[nabs-l] Becoming a member of a local NFB Chapter.

[David Andrews]

You could find out when and where the chapter 
meets in the city in which you go to school, and show up.

Dave

At 09:47 AM 5/10/2013, you wrote:
>I would love to be part of one. I did go to a few Cincinnati chapter
>meetings when I was in high school and was a due paying member for a while,
>but since both my parents worked late and there are no buses in the suburb
>where I live getting downtown wad hard. Now that I go to school in a
>different city I'm not sure which chapter I should belong to. I brought
>this up to the president of tthe chapter where I go to school, bit he never
>got back to me on it.
>
>On Friday, May 10, 2013, christopher nusbaum wrote:
>
> > Sophie, yes; teens are welcome to become members of chapters! I have
> > the same problem with our local chapter. Unfortunately, we don't have
> > a chapter in our part of Maryland, and there probably wouldn't be
> > enough blind people to start one. The nearest chapter to us, the
> > Greater Baltimore chapter, meets about an hour away from me. I've gone
> > to a few meetings and am a due-paying member. I'd love to attend more
> > meetings, but would have to convince my parents to get up on a
> > Saturday morning and drive me to Baltimore (an hour's drive) for a
> > 2-hour meeting that they probably wouldn't even be interested in—not a
> > very easy thing to do. * Smile! *
> >
> > Chris Nusbaum
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On May 10, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Sophie Trist 
> <sweetpeareader at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I would like to become a member of an NFB chapter, but first of all, I
> > don't know if teens are allowed to be members. And second of all, the two
> > nearest chapters are at least an hour's drive away, so if I could become a
> > member, it would be kinda inconvenient to go there, especially since I
> > believe most meetings take place in the evenings.
> > >
> > > Best,
> > > Sophie
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: Darian Smith <dsmithnfb at gmail.com <javascript:;>
> > > To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list <
> > nabs-l at nfbnet.org <javascript:;>
> > > Date sent: Thu, 9 May 2013 19:35:29 -0700
> > > Subject: [nabs-l] Becoming a member of a local NFB Chapter.
> > >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I  was wondering   if any of you are currently active members of a
> > chapter.  If so, how do you like it? how did you find that chapter?
> > > If you are not members of a chapter, why aren't you? do you   not know
> > where a chapter is? do you think you won't connect with anyone in your
> > chapter?  have you given it a try but  didn't find anything  that made you
> > want to stick around?
> > > interested to hear what you fine folks have to say.
> > > Best,
> > > Darian