[Home-on-the-range] Fwd: [nfb-talk] [Nfbv-announce] Retirement of Dr. Maurer

[Cindy Ray]

Here is a message I think all should see if they haven't. I can't explain why the official silence, but the fact seems to be official. The header information that is still there I have left for documentation.


Cindy Lou


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> From: "Bob Ray" <wa0kzb at gmail.com>
> Subject: FW: [nfb-talk] Fwd: [Nfbv-announce] Retirement of Dr. Maurer
> Date: December 3, 2013 9:06:48 AM CST
> To: "'Cindy Ray'" <cindyray at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 
> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David
> Andrews
> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 12:44 PM
> To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfb-talk] Fwd: [Nfbv-announce] Retirement of Dr. Maurer
> 
> 
> From: "Fredric Schroeder" <fschroeder at sks.com>
> To: "NFBV Announce" <nfbv-announce at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2013 11:12:29 -0500
> Subject: [Nfbv-announce] Retirement of Dr. Maurer
> 
> Friends:
> 
> 
> 
> Over the weekend, I participated in a meeting of the board of directors 
> of the National Federation of the Blind. The meeting was held at our 
> national headquarters in Baltimore.
> 
> 
> 
> As you know, Dr. Marc Maurer has been our national president since 
> 1986. He has served as president longer than any of our previous 
> presidents and has guided us through a period of unprecedented growth 
> and change. It was under Dr. Maurer's leadership that we established 
> the Jernigan Institute and all of the programs that have been so 
> successful in demonstrating the truth of our assertion that given 
> proper opportunity and training, blind people can live and work as others.
> 
> 
> 
> In particular we have developed many programs designed to provide blind 
> children and youth with the skills and confidence they need to compete 
> fully in their education and to develop their life ambitions. We have 
> conducted the Youth Slam, Science Academy, and more recently the BELL
> programs.
> 
> 
> 
> In the area of technology under Dr. Maurer's leadership we developed 
> the KNFB Reader Mobile allowing blind people to have immediate access 
> to print with nothing more than a cell phone and special software. And 
> then there was the Blind Driver Challenge. There is no question that 
> lack of access to reliable transportation remains a major barrier for 
> blind people. Yet, the Blind Driver Challenge showed that we could 
> develop the technology to enable a blind person to drive a car, not 
> simply sit passively in a car that drives itself.
> 
> 
> 
> These are the expressions of Dr. Maurer's leadership. Yet at the heart 
> of his leadership is his spirit and his belief in every blind person.
> He has inspired and encouraged us, faced the most difficult challenges 
> with resolution and strength, and he has kept us together, and never 
> let us waiver in our belief in our own right to live normal, productive
> lives.
> 
> 
> 
> On Saturday afternoon Dr. Maurer told the board that it is his 
> intention to not seek reelection to the presidency next summer at our 
> national convention. He feels the time is right to transition to the 
> next president, the next individual who can lead us for a quarter 
> century
> or more. Dr.
> Maurer is in good health and believes that it is important that he step 
> down from the presidency while he is able to assist with the transition.
> Dr.
> Maurer told the board that he, Dr. Maurer, plans to support Mr. Mark 
> Riccobono as the next president of the National Federation of the Blind.
> 
> 
> 
> Mr. Riccobono presently serves as the Executive Director of the 
> Jernigan Institute. He is an accomplished individual with the strength 
> and wisdom to assume the serious responsibility of leading our 
> movement. He has brought to his work the imagination and competency we
> demand from our president.
> 
> 
> 
> We are truly fortunate that within the Federation we have individuals 
> who are able and willing to give all they have to furthering our move 
> toward true equality. The demands of the NFB presidency are 
> unimaginable. We require our leader to give all of his time, all of his 
> imagination, and all of his personal reserve of judgment to leading our 
> organization. This is what Dr. Maurer has done for the past 27 and a 
> half years, and it is what Mark Riccobono will do for the time of his
> presidency.
> 
> 
> 
> The transition brings to an end one chapter in our history and what a 
> glorious chapter it has been. We cannot face the loss of Dr. Maurer's 
> leadership without a sense of sadness; but the transition to a new 
> president is not just the absence of what we had before. The transition 
> heralds a new chapter in our history and with it, new opportunities-the 
> chance to take all that has come before and build something bigger and 
> more powerful than we have ever known.
> 
> 
> 
> Please join me in thanking Dr. Maurer for his leadership, his 
> friendship and his faithful devotion to our cause; and please join me 
> in wishing Mark Riccobono the very best as he seeks to take the 
> foundation that is all that has come before and build upon it the next
> great chapter in our history.
> 
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