[Nfbk] FW: [Chapter-presidents] PAD, NFB scholarship Now Available

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE



CONTACT

Dennis Sumlin, President

Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the Blind

(917) 903-5650

dholston at nyc.rr.com

www.padnfb.org




Application Process Begins

Scholarships for Blind Performing Arts Majors




New York, NY (November 21, 2009): The non-profit Performing Arts Division of
the National Federation of the Blind (PAD, NFB) is currently taking
applications for its Mary Anne Parks Performing Arts Scholarship. The
scholarship will be awarded at the NFB's annual convention July 3-8, 2010 in
Dallas, Texas. The winner will receive $1,000 and an all-expense-paid trip
to the convention. The scholarship is open to legally blind students (high
school seniors through graduate school). Applicants must either be currently
majoring in or planning to major in some form of the performing arts in the
fall of 2010. The deadline is March 31, 2010. Applications are available to
download at:  www.padnfb.org



Applicants will be judged on their performing arts achievements and
excellence, performing arts-related aspirations and goals, academic
excellence and community service endeavors.



"Finalists," says Scholarship Coordinator Lisa Ostrow, from the Boston area,
"will be contacted for a teleconference interview with the Scholarship
Committee."



"The Mary Anne Parks Performing Arts Scholarship," says PAD's President
Dennis H.R. Sumlin "was created in memory of our late secretary, Mary Anne
Parks, of Atlanta, Georgia. Mary Anne was a master's candidate and a dynamic
leader who held several offices in the NFB. She died at age 30 in August of
2007 on her way to do volunteer teaching for Hands on Atlanta, when a car
struck the van in which she was riding."



To contact Scholarship Coordinator Lisa Ostrow, send an e-mail to:

scholarships at padnfb.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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