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

[Denise Valkema]

Congratulations Dwight



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Dwight D. Sayer
National 
  President,
The National Association of Blind Veterans
A Division of the 
  NFB
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    From: JFreeh at nfb.org
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    6/25/2011 12:37:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
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    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 
    

 


    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 
    
      John Paré (MD) 
      Mary Ellen Jernigan (MD) 
      Parnell Diggs (SC) 
      Jack & Pat Munson (CA) 
      Patti Gregory-Chang (IL) 
      Ann-Marie Laney (MD) 
      Joe Ruffalo (NJ) 
      Dwight Sayer (FL) 
      Lindsay Adair (TX) 
      Scott LaBarre (CO) 
Eleven through thirty were drawn and 
    announced Wednesday evening on ThruOurEyes with Joe 
    Ruffalo.

  
    
      Ever Lee Hairston (CA) 
      C. Edwin Vaughan (CA) 
      Denise Avant (IL) 
      Gary & Debbie Wunder (MO) 
      Kim Diggs (SC) 
      William Jacobs (MD) 
      Debra Canty (SC) 
      Dan Burke (MT) 
      Carl & Mindy Jacobsen (NY) 
      Patricia Maurer (MD) 
      Barbara Pierce (OH) 
      Kathleen Byrd (NM) 
      Anthony Cobb (MD) 
      Garrick Scott (GA) 
      Dr. & Mrs. Capps (SC) 
      Mark Riccobono (MD) 
      Ed Morman (MD) 
      Julaine Arient-Rollman (SD) 
      Kayleigh Joiner (TX) 
      Kimberly Flores (TX) 
 

For more information 
    about the Blind Driver Experience, please visit 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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