Blind Twins Accept a New Challenge; Track Competition

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Blind Twins Accept A New

Challenge:

Track Competition

by John Hunt
Reprinted from the Chattanooga Free Press,

Tuesday, April 2, 1998.

Coach Gerald Williams is a busy man these days.

He's a teacher at Ooltewah Middle School and that gives him plenty to do, but after school

he deals with almost a hundred kids who want to be part of the highly successful track

program.

It's Not Just Any Summer

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It's Not Just Any Summer

by Lucy Wassef
From the Editor: The following article was

submitted along with a letter of explanation by Lucy Wassef. In her letter Ms. Wassef, who

is a young blind adult, explained her motives for taking the time to research and submit

this article. She said, in part:

"As a child, summers were for me very

Teacher RecognitionMrs

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Teacher Recognition

Mrs. Geri Sexton

Teacher of the Blind and Visually Impaired,

Louisiana

Jo Lynn Chesser
Pineville, Louisiana

February 23, 1998

Dear Editor:

I was very pleased to see your article giving us

a chance to recognize the teacher(s) of our children.

My daughter, Amber, has had the same teacher of

Learning What It Means to be Blind

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Learning What it Means to

be Blind

by Nicole Delfert
Reprinted from the 1995 issues of the Blind

Missourian, the newsletter of the National Federation of the Blind of Missouri. The

original article was published in two installments.

Editor's Note: One of the myths the public often

holds about blindness is that somehow, it is easier if one is born blind (or becomes blind

Job's 1998 Job Seminar

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JOB's 1998 National Job

Seminar

by Lorraine Rovig, Job Opportunities for the Blind (JOB)
Can ordinary, blind Americans get hired for

ordinary jobs? How? Once hired, how do they perform them? Listeners have called JOB's

annual seminar "riveting" and "exhilarating." Blind Americans

searching for work and other interested persons are invited to the 1998 NATIONAL JOB

Letters to the Editor

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Letters to the Editor
Editor's Note: The first two letters are not,

strictly speaking, Letters to the Editor. These letters,

addressed to officers of the National Organization of Parents

of Blind Children (I am President and Carol Castellano is Second

Vice President), are typical of the enthusiastic response to the NOPBC

publication, The Bridge to Braille.

February 26, 1998

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Future Reflections

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Barbara Cheadle, Editor

Winter/Spring 1998

Contents

1998 NFB Convention in

Dallas, Texas

NFB Camp Pre-Registration

Form

Wagon Wheel Ranch

Registration Form

Teen Baby Sitting Course

Registration Form

Two Pounds at Birth and

Dropping

by Gary Wunder

But Will He Be Safe?

by Dawn Neddo

My Hopes, My Dreams, and

My Science Class

by Dacia Luck

A Chance to Belong: 1998

Introduction

An Embarrassing Revelation

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An Embarrassing Revelation
by Gary Wunder

I Found a Family

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I Found a Family in the NFB
by Carol Akers