Emilie Quast

Interview with Emilie Quast MALS, University Libraries Cataloger, and List Owner of the Beyond-Hearing Listserv

Interview with Emilie Quast MALS, University Libraries Cataloger, and List Owner of the Beyond-Hearing Listserv

Ingrao: Good morning Emilie. Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to talk with the readers of HealthyHearing.

Quast: Hi. Brad. Healthy Hearing is one of the internet sites I keep bookmarked, and I refer other to your site often and direct them to your very useful archive. I'm flattered to be asked to contribute.

Ingrao: Before we talk about the Beyond-Hearing on-line community, can you give us some brief background on your hearing loss?

Quast: There's a genetic factor operating in there but we don't have "inherited" deafness per se. Everyone on my father's side of the family is born with good hearing.
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Quast: About 10 years after I lost most of my hearing, my audiologist, Gloria Gross, audiologist for the Hearing Society of Minneapolis, was trying to find a hearing aid that would give me some sound to work with.
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Quast: Beyond-Hearing was started by Dr. Miriam Clifford as a listserv on the Duke University computer system.
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Thank you so much for your time Emilie. As a long-time subscriber myself, I can truly say, "I'll be seeing you Beyond-Hearing!"

Quast: Brad, I'll be looking for you there.