[Nfbofsc] Positive Note 1641

[David Houck]

January 24, 2018 

Memo To:  Executive Officers, Board Members, Chapter & Division Presidents &
Others

From:  Frank Coppel, President

Positive Note 1641

Greetings Fellow Federationists:

 

              I have been informed by Isaiah Nelson you still have time to
sign up to ride the charter bus to attend our NFB National Center in
Baltimore, Maryland the weekend of April 6-8 2018.  The cost to ride the
charter bus will be $100 per person.  To participate, you need to mail a
completed application along with a $25 deposit to Isaiah Nelson, PO Box
12063, Columbia, S.C. 29211.  The remainder of the money is due no later
than March 15, 2018.  If you have any questions, regarding this trip you can
contact Loretta Green at (843) 276-9649 or Isaiah Nelson at (803) 413-2434.
If you have never had the opportunity to visit and tour our National Center,
you need to make plans to do this.  The experience is pretty awesome!  

              You can now begin to make your reservations for the upcoming
2018 Orlando National Convention.  The date of this year's national
convention will be July 3, to July 8, 2018 and will be held at the Rosen
Shingle Creek Resort.  The 2018 room rates are singles and doubles, $88; and
triples and quads, $93. In addition to the room rates there will be a tax,
which at present is 12.5 percent. No charge will be made for children under
seventeen in the room with parents as long as no extra bed is requested.
Please note that the hotel is a no-smoking facility.

              For 2018 convention room reservations you can call the hotel
at (866) 996-6338. You may also write directly to the Rosen Shingle Creek,
9939 Universal Boulevard, Orlando, Florida 32819-9357. The hotel will want a
deposit of $100 for each room and will want a credit card number or a
personal check. If you use a credit card, the deposit will be charged
against your card immediately, just as would be the case with a $100 check.
If a reservation is cancelled before Friday, June, 1, 2018, half of the
deposit will be returned. Otherwise refunds will not be made.  The schedule
of the convention is as follows; Tuesday, July 3, Seminar Day, Wednesday,
July 4, Registration and exhibits, Thursday, July 5, National Board Meeting
and division and committee meetings, Friday, July 6, Opening General
Session, Saturday, July 7, General session, Sunday, July 8, Banquet.

              The Kenneth Jernigan Scholarship committee is now accepting
applications for the 2018 National conventional in Orlando Florida.  The
Jernigan scholarship program is sponsored by the NFB and is designed to
financially assist first time attendees to attend the NFB National
convention.  To apply, you must complete the necessary paperwork with a
letter of recommendation from your state president and submit this
information to the Jernigan Scholarship committee by April 15, 2018.  If you
are selected, you will be notified by the committee by May 15, 2018.  For
more information, please read the article in the December issue of the
Braille Monitor which describes the process in more detail.  

              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.  Joining me for comments in this
Positive Note is the President Emeritus of the NFB of SC.  Here is Dr.
Capps.  

              It is our privilege to spotlight Ellen Taylor this week for
her outstanding work with the blind on a local, state and national level.
Ellen is a role model for federationists everywhere as she puts the
federation first.  Ellen Taylor is a lifetime native of the Rock Hill area.
Ellen and her mother Lenora Robertson are very close and have dedicated
themselves wholly to Federation matters.  Ellen graduated from the public
schools in Rock Hill and afterward she attended Spartanburg Methodist
College where she majored in Criminal Justice, Corrections and minored in
Police.  Ellen Taylor and John have been together for 14 years and she says
we can't forget her cat Prissy for whom many convention pledges have been
made over the years.  Aside from John and Prissy the cat, she spends much of
her time working in several federation activities.  She is active in the
Rock Hill Chapter as they do sell a lot of World's Finest Chocolate and do
yard sales aside from their chapter meetings.  Ellen and Lenora have
attended all of the national and state conventions since 1992 and they have
been the door prize co-chairs for many of those years.  Including the one
beginning this coming Sunday, Ellen and Lenora have attended about eight
Washington Seminars and are well versed on all the legislative issues.  They
both work as part of the "kitchen crew" for all the senior camps since Frank
Coppel became the RBRCCB Senior Camp Director.  They also work in the
kitchen for Fun Day weekends and the Christmas Board Retreats each year.
When asked what her specific duties are she replies, "I do whatever momma
wants!"  Ellen is a member of Friendship United Methodist Church where she
is active in Sunday School and in the Ladies Group.  Her hobbies include
crocheting afghans, hats and scarfs, making snowmen out of socks (and you
can get them in Clemson or Gamecock motifs) and jewelry.  Let's just say
that her federation devotions take up the vast majority of her time.  She
doesn't let her blindness hold her back as she has high expectations for
herself and for others.

 

Final Thought:  "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are
you doing for others?'-  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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