Presidential Report 1997
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PHOTO/CAPTION: Marc
Maurer makes the 1997 Presidential Report
Presidential Report
National Federation of the Blind
New Orleans, Louisiana
July 2, 1997
From the time of the beginning of the
National Federation of the Blind in 1940, there have been a spirit of cooperation,
a joint commitment, and a mutual understanding that comprise the fundamental
Scholarship Class 1997
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PHOTO/CAPTION: 1997
Scholarship winners (left to right, back row: Jason Ewell, Nathanael Wales,
Eugene Skonicki, Darrin Pagnac, Steven Hagemoser, Bill Petrino, Stewart Jenkins,
Rachel Ragland, and Kenneth Silberman. Middle row: Keri Stewart, Stacy Hayworth,
Sumara Shakeel, Latawnya Muhammad, Michelle Lauer, Ameenah Ghoston, Rebecca
Hart, and Jody Lee. Front row: Tonia Valetta, Laura Biro, Diana Knox, Marina
1997 Awards
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Steve Benson and
Dr. Adrienne Asch
Debbie Prost (left) listens as
Sharon Maneki (right) presents the Distinguished Educator of the Year Award.
Betty Niceley (left) presents the
Golden Keys Award to Diane Croft of National Braille Press.
Betty Niceley holds the Jacobus tenBroek Award
plaque while President Maurer looks on.
Awards
for 1997
From the Editor: National Federation
The Day After Civil Rights
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Kenneth Jernigan
The
Day After Civil Rights
An Address Delivered by
Kenneth Jernigan
At the Banquet of the Annual Convention
Of the National Federation of the Blind
New Orleans, Louisiana, July 4, 1997
It has been said that all knowledge consists
of definition and classification, and even definition may be just another way
Services For The Consumers
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Dr. Fredric Schroeder,
Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services Administration
Services for the Consumers:
The Challenge of Rehabilitation
Today and in the Decades to Come
by Fredric K. Schroeder,
Ph.D
Commissioner
Rehabilitation Services Administration
U.S. Department of Education
From the Editor: Fred Schroeder
Partnership
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Mae Nelson
Director, Louisiana Rehabilitation Services
Partnership:
Working in Cooperation with Consumers
by Mae Nelson
Joanne Wilson: I've been asked to introduce
our next speaker, Miss Mae Nelson. When I was asked to introduce her, I thought
of this saying, "It takes knowledge to build bridges, but it takes wisdom
Convention Resolutions '97
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Resolutions Adopted
by the Annual Convention of the
National Federation of the Blind
July 1997
by Ramona Walhof
From the Editor: Ramona Walhof is the Secretary of the National Federation of
the Blind and President of the NFB of Idaho. She also serves as the Chairperson
of the Resolutions Committee. Each year she presides over the receipt and handling
Braille Monitor 8/97
The Braille Monitor
Vol.
40, No. 8
August/September
1997
Barbara Pierce, Editor
Published in inkprint, in Braille,
on cassette and
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The National Federation of the Blind
Marc Maurer, President
National Office
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
NFB Net BBS: (612) 696-1975
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Let the Old Creep Die
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PHOTO/CAPTION: Barbara Pierce
PHOTO/CAPTION: Quincy Magoo
Let the Old Creep Die
by Barbara Pierce
Across the summer an unlikely topic surfaced
again and again on radio news, talk programs, and Internet listservs throughout
the country. The subject was Mr. Magoo--the curmudgeonly cartoon character created
shortly before World War II, transformed in the fifties into the self-satisfied
Vial Markings
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PHOTO/CAPTION: Ed Bryant
FDA meeting report:
Insulin vials will have tactile markings
by Ed Bryant
From the Editor: For several years
now we have been following the frustratingly slow process by which the Diabetes
Action Network, a division of the National Federation of the Blind, has been
persuading all parties of the necessity and feasibility of providing tactile
label markers on insulin vials.