[Nfb-editors] NFB logo/divisions

[Marion Gwizdala]

Lori,
    I think enhancing membership is the major value of divisions. There is 
this myth, promulgated by those in whose best interest it is to spread such 
lies, that the NFB is anti guide dog. I feel it is one of my primary 
responsibilities to attract guide dog users into the Federation fold. In the 
three years I have been president of NAGDU, we have doubled our affiliate 
divisions and tripled our division membership!

Fraternally yours,
Marion Gwizdala


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LoriStay at aol.com>
To: <nfb-editors at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-editors] NFB logo/divisions


> I'm in favor of divisions.   originally I wanted to "have a place to hang
> my hat" which is why I helped found the Writers' Division.   We have 
> gotten
> members who might otherwise have felt NFB didn't address their interests.
> But once in, the people become Federationists as they see what NFB stands
> for.   Can't complain about that.
> Lori
>
> In a message dated 5/19/11 9:17:36 PM, k7uij at panix.com writes:
>
>
>> Bridgit:
>>
>> I'm afraid we may have to agree to disagree. I believe that separate 
>> logos
>> for separate divisions places too much importance on divisions at the
>> expense of the NFB as a whole. In my view, the great strength of NFB is
>> that
>> we are *one* movement -- not a hodge-podge of groups with separate
>> interests. To my way of thinking, the only reason for divisions is that
>> that
>> the NFB as a whole cannot specialize sufficiently to adequately confront
>> the
>> many incarnations of the problems re blindness that we face.
>>
>> I'll go further: I believe that taking "NFB" out of division names was an
>> aggregious error and should be corrected posthaste.
>>
>> The upshot of this conviction is that while divisions should have 
>> separate
>> letterheads, there should be only one logo -- that of Whozit since that
>> one's been trademarked by NFB.
>>
>> Incidentally, Hazel tenBroek, wife of the NFB's first president, 
>> adamantly
>> opposed divisions as fragmenting the Movement. Given the seeming desire
>> for
>> customized logos, I wonder if she might not have been right?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
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