Connecticut Unit
Location:
209 Orange
Street
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: 203-624-4334
Fax: 203-865-0203
Hours of Operation: Monday & Wednesday:
9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday: 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Thursday: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Saturday: 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
RFB&D Connecticut
Unit Fall Classic Golf Tournament - October 20, 2008
Anne Fortunato
Named Honorary Member of Delta Kappa Gamma Society
International
Congratulations to Anne Fortunato, State Director
of the Connecticut Unit of Recording for the Blind
& Dyslexic, who has been inducted into the Alpha
Kappa State Chapter as an honorary member of The Delta
Kappa Gamma Society International, a worldwide organization
of women who have made a significant impact in the
field of education. Anne, along with fellow inductee
State Senator Mary Ann Handley (D-Manchester), was
honored at a November 4, 2006, ceremony in Rocky Hill,
CT. The Delta Kappa Gamma Society International is
an international honorary society with more than 150,000
key women educators in fourteen countries. The national
organization has been a generous donor to RFB&D
and our Adopt-A-Text Program.
The unit held an open house on
Monday, March 21 in celebration of the full
digitalization of RFB&D'S Connecticut Unit.
Download the Press
Release
View photos from the
event.
The JP Morgan Chase Foundation
has been a generous supporter of the New York
and Connecticut Units.
See the list of books that have been recorded
through the generous support of the
JP Morgan Chase Foundation's Jumpstart Financial
Literacy Program. |
The Connecticut
Unit's charter reads April 2, 1959. We are located
within walking distance of Yale and there are many
other universities in the area. Our new initiatives
involve self-directed recording and home recording.
The
Connecticut Unit was started in 1959 by a handful of
volunteers who recorded textbooks onto shellac disks
in 600 square feet of space donated by the New Haven
Library. In the 1960s, the Connecticut Unit was
selected by national headquarters for a special and
prestigious project: recording the complete works of
nine American authors. The definitive editions were
approved by the Center for Editions of American
Authors of the Modern Language Association. The
authors were: Samuel Clemens, Stephen Crane, Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean
Howells, Washington Irving, Herman Melville, Henry
David Thoreau and Walt Whitman. Connecticut was
selected for this project because of its production
quality, which national headquarters described as
"outstanding - particularly in the recording of
literature, the meticulousness of book preparation
and the quality of reading."
Later, in the
early 1980s, the Connecticut Unit was designated as
a specialist in the production of science and technology
books because of its high quality work in those areas.
The Connecticut Unit:
- operates a studio with six
soundproof booths and sophisticated recording
and duplication equipment that produces RFB&D
books
- uses over 160 volunteers and a
small paid staff for both preparation of our
books and overall management
- records books for over 750
Connecticut residents and thousands of people
across the country
- records a wide variety of texts
including science and technology books
Volunteer Information:
Due to a small
staff, our studio has volunteers doing almost
everything. Volunteers do the bookmarking, file
checking, they send bills to HQ for paying, thank
you letters to donors, grant writing and almost
anything else. We need readers for all subjects.
To learn more about volunteering opportunities,
call or
e-mail Leslie Wasserman.
Make A Difference by Making A Donation
To use our secure
online server to donate to the Connecticut Unit, RFB&D
headquarters, or a combination of both, see our
Donate Now page.
Contact Information:
Call 203-624-4334 or
send an e-mail to
connecticut@rfbd.org.
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