Yesterday and Today

Yesterday and Today

Braille Monitor
March 2014

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Yesterday and Today

President Maurer was elected in July of 1986, meaning that he first presided over the Washington Seminar in 1987. Since he does not intend to stand for reelection in 2014, the just concluded Washington Seminar is the last one at which he will likely preside.
In 1987 the issues we took to Congress were “The Three Freedoms—Freedom to Travel, Freedom to Work, and Freedom to Learn.” Though the legislation we were supporting in 1987 urged different actions from the Congress than the proposals in 2014, the consistency of our message both then and now is intriguing. Twenty-seven years ago we asked Congress to make the airlines stop their discrimination against the blind, improve the chances for the advancement of blind workers in the sheltered workshop system, and give blind people a better shot at education through expanded choice. The philosophical underpinnings and guiding principles are evident in both legislative agendas, and so too is the steady, firm, and consistent leadership which has characterized the tenure of Marc Maurer’s presidency.

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