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From: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
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Subject: Re: Judy Snow
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Date: 9 Oct 90 01:58:14 GMT
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In article <14723@bunker.UUCP> Bill.Higgins@p17.f122.n249.z1.fidonet.org writes:
>Index Number: 10885
>
>  How did you come to meet Ms. Snow. I have heard her talk on several
>  occasions here in Kingston Canada as I'm a  member of the Board of Direct
>   of the ILRC. I've found her views to be very interesting and informative.

Judith Snow is one of the driving forces behind the Centre for
Integrated Education and Community at 24 Thome Crescent in
Toronto.  This is an organization that includes other well-known
individuals, such as Marsha Forest, who has given a number of
seminars here in the Denver area, in the areas of inclusion/Circles
of Friends/MAPS/etc.

On one of the occasions when Marsha Forest was in this area, Judith
Snow and her husband came too.  I heard her speak at an event
sponsored by ARC/Colorado, and had a chance to briefly speak with
her afterwards.

> EA> Let me tell you a little secret.  I am ABLEd, but I work with a
> EA> committee that includes a woman who is a C5-C6 quad.  I like her a
> EA> lot.  I would like to ask her out, and I think she might take me up on
> EA> it, but ... I'm already married.  So, such things aren't impossible;
> EA> it's just a matter of meeting enough persons who are open enough to
> EA> see through the disability.
>
>  Does this quad have a link to the disabled users echo?? I'd like to strike
>  up a thread with her.

Sorry, Bill, she does not!  Sharon has a computer in her office,
and on two or three occasions, I've encouraged her to get herself a
modem and terminal emulator, so she can get online and meet some
new people.  (In fact, she could get a modem free from the Colorado
Assistive Technology Project, so it wouldn't cost much.)  But she
hasn't quite gotten up enough steam yet to get online.  I think she
suffers from a mild case of Technostress/Technophobia.

If you would like to encourage her via a friendly letter, please
do.  I'm not sure she'd appreciate my posting her address on BBSes,
but if you'd like to mail me a sealed note I could send her, that
would be fine.  My home address is 2005 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder,
CO 80303.  Her full name is Sharon Mikrut.

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