[Blindtlk] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Welcomes New Members and Representatives

[David Andrews]

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>Press Release
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>September 2013
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>For Immediate Release
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>CONTACT: Frances Mary D’Andrea, Chair
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>Braille Authority of North America
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>Phone: 412-521-5797
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>Email: <mailto:literacy2 at mindspring.com>literacy2 at mindspring.com
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>BANA Welcomes Two New Member Organizations
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>and Four New Board Members
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) is 
>pleased to announce that two additional 
>organizations­COSB (Council of Schools and 
>Services for the Blind) and the Hadley School 
>for the Blind­have become full members of BANA. 
>In the months before BANA’s April Board meeting, 
>these two prestigious organizations submitted 
>their applications for membership in BANA. After 
>reviewing the extensive applications, the BANA 
>Board approved full membership for both COSB and 
>Hadley and welcomed them into the organization. 
>These two new member organizations have named 
>their representatives ­ Dr. Stuart Wittenstein, 
>Superintendent of the California School for the 
>Blind, now serves as the BANA representative 
>from COSB, and Ruth Rozen, who designs and 
>writes many of Hadley’s courses, represents the Hadley School for the Blind.
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>Two other new Board members were recently named 
>by their respective organizations. Diane Spence 
>of Houston, Texas, replaces Cindi Laurent as the 
>representative from the National Braille 
>Association, and Jeff Baugher assumes the role 
>of representative from ATPC (Alternate Text 
>Production Center of the California Community 
>Colleges) following the retirement of Sandy 
>Greenberg, who had served as their 
>representative. BANA looks forward to working 
>with all four new Board members as they 
>participate in their first Board meeting this fall.
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>BANA meets face-to-face semiannually and will 
>hold its fall meeting on November 8­10, 2013, in 
>Louisville, KY. This meeting will be hosted by 
>the American Printing House for the Blind (APH), 
>a BANA member organization. More information 
>about the fall Board meeting will be distributed in the next few weeks.
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>NOTE: This press release is available in HTML on 
>the BANA website at 
><http://www.brailleauthority.org/pressreleases/pr-2013-9.html>http://www.brailleauthority.org/pressreleases/pr-2013-9.html. 
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>For additional resource information, visit 
><http://www.brailleauthority.org>www.brailleauthority.org.
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>The Board of BANA consists of appointed 
>representatives from seventeen member 
>organizations of braille producers, transcribers, teachers, and consumers.
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>The mission of the Braille Authority of North 
>America is to assure literacy for tactile 
>readers through the standardization of braille and/or tactile graphics.
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>The purpose of BANA is to promote and to 
>facilitate the uses, teaching, and production of 
>braille. Pursuant to this purpose, BANA will 
>promulgate rules, make interpretations, and 
>render opinions pertaining to braille codes and 
>guidelines for the provisions of literary and 
>technical materials and related forms and 
>formats of embossed materials now in existence 
>or to be developed in the future for the use of 
>blind persons in North America. When 
>appropriate, BANA shall accomplish these 
>activities in international collaboration with 
>countries using English braille. In exercising 
>its function and authority, BANA shall consider 
>the effects of its decisions on other existing 
>braille codes and guidelines, forms and formats; 
>ease of production by various methods; and acceptability to readers.
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