<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">October is <a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/meettheblindmonth?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBDhGwA8AdgE3S12ldGhHhPDEyZJPshYl5d6CLq0s9MGtzzFEkg_l7fUjR1_bHV1cYwOOaCWuCSHFdhx7XZkbxx_TDBZjI2xCHsbCEnj-YI5CpDzDKAXJ-uFMo8AEtKl8af3IOgctC1QhoWdRu5OJ1XFfL32VnEMjflRTC3PxPZU1EOG2U0aKEUb6MrEhVdXkEKzNSQcTsr_oNvz7Eob5RfFW7QDm_es3DOMtsrF0XqOSEusezHxC2GGQzRGwsCaxp2HITnLjNIfVfGaJanpLbgQd9yPFKcCkE1CkIXhXKpJS-jLs1mT8rqqThXSZy2Ktoz0EqK1eyZI8GazqBLR9JxOFpd&__tn__=%2ANK-R" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-family: inherit;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="unicode-bidi: isolate; color: rgb(54, 88, 153); font-family: inherit;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">MeetTheBlindMonth</span></span></a>. Due to COVID-19, we cannot go out into the community to share our stories. So we are going to post profiles on some of our members for anyone to read. So, come <a class="_58cn" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/meettheblind?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARBDhGwA8AdgE3S12ldGhHhPDEyZJPshYl5d6CLq0s9MGtzzFEkg_l7fUjR1_bHV1cYwOOaCWuCSHFdhx7XZkbxx_TDBZjI2xCHsbCEnj-YI5CpDzDKAXJ-uFMo8AEtKl8af3IOgctC1QhoWdRu5OJ1XFfL32VnEMjflRTC3PxPZU1EOG2U0aKEUb6MrEhVdXkEKzNSQcTsr_oNvz7Eob5RfFW7QDm_es3DOMtsrF0XqOSEusezHxC2GGQzRGwsCaxp2HITnLjNIfVfGaJanpLbgQd9yPFKcCkE1CkIXhXKpJS-jLs1mT8rqqThXSZy2Ktoz0EqK1eyZI8GazqBLR9JxOFpd&__tn__=%2ANK-R" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-family: inherit;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: isolate; font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="unicode-bidi: isolate; color: rgb(54, 88, 153); font-family: inherit;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">MeetTheBlind</span></span></a>!</p><p style="margin: 6px 0px; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, system-ui, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; color: rgb(28, 30, 33); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Tom Anderson has been a member of the National Federation of the Blind since 1971. A native of Greenbush, Minnesota, Tom joined the Minnesota affiliate of the Federation when he was a client of the Minneapolis Society for the Blind. He attended his first national conventio<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">n of the NFB in 1974. In 1975, while attending his second national convention in Chicago, Tom met a young lady from Kansas, named Linda Carpenter. They were married a year later and moved to Kansas where they lived for 11 years. Tom was a founding staff member of the Colorado Center for the Blind, teaching Braille there for 27 years. Tom is currently director two on the NFB of Kansas board.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Photo of Tom Anderson in a red shirt and white undershirt sitting in front of a framed photo on the wall </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="C3DDEDAC-20D6-481C-AECA-B0C7092BD8EF" src="cid:8CF1D63C-E072-493B-826A-020CDAEA5B95" class=""></div></body></html>