[NFBofSC] Positive Note 1775

[David Houck]

August 17, 2020

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

From:  Frank Coppel, President

Positive Note 1775

Greetings Fellow Federationists:

 

              This coming weekend, August 21, 22, 23, many of us will be
attending the sixty-fourth annual State Convention of the NFB of SC.  The
State Office has been extremely busy during the past few weeks handling many
details for the convention.  The Computer Science and Technology Division
under the leadership of Thom Spittle and Steve Cook have been extremely busy
as well working very hard to ensure everything runs smoothly during our
virtual state convention.  If you would like to have an electronic copy of
the agenda, you can do so, by downloading the agenda from our website at
nfbofsc.org.  The theme for the convention this year is "working together to
help blind people live the lives they want". If you have a resolution you
would like the convention to consider, you can email Valerie Warrington,
Resolution committee chairperson, at vwarrington at att.net or you can bring it
to the Resolutions Committee meeting which will be held on Friday afternoon,
August 21, at 5:10 p.m. As we have done in past years, we will be conducting
our annual banquet fundraiser Saturday evening, August 22, to help fund the
NFB of SC.  We need individuals as well as chapters and divisions to "step
up" and contribute during the banquet which will greatly help to fund our
state organization.  There will be multiple ways to contribute to the
banquet fundraiser.  You can contribute by mailing a check or a pledge to
the Federation Center of the Blind prior to the convention, or you can go to
nfbofsc.org click on the donate page and use Pay Pal, or make a pledge
Saturday evening at the banquet.  We will have door prize drawings
throughout the convention as usual.  Lenora Robertson of Rock Hill is the
Chairperson of the Door Prize Committee.  All door prizes should be at the
Federation Center of the Blind no later than August 21.  As we have done for
many years, we will be conducting a memorial service on Sunday afternoon of
the Convention.   Please give Dorothy Barksdale names of individuals in your
chapter who have passed away since last year's state convention.  You can
reach Dorothy by calling (803) 765-1622 or emailing her at
dcbarksdale at bellsouth.net.  

              We have an announcement from Shelley Coppel, President of the
NFB of SC's Seniors Division.  "Greetings from the Senior Division!!!
Another year is winding up, and it is time for our annual Senior Division
meeting during our State Convention.  I want to invite all seniors to call
in for our zoom meeting.  It will be held on August 21 at 4 p.m. eastern
time.  I would love to have a large crowd present.  I look forward to seeing
you!"

              The 2020 NFB of SC convention promises to be one of the best
ever.  Shelley and I are looking forward to being with our Federation family
this coming weekend.  In closing, it has been my pleasure to serve as your
state president for the past five years.  Although I am "stepping down" as
state president, I will continue to always be available to do whatever I can
in this great organization to help the blind to live the lives they want.  

              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.  

 Final Thought:  Let's give a big "Thank You" to Frank Coppel for his
decades of service to the state's blind and for his five years of
outstanding service as NFB of SC President!

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