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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If we are not going to do the walk on October 15<sup>th</sup>, then we shouldn’t be calling it the White Cane Safety Day Walk. As a chapter of the National Federation of the Blind, we have to decide what is more important to us. Do we want to celebrate a time honored tradition that our national organization has fought for? Or, do we want to make it another day just because it fits into someone else’s schedule? Where is our allegiance? Who’s tradition is this? These are the questions that need look at.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sheri<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Cinci-nfb [mailto:cinci-nfb-bounces@nfbnet.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jessie McDaniel via Cinci-nfb<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 15, 2015 9:20 AM<br><b>To:</b> dkkendrick@earthlink.net; cinci-nfb@nfbnet.org; NFB of Ohio Cincinnati Chapter List<br><b>Cc:</b> Jessie McDaniel<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Cinci-nfb] White Cane event<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441931286538_41538"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>All,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441931286538_41478"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>It is my opinion that White Cane Safety Day should not be changed. I understand that it would be nice to have others participate like in previous walks but should not be changed or cancelled for that reason. I have further educated myself on the meaning of October 15th and i found on the NFB.ORG web site that this day October 15th has been White Cane Safety day since 1964. Below you will find a small part of what it says. Furthering my stance on keeping the date as it always has been.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441931286538_41478"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt' id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441931286538_42282"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt;background:#F1F1F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#333333'>The National Federation of the Blind in convention assembled on the 6th day of July, 1963, called upon the governors of the fifty states to proclaim October 15 of each year as White Cane Safety Day in each of our fifty states. On October 6, 1964, a joint resolution of the Congress, HR 753, was signed into law authorizing the President of the United States to proclaim October 15 of each year as "White Cane Safety Day." This resolution said: "Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives", that the President is hereby authorized to issue annually a proclamation designating October 15 as White Cane Safety Day and calling upon the people of the United States to observe such a day with appropriate ceremonies and activities.'<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt' id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441931286538_42284"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt;background:#F1F1F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Within hours of the passage of the congressional joint resolution authorizing the President to proclaim October 15 as White Cane Safety Day, then President Lyndon B. Johnson recognized the importance of the white cane as a staff of independence for blind people. In the first Presidential White Cane Proclamation President Johnson commended the blind for the growing spirit of independence and the increased determination to be self-reliant that the organized blind had shown<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt' id="yui_3_16_0_1_1441931286538_42284"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt;background:#F1F1F1;vertical-align:baseline'><span style='font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#333333'>Thanks Jessie<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div>
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