Award
During a 6:30 p.m. reception on April 22, 1998,
at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Bethesda, Maryland, the National Council of State Agencies
for the Blind (NCSAB) honored President Emeritus of the National Federation of the Blind
Kenneth Jernigan with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. In fact, two handsome
walnut plaques were presented to Dr. Jernigan, one in Braille and one in print. The text
of the award reads:
The National Council of State
Agencies for the Blind, Inc.
with honor
presents this
The Proper Perspective
The Proper Perspective
From the Editor: On May 1 Dr. Fredric
Schroeder, Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration, wrote a thank-you
letter to Jamie Hilton, President of the National Council of State Agencies for the Blind.
On one level the note was a courteous gesture, an expression of personal and professional
gratitude for his inclusion in an event which he had very much enjoyed. But the letter he
wrote articulates the situation in the blindness field today and describes the startling
Break Dancing
Break Dancing—Lessons
in Creativity, Initiative, and Leadership
by E. Randy Cox
From the Editor: Randy Cox is the husband of
the newly elected President of the National Federation of the Blind of Utah, Kristen Cox.
He is himself an active and thoughtful member of the NFB. This is what he says about
membership and leadership in the organization:
Some of you may recall a young man in his mid to
late twenties instigating limbo contests and occasionally break dancing at the dances held
What Do You Mean, She Can't Play Soccer
Jessica Rasmussen
What Do You Mean, She
Can't Play Soccer?
by Carla McQuillan
From the Editor: The following story first
appeared in Volume 10, Number 1, of Skipping Stones, a children's multicultural magazine.
Carla McQuillan is the President of the National Federation of the Blind of Oregon, and
Jessica and her family are members of the affiliate. Here is the story:
Jessica's family has always been involved in
A Vinegar and Oil Federationist
Barbara Walker
A Vinegar and Oil
Federationist
by Barbara Walker
From the Editor: On Monday morning, June 19,
1989, I was talking by telephone to someone at the National Center for the Blind when I
heard President Maurer make the announcement over the public address system of the sudden
death of our friend and colleague Jim Walker, a leader in the Nebraska affiliate in his
own right and husband of then affiliate President Barbara Walker. Like everyone who knew
Technology Mail Basket
Tracy Carcione
From the Technology
Department Director's Mail Basket
From the Editor: As a rather recent and still
more or less unwilling Windows 95 user, I do my share (probably more than my share) of
complaining about Windows 95, JAWS for Windows (JFW), Internet Explorer, and the rest of
the graphical complications to the lives of blind computer users. Dr. Peter Scialli's
article (see the previous story) gives me hope that the advances being made in speech
Windows95: Removing the Screen
Windows 95: Removing the
Screen
by Peter M. Scialli, Ph.D.
From the Editor: I have vivid recollections
of walking around the 1986 National Convention with a sinking feeling at the pit of my
stomach. That year I must have born some spiritual resemblance to Coleridge's Ancient
Mariner as I clutched at every computer user of my acquaintance to demand pointers for
getting started with that fearsome machine. When I returned to work in mid-July, I was to
Blind Woman Couldn't See Living Without Baby
Elizabeth and Miriam Anderson
Blind Woman Couldn't See
Living Without Her Baby
by Ellen Thompson
From the Editor: What should a Federationist
do when a newspaper undertakes to write a story about her but leaves out important
information? That's what happened to Elizabeth Anderson of St. Paul, Minnesota. The
reporter spent a good deal of time with Elizabeth and her daughter but ignored the
Clever Con or Clear Communication?
Bruce A. Gardner
Clever Con or Clear
Communication?
by Bruce A. Gardner
From the Editor: Bruce Gardner is a member of
the National Federation of the Blind Board of Directors and President of the NFB of
Arizona. He is also a thoughtful and perceptive blind man with much to teach others about
coming to terms with blindness.
This is what he says:
Should we who are blind be concerned with our
Why Accreditation Failed Agencies
C. Edwin Vaughan
Why Accreditation Failed
Agencies Serving the
Blind and Visually Impaired
by C. Edwin Vaughan
From the Editor: The following article first
appeared in the January/February/March, 1997, issue of the Journal of Rehabilitation. Ed
Vaughan is a long-time member of the National Federation of the Blind of Missouri and a
published authority on the history and sociology of blindness and the blindness field.