The Braille Monitor January/February 2002
The Braille Monitor
Vol. 45, No.
1
January/February 2002
Barbara Pierce, Editor
Published in inkprint, in Braille, and on cassette
by
THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
MARC MAURER, PRESIDENT
National Office
1800 Johnson Street, Baltimore, Maryland
21230
NFB Net BBS: http://www.nfbnet.org
Web Page address: http://www.nfb.org
[PHOTO/CAPTION: Barbara Pierce stands beside a Hittite portal lion outside
the Ancient Oriental Museum in Istanbul]
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What I Did Last Summer.
by Barbara Pierce
Barbara
Pierce stands beside a Hittite portal lion outside the Ancient Oriental
Museum in Istanbul
From the Editor: Do
you remember in September or maybe in the depths of winter getting an assignment
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Davy Jones's Locker
by Peggy Elliott
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From the Editor: Periodically
Peggy Elliott, Second Vice President of the National Federation of the Blind
Louisville Site of 2002 NFB Convention
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Louisville Site of 2002
NFB Convention!
The 2002 Convention of
the National Federation of the Blind will take place in Louisville, Kentucky,
July 3-9. We will conduct the convention at the Galt House Hotel and the Galt
House East Tower, together a first-class convention hotel. The Galt House Hotel,
familiarly called the Galt House West, is at 140 N. Forth Street, Louisville,
[LEAD PHOTO/CAPTION: February 28, 2002, will go down in Federation history
as the day we could officially announce that we hav
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February 28, 2002, will
go down in Federation history as the day we could officially announce that we
have met our goal of raising eighteen million dollars toward building the National
Research and Training Institute for the Blind. The National Center staff took
[PHOTO/CAPTION: The skyline of Louisville]
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Getting Around Downtown
Louisville
by
Dennis Franklin
From
the Editor: Dennis Franklin is First Vice President of the Kentucky affiliate
and a long-time Louisville resident. Here he takes the time to conduct a walking
tour of the area around our headquarters hotel. This is what he says:
The
skyline of Louisville
Getting
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Making History in Louisville--Federation
Style
by
Lora J. Felty
From
the Editor: Lora Felty was a 1992 NFB scholarship winner. She now serves as
Secretary of the NFB of Kentucky and President of the affiliate's NAPUB Division.
She works as an itinerant VI teacher in Ashland, Kentucky. She clearly knows
a good deal about the history of the Bluegrass State. This is what she has to
NOPBC 2002 Activities Preregistration
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NOPBC
2002 Activities Preregistration
Deadline:
Must be postmarked no later than June 15, 2002
Because
of the special activities on the campus of the Kentucky School for the Blind,
we strongly urge families to preregister.
We will take registrations at the door as we have space, but unless you preregister, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to participate
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Hearing
Enhancement and Spanish Translation
Available
At National Convention
Spanish
Translators Needed
by
D. Curtis Willoughby
Curtis
Willoughby staffs the FM equipment table at convention.
From
the Editor: Curtis Willoughby is a member of the NFB's Research and Development
Committee and head of our Ham Radio Interest Group. Here is his announcement:
Again
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Those at the Sunday-afternoon briefing head table were James McCarthy, NFB Assistant
Director of Governmental Affairs; Diane McGeorge, President of the NFB of Colorado and coordinator
of seminar arrangements; Joanne Wilson, Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration;
NFB President Marc Maurer; and James Gashel, NFB Director of Governmental Affairs.
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