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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE FLORIDA COURT REPORTERS ASSOCIATION JANUARY/FEBRUARY/MARCH/APRIL 2020 January/February/March/April • The Florida Reporter 1 Advertising Special Needful People WANTED! Need a job? Need a reporter, Your stories to share with other Contact to advertise in 8 issues agency owners? Contact reporters. (2 years) of this magazine and Placement Chairman Sandi Submit an article and receive .15 get a special 15% discount on Nargiz at 850-878-2221 or Fax: CEU points if published in The top of our low rates! Call FCRA 850-878-2254 or Florida Reporter. Email your story Headquarters today at [email protected] to 407$-774- 7880.$ $ [email protected] ARE YOU ON FCRA is now FCRA IS NOW ON TWITTER! FACEBOOK? on Instagram! If so, join the FCRA Group by Search for the Twitter handle looking up Florida Court Please follow us! below and follow us! Reporters Association… all the latest updates right at your @floridacourtreporters @FCRA_Official fingertips! 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Headquarters, Be sure everything is current. 407-774-7880 Call FCRA Headquarters and give them your updated info today (407-774-7880) or email your changes to [email protected] January/February/March/April • The Florida Reporter 2 vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv FCRA OFFICERS & DIRECTORS President Amy Marie Yarbrough, FPR [email protected] DEPARTMENTS President Elect Richard Scire, RPR, FPR [email protected] Bulletin Board........................................................................................................ 2 Vice President Tracy Finan, RPR, FPR President’s Message: Our Leaps and Bounds……………….…........................ 4 [email protected] Editor’s Message: Our Foresight of 2020………................................................. 5 Treasurer Laura Landerman, RMR, CRR, FPR [email protected] Secretary Cathy Carpenter, FPR ASSOCIATION BUSINESS [email protected] Northern Director Our Times Ahead.............................................................................................….. 6 Tiffany Treffeisen, RPR, FPR [email protected] In an Age of High-Definition Digital Audio, Why Human Stenographers?.…. 7 Central Director We Are STENO. This is Why We are Still Here………….………………………… 13 Michael Scire, RPR, CMRS, FPR [email protected] Member Spotlight: A Conversation with Leah Willersdorf……………………. 17 Southern Director Jessica Donnelly, FPR To Be Mistaken for the Court Reporter…………………………………………… 19 [email protected] Court Reporting & Captioning Week Photo Gallery……………………........... 21 Directors at Large Shari Smargon, RDR, CRR, CRC, MA, FPR Twinspiration: The Mock Trial Competitions…………………………………...... 22 [email protected] Danielle Freeze, RPR, CRR, FPR One on One with Eve Barrett of Expedite……………………………………...... 23 [email protected] FCRA Takes on Florida School Counselor Association…….…………………… 27 Immediate Past President Sharon Velazco, RPR, CLR, FPR The Diamond Vault: The Fourth Decade, Part II……………………………….. 28 [email protected] Stenographers’ Free Publicity with MSNBC……………………………………….37 Editor and Publisher Richard Scire, RPR [email protected] Associate Editor Michael Scire, RPR, CMRS FCRA WELCOMES [email protected] ________________________ Executive Director Membership Application…………………………………………………..……….. 38 Lynn Hupp 222 S. Westmonte Drive, Ste. 101 Altamonte Springs, FL 32714 Membership Pre-Authorized Payment Plan Form…………………………....... 39 [email protected] W: 407-774-7880 • FAX: 407-774-6440 Statements of fact, opinion, and all advertisements are made on the responsibility of the author or advertiser, alone, and do not imply an opinion or endorsement on the part of anyone connected with FCRA. Materials may not be reproduced without written permission. Address all correspondence concerning content of the magazine to the editor. All correspondence regarding membership and advertising should be sent to FCRA Headquarters, 222 S. Westmonte Dr, #111, Altamonte Springs, FL 32714. Phone: 407-774-7880, Fax: 407-774-6440; www.fcraonline.org. January/February/March/April • The Florida Reporter 3 By Amy Yarbrough, FPR FCRA President Our Leaps & Bounds Court Reporting & Captioning Week As we celebrated Court Reporting & elevate one another in our passion for this Captioning Week 2020, we were reminded of our profession. FCRA has provided continuing “becoming a stenographer” journeys. My education that allows me to be more efficient favorite part of court reporting school was and a whole army of mentors to call on when watching the transformation of my peers. As searching for policy or procedure. Every year we high-speed students transitioned to internships, come together for conventions that excite, and they arrived to class polished in this summer’s trip to Key Largo will be blazers, beaming about their day. one for the record books. Exposure to courtrooms and high-rise In 2020 we celebrated Court views inspired that final push beyond Reporting & Captioning Week in an 225, and we were thrilled for their extra special way. Billboards in Tampa, bright futures and endless possibilities. Orlando, and Miami highlighted our Becoming a stenographer special week and celebrated a career brought me to the classroom setting, that takes you places you could have teaching me to advocate for the never dreamed. I encourage you to deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers share with us stories of the coolest who rely on accurate captions. places your machines have taken you. Becoming a stenographer landed me a front-row My most noteworthy CART assignment was being seat to courtroom proceedings and cases onsite when President Obama came to UNF; ranging from railroads to natural disasters to second most memorable, projecting captions for celebrities. an event at a TV station and later being In researching steno keyboards to include introduced to my favorite NPR radio host. on our annual Court Reporting & Captioning Week poster, I discovered all sorts of fun facts in addition to the international keyboards. In some countries, trials for witchcraft still take place. In some countries, depositions are not permitted. We should be grateful for our sophisticated justice system as we celebrate our career serving the judiciary. Becoming a stenographer develops The Florida Court Reporters Association has character, resilience, drive, determination. I look played a pivotal role in my professional forward to continue celebrating with all of you development. FCRA has become a second the magic of steno and a career that serves a family, welcoming from the moment I arrived at crucial role in so many facets of our modern my very first convention. We encourage and society. January/February/March/April • The Florida Reporter 4 By Richard S. Sciré, RPR, FPR FCRA President-Elect, Editor Our Foresight of 2020 2020 represents something before it even Why? Because I’m not just fighting for my career but proves itself. We refer to 20/20 for clear vision. Then for the profession as a whole. We are as viable as ever, we refer to it by the proverb “Hindsight is 20/20.” But and thanks to him, even the silent ones in our why do we only use it in a sentence after the fact? profession have found their voice. Now that the year 2020 is here, what if we looked upon In this issue we have articles written by my it first rather than in retrospect? Speaker and author friends, Stanley Sakai and Ana Fatima Costa, who Steve Maraboli said, “A lack of clarity could put the wrote articles defending stenography. You will also brakes on any journey to success.” If we believe that, get to see some of the huge impact FCRA has made which I do, then we should wonder how we measure in advocating, recruiting, and promoting stenography. success. As most, if not all, of us on the FCRA board, At the last minute before publication, I contributed we strive to make a difference for all reporters and one more article about our shout out on The Rachel captioners and especially the members. We never Maddow Show. We have jumped leaps and bounds lose sight that we are entrusted with an enormous this year! Just when we think we’ve done it all, we’ve responsibility. Maybe that’s where our “clarity” comes only just begun. from. We don’t always agree but we always fight for Our future into success though cannot come what we believe is the greater good, even when we without learning from the past. Thus, I am happy to know in our foresight that our hindsight will still be 20/20. introduce the next installment of “The Diamond Vault,” How do we keep going after all that? It’s called leading to FCRA’s 60th Anniversary. Why is it important “teamwork.” to learn from the past? So we can fuel our future of In this issue we delve into the current course! If we learn from yesterday and plan for surroundings of what we see in front of us. We tomorrow, we can always have time to enjoy today. continue to struggle with a court reporter shortage Happy reading! and low school enrollment, but we