In a message Walt Cone typed to Harvey Heagy  
 WC>      Exactly.  as I remember it was a heated debate all morning and
 WC> in the afternoon the resolution was withdrawn.  I think there is
 WC> still plenty of people who would like us to have a national
 WC> rehabilatation centre.  I could see many good things happening with
 WC> a centre like that.  I could see some bad things happening too.  We
 WC> would still have the same bad agencies throughout the country
 WC> touting what wonderful things they are doing for blind people.
I agree, and that's why I would also tend to be against the idea at this time 
among other reasons.  We don't have the resources to create all new things 
for blind people such as schools, rehab agencies, centers Etc. just because 
the ones that exist aren't doing a good job.  Our place is to reform the 
existing structure in whatever ways possible.  
I am going to tell you a story; sorry if this is a bit off topic, but I think 
I met you in 1984 and 1987.  I remember us sitting at the bar in the Phoenix 
Hyatt-regency in 1984 and if you are the same person I am thinking of, you 
told me a story about how the singer Marty Robbins helped out someone in your 
family when they desperately needed help and refused to accept any form of 
payback.  He has always been one of my favorite singers and it is sad that we 
have lost him.  I don't know why he got into that egosentrick style of 
performing the last couple of years of his life touting how wonderful he was, 
but it is great to know that he was such a humanitarian.
Harvey 
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