[NFB-DB] Very important convention email please read below.

[Maurice A. mines]

Hello everyone, I have a very important question for people who are attending national convention in person. I need to know how many of you are indeed coming in person. This is especially true if you are coming to the banquet. I need to know both of these things no later than noon on 23 June. That's 3 PM Eastern time. The national office is asking me for this headcount.

As veteran Convention attendees should know if you use interpreters, you know that you're handed April copy of the banquet speech every year. Those copies need to be brailed before we arrive in New Orleans. With that in mind please email me directly so that I can give the national office a headcount. In addition I'm curious to know how many people are coming in general I am often asked every year how many deaf blind people attended convention in person each year. Also bear in mind this helps in terms of making sure that I can tell people who need to know exactly how many people might be at an event. Such as our annual meeting, or the deaf blind chat event. Just as a reminder that event will take place on the evening of saturday, July 12 2025 in studio seven I believe.