FALL 2011

The Newsletter for Friends and Supporters of the Kansas Audio-Reader Network Special 40th Anniversary Issue!

FORTY YEARS OF BRINGING THE PRINTED WORD TO LIFE: THE LEGACY OF PETEY CERF A History of Audio-Reader Airwaves By Janet Campbell, Executive Director Fall 2011 Airwaves is a newslett er published twice When I turned 40, my a year for supporters of the Audio-Reader well-meaning friends threw Network of the University of Kansas. me an Over-The-Hill party. Good intentions abounded, but Brenda Berg Dyck I didn’t feel as though I was Editor “past the peak of one's youthful Feloniz Lovato-Winston vigor and freshness” or “too old Managing Editor / Art Director to be useful” as defi ned in the The Audio-Reader Mission Merriam-Webster dictionary. The Kansas Audio-Reader Network exists to Janet Campbell in 1990, the provide print-disabled citi zens with access to the year she became Director of On October 11, we printed word and other informati on via electronic Audio-Reader. celebrated a very special 40th media and other technologies. birthday, but this birthday girl Audio-Reader’s services are provided free of charge to enable print-disabled persons the is not Over the Hill - she just gets better with age! That’s opportunity to live their lives with the greatest right, the birthday girl is Audio-Reader; a service that possible personal independence. defi nitely is not over-the-hill, but rather up-and-coming, and, Together, we strive to provide thanks to all of you, a service with a bright future. Access. To prepare for this milestone, I thought it fi tting to Empowerment. Self-Suffi ciency. have a little history lesson about this amazing service, made Kansas Audio-Reader Staff possible by donors like you. Audio-Reader began broadcasting on October 11, Janet Campbell Director Steve Kincaid Asst. Director / Chief 1971 at 8:00 a.m. in the kitchen of Sudler House (located Engineer south of our current building). Programming included Nicole Banman Business Manager readings from the Kansas City and Topeka newspapers, Brenda Berg Dyck Development Director Feloniz Lovato- Development Assistant magazines, books and short stories. About 250 radio Winston receivers had been distributed, and Audio-Reader operated Peggy Sampson Outreach Coordinator / Listener Liaison 80 hours per week with two staff members and a handful of Art Hadley Producer / Engineer volunteers. Lori Kesinger Program Manager Jennifer Nigro Coordinator of Volunteers KCKS-FM in Concordia agreed to provide A-R Susan Tabor Asst. Coordinator of programming to northcentral Kansas in 1976, followed in Volunteers George McCoy Telephoner Reader 1980 by High Plains Public Radio in Garden City, KCUR- Coordinator FM in Kansas City, MO in 1988, KRPS-FM in Pittsburg Bruce Mensie Engineer in 1989 and KXCV-FM in Maryville, MO in 1994. Our Gina Krause Weekend Telephone Reader Supervisor newest sister provider, KTBG-FM in Warrensburg, MO and Janet Lee White Secretary Chanute, KS began broadcasting A-R programming in 2010! Questi ons or comments? The growth continues, and we won’t stop until EVERY Audio-Reader Kansan can access Audio-Reader! 1120 W. 11th St. / P.O. Box 847 Lawrence, KS 66044 1-800-772-8898 Conti nued on page 4... [email protected] reader.ku.edu

Follow Audio-Reader on Twitt er: 2 KUAudioReader Development Corner AUDIO- READER Updates on Fundraising Initiatives at Audio-Reader DEVELOPMENT By Brenda Berg Dyck, Director of Development

Summer Fund Drive Donors Help Us Reach Listeners in Kansas, Missouri and Beyond

A huge THANK YOU goes out to all who state lines. contributed to Audio-Reader’s Summer Fund We hope you take pride in knowing your Drive campaign! A remarkable $21,000 was fi nancial support is appreciated right here as well raised this year. as several states away by the thousands of blind These funds will help defray the costs of and print-disabled persons who rely on access to our recent expansion into several new territories news and information. including greater Warrensburg, MO, SE Kansas and Wichita. In the past fi ve years, more than two dozen radio reading services across the country “VISION LOSS CAN HAPPEN have shut down or have ceased broadcasting due TO ANYONE. to lack of funding. Audio-Reader is helping some of these services by sharing our broadcasts for I KNOW. their listeners. Such is the case for the service in IT HAPPENED TO ME.” Birmingham, Alabama, which has reduced local - Dr. Harry Revels programming due to budget issues and now Retired Ophthalmologist carries Audio-Reader’s signal for the bulk of their day. Our boundaries are no longer contained by

HEA-R letter Save the Date! coming soon Audio-Reader Golf Classic Audio-Reader is expanding faster than Monday, May 21, 2012 ever and we’re asking for your fi nancial Alvamar Country Club - private side support to keep our doors open and 1809 Crossgate Drive - Lawrence, KS 66047 services free. In the coming weeks, you’ll receive a letter inviting you to make a Audio-Reader Golf Classic tax-deductible contribution to our annual Help Expand Audio-Reader (HEA-R) When: Monday, May 21, 2012 campaign. You can help us provide vital 7:30 a.m. registration/ reading and information services to the breakfast blind and print-disabled. 8:30 a.m. tee-off Where: Alvamar Country Club

3 A History of Audio-Reader, continued Programming expanded and for the fi rst time have full signal became available worldwide continuously until it reached 24 control and choice in reading a on the internet. Seventeen radio hours a day and 7 days a week newspaper. Telephone Reader has reading services across the in the fall of 1985. Current grown to provide readings from U.S. broadcast Audio-Reader programming includes over 100 more than 124 publications using programming to their listeners. newspapers, 50 magazines and 6 toll-free phone lines. Today, with over 350 active various newsletters and pamphlets. In 1996, staff member volunteers, thousands of low- In 2010 we broadcast over 200 Diana Frederick and a small group vision and print-disabled listeners books! of volunteers created the Sensory are able to access their daily In 1988, Audio-Reader Garden, which was recently named newspaper, best-seller or magazine moved into the renovated Phi one of the most well kept secrets just like their sighted friends and Kappa Tau Fraternity. The Baehr of The University of Kansas. family. Audio-Reader Center was made A leader in radio reading In addition to the efforts possible by a grant from the Louis services, Audio-Reader was one of our volunteers, this amazing & Dolpha Baehr Foundation of of the fi rst services worldwide success and growth was achieved Paola, Kansas. The Center enabled to offer broadcasting around thanks to the fi nancial support Audio-Reader to expand services. the clock. We pioneered the of The University of Kansas and Small town newspaper coverage use of cable television for the thousands of private donors. was doubled and more studios transmission of programming in And there is your allowed us to start recording the late 1970’s. In 1990, Audio- condensed Audio-Reader history personal material for listeners Reader’s signal became available to date! Thanks to the generosity through the Special Request nationwide through the Kansas of our donors, Audio-Reader’s program. Lions Sight Foundation Satellite services enable print-disabled In 1994, Audio-Reader Network. In 1994, Audio-Reader citizens the opportunity to live began The Lions Telephone became the fi rst reading service their lives with the greatest Reader Service. Listeners can to operate its own satellite uplink, possible personal independence! access the system 24 hours a day, and in 1996, Audio-Reader’s

40 Years and Counting: An Audio-Reader Timeline

1969 - 1971 Minnesota Talking Books is created. 1976 Petey visits them and Audio-Reader expands into northcentral makes plans to found Kansas. A trailer is purchased to house Audio-Reader. additional studios. Petey Cerf Eleanor Symons in the 1970’s.

1965 1971 1985 Petey Cerf funds research on Audio-Reader’s fi rst Audio-Reader begins radio reading services. Experts volunteer, Eleanor Symons, broadcasting 24 tell her it isn’t feasible. begins broadcasting in The Audio-Reader trailer. hours/day, 7 days/ the kitchen of the Sudler week. 4 House. Audio-Reader and the Legacy of Petey Cerf... We asked some of Audio-Reader’s former volunteers and staff members to share their memories about Petey Cerf, the “awesome lady” who founded Audio-Reader.

HANK BOOTH nursing homes in Kansas. She Radio Host, KLWN Lawrence was a very passionate, committed “Having her on the radio and generous person.” could be exciting because she could get a little spicy in her JAN DEAN conversation, when she spoke Audio-Reader Volunteer of her passions. Thank God for “I can remember that one time Petey Cerf.” someone here really needed a break, and she (Petey) let them PATTY CAHILL go stay in her cabin, a wonderful Former Director of Audio- place to stay, to recover. And it Reader made me love her.” “When I met with Petey, her In 1971, Petey Cerf (right) purchased vision for this new service was BARBARA BRAA a new transmitter for KANU (pictured contagious. With her passion Petey’s Former Assistant at left is former KANU director Dick and her fi nancial support, “When she hired me, she told me, Wright), so that Audio-Reader could it happened, and it’s still I don’t know exactly what you’ll broadcast off of a KANU sub-carrier. happening today! You know, be doing, but you’ll have to take when I grow up, I want to be care of all these blankety-blank TOM DOYLE like Petey Cerf.” numbers and fi nancial things Former engineer, KANU (you can fi ll in the blankety- “I remember being struck by BRUCE ROBERTS blank.) Of course, Petey knew Petey’s unwavering commitment Audio-Reader Volunteer everything she needed to know to serve the handicapped. “She was instrumental in creating about those “blankety-blank” Thinking about it now, the words the Trinity Foster Home, a group numbers. She just preferred to that come to mind are “one home for children. I also knew spend her time on other things, awesome lady.” her for her role in improving like Audio-Reader.”

1994 Audio-Reader engineer 1988 Steve Kincaid designs Audio-Reader Telephone Reader, made moves into its The Kansas Lions Sight possible by a grant from current building. Foundation has supported the Kansas Lions. Audio-Reader for over 20 The gazebo in the Audio- years. Reader Sensory Garden.

1990 1996 2010-2011 Audio-Reader reaches new The Kansas Lions Sight The Sensory Garden is territory in Warrensburg, Foundation Satellite Network created by volunteers and MO, Wichita, KS and The Baehr Audio-Reader Center allows our signal to reach staff on “Make a Differ- Chanute, KS. across the nation. ence Day”. 5 “Home is home, be it ever so humble...” Some Audio-Reader volunteers share their memories of one of Audio-Reader’s fi rst homes, a cramped trailer, where they recorded on reel-to-reel machines for over 10 years.

“When it rained (while you were reading in the trailer) you had to stop because it had a metal roof and it would make a noise like ‘boink, boink, boink,’ which you recorded.” - Erika Binns

Audio-Reader volunteers read in the trailer from 1976-1988. “One of the things that used to bother us was when the squirrels got on top of the trailer and started rolling nuts around. We had no way of stopping them.”

- Wade Dexter

“I was reading an article about the drought (in the trailer) and Left: Before Audio-Reader went digital, volunteers recorded onto the rain started coming down reel-to-reel machines. Right: the trailer’s live broadcast studio. super-hard on the tin roof!”

“We went through a spell - Eleanor Symons where we were re-using the reels, and they were very scratchy and it wasn’t “My dad liked being able to just much fun.” go back to a spot and fi nd it. - Eleanor Symons Later on the system became more digitized. He preferred the reel-to-reel.” Left: Producer Art Hadley - Paul Dexter, assisting an announcer in the Wade Dexter’s son trailer in the 1970’s.

Eleanor Symons is Audio-Reader’s fi rst volunteer! She started reading in 1971 and is still reading today. Wade Dexter volunteered from 1982-2010 and Erika Binns read from 1985- 2000. We thank them for their service!

6 “For Your EARS Only” 2011 “For Your EARS Only” (FYEO) 2011, our annual benefi t sale of music and audio equipment, grossed over $20,000! Special thanks to Janis Hutchison and Michael Davidson for organizing nearly 9,000 records, Dave Dunford for preparing over 250 pieces of audio equipment, Mike Krings, Lee Young, Molly Mulloy and Ruthie Hatfi eld for serving on our planning committee and the dozens of other volunteers (nearly 70!) who worked so hard to make the sale a success.

FYEO 2011 was made possible by the following businesses and donors.

LAWRENCE PHOTOGRAPHY JOURNAL-WORLD AD Joanna Fewins Capitol Federal Savings & Loan ENTERTAINMENT Central National Bank Art Hadley Del Monte Pet Products Douglas County Bank REFRESHMENTS Fairlawn Plaza Shopping Beverley Wilson Center Checkers Foods Hy-Vee Food Stores Dillons Minuteman Press Domino’s Pizza Laird Noller Automotive Einstein Bros. Bagels Listener Chris Frahm (left) Marks Jewelers Ruthie Hatfi eld checked out the musical Scotch Fabric Care Jimmy Johns instruments with the help of Stephens Real Estate Kentucky Fried Chicken her assistant. KU Catering DOOR PRIZES Laura Lorson Alvamar Country Club Maceli’s Brits Chikako Mochizuki Carlos O’Kelly’s Pizza Hut J&S Coffee Rudy’s Pizzeria Jack Ellena Honda Wheat State Pizza Kwality Comics Wheatfi elds Cafe Lawrence Travel Center Liberty Hall PROMOTION AND Starbuck’s Coffee DROP SITES The Olivia Connection Dillons at Fairlawn Plaza University Theatre Kansas Public Radio Waxman Candles KCUR 89.3 Audio-Reader listener and advocate Westside 66 KJHK Chikako Mochizuki (center) arrived at KLWN News & Talk the sale with her new guide dog, Kara! EVENT SPONSOR Beverley Wilson 7 There’s No Place Like Audio-Reader.... Audio-Reader’s Listener Liaison and Outreach Coordinator explores the signifi cance of our “Ruby Anniversary” By Peggy Sampson

“Close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, there's no place like home.”

- The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Do you remember back The ruby was thought esty. Because we have, over when etiquette required that to be a symbol for love, pas- the years, worked effi ciently the 25th anniversary was to sion, integrity, success and and economically and used be celebrated with a silver gift promise. So, what does the your generous donations to us and the fi ftieth anniversary ruby really have to do with wisely, we have enjoyed suc- was supposed to receive gold? Audio-Reader? cess and longevity. I don’t think it is still Well, the volunteers At a time when non- fashionable to observe profi ts are struggling, the traditional anniver- cutting staff members, sary gifts these days, or disappearing entirely, but I looked up what Audio-Reader continues the 40th anniversary to grow in size and pro- symbol happened to be gramming. We add more because Audio-Reader and more listeners every celebrated 40 years of year. With your continued service in October. The support, we will keep our symbol for the 40th is promise to SHARE THE the ruby. Ruby! The jew- GIFT OF elry lover in me went on full The ruby stands for love, passion, SIGHT alert when I discovered that. integrity, success and promise. THROUGHTHRO If you look it up, you can fi nd SOUNDSOUN for that the ruby is the day stone anotheranothe 40 for Tuesday, the season stone and staff who have worked to years. Oh, yes, and the ruby for summer and the birthstone launch and maintain Audio- slippers of “Wizard of Oz” for July. They are mined in Reader for 40 years certainly fame helped Dorothy get back Africa, Myanmar (Burma), have shown their love and to Kansas because “There is Vietnam, Thailand and North passion for this place and no place like home.” Carolina, of all places! They its mission. We have always On behalf of our are one of the top four gems tried to perform with integ- “home” in Kansas, we at in the world that holds the title rity, treating our listeners and Audio-Reader thank you for as “precious”. donors with respect and hon- 40 years of support. 8 KU Professor honored for service collaboration with Audio Reader By Amanda Schwegler, KU Center for Service Learning

University of Kansas member institutions were Audio-Reader to benefi t both the Associate Professor Cheryl eligible to receive this inaugural organization and the students’ Lester received the Excellence award, and one faculty member learning. in Community-Based Teaching from each state was recognized and Scholarship Award during at this year’s regional the 2011 Campus Compact conference. Heartland Conference, which Lester was recognized for was Sept. 22-23 in Overland her continual collaboration with Park, KS. Audio-Reader. The award recognizes Since 2006, Lester successful use of service has incorporated service to learning, a teaching method Audio-Reader in her Jewish that integrates meaningful American Literature and Culture community service into the classes. Initially involving her Cheryl Lester is an curriculum and incorporates students as readers of Jewish Associate Professor of student refl ection to enrich the content to be made available to English and American learning experience. Nominees listeners, Lester has continually Studies at the University from Kansas, Missouri and progressed her students’ service of Kansas. Oklahoma Campus Compact learning experiences with

The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation: Committed to Community Representatives from Audio-Reader recently attended the Charitable Contributions awards ceremony at the Prairie Band Casino and Resort in Mayetta, KS where Development Director Brenda Berg Dyck was presented with a check for $1,000 to fund closed circuit radios. Twenty-seven worthy organizations were awarded a total of $88,807 at this inspiring event! Audio-Reader is proud to be affi liated with such an altruistic organization. From the Prairie Band Potawatomi website: “The Nation continually strives to build relationships with neighboring communities in which we live and do business. We strive to be responsible citizens. Today we feel we can achieve this goal by sponsoring community events and organizations.” Thank you, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation! Your culture enriches our community and your generosity improves the lives of all Kansans.

To learn more about the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, visit pbpindiantribe.com.

9 A Dream Come True Audio-Reader volunteers gather to celebrate 40 years of service at annual banquet. By Jen Nigro, Coordinator of Volunteers If Petey Cerf could have who, between them, have spent been there for Audio-Reader’s 600 years volunteering for Audio- Volunteer Appreciation dinner Reader. SIX-HUNDRED YEARS! October 11 at Maceli’s she would Our 40-year honoree, Eleanor have been smiling. The banquet Symons, started volunteering for hall was packed to the gills with Audio-Reader before we even went nearly 250 Audio-Reader volunteers, on the air on October 11, 1971! guests and staff members. These We have not only our attendees, who were also there to volunteers to thank for reaching this mark our 40th anniversary, were milestone, but our donors as well. proof positive that Petey’s dream Thanks to your contributions, our of making printed materials widely volunteers and listeners have been 4040Years Years of Service! accessible to the print-disabled came able to access new technology and Eleanor Symons poses with true, and the fruits of her labor are we have been able to expand our Chancellor Bernadette Gray- here to stay. signal coverage. This ability to adapt Little Our evening included and change is vital to our continued many highlights: a speech by longevity. Chancellor Bernadette Gray- Apple co-founder Steve Jobs Little, commending volunteers once said, “The only way to do great for their contributions to KU and work is to love what you do.” We the community and encouraging are doing great things here at Audio- them to carry on for another 40; a Reader because of the love shown to poem written and read by volunteer us by our volunteers, donors and the Harlan Roedel (soon be available community at large for the last 40 in audio format on our website); years. Here’s to another 40! and the recognition of 48 volunteers 30 Years of Service Calder Pickett and Harold Asner

20 YYears off ServiceS i 15 Years of Service Rob and Susan Tabor, Jim and Thelma Taylor, Carol Geri Fordice, Jackie Hilton, Don Frey, Pat Ashley- Jones and Randy Austin Hiscock and Carolyn Brauer

10 10 Years of Service 55Years Years of Service Mary Ann Saunders, Jane Tedder, Nancy Marilyn Epp, Merilee Jennifer Nigro, Coordinator Colyer, Jo Anne Kready, Sarah Kanning Dymacek and Barbara Paris of Volunteers, was Master of and Molly Mulloy Ceremonies.

Frank Day was all smiles while Janet Campbell caught up with Sue Harlan Roedel penned and read talking to Austin Turney. Nishikawa during the an original poem for our 40th social/cocktail hour. Anniversary! Volunteers not 5 Years of Service: pictured David Dunford Jack Ferguson 20 Years of Service: Steve Gladstone Kris Shields Tom Goetz Jonathan Haynes 15 Years of Service: Thomas Howe Lucy Bednekoff Sonia Juola Bob Gent Rebecca Jordan Helen Kriegsman Mike Lewis Sheila Marque Keith Sevedge Ruth Short That’s dedication! Jean Van Lew and Rosalie Talley Samantha Snyder Harold Asner have been readers for Bill Vermooten 30+ years. 10 Years of Service: Jeff Blair THANK YOU Susan Hoefer Cindy Koester for ALL you Jane Pennington do! Cindy Penzler Barbara Schountz 11 Meet me in St. Louis, Louis.... Special Message from Audio-Reader Staffers Travel to the KU Chancellor! St. Louis for Annual Conference Audio-Reader listeners are enjoying a special treat right now. University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little has recorded a special message commemorating Audio-Reader’s 40th Anniversary! The message is now a regular part of the Audio- Reader broadcast.

A core group of Audio-Reader staff members traveled to St. Louis, MO earlier this year to attend the International Association of Audio Information Services (IAAIS) conference. The annual meeting allowed staff to attend cutting-edge workshops and exchange ideas with representatives from reading services across the country. The trip culminated with a banquet and awards ceremony, where Audio- Reader was presented with three awards in following categories: Above: Chancellor Gray-Little prepares to read in an Audio-Reader studio. 2010 Program of the Year: Entertainment “The American Past” (read by Calder Pickett) AUDIO-READER: THERE’S AN 2010 Program of the Year: Information I APP FOR THAT! “Mail Order Catalogs” (read by Mary Ann Saunders)

2010 Public Awareness Award “For Your Ears Only” (key volunteers Janis Hutchison and Dave Dunford) Listeners can access Audio- Pictured above: Brenda Berg Dyck, Lori Kesinger, Reader’s free broadcasts using their Peggy Sampson, Art Hadley and Jennifer Nigro at smartphones by downloading the iBlink the IAAIS conference in St. Louis. radio app, developed by Serotek Corp.

12 Donor List Our gratitude is extended to the following donors whose contributions have supported the work of the Kansas Audio- Reader Network. Please note that Audio-Reader publishes two separate donor lists each year. This list refl ects only those donations received between April 1, 2011 and September 30, 2011. Underwriters Gaylen & Deborah Koons Philip & Patricia Love Colene DeHoff & Gene Lawrence Rotary Club McDaniel Knutson Botts Douglas County Community Leavenworth Noon Financial Partners Douglas County Foundation Lions Club Maxine Mayhew Community Foundation Ethel and Raymond Rice Lawrence Lions Club Orrick Lions Club Laurence Draper* Foundation Ron & Dorothy On the Border Econ-O-Print Fairlawn Plaza Shopping McGregor (Lawrence) Charlee Glinka & Center Patrick O’Keefe Dr. Mark Praeger Gregory Shipe Fry Eye and Associates, P.A. Raymore Lions Club Rotary Club of Topeka Gary L. Grunewald Hallmark Cards, Inc. Sarah Katherine Security Benefi t Kathleen Hall Kansas City Society of Sanders Stephen B. Sofro & Lawrence & Ruth E. Ophthalmology Elinor Schroeder Marji Bailey Sofro Hatfi eld Kansas Lions Sight Topeka Lions Kevan & Gail Vick Horton Lion’s Club Foundation Foundation Jack and Judy Wright Independence Host Kansas Optometric Veterans of Foreign Lions Club Association Wars Producers Elizabeth Jones Kansas Public Radio George & Beverley $100 - $249.00 Faye Jones KCUR Wilson (*denotes deceased) Cal & Janice Karlin Kresie & Penzler, M.D., P.A. Paul K. Kincaid Ophthalmology Directors Club AC Netsales LLC Ken L. Kneebone Lawrence Memorial $250 - $499.99 Mary & Tom Ackerly Virginia M. Kurata Hospital Robena Asbury Lansing Lions Club Leavenworth Lions Club Mrs. Jane A. Barber Harold & Marie Asner Liberty Lions Club Lied Center Stephen & Terry George and Louise Maize Lions Club McDaniel-Knutson Betzen Baggett Jane Wofford Malin Financial Partners Briggs Auto Philip Barnard & McCune Lions Club Overland Park Host Lions Capital City Bank Cheryl B. Lester Connie I. Meyer Starlight Theatre College Hill Plumbing, Alan Black Michael & Carol Heating, Cooling, Michael & Catherine Nauman Benefactors Electrical, Inc. Blumenfeld Neodesha Lions Club $500 and over Jan I. Dean Kevin & Jodi Floyd & June Preston William R. Durkee Bowersox Arline Seely-Bensch & ABC Foundation Fairlawn Plaza Mall & Rose M. Burns Larry Bensch William A. Dann Shopping Center Kit Carlsen Darlyne Sheppeard Delta Gamma Sorority ING Financial Advisors Les C. Carlson Stan & Jan Shumway (Beta Kappa Chapter) JB Turner & Sons Jim & Lee Claussen Robert G. Simmermon FTJ FundChoice Roofi ng & Sheet Metal Sheldon & Virginia Wilber & Mary Lou Hallmark Cards, Inc. KBS Constructors, Inc. Cohen Spalding (Lawrence) Peter & Julie Knutson Jessica Conoley William Stapp Donor Reception Cancelled Due to Budget Cuts It is with deep regret that we announce there will be no Donor Reception in 2012. Audio- Reader had to make several difficult budgetary cutbacks this year. One of them was to forgo the Donor Reception usually held in March. This was a very difficult decision as it is the only time of year we have an opportunity to visit with some of you. We greatly appreciate your understanding. Please know how much your support means to us! If you haven’t been to Audio-Reader in awhile, stop in and see us. We’d love to visit with you. 13 Producers, Bobbie Deems Susan & Gerd Murphy Kenneth & Brenda continued Frances H. Elgan Earl A. Nehring Taylor $100 - $249.00 Hilda L. Enoch David & Jennifer TM Holdings, Inc. Kenneth R. Evers Nigro Sally Tureman Nancy Bishop Struble Laura Fal North Lawrence David & Vicky Unruh & Andrew Struble Ann Fiatte Improvement Assoc. Virgil Visser Carolyn Swift First National Bank Mary J. O’Leary Gladys Welton Jim & Thelma Taylor Benjamin & Joyce Olathe Noon Lions Frances E. Wempe* Twentieth Century Friesen Club Betty S. Werner Club Glass House Liquor Dorothy & Arnold Marie C. Whitacre Eleanor Unruh Jack C. Goodrum Opfer Barbara White Thomas & Nancy Carl R. Graves Patrick & Jennifer James R. Wilder VanHoozer Pat & Don Green Palmer Wendell & Louese Barbara J. Wagner Linda R. Hager Joseph M. Pease Winkler Christopher Lee Wease Cristi Hansen Marcia Perdue Cheryl E. Wonnell Elaine & Donald Webb Maude M. Harrington John P. Philips Michael Wright Kay Wertzberger Karla Harris Calder & Nola Pickett Herbert W. Wyrick Ruth Harwood Deloris E. Pinkard Sponsors Frederick J. Hesse David Plumlee Friends $25 - $99.99 Hi-Tech Antifreeze Marie Galluzzi-Potter Up to $24.99 (*denotes deceased) Recycling Jo Anne Kready Frances & Stuart Hines Ruth E. Rightmyer Betty W. Alderson Kurt Aikins Roland & Joanne Hurst Harlan & Sidney American Energy Ernie & Margaret Janis Brown Hutchison Roedel Solutions Angino Rosemary Ingram Al & Eileen Rogers Robert F. Barrett William & Margaret Jack Wilson & Stanley & Phyllis Gloria Bartell Arnold Associates, Inc. Rolfe Randal Dyck & Atchison Lions Club Kristina M. Jinkens Merrill & Barbara Brenda Berg-Dyck Barnard Lions Club Carol & Charles Jones Ross David C. Bohanon William & Mary Beard Shirley Joseph Daniel & Judith Nellie Cloughley Daryl & Deborah Kansas Advisory Rounda Donald Daniels Beene Council for Talking Del Ruff Martha & Orville Anita & Leon Bell Books Service David & Janet Schaaf De Lay Bill & Inge Beningfi eld Shirley A. Kasper Richard & Mary Nancy Dowling Aliene & David Bieber Mabelle R. Kennedy Scheer Vic & Renee Dyck Ken & Barbara Bishop David & Orean Kent Darcy Schild F. Walter Kihm, Public B.J. McGivern Marianne T. Kessler Gregory & Eva Accountant, LLC Dee & Chuck Blaser Thomas & Gail Klotz Schmidt Christie French Verle & Sylvia Bostick Connie Kniffen Carol & Delbert Juanita E. Goodnow Eunice L. Bradley Kresie and Penzler, Shankel Matthew S. Gough Leola Bray M.D., P.A. Douglas Sheafor Mike & Stacey Handly Barbara Buehler Betty A. Laird Barbara Shewmaker Fred S. Hirsekorn Burlington Lions Club Mark & Jill LaPoint Robert B. Simpson Issues Management Linda Bush Cynthia & Don Larson Dale & Sherry Fowler Group, Inc. Pam Cameron Alice Lassman Randall & Ruth Paula S. Johnson George & Sherrill Catt Lindsborg Lions Club Sneegas George & Charlene Central National Bank Patricia M. Long Russell E. Stauffer Jorgensen Mary S. Chapman Bette Lukens Michael Stokes & Pat Knepp Mike & Ann Chapman Bonnie Callaway Cheryl Kirby-Stokes Ron Lee Vivian Collins McGowan Howard & Alwilna Garnet Leedy William Courtway Mesler Roofi ng, Siding Stoltenberg Deloris F. Lentz Barbara Crews & Windows Mary Ann Strong Deborah & Peter Maxon Louis M. & Marion E. Milford Lions Club Feloniz Lovato- Jeffrey P. Merritt Culp Miller Eye Care Winston & Matt Suggs Cheryl & Ron Miller Charles & Donna Robert & Patsy Moody Cherie Tapahonso Chikako Mochizuki Decedue Kimberly A. Morrow 14 Ellen & Marvin Mildred L. Wittick* Memorial Tributes Betty Jo Sheafor Mullen Lee Young in Memory of: Doug Sheafor Frances W. Murphy Dr. George & Gertrude Memorials Lee Boyles Shifra Stein Myers Mary Chapman Robert Barrett George Norton Marguerite L. Johnson Anne Osborne Daryl & Deborah Beene Faye Catt Wes Unruh Maxine Patterson Robert & Patricia Moody George L. Catt Eleanor Unruh Craig A. Penzler Gloria Bartell Phillip R. Roush Denny & Paula Johnson Petey Cerf John Walquist Victoria L. Roush Larry & Connie Meyer Carolyn Swift Linda Sheets Blaine & Peg Sampson North Lawrence Symphony Stan R. Sauer Association Don & Mary Glaser Frances E. Wempe David Scheer Robert Simmermon Gaylen & Deb Koons Connie Kniffen Patti Jo Schiefelbein Herbert & Sarah Wyrick Mary Ann Strong Lynn Segebrecht Leon & Anita Bell Charlotte E. Glinka Linda Sheetz Barbara E. Crews Charlee Glinka & Greg Shipe Honorary Tributes Charles Shirley & Rebecca in Honor of: Mikolaj-Shirley Roy Mayhew Phil Harrison Oscar E. & Patricia A. Maxine E. Mayhew Chuck & Dee Blaser William Dann Stevenson Lonnie & Rosemary Ingram Hilda Enoch Jack & Mary Tobie Mary Karhut Randy Wilson Russell B. Mesler Don & Elaine Webb Jan I. Dean Ernie Angino - of the Lunch Fraces H. Elgan Petey Cerf Legacy Bunch Mary Bess Kincaid Society Ailene & David Bieber Paul & Mary Kincaid Scott & Karen Dean (*denotes deceased) Kenneth & Barbara Bishop Jan I. Dean The Carlsen family Donna Lantry Mae S. Allen* Bob Deems Gertrude Myers Art Hadley Anonymous* Benjamin & Joyce Friesen (Art’s Awesomeness) Anonymous Stacey & Mike Handley Pauline Latham Anonymous Anonymous Harriet Harwood Charles F. & Carol R. Jones Anonymous Shirley Joseph Jackie Hilton Anna Ballard “Petey”Cerf* Virginia Kurata Harold (Bud) Lukens Mark & Jill LaPoint Randoph G. Austin Floyd & June Preston Bette Lukens Sarah J. Cohen* Stan & Jean Sauer Lori Kesinger & William A. Dann Randall & Ruth Sneegas Roy N. Mayhew Jen Nigro Thomas P. Doyle Kenneth & Brenda Taylor Maxine Mayhew Cheryl Lester & Philip Marjorie Elliott* Mesler Roofi ng, Siding & Barnard Gladys Fredrick Burge* Windows Robb Mark Murray Diana Seely Frederick Teddy and Bill Beard Mary & Tom Ackerly Dr. Gene Manakan Lela Freienmuth* Stan and Phyllis Rolfe Mrs. Faye Jones Sara W. Gee* Arthur and Bonnie McGowan Lois Neis Phyllis J. Henney* Thomas & Nancy Van Merilee Dymacek Audio-Reader Margaret E. Herynk* Hoozer (Happy 40th) Jake Irvine* Thomas & Gail Klotz Wayne Pederson Jan I. Dean J. Archie King Thomas & Barbara Horton Lions Club Elsie Mae Luthey* Shewmaker Engraved Bricks Wilma R. Miller* Philip & Patricia Love Polly Reed for the Sensory Elwin J. Reynolds* Don & Pat Green Jan I. Dean Elaine Roberts Fred Hirsekorn Garden Richard J. Schoeck* Opal Schmidt In Fond Memory of Mildred O. Swendson* Greg & Eva Schmidt Ralph Turner* Josh Stailey William R.* & Jean Van Lew Randolph G. Austin 15 Airwaves NON-PROFIT The University of Kansas U.S. POSTAGE Audio-Reader Network Inside this issue of Airwaves: PAID PO Box 847 LAWRENCE, KS Lawrence, KS 66044 • A History of Audio-Reader (pg.2) PERMIT • Memories of Petey Cerf (pg. 5) NO. 50 Address Services Requested • Volunteer Banquet (pg. 10)

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Cover photograph: Audio-Reader founder Petey Cerf (left) with former director of KANU Dick Wright in front of the Sudler House, Audio-Reader’s fi rst building, in the 1970’s.

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E-mail The enclosed donation is a tribute in honor of or memory of (circle one) I would like information on remembering Audio-Reader in my will or other planned giving. I have already designated Audio-Reader in my will (Petey Cerf Legacy Society member). I would like information about donating a brick for the Audio-Reader Sensory Garden. I am interested in having a program about Audio-Reader at my club/church/organization.

Audio-Reader is a 501(c)(3) organizati on, and our services are available free of charge. Your donati ons help to provide closed- circuit radios for new listeners, purchase newspaper and magazine subscripti ons, current books, other printed materials, and to upgrade and maintain the technology that brings the printed word to life. We thank you for your tax-deducti ble contributi on.