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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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href="https://www.facebook.com/jane.lansaw?__cft__[0]=AZVw1U3EXxvXOSdnnXtJz5qDV6MXVnNxvVpzO4Bu-DsPll8ht5beIgJAA81d4ZUpmZqiAAWPjs4ktP223G5EE2dwo5-pjJhxBTnuFwddu5OADBCT1tF0CSQhejUC0KqvG7g&__tn__=-]K-R"
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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href="https://www.facebook.com/janice.jackson.9?__cft__[0]=AZVw1U3EXxvXOSdnnXtJz5qDV6MXVnNxvVpzO4Bu-DsPll8ht5beIgJAA81d4ZUpmZqiAAWPjs4ktP223G5EE2dwo5-pjJhxBTnuFwddu5OADBCT1tF0CSQhejUC0KqvG7g&__tn__=-]K-R"
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>,
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href="https://www.facebook.com/debbie.wunder.3?__cft__[0]=AZVw1U3EXxvXOSdnnXtJz5qDV6MXVnNxvVpzO4Bu-DsPll8ht5beIgJAA81d4ZUpmZqiAAWPjs4ktP223G5EE2dwo5-pjJhxBTnuFwddu5OADBCT1tF0CSQhejUC0KqvG7g&__tn__=-]K-R"
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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role="link" tabindex="0"><span
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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