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National Federation of the Blind of Kansas Annual Conventions
Wake up with gentle
stretches and chair based exercises before the exciting NFB of Kansas convention
day in
At this year's State Convention in
Don't loaf around!
Sign up for the exercise session! Then fuel up and pump up your energy with a plump loaf of pumpkin bread!
This South-Central Chapter fundraiser
will be led by Dianne Hemphill. There will be a focus on providing clear verbal
instruction so everyone can follow the moves. Dianne has her under graduate
degree in physical education. She taught beginning and intermediate dance and
gymnastics to children for over 10 years and adult fitness classes for many
years in
Though we welcome any donation that you might wish to contribute, we suggest a minimum donation of $3 for one class and a consideration of $5 for the two. See you there!
2012 Registration Form Is Available Below In Plain Text, Rich Text, and Microsoft Word. Choose your format, Plain Text (down load, print, fill out and mail), or use Rich Text, or Microsoft Word and down load, fill out, print and mail. If you use the Rich Text, or Microsoft Word Let me know how the fill out option workes WEB MASTER.
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By Donna Wood
The
National Federation of the Blind of Kansas would like to invite you to our 43rd
annual state convention. The state
convention will be held November 9-11, 2012 at the Holiday Inn Convention
Center 200 McDonald Drive Lawrence, KS 66044. Room reservations can be made at (785) 841-7077 at $89 per night. Reservations need to be made by October 26,
2012 to be assured of the reduced rate. If you find yourself short of funds this year we have a few scholarships
available for attendance to the convention. Please present your need for a scholarship to the local chapter
president. The local chapter president
will then submit the requests to the convention committee for approval.
Registration for convention will be $5 preregistration $10 at door. There will be a lunch for $10 and Banquet
tickets are $20. Please see the
pre-registration form in this newsletter.
We
have a full informative weekend planned for this years convention. Join us on Friday, November 9th in
Brazilian B from 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm for a technology seminar. Presented by Rob Tabor of the NFB of
After
the seminar plan to stay for the evening events. We will have a hospitality room starting at
5:00 pm with plenty of snacks, drinks and fun. After that plan to visit the
Vendors in Brazilian C and then come back to Brazilian B for resolutions. We have the privilege of having two Orientation
and Mobility instructors from the
Saturday
will be a full day of presenters in general session. This year we are honored to have Cathy
Jackson as our National Representative. Please see her bio later in this newsletter. On Saturday evening the NFB of Kansas will be
holding our traditional banquet with Ms. Jackson as our keynote speaker. Also at the banquet we will be presenting The
Tede memorial scholarships. Come join us
after the banquet for fun and entertainment.
Sunday
we will wind up the convention with a worship service and a business meeting in
the Regency A ballroom. Convention will
adjourn at noon. The NFB of Kansas has
arranged for a late check out of 1:00 pm from the Hotel. When checking in please remind the front desk
that you will be checking out late on Sunday. Come and join us and help make
this a great convention.
National Federation of the Blind
Of
November 9th, 10th, and 11th, 2012
Agenda
Friday, November 9, 2012
1:00-4:30 pm Technology Seminar,(Brazilian B) 1:00 pm—JAWS
2:00 pm—IOS (iphone, ipad,
etc.)
3:00 pm—Break
3:15 pm—Daisy Players
4:15 pm—Q and A
Friday evening
5:00-7:00 pm—Registration
(Preconvene hallway)
5:00-7:00 pm—Hospitality
(Hospitality room)
7:00 pm—Resolutions, Chair
Rob Tabor (Brazilian B)
9:00 pm--Nominating committee
closed meeting chair Tom Page (location to be announced)
6:00-10:00 pm—Vendors
(Brazilian C and D)
Saturday, November 10, 2012
(General Session Brazilian B)
7:00 am—Welcoming the Day
with Stretching and Exercise (Brazilian A)
8:00 am—Registration (Preconvene
hallway)
9:00 am—Welcome
9:15 am—National Report,
Cathy Jackson
10:00 am—State report, Donna
Wood
10:30 am—Nano-Pac, Dave
Wilkerson
11:00 am—Colorado Center for
the Blind (CCB), Steve Patten and David Nietfeld, orientation and mobility
instructors, Serena Nickell, student
11:45 am—Resolutions and
Committee reports
Noon—Lunch (on site Brazilian
C and D)
1:00 pm—Panel on Product use
in the job Search, Employment and Academia.
1:30 pm—Panel on Low Vision
Product Use in the job Search, employment and Academia.
2:00 pm—Presentation on
2:30 pm—How to finance
technology Basil Kessler, PhD, Executive Director Kansas Assistive Technology Corporation, KATCO
3:00 pm—Break
3:15 pm—Blio, Chikako
Mochizuki
3:45 pm—Newsline, Tom Page
4:30 pm—Committee reports and
resolutions
5:00 pm—Adjourn
Saturday Evening
(Brazilian C and D)
6:00 pm—Happy Hour (cash
bar)
7:00 pm—Banquet, Master of Ceremony,
Rob Tabor
Awarding of Scholarships
Following banquet there will
be music for entertainment and dancing.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
(General session, Regency A)
7:00 am—Welcome the day with
stretching and exercise (Preconvene Hallway)
8:30 am—Worship service
(Regency A)
9:30 am—Business meeting
Secretaries report: Sharon
Luka
Treasurers report: Martha
Kelly
Nominations: Tom Page
Resolutions: Rob Tabor
Other business
12:00 pm—Adjourn
The National Federation of the Blind of Kansas holds an annual convention usually in the fall. Visit this page for additional information about past and up-coming NFB of Kansas State Conventions.
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