� 2000 NATIONAL CONVENTION

It will soon be time for the 2000 convention of the

National Federation of the Blind, to be held again at the

Atlanta Marriott Marquis, 265 Peachtree Center Avenue,

Atlanta, Georgia 30303.� The Marquis is a beautiful hotel,

in a convenient, central location.

Although Marriott has a national reservation number:

1-800-228-9290, do not use it.� To receive our special

rates, all hotel reservations must be made with the Marriott

Marquis directly.� Please telephone them at:� (404) 521-

0000, or write them at the address above.� Be sure you tell

them you will be attending the annual convention of the

National Federation of the Blind.� REMEMBER: No reservation

will be valid unless it has been made directly with the

Marriott Marquis Hotel in Atlanta.� To confirm a telephone

reservation, you will need a credit card number, and the

reservation charge is $60, applied toward your stay.

Here are our hotel rates for 2000:� one in a room, $57

per night; two in a room, $59; three in a room, $61; four in

a room, $63.�� Local taxes (about 14 percent) will apply.�

Here are the convention dates and schedule:

Sunday, July 2 -- Seminars

Monday, July 3 -- Convention registration

Tuesday, July 4 -- National Board Meeting (open to all)

Wednesday, July 5 -- General Sessions

Thursday, July 6 -- Tour Day

Friday, July 7 -- Banquet

Saturday, July 8 -- General Sessions, adjournment.

Our Diabetes Action Network Seminar

At the 2000 convention of the National Federation of

the Blind, in Atlanta, Georgia, our Diabetes Action Network

will have its seminar and business meeting, on Monday, July

3, from 6 to 9 pm.� There will be a presentation about a new

talking device that will provide information on any

prescription medication (including insulin).

Our keynote speaker will be dietitian and diabetes

educator Brooks Kent, RD, CDE, who will discuss all phases

of the healthy "diabetic diet"� (healthy for non-diabetics,

too!).� We will also hear from blind diabetic Bernadette

Jacobs, who will share views of life, diabetes, and a

humorous bus ride.� There will be an open panel discussion,

on "Diabetics in the Workplace."��

Once again, we will have our "Make the President Pay"

diabetes quiz game--and President Ed Bryant says he will

give a nice donation to the Division for each right answer!

Our seminar is free and open to the public.� Its location

will be posted in the agenda (provided when you register).

If you or a friend would like to remember the Diabetes

Action Network of the National Federation of the Blind in

your will, you can do so by employing the following

language:

"I give, devise, and bequeath unto the Diabetics Action

Network of the National Federation of the Blind, 1800

Johnson Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21230, a District of

Columbia nonprofit corporation, the sum of $_______________"

(or "_______________ percent of my net estate" or "the

following stocks and bonds:____________________") to be used

for its worthy purposes on behalf of blind persons."