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From: Terry Allen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: scourby niminations
Gregory, following is the press release soliciting Scourby Award
nominations. I'd appreciate your posting it *anywhere* you think Talking
Book users might find it.
Thanks,
Terry
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For Immediate Release
Contact: Terry Allen
(212) 502-7674
American Foundation for the Blind Invites Nominations for Best Narrators of
Talking Books
NEW YORK-The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is inviting
nominations for the 12th Alexander Scourby Narrator of the Year Awards. The
awards were established by AFB in memory of one of its most popular
narrators, who recorded for the Talking Books program-which is celebrating
its 65th anniversary this year-for nearly 50 years.
Two Scourby Awards will be presented, representing outstanding
narration in fiction (including mysteries, westerns, science fiction,
romance, and adventure) and nonfiction. All Talking Book readers are
eligible to nominate a Talking Book narrator in each category. A third,
"special recognition" Scourby Award will also be given at the awards
ceremony and reception, tentatively scheduled for June.
To cast your vote, send your choices (one per category) to:
American Foundation for the Blind
Communications Group
11 Penn Plaza, Suite 300
New York, NY 10001
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
telephone: 1-800-AFB-LINE (232-5463).
Submissions must be made no later than March 27, 1998.
At the end of the balloting period, the three nominees receiving
the most votes in each category will be declared finalists. Demonstration
tapes of each narrator's work will then be produced and distributed to a
blue-ribbon panel of Talking Book readers from across the country who will
select the winners.
Previous recipients are not eligible for the Alexander Scourby
Narrator of the Year Award. They are: Bob Askey (1987); Merwin Smith
(1988); Suzanne Toren (1989); Roy Avers, John Stratton, and Laura
Giannarelli (1990); Yvonne Fair Tessler, Patrick Horgan, Bruce Huntey, and
Pam Ward (1991); Jill Ferris, Gordon Gould, and Barbara Caruso (1992); John
Horton, Mitzi Friedlander, and Graciella Lecube (1993); Madelyn Buzzard,
Randy Atcher, and Ralph Lowenstein (1994); Christopher Hurt, Ray Foushee,
and Bob Butz (1995); Chuck Benson, Lou Harpenau, and Catherine Byers
(1996); and Mary Woods, Jack Fox, and Ed Blake (1997).
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January 1998
Talking Books is a program of the National Library Service for the
Blind and Physically Handicapped of the Library of Congress. Anyone in
America with a visual or physical disability that prevents reading of
conventional print materials is eligible to receive Talking Books and
special playback machines free of charge from 160 regional libraries
throughout the United States.
The American Foundation for the Blind-the agency to which Helen
Keller devoted over 40 years of her life-is a national, nonprofit
organization whose mission is to enable people who are blind or visually
impaired to achieve equality of access and opportunity that will ensure
freedom of choice in their lives. Headquartered in New York City, AFB
maintains offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco, and a
governmental relations office in Washington, DC.
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