[nagdu] can you help with NAGDU table in exhibit hall?

Mon Jun 22 01:20:02 UTC 2009

Hey, Sherril, I'd LOVE to help man the NAGDU table if I was going to 
convention.  I know this doesn't help you now (grin!) but I'd love to help 
someday when I can attend another National Convention!

I got to go on a scholarship in 2001 and I enjoyed my working at the NFB 
Store. I asked the NAGDU folks then if they needed help but they were 
covered well then.

So, C'mon folks who are going to Convention - give this great Division a 
hand!  This is OUR Division and we need to support it!

I think it is a mistake to have reduced the dues from $15.00 to just $5.00. 
Our blind center did the same thing aboout ten years ago and it didn't help 
things.  About five or six years ago, we had to bring on a Participation Fee 
to help offset costs of operating.  Ours is $25.00 - should be more - and we 
can pay it in installments if a person can't make the whole payment at once. 
I wonder if it would help NAGDU if they did the same thing?

Take care and enjoy the convention - I'll get back someday!

Linda and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherrill O'Brien" <sherrill.obrien at verizon.net>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 21, 2009 3:01 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] can you help with NAGDU table in exhibit hall?

> Hi everyone,
>
> I realize not all of you on this list are going to attend national
> convention.  But those of you who are, I would ask that you please help us
> ASAP by looking at the exhibit hall NAGDU table schedule and sending me a
> time when you can help.  So far, only Joy has responded.  I'm leaving 
> Tampa
> on Wed., so will have to turn this task over to someone else.  So I'd
> appreciate some more responses.  Since we are no longer charging $15 dues,
> it is imperative that we do some serious fundraising.  The only way that
> will happen is if we all pitch in.  In this way, no one person will have 
> to
> stay at the exhibit hall table for an unreasonable length of time.
>
> Thanks for helping our great division.  Remember to send me an email off
> list to let me know the time or times you can help.
>
> Sherrill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
> Behalf Of Sherrill O'Brien
> Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2009 5:29 PM
> To: Nagdu
> Subject: [nagdu] can you help with NAGDU table in exhibit hall?
>
>
> Hello all,
> Marion has asked me to be in charge of making the schedule for our NAGDU
> table in the Exhibit Hall at National convention.  This year, we'll be
> selling 50-50 tickets, check writing guides, and the Pupcakes, which were 
> so
> popular last year.  We'll sure miss Julie's son, who helped us out so much
> with those Pupcakes!!
>
> Please look at what I'm calling NFB's "monster agenda" to see when you'll
> have some free time to give at the NAGDU table.  If you haven't seen it,
> I'll be glad to send it out again to our list.  Two hour time slots would 
> be
> best, but we'll take as little or as much time as you can give, but I'd 
> say
> an hour minimum.  Those of you who are presidents of affiliates, if you
> could ask folks to help out who aren't on the NAGDU list, it would be
> appreciated.
>
> Please email me off list with the time slot or slots for which you would
> like to volunteer.  We would prefer two people at the table during each 
> time
> slot.
>
> Thanks so very much for your help with this.  Read on past my signature 
> for
> the schedule, and email me at
> sherrill.obrien at verizon.net
>
> Sherrill
>
>
> Volunteering At the Exhibit Hall Table
>
> Saturday, July 4
> Hall open 9:00 till 5:00
>
> 9:00 till 11:00
>
> 11:00 till 1:00
>
> 1:00 till 3:00
>
> 3:00 till 5:00
>
>
> Sunday, July 5
> Hall open 8:30 till 5:00
> (Perhaps some wonderful volunteers could do two and a half hours some time
> during the day to even things out?)
> Let's try
> 8:30 till 11:00
>
> 11:00 till 1:00
>
> 1:00 till 3:00
>
> 3:00 till 5:00
>
>
> Monday, July 6
> Hall open 12:00 till 1:45
>
> Tuesday, July 7
> Hall open 12:00 till 1:45
>
> Note.  The following is a new time slot for the exhibit hall, done because
> our convention is a day shorter:
>
> Tuesday, July 7
> Hall open 7:00 till 10:00
> You could stay for the whole time, or an hour and a half.  By this time,
> even an hour will do! (grin)
>
>
>
>
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