[nobe-l] Scholarships for Blind Performing Arts Majors

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FOR  IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
CONTACT 
Dennis Holston,  President 
Performing Arts Division of the National  Federation of the Blind 
(917)  903-5650 
dholston at nyc.rr.com  
_www.padnfb.org_ (http://www.padnfb.org/)  

Application Process  Begins 
Scholarships for Blind Performing Arts  Majors 
New  York, NY (September 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. 
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 Holston "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." 
Applications are available to download  at:  _www.padnfb.org_ 
(http://www.padnfb.org/) .  To  contact Scholarship Coordinator Lisa Ostrow, send an 
e-mail to: _scholarships at padnfb.org_ (mailto: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.