[Colorado-Talk] From the archives

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Thank you

I always love hearing about our history.

 

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Good Monday Morning:

 

Below is a short history of the organizations of the blind of Colorado as
told in the late 1960's.  I thought you might be interested.

 

Peggy Chong

 

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE COLORADO FEDERATION OF THE BLIND

            The Colorado Federation of the Blind was organized on June 4,
1955.  This was brought about with the assistance of The National Federation
of the Blind and was a direct outgrowth of the organization previously
called The United Workers of the Blind.  The United Workers of the Blind was
a local, corporate organization which had been active since 1912.  It had
become affiliated with the National Federation of the Blind after that
organization was organized in 1940.  Most of the members forming the
Colorado Federation of the Blind were former members of this earlier
organization.  The United Workers of the Blind were hosts to the annual
convention of the National Federation of the Blind held in Denver in 1949.
About 300 [The middle number is smudged and unreadable.] persons attended.

  Between June, 1955 and the first annual state convention, the Colorado
Federation had formed a chapter in Pueblo and one in Colorado Springs.  The
constitution adopted in June, 1955, stated that when other chapters were
formed the local chapter would become known as the Denver Area Association
of the Blind and together all chapters would be the Colorado Federation of
the Blind.  On December 3, 1955, the first annual state convention was held
in the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Denver where a states constitution was approved
and officers and board members were elected for a term of two years.

  During the ensuing four or five years the Pueblo chapter dwindled and
finally dissolved from lack of leadership and interest.  The Colorado
Springs chapter survived but during the late '60's was not very active.

  To date there has been four presidents of the Colorado Federation of the
Blind.  The first three were men who were working for private industry and
thus their time for organizing other chapters and bolstering the interest in
the ones already in existence was very limited.  In 1967 our first woman
president was elected and due partly to the fact that she can manage to take
the time but more to her drive and enthusiasm, a local chapter has been
organized in Greeley, Ft. Collins, Pueblo reorganized, and Colorado Springs
reactivated.  Plans are in the offing for chapters in Boulder, Grand
Junction, and somewhere in the Sterling area to cover northeastern Colorado.

 

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