It's been that way at Perkins for some time. I don't go there, never have
but know plenty of people who have and it's been a good 15 years or 20 years
since being blind was all it took. Funny, I know plenty who went there, few
if any who liked it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan R. Downing" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: Commercial mobiles and HT's
> Hi Eric. What Braille are you producing? Is this for blind kids in
> California who attend public schools? A friend told me some years ago
> that
> none of the kids at Perkins now are singly handicapped. That is, kids
> like
> us attending Perkins had one being blind. I bet if we visited Perkins
> during the normal school year that we wouldn't recognize it. I went to a
> few alumni weekends while I was still living in Cambridge, mostly because
> Ted Filteau would go to ring the big bells. I liked going up in the tower
> to the bell room. The air compressor for the chapel organ was also up
> there. Eric, do you remember the big room in the wood shop corridor where
> they stored chairs being re-caned? Well, there was a panel mounted on one
> of the walls in that big area that had a screen cage around it. There was
> an opening big enough to fit your hand thru. Inside that caged panel was
> a
> couple dozen buttons. The buttons operated the bells for both the upper
> and
> lower schools. That panel was used to signal fire drills for example. I
> used to stick my hand in there and press all sorts of buttons to ring
> bells
> all over the place. I especially liked when I could hear bells that were
> close enough to be heard from in there. After screwing around for 5
> minutes
> or so, we would get away from the panel, but hang around in the general
> area
> so that we could hear the security guards and such trying to figure out
> why
> the bells were ringing on and off all over the campus. Great fun!
>
> 73
> handicap, but I guess now you have to have some other impairment besides
>
>
> Alan R. Downing
> Phoenix, AZ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Eric Clegg
> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 5:18 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Commercial mobiles and HT's
>
> Hi Alan,
> I went to two schools for the blind.
>
> The Ontario School for the Blind in Brantford, ONT and Perkins of course.
>
> The school in Canada was wonderful.
>
> I really didn't like Perkins at all.
>
> Having come from South America I think my parents wasted their money
> sending
> me there.
>
> I'm glad you were able to keep souvenirs of that demolition derby.
>
> Well I'm off to another week of Braille production for the state.
>
> Will write more later,
>
> 73,
>
> Eric
> KU3I
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