[Njabs-talk] NFB scholarship Now Available

EVELYN E. VALDEZ tweetybaby19 at comcast.net
Sun Dec 6 18:04:52 UTC 2009


FOR  IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 CONTACT

Dennis Sumlin, 

President

Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the 

Blind

(917) 903-5650

dholston at nyc.rr.com 

www.padnfb.org

 




Application Process Begins

Scholarships for Blind 

Performing Arts Majors

 

New York, NY (November 21, 

2009): The non-profit Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the 

Blind (PAD, NFB) is currently taking applications for its Mary Anne Parks 

Performing Arts Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded at the NFB's annual 

convention July 3-8, 2010 in Dallas, Texas. The winner will receive $1,000 and 

an all-expense-paid trip to the convention. The scholarship is open to legally 

blind students (high school seniors through graduate school). Applicants must 

either be currently majoring in or planning to major in some form of the 

performing arts in the fall of 2010. The deadline is March 31, 2010. 

Applications are available to download at:  www.padnfb.org

 

Applicants 

will be judged on their performing arts achievements and excellence, performing 

arts-related aspirations and goals, academic excellence and community service 

endeavors.

 

"Finalists," says Scholarship Coordinator Lisa 

Ostrow, from the Boston area, "will be contacted for a teleconference interview 

with the Scholarship Committee."

 

"The Mary Anne Parks 

Performing Arts Scholarship," says PAD's President Dennis H.R. Sumlin "was 

created in memory of our late secretary, Mary Anne Parks, of Atlanta, Georgia. 

Mary Anne was a master's candidate and a dynamic leader who held several offices 

in the NFB. She died at age 30 in August of 2007 on her way to do volunteer 

teaching for Hands on Atlanta, when a car struck the van in which she was 

riding."

 

To contact Scholarship Coordinator Lisa Ostrow, 

send an e-mail to:

scholarships at padnfb.org

 




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About the National Federation of the Blind: 

With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation of the Blind is the 

largest and most influential membership organization of blind people in the 

United States.   The NFB improves blind people’s lives through 

advocacy, education, research, technology, and programs encouraging independence 

and self-confidence. 

It is the leading force in the blindness field 

today and the voice of the nation's blind.  In January 2004 the NFB opened 

the National Federation of the

Blind Jernigan Institute, the first 

research and training center in the United States for the blind led by the 

blind.

 


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