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2015-12-09-An Interview with Art Schreiber

Seminars@Hadley


Presented by Art Schreiber

Moderated by Larry Moffat

December 09, 2015

Larry Moffat Welcome to Seminars@Hadley; my name is Larry Moffat. I’m a member of Hadley’s seminars team and I also work in curricular affairs. Today’s seminar topic is, An Interview with Art Schreiber. Our presenter today was a long-time radio journalist, he’s an author, and he’s currently the chairman of the state of New Mexico commission for the blind. In his career, Mr. Schreiber has covered some of the giants of the 20th century. As an aside personally, I’ve been doing seminars at Hadley for over four years and my time with Art Schreiber has to be my favorite assignment in all the seminars I’ve done at Hadley, so I’m really

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looking forward to listening to today’s presentation and some additional interaction with Art. I found him to be both charming and fascinating and I have no doubt that you will too. Today, Art’s going to be sharing some of his stories about his work and also about his journey with blindness. His presentation is recorded, but Art is also with us live via telephone to answer questions following the recording. Without any further ado, I’m going to set up and get our recording going and we will get started.

Art SchreiberThank you. I appreciate this opportunity to be with Hadley. I’m a great admirer of what Hadley does and how it helps those across the country and around the world, and I’ve been a big fan of Hadley for a long time. Today, I have been thinking about what I was going to say, and I want people to understand that there are breaks that come in people’s lives, and sometimes they come and we don’t recognize it for not only months but maybe years or a decade or more of how that helped us. What I’m going to talk about in my career today is that I have had that opportunity of having a lot of breaks in my career, but I think I was at least at that time astute enough to take advantage of those breaks, and that’s true for all of us.



I always wanted to be in broadcasting; that was my goal as a little boy. I used to listen to the news with my father. Now, there wasn’t television in those days, we’re talking about in the 30’s, and I, for whatever reason, coming over that speaker of that old Crosley radio, I wanted to do that. When I got to college, I went to college on a speak scholarship, but after a year, my major advisor called me in and said, “Art, you ought to get out of the speech department and get into something you could make a living at.” That blew my mind; I was devastated, but I never gave up. I made up my mind that I was somehow going to be in broadcasting. I majored in Bible philosophy and psychology and that’s not a very good major if you want to get a job when you get out of college, but that’s what I did. When I did graduate from college, I got a job in radio in my hometown of East Liverpool, Ohio.

The second job was Zanesville, Ohio, about 40 miles from the state capital of Columbus on old Route 40 and a small town nearby was New Concord, Ohio. That’s the home of Muskingum College. One day over the newswire, I saw that our marine corps pilot by the name of John Glenn was going to attempt to set a speed record flying from Los Angeles to New York. Well, I saw where it said he was from New Concord Ohio and a graduate of Muskingum College. I



grabbed the phonebook and looked up the name Glenn, called this number, and my goodness it was Mr. and Mrs. Glenn, father and mother of John Glenn. I introduced myself, told them I’d like to come over and interview them about their son trying to set this speed record. That introduced me to the Glenn’s and I stayed in touch with them, and we did updates on John’s career.

My next job was Cleveland, Ohio, and in those days, this was 1959, Cleveland was one of the ten major cities in America. It’s not today, but it was then, and so I had really hit the big time and I worked at a small radio station by Cleveland standards. It was a 5000 watt station but very popular, WERE. I was the night newsman, three to eleven. One afternoon, the bell on the tape on the news machine rang and that signified a bulletin, and I looked and here NASA was announcing the seven original astronauts; one was John Glenn. I grabbed the phonebook, my phonebook, my personal one, called the Glenn’s in New Concord, Ohio, reminded them of our times back when I was in Zanesville. I said, “Would you give me John’s phone number?” and they did, and I called John Glenn and got the first interview after he was named one of the seven original astronauts. That was a big advantage. It so impressed the radio station, that within a month or so, I was named news director.



The next thing, I realized that the owner of the station happened to be the chairman of the democratic party of Cuyahoga County in the largest populated county in Ohio in those days, and the owner called me up and said he wanted me to come over to his office. I did; he said I want you to go to Wisconsin and cover this guy Kennedy, he wants to be president and I think we ought to be covering. That was my introduction to John F Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline. Now, what was great was the owner of the station, Ray Miller, knew the Kennedy’s, knew the principals around them, and so when he called and told them that this news director was coming, well, it was a great break for me because now as I would meet these people they would say this is Ray Miller’s news director. I met Jack and Jackie, flew on the Carolina with them over Wisconsin as Jack campaigned, that was my introduction to the Kennedy’s, it paved the way for me years later. Okay, back in Cleveland, the largest station in the city, it was owned by Westinghouse Broadcasting company, a 50,000-watt station, it was named KYW. Now KYW is now in Philadelphia but then it was in Cleveland owned by this large company that was one of the major broadcasting companies in America. You got to remember that AM radio was king, there was not such a thing as FM. It was out, but, nobody listened to FM



in those days, AM was where all the rating battles were in every city in America. So KYW was fighting it out with WHK and since Westinghouse had heard about me covering the Kennedy’s, that’s one of the reasons they wanted Art Schreiber to be their news director.

That’s how I got started with a very big major broadcasting company. They not only assigned me to politics, but they assigned me to civil rights and to manned space. I covered all of those for Westinghouse. Now in those days the news directors of our seven radio stations – you were only allowed to own seven AM stations, five FM stations in those days, so Westinghouse happened to only own six, they didn’t own one out of the west coast until years later. Well, that’s where I started. You reported to the bureau chief if you covered a national story and my first stories were of course covering Kennedy and then when he became president we had a white house correspondent by the name of Cid Davis and then I started covering not only politics but I covered civil rights and I got call by the Bureau chief and he said I want you to go to Birmingham and look up this fellow King, let’s find out about him, who is he, what’s he about him. Who is he, what’s he about and of course he was talking about Martin Luther King Junior.



I went to Birmingham, covered the riots that were going at that time, this was the early 60’s. I talked to Dr. King and I said my company wants me to follow you as you tour the south. He was fighting for voting rights, and he said okay, we’re on. So I was with Dr. King as he traveled all the way through Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana. I was always impressed because he could speak to as few as 25 people in a country church in one of those southern states and yet I was with him when he spoke to a quarter of a million people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington for the famous I have a dream speak. He was the greatest orator I had the pleasure of covering.

Later on I covered manned space, the early flights of Mercury including John Glenn’s flight and then later on came other space flights and then I later became a bureau chief and I was producing those space flights for the whole company and for the stations, not only our own stations, but the stations that purchased our coverage – there were independent radio stations that bought our coverage, but the biggest assignment I probably ever had, certainly was the most difficult I even had was traveling with the Beatles. That came about in 1964 and I was out to lunch one day, I came back and decided to stop in the program manager’s office just to shoot the breeze and when I walked in all



of the disc jockeys were seated around the periphery of the room. The music director, the production manager, even the public affairs director, it was like a wake, nobody was saying anything, it was silence. I said, what’s wrong? And a voice said WHK got the Beatles, and that meant the number one competitor in Cleveland, WHK had paid 25,000 dollars to bring the Beatles to Cleveland for this tour that was going to happen in late August and September in 1964. I don’t know whatever possessed me, but I looked at the program director and I said why don’t you put me on the Beatles tour? He jumped up and ran into the manager’s office and the rest is history. However, they had to get permission from Jim Snyder, the bureau chief to allow Schreiber to cover this Beatles tour. When they approached Snyder by phone he was in Washington DC, he said no, Schreiber's got to cover the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.

I was assigned to cover the Alabama delegation because of all my coverage of Dr. King and I had gotten to know the principals of the democratic party in, Bull Conner who was the chairman of the delegation, he was the police chief of Birmingham, later became head of the highway patrol when George Wallace became governor and so I knew a lot of the principals and that was my assignment to cover the democratic convention. Little did I knew the



democrat delegation of Alabama walked out the first night of the convention and I didn’t have much to cover at the Democratic Convention. I missed the first week of the Beatles tour, they started out the west coast, flew then to New York where they appeared for two nights at the old Forest Hills tennis complex where all the great tennis championships of the United States were held in those days and that’s where the Beatles performed. I got there the second night of the performance, met the Beatles, guess where we went right after that performance? Right back to Atlantic City, where I had just spent about ten days covering the democratic convention, and the Beatles performed for a couple performances in Atlantic city and took some time off just to stay in Atlantic city.

That’s where I really got to know John Lennon and George Harrison because John Lennon came up to me up to me and said, “Art, do you play Monopoly?” I said, well I play with my kids, he said, “I’ve got a board.” He said, “George and I play, these other guys play poker.” I played poker one time, lost my 30-dollar paycheck in the arms, that was a month’s pay in my first and only poker game, I’ve never played poker since. I said yeah I’ll play to John Lennon and it was probably a mistake because every night wherever we got, my phone would ring as soon as I got in my room



and it was John saying, “Come on up, we’re all set up.” George was always the banker and we’d play night after night, and not one game, two and three games and the sun would be coming up and we’d still be playing Monopoly. Larry Moffat Art, you didn’t tell us who was the big winner.

Art SchreiberWell, John hardly ever won and I’ll tell you why, he always wanted to land on Park place and Boardwalk and they’re so expensive and by the time you can build a house on either one of those properties he was generally broke but he was very happy as long as he could get Park Place and Boardwalk. George on the other hand, he would never tell me why, but he always wanted to win the B&O Railroad. I have a shadow box in my apartment with the Beatles photographs and they all have written something above each of their photographs. George wrote the B&O Railroad, but he would never tell me why he liked the B&O Railroad. John said you played a good part. Now, he meant playing Monopoly and they said other things. Paul said something, Ringo had sent my daughter a troll doll, troll dolls were very popular in 1964 and Ringo sent my daughter Amy a troll doll. Unfortunately, a gossip in the Cleveland press, Milt



Whitter, wrote about it and when I would get home from after the tour, there would be as many as 60-70 teenagers lined up in my front yard – I only had a 60 foot lot by a 130 in a suburb of Cleveland and all of these teenagers would be begging my daughter to show them the doll through the door. My wife would be having to wash the storm door every day. We had to put it on because the kids would kiss the glass and it was quite a site to see all the kids kissing the glass as my daughter held that troll doll on the other side of the glass.

That’s what it was like covering the Beatles and I lost three suits on that tour, several type writers, several tape recorders. The clothes were just ripped. Girls would grab you from the back with their fingernails and just rip your jacket and it would in fact go into your shirt and the blood would stream down into your pants, that’s what it was like covering the Beatles, but it was – my association with them because I didn’t know anything about music. My son if he was listening to the program or where you are, he would say dad, name us three Beatles tunes and I wouldn’t be able to do that. He would say the last person that ever should have been assigned to the Beatles tour was his father, and he’s probably right about that if you want to talk about music -



Larry Moffat Flip the coin on that, if somebody was too much of a fan they might not have asked good questions or been too wrapped up in it so maybe you had the right mindset.

Art SchreiberThe fact was that John – John and I sat together on the plane all the time, you do that on a charter. In fact, newsmen when you get on a charter plane or a bus, you sit in those same seats all the time and that’s your seat. I sat one seat in from the aisle, John sat on the aisle and he always wanted to talk about what was happening in America. He had found out that I had knew Jack Kennedy, Martin Luther King, he was very upset about what was happening with civil rights in America at the time, he had met Kennedy one time, he was very upset that he had been assassinated and so John and I really talked about what was happening in America, about politics. Some about his own country, but he really wanted to know about America, and so we hit it off in that respect. When we would play Monopoly we really didn’t have much time to talk about anything, although I feel badly to this day that I don’t have any recordings of what would happen during the game. John would say time out and he would pick up the phone and call his wife in Great Britain and say put the baby on. Now this was John,



John-John, as he called him, and would say, “Talk to daddy, goo, goo, goo.” I think the baby was 18 months old or something like that. I have no recordings of that, to this day I feel terribly bad that I never made those recordings, but anyway, that was John Lennon.

George Harrison was very quiet, always the banker. John many times accused him of cheating but I don’t think George ever did but John felt he did once in a while and I think that was because he couldn’t win Park Place or Boardwalk on that particular game. I won a few times, George won a lot, the two of us won a lot more than John did, but that was because of those expensive properties, Park Place and Boardwalk. That was the Beatles tour. I later was asked to be – well I left Westinghouse, I came to Chicago because I had said to Westinghouse, look, I’ve been covering all these national stories, I want to be a national correspondent or a foreign correspondent and they said we don’t have any opening for you, you’re doing a great job as news director in Cleveland. Well, I finally was offered the news director job at WCFL in Chicago. That was owned by the Chicago federation of labor.

I came to Chicago and believe it or not, three months later my phone rings in my office. I was trying to build



a news staff, WCFL had no new department, I was building it, I hired Carol Simpson, who was the first person I hired from the university of Iowa, Iowa state. Carol Simpson became a superstar of ABC and I – she has written on the internet somewhere some very favorable things about me and I’m very grateful for that, but she – I gave her first start in broadcasting. When I became the bureau chief, well, now my phone rings and it’s the president of the Westinghouse broadcasting company, a man that I only would see once a year when he visited the stations around the country and he said, “Art, we want you to be the bureau chief in Washington.” I said, “Three months ago I couldn’t get a job,” he said, “I know, we want you to come to Washington and be the bureau chief.” Well, I couldn’t say no, that was a job that I had only dreamed of and I think a lot of those breaks led to my getting that job.

I became the bureau chief of Washington, went back with Westinghouse and then we started building bureau. I set up bureaus in Hong Kong, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Copenhagen, Saigon, I traveled the world setting up and we did build a tremendous news bureau and it was great. Unfortunately, I got called to New York one day and they said we want you to manage KYW. Now KYW had since moved to Philadelphia from Cleveland and it had become all



news. Our first news station was WINS in New York and then KYW in Philadelphia then we turned KFWB in Los Angeles to all news and I was the assistant manager of KYW in Philadelphia and then Westinghouse didn’t think I could do much as a manager until I went to Harvard business school, so they sent me to a special course that was designed by the national association of broadcasters and Westinghouse, a six week course at Harvard. I attended that course and the day before I was to graduate I get a call from the executive vice president of the company, he said, “Art, you need to get to Miami tonight.” I said for what? He said, “We need you to produce the convention coverage,” and the Republican convention was starting the next day and I ended up missing graduation, but had to go produce the convention coverage in 1968 in Miami and then we came to Chicago, and that was that awful convention of 1968 when Chicago was burning up with the mobs and the riots, et cetera.

Well, I had to produce all of that and when it was all over, the president of the radio division said Art, we’re going to send you out to LA, I said now? He said, no it’ll be a few months. About six months later I became manager of KFWB in Los Angeles. I lost the sight of one eye while I was there, a torn and detached retina. My wife died of breast cancer, I was left as a single



parent, I had two teenagers, Westinghouse wanted me to go to New York to manage WINS, I refused because my kids didn’t want to go and I left the company. I ran a transportation company which I had started, Commuter Computer was the first large ride sharing organization during the gas crunch of 1972 I formed it when I still was manager of KFWB. But I ran it for a couple of years, got a call from a head hunter in Hubbard Broadcasting, wanted a manager in the Twin Cities to turn a rock and roll radio station to all news and I took that job.

A couple years later Stan Hubbard the owner of the station called me up, I was visiting my kids out in LA, he said, “Schreiber, I know you don’t like the weather up here, I know you like the sunshine, I want you to go to Albuquerque, New Mexico to manage KOB.” Well KOB was a legendary station; 70 on the dial, big 50,000-watt station, I said “Stan, I’m on my way.” I went to Albuquerque, and nine months later woke up and the lights were out. I was a blind man. I didn’t know anything about blindness, I didn’t know anyone who was blind and I was in surgery for over 7 months, 12 surgeries, they couldn’t restore my sight. Stan Hubbard never gave up on me nor his wife Karen has no stockholders, it’s family owned. Today they’re one of the largest radio broadcasting companies in America. They were first to start satellite



broadcasting. I have great admiration for the Hubbard’s, they didn’t know anything about blindness but they trusted Art Schreiber and they believed I would come back and I did.

I tell this story and it’s in my book, “Out of Sight: Blind and doing Alright.” It was a surgery to determine whether I was ever going to have any light perception or be totally bling and my son who was a student at UCLA at the time was waiting with me for about an hour away from surgery and the phone rang and my son Mark handed me the phone, it was Stan Hubbard and it wife Karen wishing me luck and saying they were thinking of me, and before the conversation ended, Stan Hubbard said, “Schreiber remember I hired you for your brains and not your eyes. I said to my son, “Golly, you know what he said? He hired me for my brains and not my eyes. That’s a terrific thing to say at a time like this.” There was a long silence, my son said, “Gee dad, wait till they find out your brain is gone too.” So that’s something for you.

Anyway, that has really been my career in broadcasting; I retired here a few years ago, but I still do some commercials free of charge for the senior home where I live. It’s a retirement community, and I do some for friends who have businesses in



Albuquerque, and then I’ve just devoted the rest of my life to helping people who are blind or losing vision.

Larry Moffat I’ve got to ask you this: there’s an expression, they say certain people have “it” and you can’t define “it” but you know “it” when you’re around it, when you see it, whether it’s charisma, whether it’s attractiveness, whether it’s a magnetic personality. It’s just certain people have “it.” Who had the most “it” of all the different celebrities and different people that you’ve dealt with?

Art SchreiberIt would be very difficult to say, Jack Kennedy I believe, but I tell you, a great senator from this state, Everett Dirksen, was a fabulous individual. He had the greatest command of the English language of anyone that I’ve ever covered, and he had a beautiful way of using that language. He loved to tell stories, and we in the news business used to love to go up to his office after work and get him to tell stories. Everett Dirksen was great. Of course Martin Luther King was the greatest orator I’ve ever – he had the ability to measure his audience and I don’t care the size of it, and he could do that in conversations too.



Those were people – Lyndon Johnson was not a likable man but he was a tremendous politician. We wouldn’t have the Voting Rights Act today; we wouldn’t have Medicaid, Medicare. All those things that Jack Kennedy wanted but he didn’t have the ability that Lyndon Johnson did, because Lyndon knew the senate so well, and he and Ev Dirksen worked together even though they disagreed politically. They were on opposite sides of the aisle, but they were friends and they worked together; they compromised, and that’s what we need today and we don’t have it. Those two leaders will go down in our history in America as two of the greatest leaders of all time.

Larry Moffat I might share with the audience a little vignette you told about those two and how they would get together when they had needed to get some business done.

Art SchreiberYes. I said one day to senator Dirksen, I said why is it that the president, who was then Lyndon Johnson, is having such a hard time with the Vietnam War, and yet when he was majority leader in the senate, he was so powerful and he got everything done? Everett said, “Well let me tell you,” and he said, “You know when Lyndon was the majority leader and I was the



minority leader, Lyndon could have summoned me to his office any time he wanted but he said no. My phone would ring and it’d be Lyndon, and he’d say, ‘Ev, I’ve got a problem and I’m coming down.’” That meant he was coming down to his office, to Everett Dirksen’s office, not asking Dirksen to come to his office. Dirksen pulled out the left-hand double drawer of his big desk, pulled a bottle of bourbon up, set it on the desk with two glasses, and he’d say, “I’d hear a knock on the door back there. I’d say come in and it’d be Lyndon, and he’d spot the bottle and say, ‘Ev, when the bottle’s empty, we’re going to have a deal.’” It wasn’t that they drank a whole bottle – well they probably did a few times – but the point was that those two men were friends and that’s what we lack today in my opinion in Washington.

They disagreed politically, but they knew that they had to get certain things done for the best of this country, and they did. That’s what we’re lacking today, but that was Everett Dirksen and Lyndon Johnson.

Larry Moffat That’s a magnificent story; I was glad that you could share that with us. I think it might be a good time to take some questions from the audience.



Art SchreiberAlright.

Larry Moffat Now we have an opportunity, hopefully you can hear this well, and we have Art live on the phone so we can ask Art some questions and some things, and I’m going to start us off. Art, one of the things, one of the people you talked about in your book that we didn’t get a chance to talk to in the interview was one of my personal favorites, one of the people I think would be on my top ten list of the coolest people of all time, and that’s Steve McQueen, so could you share that Steve McQueen story with us? Art SchreiberYou know, it’s a blur. Steve happened to be – I did not know Steve McQueen at the time, but my secretary did, and when I was in the hospital with my first – I mentioned in the interview there that I had lost the light of one eye when I was out in LA, and I was in meeting up in San Francisco, had that detached retina. Well, I went through four surgeries and I was in the hospital quite a bit at that time. That would have been 1960, and my secretary arranged for Steve McQueen to come visit me in the hospital and at the time, he was such a superstar, that when he came to my hospital room, well, of course the word spread



throughout the hospital that Steve McQueen was there. Suddenly, I had more nurses than I knew what to do with all wanting to find out if I needed anything, but of course they came in just to get a glimpse of Steve McQueen.

Then, there were people lined up outside the door waiting to see him and he had brought up photographs which he had signed and he gave it to me and said, "Here, you can hang this up." And I said okay. Well, he stuck it on the wall, now how he did I think he did with tape and that caused such a problem at the hospital that the doctor came to me the next day and said, "Art, you have to get that picture down, everybody is coming in here to take a look at it," he said, "Let's hang it on the outside." I said fine. They hung the picture outside my hospital door on the wall outside and that was - and I used to kid Steve about all the problems that he caused me in the hospital and I said you came over to make sure I was going to better, and I didn't any better as long as your photo was up there in my room. We had a great time talking about that. Once again, it was a friend of mine who died a violent death. I've always wondered about that, there was Kennedy, John Lennon, and Steve McQueen.

Larry Moffat



Art, could you talk a little bit about Jackie Kennedy because I know you mentioned her a little bit in the presentation you did here at Hadley and some of the time that you spent with her in the station lobby and the time you spent with her.

Art SchreiberWomen listening today, if they're old enough can remember nylon hose that women wore, certainly in the 50's and it had a tendency to get what we call a runner. It would run and then sometimes the hose stocking would fill with air and it looked very unsightly and women were always worried about getting a runner. It didn't always do that, but runners were certainly unsightly. Well, one night we were standing in the corridor of a television studio where Jack was being interviewed and there was Sander Vanocur of NBC, myself, a woman reporter from AP and just the three of us, that's hard to imagine today there would only be three reporters covering Jack Kennedy at a television station, today there would be 300, but that actually was the way it was when he was running in the primary against Hubert Humphrey and this was in Wisconsin. I looked down and Jackie - you know, Jackie Kennedy was so elegant, she was a beautiful woman that dressed so beautifully and her clothing was just immaculate and I looked down and she had this long runner in her hose and it was bulging out, full



of air and she saw me look, she said Art, quit looking and I said if I only had a camera. Today there would be five million photos on Facebook, Twitter, every place else on the internet, YouTube, but in those days no one ever knew about it and she chided me if I had a camera, she said I'm so embarrassed, I only have one pair of good hose left and they're back in the plan and I don't have any with me. That was what she had to just go around these television stations that Jack was being interviewed.

Bobby Kennedy did a great job in those days the evening news in the central time zone was the same as any time zone, but we were in the central time zone in Milwaukee, the evening news at 10 o'clock was only 15 minutes and Bobby Kennedy had arranged for the three television stations for Jack to appear on one right up front in the program and he would be interviewed for like a minute and then they'd rush out into the limo, go to the next station, he'd be interviewed in the middle of a program and the next station, there'd be three network television stations and he would be interviewed at the end of the program, but Bobby was running his campaign and that's what he did to get Jack on all three television stations in the same time period, but that's just the way it was in those days.



Larry MoffatWell, I'm going to release the microphone here and see if we have some questions from the audience so if any audience members want to jump in here go ahead and grab the microphone. Apparently the audience is a little shy today, so Art, can you talk a little bit about what you're doing these days?

Art SchreiberYes, in fact when I finish this webinar I have to head is what we call the 20/20 club, that's a low vision support group which I have kind of coordinated for over 25 years and it meets the second Wednesday of the month. Today is - always in December we have a potluck and today I'm speaking about Hadley, telling them about the CDs that you have for people with low vision, those CDs that teach about sighted guides, what to do, how to arrange your kitchen, how to arrange your furniture, all of those. We're going to talk about that today during the potluck, so I really spend my time with those who are losing sight or who are blind. I'm still very busy as chairmen of the commission for the blind of New Mexico. I have been reappointed by our governor, I will hopefully be confirmed by the senate of New Mexico when they meet this coming January. This year - New Mexico has a citizens legislate, they don't get paid, they do get per diem when the meet. Every other year the



session is 30 days and every other years it's 60 days. This coming January it's only 30 days and so I will get a call and have to appear before the rules committee, be interviewed, have a senator sponsoring me and then I go before the full for confirmation. I've done this several times over the course since we formed the commission in 1986 and fortunately I've been confirmed each time.

Larry MoffatIf I remember correctly, we're you originally appointed by Bill Richardson?

Art SchreiberWe have a very good commission, those listening know that those in New Mexico and the commission for the blind is held in high regard both by the feds and by other states around the country that know what we do. I'm also on the board of the disability rights New Mexico and I'm very proud that not very long ago your president, Chuck Young, appointment me to the senior advisory board at Hadley, so I only get senior advisory boards today because of my age probably. I'm also the first vice president of the senior division of the National Federation of the Blind. I keep busy working with people who are losing sight or are blind.



Larry MoffatOutstanding. Apparently we're having a few audio issues with some people so I'm going to go ahead and start wrapping this up and certainly encourage people if they missed part of this that they could listen to it on the recorded, we'll post it on the archives probably tomorrow and they'll have the chance if they missed any of it or parts of it were not clear they can listen to it in their leisure. I want to let people know that this seminar like all of our seminars will be archived on our website and will be available for your use anytime around the clock. Also, each Hadley seminar is now made available as a podcast, which you can download to a mobile device.

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Art SchreiberThank you very much Larry, and I appreciate very much my experience at Hadley when I visited with you and your staff out there. It just was wonderful and my best wishes to the staff for a great holiday season. Please give my best to Chuck Young, and I look forward to working with Hadley and helping you in any way I can because I’m just so impressed with what you’re doing for those who are losing sight or are blind. My best to everybody listening and happy holidays to all.

Larry Moffat Thank you, Art, and as I just – to restate my comments earlier, I’ve been doing this for four years, and this is my favorite assignment out of all the four years. I could sit and talk with you for hours and hours on end, so I want to personally thank everyone for taking the time to be a part of this. I’ve got the on-screen survey set up for you, and those of you using Access Technology, you want to set the focus to the browser window by using the F6 key. There are four questions that can be answered with a radio button yes or no; question number five is a text box where you can provide additional comments or suggestions. Again, thank you everyone for your time, for being a part of this today, and I hope to have all of you back in



the new year, and we’ve got some exciting things planned for 2016, but for now, goodbye.

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