[nfbwatlk] A couple more Observations on the Convention

[M J CARPENTER]

I, too, was uplifted and energized by our NFBW convention. I feel very honored to be serving on our Board of Directors. I look forward with great enthusiasm to serving our affiliate. As I said at the convention I want to make sure every member has all contact information on his/her legislators, and I will help work on chapter development and following up with new members. I made a commitment to go to Tacoma in the very near future to help with our chapter there.
 
One piece of personal information I wanted to share is that, for the first time in many years, I was able to read and proudly carried my Braille agenda. This was because of the surgeries I've had to eliminate the tremors in my hands. Thank you for all of your support in those times. And thank you Kay Burrows for the hats you knitted for me! 
 
I believe this was one of the best state conventions I've attended. It had the right mixture of serious discussion and serious FUN! It set a good tone for the year to come.
 
We definitely missed those no longer with us and those who were unable to attend this year.
 
Thanks again for all the love and support. 
 
Warmly,
Marci Carpenter 
 
> From: Bennett.Prows at HHS.GOV
> To: nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:04:11 -0400
> Subject: [nfbwatlk] A couple more Observations on the Convention
> 
> Well, since no one else wants to put their two cents in, I'll add a couple of more coins. Give Mike Mello from the Seattle Chapter a lot of credit for the tremendous success of our short term drawing/raffle for the Ipod Touch 64, third generation. The raffle made us quite a good sum of money for the efforts folks put into it. Not sure which chapter sold the most, but I know Mike from Seattle, Don, Kaye, Bob and Les from Vancouver, Lisa from Bellingham and Maria from Spokane did very well. A Face Book friend of Marci Carpenter's actually won.
> 
> Connie Utterback was fantastic handling registration and auction money, and of course, Gary Mackenstadt did his imitation of Doug Johnson, since he is the assistant treasurer after all.
> 
> And definitely, we owe thanks to Dory (Kaye Kipp of course) for again giving out some great door prizes. I don't quite know where they all came from, but we had some interesting prizes, such as some little birds, bags of coffee beans, and much more.
> 
> Again, not to belabor the point, but I certainly enjoyed this year's convention.
> 
> /s/
> 
> Bennett P.
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