[Blindtlk] History of Presidential Releases

[David Andrews]

Chris, while what you say is essentially true, it isn't quite 
accurate. Ralph Sanders, who passed away a few years ago, didn't 
immediately join the Council in 1980, it was some time after that -- 
and as to why, only he knows for sure, so it doesn't seem right to 
speculate over 25 years later.

Dave

At 05:18 PM 9/16/2011, you wrote:
>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?