[stylist] Example 2: Press release about NFB Scholarship winner from PA

[Donna Hill]

Sorry, I mistakenly sent this yesterday from one of my other e-mail 
addresses and didn't realize that it hadn't made it onto the list till 
today.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT:

Jim Antonacci, President

Lynn Heitz, Vice President

National Federation of the Blind of Pennsylvania

42 S. 15th St., Philadelphia, 19102

(215) 988-0888

president at nfbp.org <mailto:president at nfbp.org>

Donna Hill, media relations

(570) 833-2708

dwhill at epix.net <mailto:dwhill at epix.net>

*Warwick** High Honors Student Wins National Scholarship*

*Pennsylvanians Take 2 of 30*

Lititz, PA (May, 2010): Warwick High School senior, Zach Brubaker (18, 
Lititz), has won a scholarship from the National Federation of the Blind 
(NFB). Zach is an honors student who has been accepted at Penn State's 
Schreyers Honor College in the fall. Zach, who will pursue a double 
major in math and physics, is one of only thirty blind students to win 
out of over 420 applicants.

Zach, an Eagle Scout (with palms), is legally blind from cone rod 
dystrophy. He has earned a 4.6 weighted GPA. He will receive a minimum 
of $3,000 plus an all-expense-paid trip to this year's annual NFB 
convention, taking place in Dallas, Texas, July 3-8. Based on interviews 
at the convention, he could receive up to $12,000. The other winner from 
Pennsylvania is Penn State doctoral student in rhetoric and public 
address, Kristin Mathe.

"Zach is a fine young man," says Jim Antonacci (62), President of the 
National Federation of the Blind of Pennsylvania (NFB of PA, 42 S. 15th 
St., Philadelphia) and a long time member of the national scholarship 
committee, "He proves that, when a blind person is given some 
accommodations and expected to achieve like everyone else, they can and 
will."

"At the convention, each recipient will be paired with the judge whose 
own experiences most closely match his or her goals," continues 
Antonacci, a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania retiree with thirty-three 
years experience as a math teacher and rehabilitation counselor, who 
lost his sight in an accident while he was in high school.

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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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