Responsive Cords
By: Brad McKee; Source: AARP Bulletin Date Posted: 2006-01-12 10:29:00-05:00
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Maurice Hill may have read more books to more people than anyone—ever. Hill, 87, has spent two hours nearly every Wednesday for the past 53 years inside the Hollywood studio of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic.
The Princeton, New Jersey based nonprofit organization, founded in 1948, provides recorded textbooks and literary titles for more than 140,000 people with disabilities. Soon after Hill arrived in Los Angeles as a young actor, a casting director told him he had a nice, clear voice and suggested he become a volunteer reader. Hill took to it immediately, not least because he was given all of Hamlet to read. "For a frustrated actor," he says, "that was great."
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