Embracing Lifes Challenges with
Vision Loss(717) 397-4800
FROM
THE CONVENTION COMMITTEE
The planners of the 2006
We are here to answer your questions, be of assistance and
help you feel at home. If you need assistance, please contact any member of the
Convention Committee.
The Committee Planners are:
·
Anthony Swartz, Chair
·
Sherry Hancik
·
Edward Hersh
·
George Holliday
·
William Newland
·
Jeanette Schmoyer
·
Roberta Simmons
·
Doris Suhr
·
Ernest Wright
This year on Friday morning beginning
at 8:30, there will be a tour to the
In the afternoon, there will be
exhibits including voting machines chosen by Pennsylvania Counties for hands-on
examination. Also, a Low-Vision Rehabilitation Workshop
planned by PCBs Low Vision Committee.
There is no meal plan this year
since the hotel has a good restaurant and there are other restaurants within
walking distance. A list of local restaurants is available at the Convention
Registration desk. Also, available are raised line and large print layout maps
of the hotel, provided by the
Guide Dog Relief
Area
When facing the hotel
registration desk, turn left and go past the escalators till you come to a set
of glass doors. As soon as you go through these doors, turn right and follow
the wall until you come to a waist can and artificial turf. This is the guide
dog relief area. Be certain to clean up after your dog using the waist can.
An orientation of the hotel will
be offered on Friday at 1:45 pm, starting from the hotel lobby.
2006 State Convention and
Conference
Friday
October 20 Sunday October 22, 2006
Theme:
SCHEDULE
OF EVENTS
7:00 p.m. PCB
Board of Directors Meeting
Presidential
Room
8:15 a.m. Begin
boarding for
Farm
and Dinner Tour
8:30 a.m. Tour Departure - returning by 1:30 p.m.
1:00 p.m. Convention
Registration Desk Opens
Exhibits
open- Red Rose Ball Room Foyer
1:45 p.m. Hotel
Orientation Tour- Meet in lobby
2:00 p.m. Accessible
Voting Machine Teaching
Expo, Rear of
2:00-5:00 p.m. Low
Vision Rehabilitation Workshop
Red
Rose Ballroom
Workshop: Kendra Farrow & Amy Brown,
Rehabilitation
Teachers-
Susquehanna
Association for the Blind
&
Vision Impaired
Elizabeth
Homer, Rehabilitation
Teacher-
Associated Services for the
Blind,
5:00-6:45 p.m. FIRST
TIMERS Pizza Party
Hearthside Room (First timers ONLY)
Sponsored
by: Susquehanna Association
for the Blind and Vision Impaired
Red Rose
Ball Room
Presiding:
Eugene Barton, PCB President
7:15 p.m. Remarks
and Welcome
7:20 p.m. Chapter
Reports:
Moderator,
Edward Hersh
7:55 p.m. Welcome
and reading of names of first
timers, Eugene Barton
8:10 p.m. Report
of Nominating Committee,
Jay Doudna
8:20 p.m. Candidates
Forum, Jay Doudna
9:05 p.m. Report of
the Site Selection Committee
Eugene
Barton & Tony Swartz
9:20 p.m. Convention
Announcements,
Roberta
Simmons
9:25 p.m. Door
Prizes
9:45 p.m. Meeting
of Resolutions Committee,
Wheatland
Room
9:45 p.m. Name
that tune, Jay Doudna &
Tony
Swartz- Red Rose Ball Room
8:00 a.m. Registration
Desk & Exhibits Open
Red
Rose Ball Room Foyer
8:30 a.m. Convention
Main Session Opening
Red
Rose Ball Room
Presiding:
Eugene Barton, PCB President
8:35 a.m. Salute to
Flag and Invocation
8:40 a.m. Greetings
from Susquehanna Association
for the Blind and Vision Impaired,
Stephen Patterson, CEO
8:50 a.m. Low
Vision, What Should I Expect,
Dr.
Jennifer Galbraith, Low Vision
9:40 a.m.
Sherry
Hancik & Bill Newland
10:15 a.m. Coffee
Break
Sponsored
by: Susquehanna Association
for the Blind and Vision Impaired
10:37 a.m. Door
Prizes
10:40 a.m. The Guide
Dog Decision and Guide Dog
Etiquette, Becky Barnes, Manager-Consumer Outreach & Graduate Support, Guiding Eyes for the Blind
11:30 a.m. Banking
by Phone, What & How? Todd
Capitao,
Assistant Branch Manager, Citizens Bank
12:00 Noon Lunch
Break
1:25 p.m. Door
Prizes
1:30 p.m. Identity
Theft-What You Need to Know,
Attorney
Vicky Ann Trimmer,
Mette, Evans & Woodside
2:15 p.m. ADVOCACY,
Day Al-Mohamed,
ACBs
Director of Advocacy &
Governmental
Affairs
3:00 p.m. Surviving
Job Jeopardy,
Sarita Kimble & George Holliday
BUSINESS
MEETING, Presiding PCB
President:
Eugene Barton
3:30 p.m. Presentation
of 2007 Budget,
Anthony Evancic
3:50 p.m. Elections
4:25 p.m. Door
Prizes
4:30 p.m. Adjournment
6:00-7:00 p.m. Lobby
Lounge: Cash Bar & PCB Silent
Auction
Fundraiser
7:00 p.m. Banquet,
Red Rose Ballroom
Master of
Ceremonies Eugene Barton, PCB President
8:10 p.m. Awards
8:20 p.m. Banquet
Speaker, Day Al-Mohamed,
ACBs
Director of Advocacy &
Governmental
Affairs
8:50-11:00 p.m. After
Banquet Party & Dance
Master of
Ceremonies, Jay Doudna
Musical
Entertainment Two of a Kind
10:00 p.m. PCB
Fifty-Fifty Drawing,
John
Horst, PCB Executive Director
10:30 p.m. Door
Prizes
Presiding: Eugene Barton, PCB President
7:30 a.m. Breakfast,
Red Rose Ballroom
8:10 a.m. Necrology
Report & Memorial Service
Rev.
Ann Thompson, Presiding
8:35 a.m. Resolutions
Committee Report & Presentation of Resolutions,
Carla Hayes
9:25 a.m. Door
Prizes
9:30 a.m. Committee
Reports
Braille
.
May
Employment
..Carla Hayes
Fundraising
...George Holliday
Governmental Affairs
..
Rodger Simmons
Membership
..
Sandy Marsiglia
Publicity & Radio ..
.William
Newland & Edgar Facemyer
Technology
...Michael Zaken
Transportation
.
..Joseph Perry
Website
..Michael Zaken
Old
Business
New
Business
10:30 a.m. Adjournment