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HAWAII ASSOCIATION OF THE BLIND |
40th HAB ANNUAL CONVENTION
Saturday, March 17, 2007 // C'est Si Bon Room - Pagoda Hotel, Honolulu, Hawaii
Convention Program: 9:00 a.m. – 2:15 p.m // Banquet: 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
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Part 1
( 1 hour 37 minutes 38 seconds )
* Warren Toyama - Welcome address
* Prof. Don Thomson - Walking Happily Down HAB’s Memory Lane
* Robert Humphreys - Adverse Decision against Blind Vendors By Hawaii State
Supreme Court
* Chris Gray - Accessible US Currency & Other ACB Issues
Part 2
( 1hour 7 minutes 16 seconds )
* Joe Cordova - Update on DVR and the Blind
* Patricia Hamamoto - Status Report on the Education of Blind Students
Part 3
( 1 hour 6 minutes 57 seconds )
* HAB Election of Officers & Board Members
* HAB Resolutions of 2007
Part 4
- intro to banquet
Banquet
Part 5
( 1 hour 48 minutes 51 seconds )
* Jeff Thom (President - California Council of the Blind)
* Message from Rosanne Gilbert (HAB Member)
* Presentation of award to Warren by itinerant teachers
* Message from Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle and Lt. Governor Duke Aiona
* Message from US Senator Daniel K. Akaka
* Message from US Senator Dan Inouye
* Message from Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hanneman
* Presentation of Eva Smyte Awards to Joe Cordova, Myles Tamashiro and Yolanda
Phelan
* Presentation of HAB grants to itinerant teachers of Hawaii
* Chris Gray - American Council of the Blind Report
* Filo Tu - closing words