[Menvi-discuss] Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life

Tue Aug 9 06:55:51 EDT 2011

Two things;

1. If you use Braille novels like that, who needs to pay for audiobooks?!

And second; My last piano teacher--an incredible lady who very much reminded 
me of Bettye Krolick for her fierce determination and demand of 
excellence--was convinced I could drive ... and shoot ... Seems the "pioneer 
women" figured that, blind or not, one had to learn to do for oneself. And 
so, she had me driving on Kansas country roads (her argument being "They're 
flat, they're straight, and it's my car, everybody in town knows me, and 
I've got my hands on the steering wheel if I need to do something in a 
hurry"!)

And yes, I did learn to shoot, although this lady's son--in the 
military!--had to finish the teaching as my teacher passed away after only 
finishing the "load, unload" part of the education!

(I don't plan to use any of these skills on an even irregular basis, but you 
never know when skills will be called upon ... Ask anybody who grew up on a 
farm about that.)

Stephanie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bettie Downing" <bnbdowning70 at embarqmail.com>
To: <taeschr at ix.netcom.com>; "This is for discussing music and braille 
literacy" <menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 4:37 PM
Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life

> E-gad!  She was driving!  Yikes!  I'm glad I wasn't on the highway!
>
>
> On Aug 8, 2011, at 2:37 PM, taeschr at ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
>> Bettie,
>>
>> Just to take that wonderful story a bit further, I once sent her a 
>> license frame that said: "Driver Reads Braille." She called me laughing, 
>> and said it was true; apparently she used to travel the country to 
>> demonstrate the first computer programs for transcribing. While driving 
>> from college to college, she would get quite weary. One day she tried 
>> putting a braille novel on the seat of the car next to her, and began to 
>> read. She learned to read whole books while driving from lecture to 
>> lecture. As a result, she could even proof music that way.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Richard Taesch
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Bettie Downing <bnbdowning70 at embarqmail.com>
>>> Sent: Aug 8, 2011 7:15 AM
>>> To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy 
>>> <menvi-discuss at menvi.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life
>>>
>>> From Bettie Downing:
>>>
>>> Bettye Krolick told me when she was driving somewhere with her husband 
>>> (HE was driving!) she would sit in the car with an embossed braille page 
>>> and proofread the braille with her fingers!  And she was sighted.  How I 
>>> admired her!!
>>>
>>> On Aug 7, 2011, at 10:36 PM, Jared Rimer menvi webmaster wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've posted this to our web site menvi.org.  Thanks for the link, Bill.
>>>> Jared Rimer
>>>> Webmaster: The Music Education Network for The Visually Impaired 
>>>> http://menvi.org
>>>> Telephone: 818-921-4976 or toll-free 866-824-7876
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>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Bill" <billlist1 at comcast.net>
>>>> To: <goodfeel at freelists.org>; <ddots-l at freelists.org>; "This is for 
>>>> discussing music and braille literacy" <menvi-discuss at menvi.org>; 
>>>> <braille-music-chat at yahoogroups.com>; <braillem at topica.com>
>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 2:57 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I found a detailed obituary of Bettye Krolick at:
>>>>> http://obitsforlife.com/obituary/390337/Krolick-Bettye.php
>>>>>
>>>>> N. B.: In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to the
>>>>> National Braille Association, 95 Allens Creek Road, Bldg. 1, Suite 
>>>>> 202,
>>>>> Rochester, New York 14618,
>>>>> or to the Alzheimer's Association of Northern Colorado, 415 Peterson 
>>>>> St.,
>>>>> Fort Collins, Colorado 80524.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, see the obituary on the page Albert references below.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Bill
>>>>>
>>>>> Bill McCann
>>>>> Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
>>>>> www.DancingDots.com
>>>>> Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: goodfeel-bounce at freelists.org 
>>>>> [mailto:goodfeel-bounce at freelists.org]
>>>>> On Behalf Of albertm13 at juno.com
>>>>> Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 8:28 AM
>>>>> To: goodfeel at freelists.org
>>>>> Subject: [goodfeel] Re: Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is sad news.  It was also sad when I found out she was retiring 
>>>>> because
>>>>> she was one of the people I'd look forward to seeing whenever I went 
>>>>> to a
>>>>> conference.
>>>>>
>>>>> I found her obituary at
>>>>> http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20110807/OBITUARIES/108070341
>>>>> I tried the link to view her online obituary at www.allnutt.com but I 
>>>>> could
>>>>> not find her in the list.  Perhaps it hasn't been set up yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> Albert
>>>>>
>>>>>
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