[Kansas-blind-students] March 28th"s Kansas Student Division Conference call summary

[Afton roy anne Harper]

Here is the summary for March 28th’s Kansas Student division conference call. 


Call started-8:15 pm

Call ended-9:11 pm

Call duration- 56 minutes

   
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People on call


   
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Afton Harper

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John Mestemacher

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Luke Schwinck

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Ashley Nybert

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Tom Anderson

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Anya Avremenko


   
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President's report-Luke Schwinck


   
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Bank account hasn’t been put in motion yet due to Luke and Tom Page’s varying schedules. 


   
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Vice President's report-Ashley Nybert


   
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NA


   
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Treasurer’s Report-John Mestemacher


   
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 There has been no change since last meeting


   
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Secretary’s Report-Afton Harper


   
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Last meeting- Call started at 8:47 pm and ended at 9:23 pm. The call duration was 36 minutes. 

   
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Luke- Checked with Wichita and Friends Witchita is a go and he is sorting out a date with them, Friends didn’t have blind students. 

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John-Checked with JCCC and KSB- both are left voicemail. Didn't get a chance to reach out to them this week. 

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Ashley with Fort Hays and Newman- had issues with time zone because she’s in training all day at CCB. 

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Richard helped reach out to Newman- got a chance to talk to someone and there are no blind students. 

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Alosha said he will reach out to Fort Hays. 

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Tom A-Checked with KU and Butler-will call tomorrow, KU-Only one blind student and we already have her contact information. Butler-there is one student who is having issues with accommodations in his classes and Tom called him but couldn’t leave a message because his voicemail was full.

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Afton-Checked with Emporia and K State-K State-left them a message, didn’t get a chance to meet back with them this week. 

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Anya reached out to Emopria again- they were on break last week and she called the director this morning, but they were sick. 

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Fabien is going to reach out to Kansas City School for the Blind

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Colorado trip-there were a series of workshops that Afton, John, Luke, Alosha, and Jamie went to regarding improving your life as a student.


   
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Other notes-


      
   
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Our next conference call is on March 28 at 8pm Central Time.

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If you haven’t yet, apply for the National NFB scholarship at nfb.org 

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John and Afton learned about Learning Ally, an app that has a large variety of books in an audio file format that are actually read by real people. For more information, navigate to their About Us page at https://www.learningally.org/About-Us 

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Everyone should look into joining a NABS division-There are many divisions including a Communities of Faith division, Blind Merchants division, Blind lawyers division, Guide Dog Users division and many more. For more information, go to 


https://nfb.org/divisions-and-committees. 
   
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If you know someone is not receiving these emails, give them this link to subscribe to the mailing list 


http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/kansas-blind-students_nfbnet.org.
   
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The next Johnson County chapter meetings are always the second Friday of each month at 6:30 pm. The address for Bethany Lutheran Church is 


9101 Lamar Ave, 

Overland Park, KS 66207. 

- The Johnson County Chapter meetings are REQUIRED in order to get funding to go to National Convention.


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