August Newsletter!
The TAPING RECORDER August 2007
News from & about Sight into Sound
Celebrating 40 years of Turning Sight Into Sound
http://www.sightintosound.org
CHALLENGES
July certainly turned out to be full of challenges as
the operations staff struggled to keep the radio reading service on
the air. We had an outage due to phone lines disconnected in the
phone closet, and then our master mixing board decided to give up the
ghost for a while. It was pasted together with baling wire and duct
tape but now has been properly repaired. And this has also given us
another item to put on our list when we go request capital
money. That board is only five years old, yet the parts are no
longer available. It is certainly challenging keeping up with
technology, and not only the computers! Thanks to Jim Martinez and
his crew for their hard work during these trying times.
LABOR DAY
We will have reduced hours for the Labor Day
holiday. On Monday, September 3, we will be open from 7 a.m. until
noon. We hope that you all have a great holiday, as we observe
summer passing once again.
GOLF EVENT
Bill Brown (volunteer reader and voice of the Astros
television broadcasts) will host our first-ever golf day benefiting
Taping. It will be held at the Longwood Golf Club on November 2,
2007. You can go to our website and sign up. Remember that you can
be a sponsor as well, or if your company would like to do that, sign
them up. Join us for what will be a great day of fun on the links!
LIGHT THE CANDLES
We find ourselves late again (and don't think that we
will miss this fact on our editor's performance review). The
volunteers who celebrated their birthdays in July were: 07/02 Yvonne
Chu; 07/03 Dick Hokenson; 07/06 Jim Seitz; 07/07 Diana Mitchell;
07/10 Julian Silverblatt; 07/11 Susan Boggio, Martha Murphee; 07/12
Cynthia Franzetti, Andrew Waddell; 07/15 Cheryl Donaho; 07/19
Michelle McCarel; 07/20 Peter Tsan; 07/22 Linda Reneberg; 07/23
Bettie Bishop, Gordon Guillory; 07/24 Rene Ibarra; 07/27 Mary
Pederson, Ted Pfister, Betty Woelfel; 07/28 Cindy Houghton; and 07/30
Fran Sanders.
And our volunteers celebrating in August are: 08/01
Clem Blum; 08/03 Phillip Page; 08/04 Marc Sherman; 08/05 Bette
Douglas; 08/07 Jeremy Hasson; 08/14 Norris Jackson; 08/15 Brent
Burks; 08/18 Gwen Hieger; 08/20 Hanna Lewis; 08/23 Becky Medley;
08/29 Chris Kiersted; 08/30 Anna McLean; and 08/31 Jean Frey, Sue
Hanks. We hope you all had great birthdays! And if your name was
supposed to appear in either the July list or the August list and it
didn't, please let any staff member know.
RUNNING FOR A REASON--THE HOUSTON MARATHON
Once again, Taping has been selected as an official
charity of the Houston Marathon (an all encompassing term including
the full marathon, the half marathon, and the 5 kilometer
walk/run). If you are a runner, we want YOU! You can contact Carol
Pierce at 713-622-2767 or by e-mail at
cpierce@sightintosound.org,
or you can even look for us on September 20, 2007, from 5 to 9 p.m.
at the kickoff party in Sam Houston Park in downtown Houston.
And here is something else to think about. Would you
like to be part of a group that walked the 5k together to raise money
for Taping? If this sounds like fun to you, let Carol know and we'll
get a group organized. Or would you prefer to yell? Our hoopla
station is at the marathon halfway point in West U. in front of City
Hall. We need volunteers to help staff this station and make noise
for the runners as they parade by, so let Carol know.
CANDY?
A few volunteers claim they just do it for the candy,
but this brings up a question. Do you have a favorite that you would
like us to stock? Can you tell us where to get it? Some types of
hard candy are difficult to find, so if you can help with locating
your favorite, we would appreciate it.
LEAVE 'EM LAUGHING
Here is a bit of philosophy for you to contemplate:
At a Philosophy Society Meeting,
Philosophy Professor: It's best to split your investments between
stocks, bonds, and precious metals.
Participant: I don't get it. Last week you told us everything in
life is connected. Now you are telling us to hedge our bets.
Philosophy Professor: Well, that was Zen and this is DOW.
RLB