[PABS] Minutes 7-31-16

[Lizzy]

Hey Everyone!
Attached and below are the minutes! :)
Lizzy

Pennsylvania Association of Blind Students
July 31st 2016 Minutes
Present: Hindley (president), Lily (vice-president), Lizzy 
(secretary), Angel (member), Preston (member), Tom (member).
Meeting called to order: 7:33 pm EST.
Announcements:
PA students were well represented at National Convention this 
year.
Our new NABS Liaison is Tariq Williams.
Pennsylvania raised $30 for PABS at the PA Pizza Party held at 
National Convention.
Unfortunately we were unable to do our National Convention 
fundraisers this year, but we will be doing those in the future.
Future Dates to keep in Mind:
State scholarship!!! The deadline is August 15th, you are 
eligible if you did not win a national scholarship this summer.  
You must be in school for the 2016-2017 academic year, the money 
is presented in the form of a check to you at our state 
convention.
Raffle:
Pennsylvania holds a state wide lottery to support our PA 
scholarship fund.  We are currently selling them ($5 each) to be 
drawn in the month of October, every day in October there will be 
a drawing, if you are drawn Monday-Friday you'll win $50 (and on 
a Saturday $100).  You can win more than once.
We must sell and collect the money, then mail a check to Jim 
Antonacci.
Below are the people who have committed to sell tickets (the 
number represents their personal goal):
Lily: 20 tickets.
Hindley: 20 tickets.
Jason: 20 tickets
Angel: 10 tickets
Lizzy: 10 tickets
Lizzy will record and send the addresses of the above people so 
that Jim Antonacci can mail them the tickets.
State Convention:
Friday Nov.  11 - Sunday Nov.  13th.
It will be in State College (accessible via Megabus, and other 
modes of transportation).  Please think about the following 
questions:
Can you attend? Do you need PA funding? What do you want to see 
at the student meeting? What friends of yours might want to 
attend?
Lily suggested that we do our TastyKake fundraiser at State 
Convention (unanimously agreed upon).
Tom suggests that we do a 50-50 raffle because people really look 
forward to it (unanimously agreed upon).
Updates:
We were going to hold a student seminar in November with 
Connecticut but that did not work out so we were then going to 
hold it with New Jersey but unfortunately their State Convention 
is the same weekend as ours so we can no longer do it.
Facebook: Angel will post whatever happens on our text threads to 
Facebook.
Email: Our email list serve is run through NFBnet and is very 
accessible and easy to sign up for.
Next Meeting: Sunday August 28 at 7:30 pm EST.
Meeting Adjourned: 8:06 pm EST.
Respectfully Submitted
Lizzy Muhammad
Secretary - Pennsylvania Association of Blind Students
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