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>Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:15:25 -0800
>From: "Laurie Vasquez" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Carl Brown
>
>Norm,
>
>For your information.
>Laurie Vasquez
>
>Dear colleagues,
>It is with a sense of both personal and professional loss that I inform
>you of the passing of Carl Brown, founder and long-time director of the
>High Tech Center Training Unit (HTCTU), today, November 21, 2008, at
>shortly before 5:00 p.m.
>Carl had not traveled much in the last few years, so he is not as well
>known in the California community college system as he was ten years
>ago. Some of you who have entered the field more recently may not have
>had the opportunity to meet him. You missed a very subtle sense of
>humor, a love of practical jokes, a compassionate humanitarian, a
>generous friend, and an incredible visionary in the field of assistive
>technology.
>
>Carl Brown recognized the value of technology to assist students with
>disabilities nearly 30 years ago when he was a computer instructor at
>Monterey Peninsula College. It was through his personal vision and his
>tenacity, with the assistance of his wife, Martha Kanter, that he
>convinced the CCC chancellor*s office that the community colleges
>needed to support assistive technology, not just on a campuswide basis,
>but as a system. He convinced the system to not only provide money and
>equipment, but also to set up this training facility to ensure that
>students would get both the equipment and the trained faculty/staff that
>they would need in order to succeed. Carl*s lasting legacy is a
>training facility that is the envy of the nation.
>In the last conversation I had with Carl, he made it clear that he
>wanted the HTCTU to carry on in his absence. Jayme Johnson and I assured
>him that we will continue the work of the HTCTU. In addition to
>continuing trainings in alternate media, I will assume the role of
>interim director of the HTCTU. Jayme will assume the role of Web
>accessibility specialist, as well as continuing to train assistive
>computer technology. Jayme and I will be releasing the winter and spring
>training schedule next week before Thanksgiving.
>There will be a public memorial at some time in the future, and we will
>release information when we know more. In the meantime, anyone who
>wishes to send condolences to Carl*s wife, Martha, can send them to
>Bong Deiparine here at the HTCTU:
>
>Bong Deiparine
>High Tech Center Training Unit
>21050 McClellan Road
>Cupertino, CA 93940
>The HTCTU is Carl*s dream and his legacy. We hope and fully expect to
>serve the California community colleges for years to come.


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Norman Coombs [log in to unmask]
CEO EASI Equal Access to Software and Information
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