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    <p><font size="5" face="Arial">I posted this on Facebook earlier,
        but not everyone on this list is on Facebook, and I want to say
        this to all of you.</font></p>
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                    <div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">I see
                      that <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f
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                          role="link" tabindex="0"><span
                            class="nc684nl6"><span>Jane Lansaw</span></span></a></span>
                      got there fustest with the mostest--and said it
                      much better than I can, but I owe a post to the
                      NFB of Missouri and the Springfield, Missouri
                      chapter. [You'll have to go to Facebook to see
                      Jane's post.]</div>
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                    <div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">First,
                      great convention, guys! I didn't realize how much
                      I missed the affiliate until I checked in at the
                      hotel on Thursday and was greeted enthusiastically
                      by people I didn't even know yet! What a pleasure
                      to meet Amy Wilson of the Old Drum chapter, Seyoon
                      Choi and Svetlana Ehlers of the student division
                      (yes I still call it that--I'm old and set in my
                      ways, what can I say?), Randy Carmack, a former DJ
                      with as warped a sense of humor as I have, <span><a
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                          role="link" tabindex="0"><span
                            class="nc684nl6"><span>Janice
                              Jackson-Grisham</span></span></a></span>,
                      recently-elected president of the Springfield
                      chapter, Dan Garcia, state corresponding
                      secretary...I could go on--and I will. Then there
                      were the old friends: <span><a class="oajrlxb2
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                          role="link" tabindex="0"><span
                            class="nc684nl6"><span>Gary Wunder</span></span></a></span>,
                      <span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f
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                          role="link" tabindex="0"><span
                            class="nc684nl6"><span>Debbie Wunder</span></span></a></span>,
                      Gene and Carol Coulter ( I will not let FB call
                      him "Eugene"!), Hal and Becky Boyer, <span><a
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                          role="link" tabindex="0"><span
                            class="nc684nl6"><span>Shelia Byrd Wright</span></span></a></span>
                      (good job, madam president!). I'd better stop
                      before I fill this post with names and have no
                      room for anything else. Oh, Lord, I forgot <span><a
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                          role="link" tabindex="0"><span
                            class="nc684nl6"><span>Kevan Worley</span></span></a></span>,
                      Rita Lynch, and Willa Patterson!</div>
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                    <div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">I was
                      honored to be asked to MC the banquet (thanks, <span><a
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                            class="nc684nl6"><span>Gary Horchem</span></span></a></span>!),
                      but even more honored to listen to Kevan Worley,
                      whom I've known since 1983 and who is a former
                      Springfield chapter guy, deliver the banquet
                      address as the representative of the NFB national
                      office. Talk about someone making good!</div>
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                    <div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">During
                      the last few years I've really needed to be
                      reminded of what the Federation is all about and
                      why I originally became a part of it because some
                      things in Oklahoma just plain hurt and I left the
                      organization. NFBMo and Springfield (and Jane
                      Lansaw), you accomplished your mission. Again,
                      thank you.<br>
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                    <div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;">Dick
                      Morris (now where's that stupid Send button??)<br>
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