6A= THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
TUESDAY, FEB. 12, 2002
Volunteer lends sound to print
By Adam Pracht Kansan staff writer
Harlan Roedel was not going to let bad weather keep him from reading the morning paper for people who couldn't read it themselves when school was canceled last week.
"I knew that I could. I wasn't driving, I wouldn't have to fight slick streets," said Roedel, a 70-year-old retired employee of University Relations. "It was kind of a macho thing. I think."
Roedel lends his deep voice as a volunteer reader for the Audio-Reader Network, a closed-circuit radio service that provides more than 160 hours weekly of printed materials to more than 3,000 people who have difficulty reading for a wide range of reasons.
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Roedel walks more than two miles to the studio north of JKHK to read morning papers such as The Kansas City Star and the Lawrence Journal-World for listeners throughout Kansas and western Missouri. Roedel also
reads mysteries, novels and poetry for the network. He has been making the walk to the station for three years and said making the trip that icy Wednesday wasn't a problem. Since roads were still slick on Thursday, Roedel came in that morning as well to fill in for other readers.
He said that the 50-year-old network provided a valuable service.
"Our listeners are shut-ins, legally blind, or unable to read by themselves," he said. "My whole life has been devoted to reading and to literature, and I know how lost I would be if I couldn't read."
Roedel is one of more than 250 Audio-Reader volunteers who read everything from mail-order catalogs to books with adult material. The volunteers range in age from 12 to more than 90 years old and include KU students.
Those who qualify for the service are given a receiver that picks up only the network signal.
The Audio-Reader Network, established in 1971 and one of the first radio
reading services in the world, also provides Internet broadcasting, a telephone service that provides the news of the day and special readings at the request of listeners.
requests of Mason Rachel Magario, Santos, Brazil, junior, said she had used the service since she was a freshman.
Magario, a journalism and geography major, said she used the telephone readings almost daily. She said it let her access news without depending on a friend to read it to her.
"I think it's an accessible medium of communication for blind people, and I think that's very important," she said.
For more information about Audio-
Reader Network, call 864-4600 or 1-
800-772-8898, or go to
http://www.ku.edu/~arnet/.
Contact Pracht at apracht@kansan.com. This story was edited by Sarah Smarsh.
Listen to samples of Roedel's work.
CHRISTINA NEFF/KANSAN
Harlan Roedel volunteers as a reader for the Audio-Reader Network, a closed-circuit radio service that provides more than 160 hours weekly of printed materials to more than 3,000 people who have difficulty reading. Roedel is one of more than 250 Audio-Reader volunteers.
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