[Mabs] NABS July Bulletin!

[Gary Wunder]

On the way to KC in ten minutes for the Baby Mikaela case and will look at
them first thing and let you know. Sorry, I thought I did this - bad me.
We'll clear this before the morning is done.

Warmly,

Gary


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Subject: [Mabs] NABS July Bulletin!

National Association of Blind Students
>From the Desk of the President
July 19, 2010

In This Bulletin:
1.	Convetnntioneport!
2.	State Division Announcements

1.  Convention Report!
As usual, we had a busy, productive, and fun NFB national convention, this
time in Dallas, Texas, on July 3-8.  As always we heard many informative and
energizing speeches during our general sessions and the banquet.  If you
weren't at convention, or even if you were, you'll be able to read the
presidential report, banquet address, resolutions, and other convention
highlights in the August-September issue of the Braille Monitor.  Details
should be in the next NABS bulletin.
NABS had some exciting activities as well.  On Saturday afternoon, the NABS
board put on high school and college readiness discussions for youth, and on
Saturday night, we had a student hospitality night at convention for the
first time in many years.  Several students dropped in to hang out with us,
some of whom were first-time convention attendees, and we hope to continue
the student hospitality social at future conventions.  On Sunday evening, we
held our annual business meeting where we learned about new developments in
access to academic materials, including the popular Blackboard Learn
platform, and heard from two enthusiastic NABS members about the
contribution the NFB has made in their lives.  At the end of the meeting, we
held elections for two of our board positions, and Meghan Whalen and Darian
Smith were elected to serve an additional two-year term on the board.
Personally, I enjoyed meeting some of our new members, and I hope that you
will continue to be active in NABS and your local NFB affiliate.
If you just joined NABS at this last convention and want to stay connected,
I'd encourage you to find the NABS chapter in your state, if there is one.
There's a list of NABS state chapters, and contacts for states that don't
have NABS chapters yet, at www.nabslink.org

You can either fan National Association of Blind Students on Facebook,
follow us on Twitter, or keep reading the monthly bulletins to find out
about upcoming student conference calls and our next in-person meeting at
Washington Seminar.  Finally, if you aren't on our email discussion list and
would like to correspond with other NABS members, you can join by going to
http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nabs-l_nfbnet.org

State Division Announcements:
>From New Mexico:
We are selling mugs with pictures on them of different sceens of our state
and they cost $10 per mug. Please contact me via email if people are
interested in these mugs. I hope to eventually send out discriptions of each
mug we have and are selling and those in a brochure we are using. Also we
are selling T-shirts with the Whozit logo on the left brest and the text
message acrynym for too good to be forgotten "2G2B4G," just above the
whozit, and the Louis Braille coin on the back of the shirt. We are selling
them for buy one get one half off. The price is $10 for one shirt and $15
for two. We are selling 2XL for $12. Sizes range from small to 2XL.
If you or anyone has any questions, please email me at
nmabs.president at gmail.com.
Thank you,
Tara
 From California: Please see attached flyer.


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Arielle Silverman
President, National Association of Blind Students
Phone:  602-502-2255
Email:
nabs.president at gmail.com
Website:
www.nabslink.org