[Nfbwv-talk] About a Former West Virginian and Former Client

[Smyth, Charlene R]

Please find below an article taken from the 2012 Braille Monitor.  One
of the people mentioned in the article, Angie Matney is originally from
the southern part of West Virginia.  When Angie was 16, she participated
in a summer program at the West Virginia Rehabilitation Center.  Angie
was my roommate during the summer of 1992 and it was a pleasure to
become friends with such a pleasant, friendly, and intelligent young
lady.  

 

Charlene

 

Community Leaders Honored in Virginia:

Three community leaders who serve as officers and board members of the
Fredericksburg

Area Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Virginia and as
board members

of the DisAbility Resource Center (dRC) were recognized at the tenth
annual Walk

with the Blind Saturday, April 21, at the city dock in Fredericksburg.

Marilee Kenlon, Angie Matney, and Mel Padgett received recognition from
Mayor Tom

Tomzak; Debe Fults, director of the dRC; and Michael Kasey, president of
the local

NFBV chapter. Certificates were presented to them noting their service
and honoring

their example for us all. Marilee Kenlon is a vision rehabilitation
therapist at

the Virginia Department for the Blind and Visually Impaired. Melvin
Padgett is a

commercial loan and grant specialist for the Department of Agriculture.
Angie Matney

is an attorney with the firm of Hirschler Fleischer.