Braille Monitor 3/97

Braille Monitor 3/97

The Braille Monitor

Vol.

40, No. 3

March 1997

Barbara Pierce, Editor

Published in inkprint, in Braille,

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The National Federation of the Blind

Marc Maurer, President

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Contents

Vol. 40, No.

3

March 1997

Lighthouse for the Blind Closes Sheltered Shop and Feels that It Got a Bum Rap

by Kenneth Jernigan

Carnival, Life

Go On Despite Blindness

by Rhonda Nabonne

Needed: Blind

Individuals for University Training as Orientation & Mobility Instructors

by Ruby Ryles

If Only We Could

See Through the Eyes of a Child

by Sue Drapinski

Content Validity of

the National Literary Braille Competency Test

by Carol B. Allman and Sandra Lewis

A Nonacademic Plea

for Common Sense

by Barbara Pierce

Making Other Arrangements

by Bruce A. Gardner

Federation Spirit

on the Internet

by Marc Maurer

How I Became a Park

Ranger

by Lynda Boose

Possibilities

by Carol Castellano

From the Electronic

Mail Basket: Teaching Braille Online

by Curtis Chong

Lionizing Around

New Orleans: Good Food, Good Times, and All That Jazz

by Jerry Whittle

The Metal Pole

by Homer Page

Federationists, Fund-Raising,

and Free Enterprise

by Marie Cobb

Dialysis at National

Convention

by Ed Bryant

Recipes

Monitor Miniatures

The Braille

Monitor, March 1997 Complete Issue

ISSN 0006-8829

Copyright 1997, The National Federation

of the Blind

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