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Skriven 2008-05-31 00:39:15 av Nancy Backus (1:3634/12.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 05-26-08 14:27 <=-

 RH>> I met Steve thru a Bible Study for deaf students at NTID 36 years ago.
 NB>> You might know one or more of my siblings... My sisters Tait and Lydia
 NB>> were involved in InterVarsityCF, and Tait, at least, also learned
 NB>> enough ASL to do some interpreting... they might have had some contact
 NB>> to that Bible Study at NTID, I think the timing's about right.
 RH> Hmmmmmmm, it's possible. The name Tait is unusual enough that I'd
 RH> probably recall it but that is so long ago, I don't.  OTOH, Lydia is
 RH> more common I might have known her.

Another friend of ours, Lynn Hudson (male), is deaf, and might also
have been at that Bible Study.  :)  What was your name then?  I could
see if any of them remember you or Steve.  :)

 NB>>  My brother Rob was 10 years behind me, so he'd have been there more
 NB>> like '76 and following.
 RH> OK, I was out of there by spring of 75.
 
That's about what I was figuring.  I finally graduated from RIT in '72,
but wasn't active in IVCF or anything similar on campus by then.  About
all I was doing besides school work was being involved with WITR, the
campus radio station..  :)

 RH>> Most all of Steve's family (and he) have worked or are still working
 RH>> for Kodak. Dad retired from them about 15 years ago, the Elm Grove
 RH> Actually it is my father in law.  He retired in the early 90s--took
 RH> an early buy out package.

He was one of the fortunate ones, then.
 
 RH> I've got several but they say Kodak isn't what it used to be. They
 RH> were slower to get on to the digital band wagon and have lost a lot of
 RH> the big name they used to have in the camera industry.
 
The worst part of it is that the climate for workers there is so poor...
it got to the point that if one hadn't been cut, one just figured it was
a matter of time... and those that were left had all that much more to
do, to pick up for the ones that were cut.  Richard decided that he* was
fortunate to be cut*, when it did happen, as staying wouldn't have been
any better... and that was even with not being able to get another job
of any sort for over a year and a half!  But there's always hope that
Kodak might finally come round, and be a good place to work again...
they haven't lost all of their allure as a business... even if a lot of
it is nostalgia... ;/

 RH> until 1950.  I lived in the same place all my life until geting
 RH> married; now I've been half way around the world and back again. Still,
 RH> it's exposed me to so many different cultures and foods I never would
 RH> have known about otherwise, even with the computer/www. My cooking is a
 RH> mix of the different places we've lived in as well as some of what
 RH> Steve had while growing up (more of his family influences than mine).
 RH> We also like to go to a variety of places to eat; it's fun to find the
 RH> various restaurants in a new assignment. One "gripe" with Savannah is
 RH> that there's no German place but we've really enjoyed the Atlantic
 RH> seafood, as we did the Pacific when we were in HI.

Both Richard and I have been interested in other cultures enough that,
even without traveling all over, we've developed both a knowledge and an
appreciation for many other cultures... and a willingness to try just
about any cuisine (at least once).  ;)  That served him well when he had
the opportunity first to work with Japanese counterparts (a joint
project between Kodak and Noritsu) and then to go to Japan on a business
trip as part of that same cooperative effort.  He was one of the few
that the Noritsu workers felt comfortable working with, and they
specifically asked for him to be part of the team that went to Japan.

I wouldn't have minded being immersed in other cultures, but as that
never was an option, we've done the next best thing... just learned what
we could about them, often from those who had grown up in those cultures
or from those who may have spent some time immersed...  I had a lot of
friends when I was growing up that were missionary kids on furlough,
too... and we both did a lot of reading about other places... :)  My
cooking, such as it is any more, is a hodgepodge from all over, not
particularly anything specifically identifiable... ;)  And, if going out
to eat, it's usually somewhere ethnic... mostly Asian, including Indian,
sometimes Mexican..  ;)

ttyl     neb

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