American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults

Full details on the offer appear later in this issue.

In his capacity as CEO of the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults, President Riccobono announced that the Action Fund, a longtime partner of the National Federation of the Blind, will launch a low-interest loan program to help individuals purchase the Monarch.

It was now time for one of the two major award presentations that annually take place at the board meeting.

Carla McQuillan, longtime Federation leader and herself a veteran educator, presented the Distinguished Educator of Blind Students Award.

With the business of funding our movement attended to for the time being, President Riccobono introduced Robin House of Missouri to present the Blind Educator of the Year Award as she chairs its committee.

The full presentation appears elsewhere in this issue.

Our president reminded the convention of the activities of our longtime partner organization, the American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults.

The annual Braille Book Fair conducted by that organization was set for that very afternoon, and the president advised all that, since one of the entity's primary programs is the provision of free Braille books to blind children, kids would enter the book fair first and get a half-hour head start on making their selections to be shipped to their homes.