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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Good Morning Chapter Members<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I hope this email finds you all well. I am writing to ask all of you to take a minute or so out of your day to send prayers up for our chapter members and the families of those members. Today, our second Vice President, Porsha Baskerville, will lay her mother to rest. Porsha has been nothing short of supportive and loving to each of us and I pray that her family finds serenity and love from us and everyone they come into contact with on this difficult day. Furthermore, on Friday our chapter lost one of its newest members. During the summer, Rich Cavallaro joined our chapter and he has moved to greener pastures last week. Rich joined after moving to Richmond and becoming the newest access technology teacher at VRCBVI. It is so surreal how life can be here one minute and be gone the next, but even in the wake of this tragedy, I ask you all to pray for Rich’s family, the VRCBVI staff, and our fellow chapter and affiliate members that connected with Rich for the short time that we had him as a member. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The holidays are around the corner and losing someone around this time is such a difficult pill to swallow, but with love and support we can still soothe emotional unrest and allow for the people affected by these losses to be thankful for the time we had with those loved ones. I wish you all a happy holiday and extend my well wishes to both Porsha and Rich’s family.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Blessings<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Robert E. Parsons Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>President, Richmond Chapter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>President, Virginia Association of Blind Students<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>National Federation of the Blind of Virginia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>President, French Club<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Secretary, Caribbean American Student Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society ‘15<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Randolph Macon College '18 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>Phone: 804 801 7674<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif'>"Without struggle, there is no progress." -Frederick Douglass<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>