[Nfbf-l] NFB Congratulates Dwight. Number 8 in the nation!

Sun Jun 26 18:36:14 UTC 2011

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Dwight

Dwight D. Sayer
National  President,
The National Association of Blind Veterans
A Division of the  NFB
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Subj: [Nfbnet-members-list]  National Federation of the Blind Congratulates 
Blind Driver Experience  Participants

FOR IMMEDIATE  RELEASE

CONTACT:

Chris  Danielsen

Director of Public Relations

National Federation of  the Blind

(410) 659-9314, extension 2330

(410) 262-1281  (Cell)

_cdanielsen at nfb.org_ (mailto:cdanielsen at nfb.org)   

National  Federation of the Blind Congratulates
Blind Driver Experience  Participants

Baltimore, Maryland (June 24,  2011): The National Federation of the Blind 
(NFB), the oldest and largest nationwide organization of blind  people, 
today congratulated the  thirty people who won the honor of participating in the 
Blind Driver  Experience.  On Tuesday, July 5, from 1–6:00  p.m., as part 
of the NFB National Convention in Orlando, the winners will  get the 
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ride in the Blind Driver  Challenge™ car equipped 
with nonvisual technology (the same car that was  driven on the famed 
Daytona International Speedway on January 29,  2011).  

The participants of the Blind Driver  Experience will be driven in the 
official Blind Driver Challenge™ vehicle by  Mark Riccobono, executive director 
of the NFB Jernigan Institute, and the  first blind person to drive a street 
vehicle in public.   

The Blind Driver Experience is an initiative of the  NFB Imagination Fund, 
which supports the education, technology, and research  projects of the NFB 
Jernigan Institute, as well as programs conducted by the  fifty-two 
affiliates and over seven-hundred local chapters of the  Federation.  

Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the  National Federation of the Blind, said: “
We greatly appreciate the hard work  of our Blind Driver Experience 
participants, as well as our other  Imagination Fund contributors.  With their 
help, we are able to create  innovative research, training, education, and 
technology programs that  improve the lives of the blind and move us closer to 
our ultimate goal of  full integration into society on a basis of  equality.”

Parnell Diggs, chairman of the Imagination  Fund, said: “We congratulate 
our Blind Driver Experience participants, and  thank them for a job well done. 
 It is vital that we raise the funds we  need to operate the programs of 
the National Federation of the Blind.   Those who registered to be Imaginators 
and raised at least $1,000 by June 15  have our gratitude." 

The top ten individuals in  overall dollars raised as of June 15 were 
automatically selected to  participate in the Blind Driver Experience.  The 
remaining twenty spots  were drawn at random from the pool of individuals who 
raised at least $1,000  for the Imagination Fund by June 15, and who plan to be 
in attendance at the  convention.  Each individual winner is invited to 
bring three guests,  and if for some reason a winner cannot participate, the 
ride is  transferable. 

The Blind Driver Experience winners are  listed below:

Top Ten  
    1.  John Paré (MD)  
    2.  Mary Ellen Jernigan (MD)  
    3.  Parnell Diggs (SC)  
    4.  Jack & Pat Munson (CA)  
    5.  Patti Gregory-Chang (IL)  
    6.  Ann-Marie Laney (MD)  
    7.  Joe Ruffalo (NJ)  
    8.  Dwight Sayer (FL)  
    9.  Lindsay Adair (TX)  
    10. Scott LaBarre (CO) 

Eleven through thirty were drawn and  announced Wednesday evening on 
ThruOurEyes with Joe  Ruffalo.

    1.  Ever Lee Hairston (CA)  
    2.  C. Edwin Vaughan (CA)  
    3.  Denise Avant (IL)  
    4.  Gary & Debbie Wunder (MO)  
    5.  Kim Diggs (SC)  
    6.  William Jacobs (MD)  
    7.  Debra Canty (SC)  
    8.  Dan Burke (MT)  
    9.  Carl & Mindy Jacobsen (NY)  
    10. Patricia Maurer (MD)  
    11. Barbara Pierce (OH)  
    12. Kathleen Byrd (NM)  
    13. Anthony Cobb (MD)  
    14. Garrick Scott (GA)  
    15. Dr. & Mrs. Capps (SC)  
    16. Mark Riccobono (MD)  
    17. Ed Morman (MD)  
    18. Julaine Arient-Rollman (SD)  
    19. Kayleigh Joiner (TX)  
    20. Kimberly Flores (TX) 

For more information  about the Blind Driver Experience, please visit 
_www.blinddriverchallenge.org_ (http://www.blinddriverchallenge.org/) .  

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About the National Federation of the  Blind

With more than 50,000 members, the National  Federation of the Blind is the 
largest and most influential membership  organization of blind people in 
the United States.  The NFB improves  blind people’s lives through advocacy, 
education, research, technology, and  programs encouraging independence and 
self-confidence.  It is the  leading force in the blindness field today and 
the voice of the nation's  blind.  In January 2004 the NFB opened the 
National Federation of the  Blind Jernigan Institute, the first research and 
training center in the  United States for the blind led by the  blind.

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