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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Hell All:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>We have a great history regarding the blind of Colorado and we are the only ones who can tell it. We have been entrusted with these single-source documents and we have a responsibility to preserve and share them with ourselves and the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>I have a job for all of us during our social distancing times. As you all my remember, we have many old records dating back as far as 1915 from the organized blind of Colorado we are prepping for preservation. We are almost ready to take the records to the Archival firm, but COVID-19 got in the way. Still, we can work on brining in funds to pay for the digitization. When the records have been digitized, we will need to have volunteers to help clean them up into easily read files, but that may not be for several months.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Thank you to the Mile High Chapter for sending in a contribution to preserving our history. Other Chapters are welcome to do so as well. Thank you to the individuals also pledging and sending in funds dedicated to this project. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>I am attaching a file and pasting the text below, outlining our financial request. Please use the attached file to send to friends, family, business acquaintances and community groups who might contribute to this cause. I look forward to counting your name in our roll of supporters.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>If you have questions, please call me, Peggy Chong at 303-745-0473<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='text-indent:-18.75pt'><span style='color:black;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:-18.75pt'><a name=docs-internal-guid-c6116d68-7fff-9203-ad></a><span style='color:black;background:white'>“<b>To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without a root.”</b></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Textbody align=center style='text-align:center;text-indent:-18.75pt'><b><span style='color:black;background:white'>– Chinese Proverb</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Textbody align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:120%'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black'>We, the Blind, Need Your Help to Save Our History!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Textbody><span style='font-size:8.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:120%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black'>We Need Your Financial Support!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Textbody align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:120%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black'>We Need Your Time to Transcribe Files into Word Documents!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Textbody><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'>Time holds our history hostage! The National Federation of the Blind of Colorado, NFBCO holds a unique and irreplaceable history of the blind of Colorado dating back to the early 20th century, but we, the blind, cannot read it! Help us preserve our one-of-a-kind, precious history before it turns into moldy, paper dust. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Textbody><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'>Historians and scholars have come to us to research the sole-source records in our archives. The information they have gleaned has contributed to doctoral theses and published books such as Thomas A. Karinz’s <u>Delivering Aid: Implementing Progressive Era Welfare in The American West</u>. However, there is much history yet to be uncovered. Valuable data is trapped in the multiple formats and the desperate conditions of the records. Boxes and boxes of old Braille, typewritten notes on onion skin paper, faded mimeographs, letters in cursive handwriting, and faded newspaper articles are deteriorating year after year. What can we do to save this unique history of the blind in Colorado?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Textbody><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:120%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black'>WE HAVE A SOLUTION!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=Textbody><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'>A Professional digitization firm has been identified to painstakingly create electronic files, preserving an image of the original format. They will transcribe through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) the print records. However, the majority of the records are in multiple formats that are not OCR friendly. Handwriting, Braille, mimeographs and faded print make scanning difficult or impossible. That which scans poorly must be manually corrected and that which doesn’t scan at all must be transcribed into an electronic format, such as MS Word.. The electronic files will be available for all...searchable and easily read by multiple screen readers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'>When the project is completed, it will bring to life, in multiple formats, the history of the blind of Colorado and the blind men and women pioneers who contributed to state history through business, politics, education and more. The completed project will be shared with multiple public and blindness specific libraries. Anyone will be able to access, search and learn from our blind ancestors. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody><span style='font-size:9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'>We need your help! Don’t let our history be lost, forgotten or destroyed! This preservation project is a huge undertaking that will take both money and volunteer time. Call or email today to find out how you can help preserve a vital part of Colorado history.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:auto'></span><div class=WordSection2><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:120%;color:black'>Mail checks to</span></b><span style='color:black'>:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'>NFBCO, History<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'>2233 W SHEPPERD AVE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'>LITTLETON, CO 80120-2038<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody><b>On-Line at:</b> www.nfbco.org<o:p></o:p></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'>Peggy Chong-Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><span style='color:black'>303-745-0473<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Textbody style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:120%'><a href="mailto:chongpeggy10@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>chongpeggy10@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:ZH-CN'><br clear=all style='page-break-before:always'></span><div class=WordSection3><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>