[Nfbf-l] NFB Congratulates Dwight. Number 8 in the nation!
Doreen Franklin
doreenproverbs3 at bellsouth.net
Sun Jun 26 22:25:34 UTC 2011
Dwight ... congratulations!!!!
Doreen Franklin
V President
FOPBC / NFB - FL
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>Dwight D. Sayer
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From: JFreeh at nfb.org
>>To: nfbnet-members-list at nfbnet.org
>>Sent: 6/25/2011 12:37:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time
>>Subj: [Nfbnet-members-list] National Federation of the Blind Congratulates Blind
>>Driver Experience Participants
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>>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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>>Chris Danielsen
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>>Director of Public Relations
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>>National Federation of the Blind
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>>(410) 659-9314, extension 2330
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>>(410) 262-1281 (Cell)
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>>cdanielsen at nfb.org
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>>CONTACT:
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>>National Federation of the Blind Congratulates
>>Blind Driver Experience Participants
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>> The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the
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>>Baltimore, Maryland (June 24, 2011):oldest and largest nationwide organization
>>of blind people,today congratulated the thirty people who won the honor of
>>participating in the Blind Driver Experience. On Tuesday, July 5, from 1–6:00
>>p.m., as part of the NFB National Convention in Orlando, the winners will get
>>the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to ride in the Blind Driver Challenge™ car
>>equipped with nonvisual technology (the same car that was driven on the famed
>>Daytona International Speedway on January 29, 2011).
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>>The participants of the Blind Driver Experience will be driven in the official
>>Blind Driver Challenge™ vehicle by Mark Riccobono, executive director of the NFB
>>Jernigan Institute, and the first blind person to drive a street vehicle in
>>public.
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>>The Blind Driver Experience is an initiative of the NFB Imagination Fund, which
>>supports the education, technology, and research projects of the NFB Jernigan
>>Institute, as well as programs conducted by the fifty-two affiliates and over
>>seven-hundred local chapters of the Federation.
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>>Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said: “We
>>greatly appreciate the hard work of our Blind Driver Experience participants, as
>>well as our other Imagination Fund contributors. With their help, we are able
>>to create innovative research, training, education, and technology programs that
>>improve the lives of the blind and move us closer to our ultimate goal of full
>>integration into society on a basis of equality.”
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>>Parnell Diggs, chairman of the Imagination Fund, said: “We congratulate our
>>Blind Driver Experience participants, and thank them for a job well done. It is
>>vital that we raise the funds we need to operate the programs of the National
>>Federation of the Blind. Those who registered to be Imaginators and raised at
>>least $1,000 by June 15 have our gratitude."
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>>The top ten individuals in overall dollars raised as of June 15 were
>>automatically selected to participate in the Blind Driver Experience. The
>>remaining twenty spots were drawn at random from the pool of individuals who
>>raised at least $1,000 for the Imagination Fund by June 15, and who plan to be
>>in attendance at the convention. Each individual winner is invited to bring
>>three guests, and if for some reason a winner cannot participate, the ride is
>>transferable.
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>>The Blind Driver Experience winners are listed below:
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>>Top Ten
>> 1. John Paré (MD)
>> 2. Mary Ellen Jernigan (MD)
>> 3. Parnell Diggs (SC)
>> 4. Jack & Pat Munson (CA)
>> 5. Patti Gregory-Chang (IL)
>> 6. Ann-Marie Laney (MD)
>> 7. Joe Ruffalo (NJ)
>> 8. Dwight Sayer (FL)
>> 9. Lindsay Adair (TX)
>> 10. Scott LaBarre (CO)
>>Eleven through thirty were drawn and announced Wednesday evening on ThruOurEyes
>>with Joe Ruffalo.
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>> 1. Ever Lee Hairston (CA)
>> 2. C. Edwin Vaughan (CA)
>> 3. Denise Avant (IL)
>> 4. Gary & Debbie Wunder (MO)
>> 5. Kim Diggs (SC)
>> 6. William Jacobs (MD)
>> 7. Debra Canty (SC)
>> 8. Dan Burke (MT)
>> 9. Carl & Mindy Jacobsen (NY)
>> 10. Patricia Maurer (MD)
>> 11. Barbara Pierce (OH)
>> 12. Kathleen Byrd (NM)
>> 13. Anthony Cobb (MD)
>> 14. Garrick Scott (GA)
>> 15. Dr. & Mrs. Capps (SC)
>> 16. Mark Riccobono (MD)
>> 17. Ed Morman (MD)
>> 18. Julaine Arient-Rollman (SD)
>> 19. Kayleigh Joiner (TX)
>> 20. Kimberly Flores (TX)
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>>For more information about the Blind Driver Experience, please visit
>>www.blinddriverchallenge.org.
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>>About the National Federation of the Blind
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>>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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