GREAT JOB HAPP!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Smith" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 12:51 PM
Subject: Nice goin', Hap!


> Excerpted from last week's ARRL Letter and posted here in case anybody
> missed it.
>
> ==>DAYTON HAMVENTION ANNOUNCES 2002 AWARD WINNERS
>
> Dayton Hamvention has announced that Alanson "Hap" Holly, KC9RP, will
> receive the Amateur of the Year Award for 2002. Licensed since 1965,
Holly,
> who is blind, produces the weekly Radio Amateur Information Network's The
> RAIN Report <http://www.rainreport.com/>, an audio news and feature
magazine
> aimed at radio amateurs.
>
> A Hamvention news release called Holly "an inspiration to licensed radio
> amateurs, non-hams and the visually impaired and sighted individuals
> worldwide." Holly has been producing The RAIN Report since 1984.
>
> A made-for-television movie, What Love Sees, chronicled how Holly's
> parents--both blind--raised four children including Hap, who lost his
sight
> in 1958 at the age of 7. The movie is based on the book of the same name
by
> San Diego teacher Susan Vreeland.
>
> --
>  Walt Smith - Raleigh, NC
>  [log in to unmask]



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