick 
Medina and Tom Lundy and a Mr. Cody for a short time when I was in JR high. 
Tom Lundy was the guy who took some of us to the surplus stores in SF and 
such.  Maybe we can talk on Echolink or on air some time or, if we have too 
even the llectric telephone.  73, Jim
.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Ron Miller
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 8:03 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Who was your resource teacher?

Hey Jim,
Just wondering where you grew up, and who your resource teachers were.

I lived in Vacaville , CA. Went to school for a short time in Fairfield
(K.I. Jones), Mrs. Bolls. Then, Alameda, attending Castro Valley Elementary
with Mrs. Sally Mangold, followed by Allan Puzarni (I don't remember exactly
hedow he spelled his name!, then Earl Warren Junior High in Castro Valley
with Phil Mangold. Finally back to Vacaville for 9th grade and high school
and all itinerant VI teachers (a whole new model for me, and not entirely a
welcome one).





Ron Miller
N6MSA
Tarpon Springs, FL
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Gammon
Sent: Monday, November 3, 2014 8:18 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Perkins Brailler's

Pat, I think I had mine in for service once many years ago, or
maybe we just ordered the main carriage spring and put it in
ourselves.  I had a very cool mechanically inclined resource
teacher who loved stuff like that.  We used to tear apart old
radios after going to surplus stores in San Francisco back when
there were real surplus stores, but that's another topic.  73,
Jim WA6EKS

----- Original Message -----
From: Pat Byrne <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 19:02:45 -0600
Subject: Re: braille paper

Jim,
My folks bought my Perkins when I graduated from eighth grade in
1953.  Went to a neighborhood boys Catholic high school so had to
bring my own gear.  So, sixty-one years and never had it serviced
-
covers have never been removed and it still moves properly and
writes
good dots.
My wife has one just about as old but it has been cleaned and
adjusted.  The old Perkins just keep on tickin'!
Pat, K9JAUAt 06:43 PM 11/3/2014, you wrote:
About the only thing I use hardcopy braille for are labels and
using 3 by 5 index cards.  Still have two working perkins
machines around, one is my God, almost 60 years old! Sorry I
stopped to think about how old that machine is! Jim WA6EKS

  ----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Mon, 3 Nov 2014 17:56:36 -0700
Subject: Re: braille paper

Butch,

APH has that light weight thin stuff you probably have but they
have heavy
paper, too.  I use Braille for just quick phone numbers and the
like so 100
sheets has lasted me well over a year now, haha.

Phil.
K0NX