[Akron-Talk] Saturday Agenda

[Dave Bertsch]

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Saturday, November 2

7:00 - 8:45     Ohio Association to Promote the Use of Braille Breakfast Meeting (tix req'd) Chestnut B
7:00 - 8:45     Diabetes Action Network Meeting Members eat in the Simmering Pot Restaurant, then meet in Juniper Room
7:00 - 8:45     Scholarship Breakfast
Simmering Pot Restaurant Balcony
8:00 - 8:45     Registration in Lobby
9:00 - Noon     General Session
Mulberry Room
9:00    Call to Order and Invocation
9:15
        My Thirty-Year Journey as a Blind Professor--JW Smith, Capital Chapter
9:30    Reading and More--Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled
10:00   Report on the School for the Blind    Ohio State School for Deaf and Blind
10:30   The Team Report - Richard Payne
10:50   How Learning Braille Has Given Me Opportunities as a Sighted Person
11:05   Braille Literacy the Federation Way with
two Teachers of the Visually Impaired
11:30   Centers for Independent Living: the Ohio Independent Living Council
11:55   Announcements
Noon    Recess
Noon    Boxed Lunch Pick-up
Sycamore and Cypress Rooms
Noon - 4:30     Exhibit Hall
The Aspen Room
12:30 - 1:45    Blind Parents Meeting
Chestnut Room B
12:15 - 1:45    Seniors Division Meeting
The Juniper Room
12:15 - 1:45    Ohio Guide Dog Users Meeting
Chestnut Room A
12:15 - 1:45    Ohio Assn of Blind Students Meeting
Mulberry Room
2:00 - 3:30     Leadership Meeting
Chapter officers -- required to attend
Mulberry Room
3:00 - 4:30     Technology Workshop, include Google
Juniper Room
3:00 - 4:30     One Touch Self-Defense Class Sycamore Room
3:30 - 4:45     The Blind View: for Sighted People
Butternut Room
3:45 - 5:00     Membership Building
our Board will speak about the chapter
Cypress Room
5:30 - 6:30     Pre-Banquet Social Hour, Cash Bar
Chestnut Room A and B
6:30 pm Banquet
Chestnut Room A and B

Highlights:
Invocation, Richard Payne
Keynote, Denise Avant
Awards, Cheryl Fields
Scholarships, Dr. JW Smith
Not So Silent Auction
Money for the Movement
9:00 pm After Party
Sycamore and Cypress Rooms