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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Hi You All<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>RE: Novembers’ meeting is this coming Sunday the 17<sup>th</sup> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>First will be the times and numbers for the call. Second will be Ruth’s BIO.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>#1 Times for the call: 6:00 PM Mountain, 7:00 PM Central, and 8:00 PM Eastern<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Numbers for the call: Phone- 1-267-507-0400 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Access Code: 203747Pound<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>#2 Ruth Sager Bio <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ruth Sager has been employed at Blind Industries and Services of Maryland(BISM) for the past 18 years. She developed the senior program of center-based training, SAIL, Seniors Achieving Independent Living in 2001. This program has now expanded to two other locations in Maryland including Salisbury on the Eastern Shore and Cumberland and Hackerstown in Western Maryland. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Seniors achieve independence through training of cane travel, Braille literacy, computer and technology using speech screen reading, and daily living skills plus adjustment to blindness training. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ruth is the coordinator of Senior Services at Blind Industries and creates outreach opportunities especially workshop events statewide, coordinates presentations and plans and executes a yearly senior residential retreat. She is responsible for training the staff who work with seniors as well as provide guidance for other professionals in the field who call upon the BISM rehabilitation department for expertise in blindness skills training. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ruth received a BA degree from the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire and taught English at the French high school for the Blind in Paris, France. She then did post graduate studies at the university of Brussels in the political economic development of international organizations. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Ruth is married with three adult children and two grandchildren. Her hobbies are baking, reading and knitting. She has over 30 years of teaching experience in the blindness field including six years as a cane travel instructor and Independent Living teacher at the Louisiana center for the Blind. Ruth is president of the Baltimore County chapter of the NFB and the president of the Maryland senior division. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Robert Leslie Newman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Personal Website-<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Adjustment To Blindness And Visual impairment<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http//www.thoughtprovoker.info<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>NFB Writers’ Division, president<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>http://writers.nfb.org <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Chair of the NFB Communications Committee <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nebraska Senior Division, Vice President<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>