[Blindtlk] Fwd: [BANA-Announce] BANA Takes Action at Fall Meeting

[David Andrews]

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>Press Release
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>December 2016
>For Immediate Release
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>Contact: Jennifer Dunnam, Chair
>Braille Authority of North America
>612-767-5658
>chair at brailleauthority.org
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>BANA Takes Action at Fall Meeting in Atlanta, GA
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) 
>held its 2016 fall meeting November 3–5 in 
>Atlanta, Georgia. The American Foundation for 
>the Blind (AFB), a BANA member organization, 
>hosted the meeting, which took place at the Center for the Visually Impaired.
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>During its three-day meeting, the BANA Board 
>reviewed semiannual reports from its eighteen 
>committees and acted on committee 
>recommendations. The Board also engaged in 
>thought-provoking analyses designed to feed into 
>an updated strategic plan. In addition, the 
>Board reviewed and considered the results of the 
>survey completed by delegates to the 2016 UEB 
>Transition Forum. The delegates' feedback is 
>helping inform the development of BANA’s updated 
>strategic imperatives and decision-making processes.
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>The Board established the 2017 budget and 
>elected officers for 2017. The officers are 
>Chair: Jennifer Dunnam (National Federation of 
>the Blind); Vice-chair: Sandra Ruconich 
>(American Council of the Blind); Secretary: Dawn 
>Gross (Alternate Text Production Center); 
>Treasurer: Jackie Sheridan (National Braille Press).
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>The Board recognized that 2016 marks BANA's 40th 
>anniversary of promoting literacy for tactile 
>readers in the U.S. and Canada. Remarkably, five 
>individuals who have served as BANA Chair were 
>in attendance: Darleen Bogart, Kim Charlson, 
>Frances Mary D’Andrea, Judy Dixon, and Jennifer 
>Dunnam. Together, these Past Chairs represent 
>nearly two decades of BANA leadership.
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>BANA's spring meeting will occur at the San 
>Francisco Marriott Hotel on March 12–14, 2017, 
>in conjunction with the annual meeting of the 
>California Transcribers and Educators of the 
>Blind and Visually Impaired (CTEBVI), also a BANA member organization.
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>NOTE: This press release is available in HTML on 
>the BANA website at 
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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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