[BlindTlk] BANA Elects Officers for 2019, Welcomes New Board Member

[David Andrews]

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>December 2018
>For Immediate Release
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>Contact: Jennifer Dunnam, Chair
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>Braille Authority of North America
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>BANA Elects Officers for 2019, Welcomes New Board Member
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>The Braille Authority of North America (BANA) 
>held its fall 2018 meeting November 1-3 at the 
>Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind in Salt 
>Lake City, Utah. The meeting was hosted by the American Council of the Blind.
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>During its three-day meeting, the BANA Board 
>reviewed semiannual reports from its eighteen 
>general and technical committees—each of which 
>works on specific charges from the Board—and 
>acted on recommeendations from these committees. 
>Portions of the Thursday and Friday meetings 
>were dedicated to further development of BANA's 
>strategic planning and the steps that will implement this planning.
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>Cynthia Skandera, Horizons for the Blind 
>representative, was welcomed as BANA’s newest Board member.
>The Board established the 2019 budget and 
>elected officers for 2019. The elected officers are:
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>Chair: Jennifer Dunnam (National Federation of the Blind);
>Vice-chair: Tamara Rorie (National Library Service);
>Secretary: Dawn Gross (Alternate Text Production 
>Center of the California Community Colleges);
>Treasurer: Jessica Rivera (Associated Services for the Blind).
>Frances Mary D'Andrea serves as BANA's Immediate Past Chair.
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>BANA’s next meeting will be held May 2-4, 
>2019, in Toronto, Canada, and will be hosted by 
>CNIB (the Canadian National Institute for the Blind).
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>NOTE: This press release is available in HTML on 
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