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AUGUST 10, 2011

Maria is a historical musicologist who is pursuing her PhD at Boston University. Maria also noted that students like herself are finding more scholarly books on Bookshare which expands her ability to research. She studies secular songs and theater music from the English Baroque period of the 1600’s.

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MARCH 1, 2009

My wife Virginia and I were able to squeeze in a quick trip to Boston to see our son Jimmy fence in the Intercollegiate Fencing Championships, his last fencing tournament in college.

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APRIL 18, 2006

I had a great meeting with Timothy Anderson, the head of the World Computer Exchange , on a recent visit to Boston. PCs for poor students. I have watched his project as it's grown over the past few years.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Department of Education and the Gates Foundation have supported Benetech – both by itself and in partnership with other accessibility groups such as the DAISY Consortium and WGBH of Boston – to work with standards bodies, technology companies, authors and publishers in order to make those tools widely and freely available and see that they are built (..)

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

I've been in Boston this week, and had the opportunity to visit WGBH/NCAM (nation's leading captioning group for the disabled), National Braille Press, as well as folks at BU, MIT and Harvard. The opportunity to talk to brilliant people is one of the best parts of my job.

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APRIL 22, 2007

I'm looking forward to seeing what she does, and of course to the Ninth Gathering in Boston in March 2008. She spoke frequently to the members with passion, and talked a lot about how to bring the same energy and excitement of the Gathering to our members year-round. Maybe I'll see you there!

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NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. She also loves the fact that Benetech is based in California’s naturally beautiful Bay Area.

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