APH News & Press
Talking Books Narrator Receives Prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award
News Release: Louisville, Kentucky, June 25, 2002
Dale Carter Cooper, a narrator in the studios of the American Printing House for the Blind (APH) for 39 consecutive years, has been awarded a special lifetime achievement award by the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB). She received her award in a ceremony at Madison Square Garden on Monday, June 3. Cooper is the first person to receive a lifetime achievement award from AFB for narration of talking books.
This new lifetime achievement award was presented at AFB's sixteenth annual ceremony honoring recipients of the prestigious Alexander Scourby Awards which honor excellence in the narration of Talking Books
A Louisville resident since 1940, Cooper began her career at APH in 1952, recording over 400 titles during her career, including Daphne Du Maurier's "Rebecca," Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice," Edith Wharton's "House of Mirth," "Vanity Fair," and her favorite, Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina." Cooper has served the Louisville community through her service on the Board of Directors of The Louisville Theatrical Association, The Louisville Children's Theatre, and The Women's Endowment of Christ Church Cathedral. In addition to her recording for APH, Cooper has appeared in regional theatres throughout the country.
The American Foundation for the Blind is a national nonprofit whose mission is to eliminate the inequities faced by the ten million Americans who are blind or visually impaired. For more information about the American Foundation for the Blind, visit www.afb.org.
The American Printing House for the Blind, founded in 1858, is the oldest organization of its kind in the United States and the world's largest not-for-profit company that creates educational, workplace, and life-style products and services for visually impaired people.
The APH Talking Book program began in 1938. Today, APH produces about 500 book titles and nine magazine titles each year for the Talking Book program administered by National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), a division of the Library of Congress. To learn more about the APH recording studios and narrators and hear recording samples, visit the web site:http://sun1.aph.org/studio/index.html.
For more information, or to set up an interview with Dale Carter Cooper, Roberta Williams, Telephone: 1-800-223-1839 or (502) 895-2405; e-mail: rwilliams@aph.org