I always have loved Telethons.  Although , some have made me really
depressed.





----- Original Message -----
From: "Barber, Kenneth L." <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: Selling Raffle Tickets-Rayna


> i always hayed those telethons they had in days gone by. i guess it was
the
> only way to raise funds in thosde days. i did not care to watch them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Moskowitz [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 10:27 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Selling Raffle Tickets-Rayna
>
>
> Rayna,
>     You wrote "My parents would also volunteer to sell raffle tickets for
> the Crippled Children's Society, and then make me go out and sell those.
I
> hated that worse than any thing else. ...it was just an 'acceptable' form
of
> begging..."
>
>     I was spared this particular form of social torture.  I firmly believe
> that one of the nicest gifts my parents gave me was a childhood completely
> free of disability fund raising and poster child duties!
>     By the way, I love your sense of humor!
>         Susan (39,MSW, from New Jersey USA, spastic quad CP, still walking
> on crutches, but finding the wheelchair web sites more tempting every
day!)
>
>