Mid-Atlantic Regional Group
Blinded Veterans Association
Hampton BVA Chapter
President: LT. Robert L. Byrd, USN (Ret).
Vice President: Norman Miller.
Acting Secretary: Robert L. Byrd.
Acting Treasurer: Betty Stump.
Chaplain: Ralph Lawton and Rev. Diggs.
Master-at-Arms:
Acting Recreation Director:
Regional Representatives:
VIST Coordinator: James Stephens
Phone number: (757) 728-7070
Hampton BVA volunteer office.
Hours of operation: 09:00 to 1:00 Monday through Friday.
Phone number: (757) 722-9961 Ext. 1168.
Office Manager: Leland Jarrett.
Assistant Manager:
Meeting dates, time, location, and up coming events are as follows:
1. January 22, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
2. February 26, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
3. March 26, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
4. April 23, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
5. May 28, 2010 at 10:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
6. June 25, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
7. July 23, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
8. August 27, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
9. September 24, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
10. October 22, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
11. November 19, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
12. December 17, 2010 at 9:00 A.M. at Building 83 Hampton VAMC for monthly meeting
Hampton BVA Monthly meeting notice/chapter newsletter:
MID-ATLANTIC REGIONAL GROUP OF
THE BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION
HAMPTON CHAPTER
757-722-9961 EXT. 1168
June 13, 2010
Dear Veteran:
The next Blinded Veterans Support Group meeting will be held on Friday, June 25th at 10:00 A.M. at the Hampton VA Medical Center in Building 83. This is a very important and fun meeting.
Your attendance is very important. Please be there and please be on time.
We will have our summer picnic. We will also have a guest speaker, Jerry Marindin from Freedom Scientific. He will demonstrate a couple of new low vision technologies. Please come ready to eat, listen, and enjoy.
Southside residents who require transportation may contact Delores Bethel at home # 757-427-0729 cell # 757-510-1199 for a ride in the van. Leave a message with your name, phone number, and address.
For those of you who do ride in the van, there will be a $5.00 charge per person to help defray the cost of paying for the van.
Lee Jarrett, BVA Office Manager
LT Robert L. Byrd, USN (Ret),
Chapter President
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Hampton BVA Chapter meeting minutes:
HAMPTON ROADS CHAPTER
OF THE BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION
Hampton Roads Blinded Veterans Meeting June 25, 2010
The meeting was called to order by Robert Byrd at 10:10 am. Lee Jarrett led the Pledge of Allegiance. Pastor Edward Diggs led the group in prayer. Introductions were led by Delores Bethel. Jean McFarlane read April and May minutes. Minutes were accepted as read. Three people were voted in as honorary members. They are Jacqueline Risley, Mary Steel, and Beverly Conway.
Forrest Black requested help from Hampton Roads Blinded Veterans in the form of donations for the National BVA Convention. The group decided to donate by taking a $100.00 full page ad in the convention booklet and $100.00 towards the hospitality room. The funds will be taken from the regional account which leaves $359.00 in that account. Dr. Tucker said her goodbyes to the group. She will continue to work with veterans.
Robert introduced today’s guest speaker Jerry Marindin from Freedom Scientific. He demonstrated the Pearl Reading Solution. It is an OCR camera that works with Openbook. It is now in the Beta stage. The final version will be coming out in the near future. Jerry will send one to Hampton Blinded Veterans to use and test for about 60 to 90 days. He also talked about Magic Dual Monitor. He left documentation on the Pearl, Magic Dual Monitor, and Focus Blue. He did not talk about Focus 40 Blue.
Meeting adjourned at 11:10 am. The picnic began.
Respectfully Submitted,
LT Robert L. Byrd, USN (Ret)
Chapter President
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