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Braille Monitor

July

2004

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On

May 20, 2004, the third annual NFB-sponsored senior fair took place at

the National Center for the Blind. This year for the first time the setting

was Members Hall on the fourth floor of the new Jernigan Institute. Pictured

here, the crowd is seated at tables to consume 420 box lunches and enjoy

a lively program.

Alan

Walden, WBAL radio announcer, speaks from the podium. He told his audience that

he uses two hearing aids because of age-related hearing loss. He urged seniors

not to be discouraged by complications like vision loss but to get on with their

lives.

Connie

Connolly from Louisiana keynoted the event. As a senior she attended the Louisiana

Center for the Blind and now serves on its board.

Pictured

here before the crowd arrived is the NFB Store's popular display, Gadgets and

Gizmos. On the front table are items that many newly blind people know nothing

about: talking clocks and calculators, raised-dot and large-print timers, games,

and sewing aids. Behind is the stock table to replenish supplies as items are

sold.

Bililynn

Savage, Special Customer Liaison, andChristine Bradley, Special Groups

Market Manager,from the National Aquarium in Baltimore sit at their exhibit

table. The Byrd Street balcony and window are visible behind them. They attended

the senior fair to sign up senior volunteers and explain their just announced

audio wireless tour for blind and visually impaired aquarium visitors. On the

table are frisbees, a stuffed dolphin, and fact sheets.

The Answers

for the Aging display board prepared by Catholic Charities of Baltimore.

Many

family groups attended the fair. Here are three generations: Evon Brunson (standing

left) and her daughter Monica Brunson, an assisted living specialist (right).

Seated in front is Evon's mother Marion Jackson.

Pictured

here are Jaimie Jacobs, election reform deputy director of the Maryland Board

of Elections, showing Jim Courtney of Monkton, Maryland, how to use the new

Diebold accessible voting machine. Jim's daughter Holly Snyder of Pennsylvania

examines the keypad.

Ray McGeorge,

vice president of the National Organization of the Senior Blind, and Ruth Sager,

coordinator of senior services for Blind Industries and Services of Maryland,

chat at a table. McGeorge and Sager, along with Duncan Larson (Colorado), Frank

Lee (Alabama), Virginia Mann (Ohio), Janice Frost (Connecticut), Annette Grove

(Illinois), Kyle Parrish (Washington State), and Hilda Jones (Kansas) attended

the event and stayed for discussions to learn how their states could host similar

senior fairs.

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