[Oabs] Thank you, and some shout outs!

Sat Sep 27 13:08:50 UTC 2014

Hey Kaiti and all, 
What a wonderful report this is!  
I was sorry to miss the meeting last night, but had an opportunity to play
euchre for the first time in a while, and I hae been putting in such
grueling work days of late that the fun night out was long overdue!  
Kaiti, have you tried contacting Jonathan Thomas to see about car pooling to
convention?  
Also, if there is anything at all I can do to help you guys get ready for
convention, please call or email me.  
On the slate and stylus practice, Kaiti, try using thin paper for your
practice.  Any scratch pad will do -- even class handouts you no longer need
for reference.  I only use thick paper (index cars and braille paper and
such) when intending to share the braille with someone else.  Lightweight
paper lets you punch them there dots much more quickly!  

Oh, and congrats to allon the news Kaiti shared.  GMAT, TV, and Jamaica --
wow!  
You are all truly awesome!
Deborah

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Hi all,

Thank you to those who came to the make-up meeting tonight.  To recap, here
are the things which were discussed:
Contributions to the convention---we have elected to put together a basket
with a movie night theme.  This basket will include gourmet popcorn; some
decadent chocolate from Esther Price Candy, a Cincinnati favorite that is
known state-wide; possibly some general admission tickets to a big and
really common movie theatre like Showcase, Regal Cinemas, or AMC; a hot
beverage of some sort like apple cyder or hot chocolate; and some fuzzy
slippers or socks.  I anticipate that this basket will be at least $25 in
value, and if it doesn't seem like it will remember that the chocolate will
be more expensive than you might think.  I also have a $25 gift certificate
to Doey's Pizza I am donating as a door prize, and a few of us including
Aleeha and myself are going to walk around our campuses and ask restaurants
for gift card donations.  Aleeha did pretty well with this last year, so I
think that's proof that businesses might be more generous than we might
think they would be.  I'm planning on trying a few of the businesses on
Brown Street by my campus either Sunday afternoon when they're likely to be
less busy and available to talk to me, or next weekend if for some reason
that doesn't work out.  Lillie also mentioned that she has a Wal-Mart card
she'd be willing to throw in.
2 cards is a good start, but we had more than that last year.  I'd like to
at least match 2014 to 2013.
The fundraiser this year will be a Split-The-Pot.  We are going to make
tickets in advance by brailling on index cards.  If you are interested in
making the tickets, you can use the following description to help:

Insert the flash card into the brailler/slate in landscape.  Braille in
literary numbers in numerical order, leaving a space between each number so
they can be cut.  Depending on the size of your index card, you should be
able to get 2 to 4 numbers out of a card.  You can adjust your margins if
using a brailler as well.  When you can fit no more numbers across, line
feed down and braille dots 1 and 4 all the way across the card.  Line feed
and left align again, and write the numbers you wrote before directly below
the original ones.  Remove card when finished and flip it over.  Insert the
card into the brailler again and line feed down till you are linged up with
the row of Cs.  Braille a row of Cs again on the otherside to create a
crease so that the tickets can be easily split into halves.  Fold the card
hamburger style along the crease with the braille facing outward, and use
scissors to cut the tickets apart.  When you have single tickets, one should
look like this.  number at top, a line below, same number directly below.
If you need additional help, you can call either Aleeha or myself as we've
both done this before.  Place any/all tickets you make into a baggy of some
sort, and remember to bring it with you to the convention.  Aleeha will be
brailling tickets 1-100 because she is going to be at convention before the
rest of us on Thursday night and Friday morning.  I will braille tickets
101-200 since I will most likely be arriving at the hotel between 11:00 and
2:00 on Friday.  Lillie mentioned she'd be willing to braille, and perhaps
Emily could also help when home.  Lillie, would you be willing to tackle
201-300 with the option of drafting Emily if/when available?
 I know the sisters will be arriving after 4:00, so that would be great.  We
will also need people who know how to use a slate to bring their's to the
convention so more tickets can be made if necessary.
Since travel for me will be more than hitching a ride on local paratransit,
and I may have to use Greyhound and figure out how to transport my guitar in
such a way that it isn't damaged, I won't know if I'll be able to bring my
Perkins like last year until I figure out how I'm going to get to Columbus.
Barbara has challeneged me to come to convention a competent slate-user, so
hopefully this won't be an issue and I'll also be able to help with
emergency ticket production.
Lastly on this, tickets will be sold 1 for a dollar, and 6 for 5 dollars.
Make sure when you sell that you take half of the ticket along with the
money and place it in the container I will give you.  I have quart-sized
ZipLoc bags, and I'll give one for collecting money and one for collecting
ticket stubs to anyone who wants to help sell.

Next, membership committee needs help.  Membership is struggling, and
especially since convention is a month away we need to step it up.
Please join the call on the 10th of October; it will be the last one before
convention, and we need to make a good presence.

Be prepared to pay dues at convention.  Our constitution states that we will
vote on the amount to be paid to the treasurer there, but I know initial
thinking was that they would be $5.

No word on whether or not Dr. Maurer will be attending our seminar or not,
but Eric will keep me posted.  As soon as I know, I'll pass along what I've
found out.

Now for the shout outs!
Emily is gearing up to take the GMAT, which is the standardized test for
admission into MBA programs.  From what she told us about the accomodations
process, it sounds like College Board and ACT could learn a thing or two
from the GMAT people.  There seems to have been no struggle at all in
getting set up and approved for accomodations.
That's what we like to see!
Lillie will be making a TV debute, talking about the accessible TI84
calculator she's using.  Details on when the film crew will shoot are still
TBA.  Exciting!
This last one isn't a shout out, at least yet.  Please keep your fingers
crossed for me.  I've applied to go on a study abroad service trip to
Jamaica this summer.  If all goes well, I will spend ten days on the
northern coast of Jamaica, working in various clinical settings for music
therapy.  I feel really confident about the interview I had earlier today
and my professors have said they would support me iby giving thei
recommendations, but we'll see how it goes.  I should know something within
the next week, and then if I am accepted I'll need to do some serious
fundraising of my own.  It's a wonderful personal and professional
opportunity that I hope I will get the chance to have.

Thanks all, and if I left out any shout outs due to the late hour just shoot
me an email or reply to the list.
--
Kaiti Shelton
University of Dayton 2016.
Music Therapy, Psychology, Philosophy
President, Ohio Association of Blind Students Sigma Alpha Iota-Delta Sigma

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