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Subject: [The Conduit] FW: [CCB-L] Terry Hayes Sales Dies


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> Terry Hayes Sales, who recorded more than 900 books for blind, dies at 94
>> By Paula Burba
>> Terry Hayes Sales, a singer and actress who had recorded more than 900
>> books for the American Printing House for the Blind, died on Monday at
>> a nursing home in Rowley, Mass. She was 94.
>> Sales moved to Massachusetts from Louisville in August 2009 to be near
>> her son, Michael Sales, who said she died of Alzheimer's disease.
>> In December 1988, Sales was inducted into the American Foundation for
>> the Blind's Talking Book Hall of Fame, one of two living charter
>> members cited for significant achievement in the narration of talking
> books.
>> Sales had "this remarkable ability to tell a story," according to
>> Steve Mullins, studio director for the American Printing House for the
>> Blind, where Sales did her recordings. "She was very charming."
>> With thousands of books recorded, all of them staying in circulation
>> for many years, narrators developed followers, Mullins said.
>> "People, in some ways, grew up with her," he said.
>> Among her work are three narrations of "Little Women," as well as most
>> of the Nancy Drew books.
>> The recordings were produced for the National Library Service for the
>> Blind and Physically Handicapped, a division of the Library of
>> Congress, which honored Sales in 1998 for her dedicated service of
>> more than 60 years as a narrator.
>> Sales likely was the narrator longest affiliated with the American
>> Printing House for the Blind, Mullins said. She began narrating in
>> 1938, just one year after the printing house released its first
>> talking book, "Gulliver's Travels." In 2006, though she was no longer
>> a regularly scheduled narrator at the printing house, Sales
>> participated in the 75th anniversary celebration and marathon
>> recording session of that book with
>> 44 other narrators.
>> Mullins said he was almost certain Sales was the only person to have
>> made the transition from the earliest recordings made on wax through
>> the era of tape and into the current digital age, recording on all
> mediums.
>> Sales was a high school sophomore when she landed her first
>> professional gig as a staff singer on WBBM radio in her hometown of
>> Chicago. She met Louisville native Stuart Sales while he was a student
>> at the University of Illinois, their son said, and they married in 
>> Chicago
> when she was 19.
>> While her husband later served in the Navy, she did a talk show on WGN
>> in Chicago as well as commercials and serial acting before the couple
>> returned to Louisville.
>>
>>
>> In Louisville, she continued to sing on radio for both WAVE and WHAS.
>> According to her son, she inherited the show Dale Evans did at WHAS
>> after Evans left.
>> She also appeared in some ensemble television casts, and was involved
>> in numerous local theater projects.
>> When she heard about the talking books at the American Printing House
>> for the Blind, her son said she considered it an acting opportunity.
>> Sales also funded the launch of Audio Description at The Kentucky
>> Center for the Performing Arts in 1991 in memory of her husband, who
>> died in 1987. The program provides narrators who broadcast live
>> descriptions of the action onstage to audience members during
> performances.
>> She also was the voice on the center's 10th anniversary "Tour on Tape,"
>> and co-wrote that script.
>> A graveside service is planned for 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday at The
>> Temple cemetery.
>> A memorial service will be held sometime next year, her son said.
>> Herman Meyer & Son funeral home is handling arrangements.
>> Reporter Paula Burba can be reached at (502) 582-800.
>>
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