[Oabs] Scholarships! A request from the committee

[Darian Smith]

I don’t know if there are any folks of interest on the community service division list and FB Page, but feel free to  hit those up.
 Twitter even?
  let me know how I can be of assistance! best of luck and keep up the great work!
   
> On May 5, 2015, at 9:42 PM, Kaiti Shelton via Oabs <oabs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi, all,
> 
> I have two requests that I hope Deborah won't mind me making as a
> member of the scholarship committee.  The first and most important one
> is to please, please, please help spread the word about our
> scholarship program to other students you may know who could benefit.
> The scholarship program is one of the most powerful recruitment tools
> the NFB has in its arsenal, and by extension OABS as the target
> audience is around the age our division caters to.  The second request
> is to please fill out any applications and send them to Deborah if you
> are planning on applying.  As I am a member of the committee I am
> qualified to provide interviews, but we are less than 2 weeks away
> from the deadline and have, believe it or not, 1 application that I am
> aware of.  I checked with Deborah fairly recently and that was still
> the case, so unless she or other committee members have interviewed in
> the past week or so that is all we've got.
> 
> I've been a social media fiend on NABS, the Parents of Blind Children
> of Ohio Facebook Group, and any other place I can think of sending out
> reminders and scouting out potential applicants.  Though that is my
> job as a member of the committee, a nudge from a familiar face can be
> very helpful for students you may know about and I don't.  If you'd
> rather send names and/or contact information for potential applicants
> my way that is fine, too, but let's do what we can to bring new
> members into the Federation and show them what we're about.
> 
> -- 
> 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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