THE TAD CONFERENCE 2007 A HUGE SUCCESS!!
The Texas Association of the Deaf Conference, held at the Arlington Hilton, and spearheaded by Kathy Walters, chairperson, assistant Byron Bridges, and her hardworking committee, plus many volunteers, was a huge success with 190 people in attendance.
All of the presentations were greatly enjoyed by all. And thanks to the following, Helene Cohen Gilbert, Faye Kuo, Heather Bise, John Cage, Gertie Galloway, Glenn Anderson, Bobbie Beth Scoggins, Tim Rarus, and Libby Pollard for their fantastic presentations!
Friday night’s President’s Reception, which was sponsored by SPRINT and TX RELAY, was enjoyed by everyone along with an auction of some of Chuck Baird’s prints, some bottles of wine, and a Sante Fe blanket made by Gertie Galloway. Nearly $400 was raised for the TAD History video/book project.
During Saturday’s general meeting, with Libby Pollard as our parliamentarian, the following were members elected the following to serve on the 2007 – 2009 TAD Board: Steven Baldwin, President; Cathy Edler Ashley, Vice-President; Marianne Sasseen, Secretary; John Mills, Treasurer; and Christopher Kearney, Board Member. And both Gertie Galloway and Larry Evans will remain as the board directors.
During Saturday night’s banquet, Texan style , everyone watched a song given by the new Miss Deaf Texas Katie Murch of Corpus Christi, and a performance about global warming by Mr. and Miss Deaf Teen, Bejo Goodridge and Toj Mora of TSD. Giving the keynote address was Dr. Bobbie Beth Scoggins, president of the National Associaiton of the Deaf.
TAD award winners were as follows: Rakia Musa and Laura Kowalik, Education Award; Fred Newberry, Volunteer Services Award; Oustanding Member Award, David Pierce; Grant Laird, Jr., Golden Hand Award; and Distinguished Service Award, Kathy Walters.
In addition to SPRINT and Relay Texas, other primary sponsors were Texas School for the Deaf, Texas Woman’s University, Lamar University, Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services of DARS, CSD of Texas, CSDVRS, LLC, Goodrich Center for the Deaf, Dallas Association of the Deaf, and IP Relay of Verizon.
To see the slide show of the 44th Biennial TAD Conference, courtesy of Crazy Tech via Grant Laird, Jr., go to http://deaftexas.org/wp/conference/ .
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