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[don nepple]

> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:18:38 -0700
> From: cassonw at gmail.com
> To: nfb-or at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-or] Student Meeting
> 
> I am free thursday and friday after 11:30 for board meetings. I willbe out
> of town on the 19th and the 20th is a school day in which i have classes
> practicly from 9-6.
> 
> Will there be transportation availible from portland on tuesday the 7th for
> the rally.
> Bill
> 
> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:24 AM, T. Joseph Carter
> <carter.tjoseph at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > The 19th or 20th works better for me than next week does, I think. My
> > professors are at it again. I'll cope--I always do--but there is a definite
> > and concerted effort to interfere with my academic progress. I continue to
> > not have the decency to just fail like a blind person should. *grin*
> >
> > Paccini's was not as quiet as I'd hoped when we were there, and they don't
> > really have a meeting room. Plus, if we go there for dinner, it's often
> > very busy. If we don't have many more than we did last time, the same time
> > might work out okay.
> >
> > ORABS needs to have a board meeting in the near future as well. Monday,
> > Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings aren't good for me (I have class.) I want
> > to discuss times for this on the list so that anyone who wants to listen in
> > may have the opportunity to do so. Art Stevenson will be there to make sure
> > our first proper board meeting goes well.
> >
> > We may also need to schedule a few things around Representative Gelser's
> > silliness with this attempt of hers to close the Oregon School for the
> > Blind. Blocking this is taking up far too much of our time right now. She
> > wants the school's closure to be resolved in April with closure taking place
> > by September. My goal is to make sure that by the end of April she is
> > wholly convinced that closing our school is a terrible idea--for her as well
> > as for us.
> >
> > Joseph
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:08:43PM -0700, Haben Girma wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Anyone else have a preference of activity? Bill says hiking or climbing,
> >> Joseph says climbing sounds fun.
> >>
> >> Another option is to do just meet at a cafe/restaurant again (how about
> >> Paccini's again?) and decide there for a climbing/hiking activity in the
> >> future. Want to try for next week?
> >>
> >> Haben
> >>
> >> T. Joseph Carter wrote:
> >>
> >>> Some of us are very outdoorsy. Others not so much (or not at all). I
> >>> love the idea of having another meeting, and I like the idea of scheduling
> >>> some other events to get blind students active together (our isolation has
> >>> been the greatest problem thus far), but I wonder if we're not big enough
> >>> for an event that several of us wouldn't be interested in.
> >>>
> >>> Rock climbing sounds like fun.
> >>>
> >>> Joseph
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 07:58:12PM -0700, Haben Girma wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hey Joseph,
> >>>>
> >>>> I would love to have another meeting in Portland! We need to divide up
> >>>> the labor of sending letters to agencies for the blind and schools in
> >>>> Oregon. What do you think of combining the business meeting with hiking,
> >>>> tandem biking, rock climbing, or social dancing? Hiking would involve no
> >>>> costs, rock climbing and social dancing would be about $10 per person,
> >>>> and tandem biking would, I have to say, probably be out of our financial
> >>>> reach to organize. I'd be fine with the food or meeting room, of course.
> >>>>
> >>>> Joe Orozco is the webmaster of the NABS website and he made it sound
> >>>> like he could easily have a site up for us. If I understand you
> >>>> correctly, Oregon definitely needs a website so since Oregon will get one,
> >>>> might as well have the student page at the same place. Right?
> >>>>
> >>>> How do you all feel about a regional event with Washington and Idaho?
> >>>>
> >>>> best,
> >>>> Haben
> >>>>
> >>>
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