Summer 2007

• A Message from the Committee Chair:
  Carolyn Herbst
• "The Times They Are A-Changing"
• Cruise Ship Alert!
• Teaching about the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Disability rights Movement
• A Message from
  UFT Liaison: Eugene Rubin
• Committee
  Photo Album

Committee Photo Album

Samantha Auslander, MS, RD, of Cabrini Medical Center, was the featured speaker at the committee’s March 27 special anniversary meeting marking 17 years of assisting members with disabilities. She discussed “Nutrition and Your Health.” Listening attentively are (from left) Nagy Abdelmalik, George Fesko (back to camera) and committee chair Carolyn Herbst.

Committee members (seated, from left) Phyllis Kahn, Evelyn Chin and committee liaison emeritus George Fesko, and (standing, from left) Abbe Nosoff, Andrea Solomon, Grace Witko, Nagy Abdelmalik, Bonita Gibson, Committee Chair Carolyn Herbst, UFT liaison to the committee Eugene Rubin, and Beverly Warmbrand.

Left: Tomiko Sakazume, Ela Shapiro and Carolyn Herbst at the anniversary meeting.

Right: Carolyn Herbst at the Capably Disabled exhibit table at the NYSUT Representative Assembly, Washington, DC in April.

Left: Phyllis Kahn and Eugene Rubin at the UFT Spring Education Conference in May, at which the committee staffed an exhibit table.

Right: Norma Hart, Gerri Klemm and Phyllis Kahn at the conference luncheon.

Left: George Fesko, committee liaison emeritus, at the luncheon.

Right: Bobbi Wailes, Director of Programs and Services for People with Disabilities at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, discussed various events and services for people with disabilities at the committee’s May 24 meeting at the UFT.

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