[Blindtlk] History of Presidential Releases

[Chris Nusbaum]

Hi Reese,

Just FYI, September's PR was number 398.  Also, I believe 1978 
was the year that Dr.  Jernigan stepped down for health reasons 
and Ralph Sanders became the national President, until Dr.  
Jernigan (thankfully) ran again and won in 1980, causing Sanders 
to go to the Council, where he didn't get very far either.  But 
that's off topic.

Chris

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 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Peachtree Travel" <info at peachtreetravel.net
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:16:13 -0400
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] History of Presidential Releases

Peter:

I believe in the latest presidential release DR.  Maurer said it 
was presidential release 397 or something like that.  Doing the 
math puts the first presidential release some where around 1978.  
Of course that's when DR.  Jernigan was NFB president.

Reese

  ----- Original Message -----
  Hello everyone,

      Some recent discussions concerning the presidential release 
prompted me
  to wonder a few things.  Perhaps some of you know the answer.  
Here are my
  questions:

  1.  When were presidential releases first produced and sent to 
local
  chapters?
  2.  Was it Dr.  TenBroek, or Dr.  Jernigan who first began 
distributing
  presidential releases to our affiliates?
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