<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Good Morning,</div><div>Read below the press release regarding the <br>Jacob Bolotin award.<br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Wichmann, Jessica" <<a href="mailto:jwichmann@nfb.org">jwichmann@nfb.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> December 10, 2014 at 9:34:<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>National Federation of the Blind Announces 2015 Dr. Jacob Bolotin Awards</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">CONTACT:<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Chris Danielsen<br>
Director of Public Relations<br>
National Federation of the Blind<br>
(410) 659-9314, extension 2330<br>
(410) 262-1281 (Cell)<br>
<a href="mailto:cdanielsen@nfb.org">cdanielsen@nfb.org</a></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">National Federation of the Blind Announces
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2015 Dr. Jacob Bolotin Awards<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Baltimore, Maryland (December 10, 2014):</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> The National Federation
of the Blind today announced that applications are now being accepted for </span>
<a href="http://www.nfb.org/bolotin-award-main"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">the 2015 Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award Program.</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Each
year the National Federation of the Blind presents cash awards to individuals and organizations that have demonstrated exemplary leadership and extraordinary accomplishments in improving the lives of blind people in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dr. Jacob Bolotin was a blind physician who lived and practiced in Chicago in the early twentieth century. He was widely known and respected in Chicago and
throughout the Midwest during his career, which spanned the period from 1912 until his untimely death at the age of thirty-six in 1924. He was particularly recognized for his expertise on diseases of the heart and lungs. Bolotin used his many public speaking
engagements to advocate for the employment of the blind and their full integration into society. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said: “Dr. Jacob Bolotin was a pioneer who overcame low expectations and discrimination
to become a renowned member of the medical profession without the benefit of the support services and civil rights protections available to blind people today. He was also a fierce advocate for greater opportunity for the blind in his time, and doubtless would
have been a leader in the organized blind movement had he lived to see it come into being. The Jacob Bolotin Award Program celebrates his pioneering spirit by recognizing and supporting outstanding programs, technologies, and individual efforts that help blind
Americans live the lives we want. Our previous winners represent projects and achievements of outstanding merit consistent with Dr. Bolotin’s legacy, and we look forward to honoring more trailblazers this year.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Recipients of the 2015 Dr. Jacob Bolotin Awards will be determined by the Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award Committee of the National Federation of the Blind. Applications
are due by March 31, 2015. Individuals or organizations are encouraged to apply on behalf of themselves or others. The award recipients will be announced at the
</span><a href="http://www.nfb.org/convention"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2015 National Federation of the Blind Convention</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
in Orlando. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Jacob Bolotin Award Program is funded through the generosity of Dr. Bolotin’s nephew and niece, Alfred and Rosalind Pearlman. In addition to establishing
the Alfred and Rosalind Pearlman Trust to endow the awards, the late Mrs. Pearlman also wrote
<i>The Blind Doctor: The Jacob Bolotin Story</i>. The book has been published by Blue Point Books and is available through the National Federation of the Blind. For more information or to fill out
</span><a href="http://www.nfb.org/application-information"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">the online application</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">,
please visit </span><a href="http://www.nfb.org"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">www.nfb.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About the National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the expectations of blind people,
because low expectations create obstacles between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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