[Nfbnet-members-list] NFB of SC Streaming Convention
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Tue Aug 5 01:10:28 UTC 2014
>
>The NFB of SC State Convention is being streamed
>this coming weekend. The stream will start
>Saturday morning. Below is the agenda and the
>link to listen to the convention. Feel free to share as you feel appropriate.
>
><http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nfb-of-sc-2014-convention>http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nfb-of-sc-2014-convention
>
>FIFTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL CONVENTION
>
>NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
>
>OF SOUTH CAROLINA
>
>COLUMBIA MARRIOTT
>
>1200 HAMPTON STREET
>
>COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
>
>AUGUST 8, 9 & 10, 2014
>
>
>
>FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 2014
>
>Registration - Carolina Ballroom
>Foyer 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
>
>Exhibits - Carolina Ballroom
>Foyer 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
>
>2:00 4:30 Parents of Blind Children Meet and
>Greet - Carolina A-B - Jennifer Duffell- Hoffman, President
>
>5:00 6:00 Computer Science and Technology
>Division - Palmetto I - Steve Cook, President
>
>5:00 6:00 White Cane Safety Day Walk-A-Thon
>Committee - Carolina A-B - Carey Burriss, Chairman
>
>5:00 6:00 Resolutions Committee - Carolina C Valerie Warrington, Chairperson
>
>6:00 7:00 Blind Seniors Division Annual
>Meeting - Palmetto II - Shelley Coppel, President
>
>6:00 7:00 South Carolina Organization of Blind
>Students - Carolina C - Chopper Johnson, President
>
>6:00 7:00 Blind Merchants Division - Palmetto
>I Joe Urbanek, President (Registration begins at 5:40
>
>7:00 10:00 Reception & Hospitality Capital
>II-IV 50s and 60s Night! Food, Entertainment, and dancing.
>
>SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 2014
>
>7:30 a.m. Rocky Bottom Retreat and Conference
>Center of the Blind Board Breakfast - Palmetto II - Donald C. Capps, Chairman
>
>8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Carolina Ballroom A-E in back of room
>
>Registration -Carolina Ballroom Foyer 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
>and 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
>
>Exhibits - Carolina Ballroom
>Foyer 7:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
>
>SATURDAY MORNING SESSION Carolina Ballroom A-E
>
>9:00 a.m. Invocation
>
>9:05 a.m. Welcome & Opening Ceremonies
>
>9:10 a.m. Greetings by Host Chapter Steve Scheck
>- President, Columbia Chapter
>
>9:15 a.m. Response Debra Cantey - President, Sumter Chapter
>
>9:20 a.m. Convention Arrangements & Announcements
>
>9:30 a.m. National Report - Mark Riccobono,
>President, National Federation of the Blind
>
>10:00 a.m. One-Minute Message
>One-Minute Message
>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.
>
>10:20 a.m. South Carolina School for the Deaf
>and Blind Page McCraw, Interim President
>
>10:40 a.m. South Carolina Commission for the
>Blind Rhonda Thompson, Director, Senior Blind Services
>
>11:00 a.m. Technology: Its Not About
>Complexity, But Accessibility Jeff Bazer
>
>11:15 a.m. South Carolina Blind Persons Right to Parent Act Jennifer Bazer
>
>11:30 a.m. Presidential Report - Parnell Diggs, Esq.
>
>12:00 p.m. Adjournment
>
>12:30 1:30 LUNCHEON & STATE BOARD MEETING - Capital I-III
>
>SATURDAY AFTERNOON SESSION - Heritage A-D
>
>2:00 p.m. Remembering Bob Bell
>
>2:30 p.m. Talking Book Services - Sandy Knoels, Director
>
>2:50 p.m. Rocky Bottom Retreat and Conference
>Center of the Blind Donald Capps, Director
>
>3:10 p.m. Federation Center of the Blind Report
>Frank Coppel, Chairman, Board of Trustees & David Houck, Executive Director
>
>3:30 p.m. NFB of SC Seventy Years of Progress
>
>4:15 p.m. Unified English Braille Code Update -
>Tracy Spittle, Teacher of Blind Students
>
>4:30 p.m. Newsline App - Steve Cook, President,
>Computer, Science and Technology Division
>
>4:40 p.m. Meet the 2014 Scholarship Class -
>Shannon Cook, Chairman, Scholarship Committee
>
>5:00 p.m. Chapter and Division Reports
>
>5:30 p.m. Adjournment
>
>7:00 P.M. BANQUET Capital I-III SATURDAY EVENING
>
>Invocation
>Introductions
>Banquet Address
Mark Riccobono
>Awards & Presentations
>NFB of SC Scholarship Class
>
>Federation Family Feud Game Night - Free
>Admission, in Capital I-III after the banquet
>
>The Nominating Committee will meet immediately
>following the Banquet in Palmetto II.
>
>SUNDAY, AUGUST 10, 2014
>
>Exhibits - Carolina Ballroom Foyer7:00 a.m. - 8:15 a.m.
>
>8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast - Carolina Ballroom A-E in back of room
>
>SUNDAY MORNING SESSION - Carolina Ballroom A-E
>
>8:30 a.m. Devotional and Memorial
>Service Douglas & Patsy Roberts, Members Conway Chapter, NFB of SC
>
>8:45 a.m. Chapter & Division Reports
>
>10:00 a.m. Stewardship - Doing Our Fair Share Imagination Fund, PAC & SUN
>
>10:30 a.m. Resolutions, Elections and Other Convention Business
>
>12:00 p.m. Adjournment
>
>National Federation of the Blind Pledge
>
>I pledge to participate actively in the effort of the National Federation
>
>of the Blind to achieve equality, opportunity, and security for the
>
>blind; to support the policies and programs of the Federation; and to
>
>abide by its constitution.
>
>Jacobus tenBroek Legacy Society
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> tenBroek Legacy Society, please contact Lou Ann
> Blake at the NFB Jernigan Institute by e-mail
> at <mailto:lblake at nfb.org>lblake at nfb.org, or by
> telephone at 410-659-9314, extension 2221.
>
>NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF SOUTH CAROLINA
>119 S. KILBOURNE RD.
>COLUMBIA, SC 29205
>(803) 254-3777
>Fax: (803) 252-5655
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>
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David Andrews and long white cane Harry.
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