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

[Doreen Franklin]

Dwight ... congratulations!!!!
 
Doreen Franklin
V President
FOPBC / NFB - FL




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>Dwight D. Sayer
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From: JFreeh at nfb.org
>>To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
>>Sent: 6/25/2011 12:37:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
>>Subj: [Nfbnet-members-list] National Federation of the Blind Congratulates Blind 
>>Driver Experience Participants
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>>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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>>Chris Danielsen
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>>Director of Public Relations
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>>National Federation of the Blind
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>>(410) 659-9314, extension 2330
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>>(410) 262-1281 (Cell)
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>>cdanielsen at nfb.org 
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>>CONTACT:
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>>National Federation of the Blind Congratulates
>>Blind Driver Experience Participants
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>> The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the 
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>>Baltimore, Maryland (June 24, 2011):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).  
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>>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.  
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>>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.  
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>>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.”
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>>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." 
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>>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. 
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>>The Blind Driver Experience winners are listed below:
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>>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.
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>>	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) 
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>>For more information about the Blind Driver Experience, please visit 
>>www.blinddriverchallenge.org. 
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>>About the National Federation of the Blind
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>>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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