[MN-at-Large] Congratulations to our NFB of Minnesota Scholarship Finalists!

[David Andrews]

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>Subject: [NFBMN-News] Congratulations to our NFB of Minnesota Scholarship
>  Finalists!
>From: Corbb O'Connor via NFBMN-News <nfbmn-news at nfbnet.org>
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>The following message comes from Board Member 
>Steve Jacobson, who also serves as chairperson 
>of our state Scholarship Committee.
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>For more than forty years, the NFB of Minnesota 
>has awarded scholarships to blind students. 
>Within the past few years, we have given our 
>scholarships a name, the Joyce and Tom Scanlan 
>Scholarships. This was done to honor and 
>remember our long-time president, Joyce Scanlan, 
>and also her husband Tom who was our treasurer 
>for forty years. In addition, Joyce was an 
>English teacher before she became an active 
>member of the NFB of Minnesota, so encouraging 
>education was something that was very important to her.
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>Here are our scholarship finalists for this year.
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>Majed Alhuwayri is a junior at the University of 
>Minnesota and he is majoring in Human Resources 
>Industrial Relations. His goal is to work in 
>international business given his background and 
>exposure to multiple cultures and languages. He 
>has also been an advocate for other disabled 
>students at the University and has been active 
>in our Minnesota Association of Blind Students 
>for several years. He believes the challenges he 
>has faced as a person who is blind as well as 
>those faced by leaving most of his family in 
>Saudi Arabia have made him a stronger and more capable person.
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>Aida Talic is coming to Minnesota this summer 
>from Missouri to attend the Minneapolis 
>Community and Technical College where she will 
>begin her journey toward a major in Accounting 
>and Product Management. One possible career for 
>her is to help manage her family’s semi-truck 
>business. She says that doing this would be more 
>than a career path. In her words, “it's a 
>familial collaboration and a personal 
>triumph.”  She started losing vision in high 
>school and she figured out she would need some 
>training and help to move forward with her 
>education. She has attended the Louisiana Center 
>for the Blind, and she has been active in the 
>Missouri Association of Blind Students as well.
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>Congratulations to Majed and Aida. We look 
>forward to getting to know both of you better!