13th Annual Birthday Celebration
Special Guest Speakers, Games, and Giveaways!
Schedule of Events for Saturday, January 30, 2021
8:00 AM, Doors Open
Get a good seat, grab your snacks, have a chat with friends, and prepare for a fun filled day of celebration!
9am, Password
Hosted by Lee and Buddy
Come and join your hosts Buddy C. and Snowbird, Lee, to launch off the day with a bang of fun at 9:00 AM Eastern! This game of Password will be Women verses Men, with two clue-givers selected by your hosts to fill 75 minutes with exciting puzzles! Come out and light a birthday candle, and enjoy the first game of the day to Celebrate Out-Of-Sight’s 13th Annual Birthday!
10:15am, Break
10:30, Wendy’s Pursuit
Hosted by Wendy
Join Wendy for her version of Trivial Pursuit. Just as in the board game, there will be questions in each of the following six categories:
Arts and literature
Entertainment
Geography
History
Science and Nature
Sports
Each team will select a category and answer a corresponding question. Teams will consist of men versus women.
11:45am, Break
Noon, Bradford and Bryan Manning, Two Blind Brothers
Our first special guests hail from the great state of New York, and you are gonna love their inspiring story!
Donna will interview Bradford and Bryan Manning who started the online clothing company, Two Blind Brothers. The Manning brothers have an eye condition called Stargardt's disease. Having grown up visually impaired, they understand the importance of the sense of touch in a blind person’s life. Their goal is to make the softest clothing and gifts in the world, and to help the blind community by donating 100% of their profits to research for eye disease through the Foundation Fighting Blindness. They also hire blind workers to make their items.
www.TwoBlindBrothers.com
1:00 PM, Dave Barry, Bestselling Author and Columnist
Let’s head south to Florida, and welcome our next guest!
Carla Jo will interview Dave Barry, who is an award winning newspaper columnist, animal lover, novel writer and musician. Most well-known for his books that take a funny look at life. Mr. Barry makes his home in Florida and has an opinion on most everything. Some of his best loved books are; Dave Barry in CyberSpace, Best State Ever, Lessons from Lucy, Big Trouble and several books for children. A genuine humanitarian and a National treasure, join us while we talk with him at this year’s birthday celebration.
www.DaveBarry.com
2:00 PM, Michael Naranjo, Sculptor
Now, we head to New Mexico, and give a warm welcome to…..
Michael Naranjo is an award winning, Native American sculptor, who Roger will have the pleasure of interviewing. As a child walking home from school, Michael would pass by the art galleries, and peer in through the windows. The seed was planted, causing him to feel a desire to create his own bronze sculptures. After being blinded in Vietnam, he had to come to terms with his new disability. Never losing his passion for art, he sought to make sculptures fully accessible to the blind, so that they could "Dream, Touch, and Believe." His pieces are included in the collections of the Vatican, the White House, and the Heard Museum.
www.matteucci.com
www.DreamTouchBelieve.com
3:00 PM, Aaron Hale, EOD Fudge
You might want to have your credit card handy, after you hear about this next guest!
Donna will also interview Aaron Hale, a 14 year veteran, military chef and Explosive Ordnance Disposal team leader. From the moment a blast robbed Aaron of his vision in Afghanistan to years later when he lost his hearing, he refused to accept defeat.
Now equipped with cochlear implants and his wife McKayla at his side, Aaron has found his passion in the kitchen! Cooking not only provides a sense of purpose for Aaron; it also provides a lucrative living, one piece of fudge at a time. McKayla and Aaron work together every day to create confectionary Delights and they have generously agreed to share their story with us at this year’s birthday celebration.
www.EODFudge.com
4:00 PM, Sandy Greenberg, Author and Inventor
A bond that’s true! A beautiful and long lasting friendship--
Hailing from Buffalo, New York, Sanford "Sandy" Greenberg was a nineteen-year old junior at Columbia University and a roommate and best friend with Art Garfunkel when, in 1961, his normal vision disappeared from an acute, untreated case of glaucoma. After being told by his doctor that he would be blind the next day, he underwent emergency surgery to relieve the pressure in his eyes, Sandy woke up totally blind. Depressed, and not wishing to return to Columbia, he thought his prospects in life were bleak, but his best friend, Art could not let sandy languish in his misery. He convinced Sandy to return to Columbia. He read to him, described his surroundings, and walked him to classes, and to this day, the two have remained the best of friends! With gentle prodding from his friend, Sandy realized he could do anything he set his mind to accomplish.
Sandy went on to earn a degree from Columbia University, a PhD from Harvard, was a Doctoral student at Oxford, and now chairs the Board of Governors of Johns Hopkins University’s Wilmer Eye Institute. In addition, Sandy is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as a White House Fellow during the Johnson Administration and in 2020, published his memoir, "Hello Darkness My Old Friend".
Sandy is an inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. One of his most noteworthy endeavors is a patented compressed speech technique that speeds up words without distortion
We are honored to feature Sandy Greenberg in this year’s celebration! His memoir can be read on BARD or Audible. This interview will be pre-recorded on January 8 by Rich DeSteno.
BARD:
DB100264
Audible:
Audio book is narrated by Art Garfunkel
www.SanfordGreenberg.com
8:00 PM, Auction Songs Debut
Hosted by Ted
Remember back on September 26 when we held our Fall Auction, and 9 of our brave members auctioned their wonderful talents? Well, the debut of those highly anticipated performances is finally here! Come on in, and cheer on your friends, as they finally reveal their finished product! Here is the list of performers in alphabetical order.
Debi Chatfield
Rich DeSteno
Diane Fisher
Todd Freitas
Ted Galanos
Jim Jackson
Roger Khouri
Bernie Mooney
Vicky Stacknick
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