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Tuesday, October 11, 1994
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Woman finds joy in Audio-reader
Sally Ewing, a Volunteer with Audio Reader, reads from "Hitty, Her First Hundred Years," by Rachael Field, yesterday at the Audio Reader Studio Behind JKHJ radio station. Ewing has been a volunteer reader for 24 years.
By Virginia Margheim Special to the Kansan
Sally Ewing never intended to volunteer for KU's audio-reader service when it started in 1971.
"I was just sort of a zombie," Ewing said.
It was difficult time in Ewing's life. Her husband had died earlier that year, and she had abandoned her usually active social life.
When her daughter approached her about audio-reader, a KU service that broadcasts news and makes tapes of magazines and books available to about 6,000 visually impaired people statewide, Ewing said she was not interested.
Anyone who is print disabled can receive audio-reader for free. After filling out an application and being accepted, a special radio, which picks up the service's frequency, is supplied.
Audio-reader service has grown from a local effort to a statewide service.
Ewing reads books onto tape that were made available for people across the state. Audio-reader also broadcasts the news live on a subcarrier frequency of an FM station.
When the service started, it had about 20 volunteers; today it has 350. Ewing has always been a volunteer, and she has always done a good job. Executive Director Janet Campbell said.
"Sally is very articulate," Campbell said. "She's quite a storyteller."
Over the years, Ewing has read hundreds of books onto tape, reading at the audio-reader center anywhere from one to five times a week.
- One book, *Ladies of the Club*, took Ewing 87 hours to read. That reading holds the center's record for the longest book read.
Reading for audio-reader has given Ewing an opportunity to learn about many different things.
For example, the book she is finishing now, 'First Man in Rome', by Coleen McCullough, has shown her many similarities to modern society, Ewing said.
"Rome is going to pot in this book. It's almost like the U.S. today," Ewing said. "I'm not discouraged about the U.S., though. I still want we have people smart enough to pull us out."
Considering her background, it has not been surprising that Ewing found such success and satisfaction in reading for others.
The thirteenth child, Ewing said she learned early to speak up. She took expression lessons when she was a
girl and has been performing readings since the age of 10.
She began by reading religious poems at church when she was in high school. She often gave readings for local clubs.
Ewing is a natural performer. She weaves dialogue into her conversations, distinguishing different characters through her posture, her voice and her facial expressions. Reading in a way that interests people has not been difficult. Ewing said.
"You do whatever it tells you to do," Ewing said. "If it says scream, you scream. If it says sing, you sing."
Kimbery Morrow, Overland Park graduate student, volunteers and listens to audio-reader.
"I really admire her because for her
to be in her 90s and to be thinking of other people and their needs is fantastic," Morrow said. "She's a real inspiration."
Before she makes an actual recording, Ewing spends time practicing her voices and writing summaries of the previous readings.
Now Ewing said she was glad that she decided to volunteer because it helped her fill the void in her life left by her husband's death.
"It really built me up," Ewing said.
And since it has been such an important part of her life, Ewing said she plans to volunteer for audio-reader as long as her voice will let her.
"I still feel that this work is rewarding," Ewing said. "It makes my life more purposeful."
OUT: Can be hard on gay minorities
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about homosexuality.
"I think there are two schools of gays," she said. "The old school tends to be sexist and prejudiced because they had to act. They couldn't be themselves. The younger generation is more accepting and are becoming more individuals. They realize that being gay isn't the only part of a person's life."
"The gay culture was accessible to me in the Philippines, in part because of my liberal upbringing and in part because events and things were accessible in papers," she said.
Martin said for that the most part the gay culture didn't have problems with her ethnic background. Martin attributed that to the younger generation of gays, lesbians and bisexuals.
Other minority gay students share similar concerns. Joe Cuevas, Topeka freshman, first realized he was gay when he was in grade school.
"When all of my friends would talk about girls, I wasn't excited," he said. "I finally told my parents in high school."
Like Martin, Cuevas said the day he told his parents about his sexuality was an emotional one.
"I felt like this huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders," he said. "Once I told them, I felt a lot of freedom. I could tell them about my boyfriends. I could show them my joys and sorrows."
Cuevas said he felt less burden from the Mexican community than from the Catholic community.
"In the Catholic church, there are three types of people," he
said. "One is the type that totally supports you. The second supports you but thinks you're going to hell. The third just thinks you're going to hell.
"In Mexico it goes on, but it's not really talked about, and that's bad because it gives bad stereotypes."
Claude Howard, Lawrence sophomore, said he felt alienated from the African-American community because of his homosexuality.
"Sometimes other blacks literally won't talk to me," he said.
Howard said he came out to himself when he was 16. He told his mother a year later.
"It was hell," he said. "Mom cried for awhile."
The hardest part, he said, was having to keep part of his life hidden because his mother couldn't handle it.
"This really hit me one night when she called me in the middle of the night one night to ask me for some advice about her boyfriend, and I realized I couldn't ask her for advice about the same subject," he said.
Although Howard believes that all forms of discrimination are wrong, he believes it is worse to be discriminated against on the basis of his skin color than on sexual orientation.
"I don't know why," he said.
"It's something I'm just trying to understand."
Howard said the first step to overcoming discrimination was education.
"Once people realize sexuality isn't so cut-and-dry, we'll all be better off," he said.
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