• General Fund: $10,920.63
• Legal Fund: $766.30
• Middle School (Thixton Award) $650.50
• Membership $932.43
• Delegate ($518.76)
• INDVRS $3,667.47
• Miss Deaf Indiana Ambassador $3,089.09
• Deaf Youth Fund $456.35
• Deaf Bilingual Coalition $1,218.49
• Hoosier Deaf Community Center $4,823.13
• ASL Program $7,864.78
• DEAF Network $496.54
• Richard Kennedy Memorial $921.50
• Deaf Awareness $225.00
• Deaf Community $3,667.47
• IAD Conference $2,280.47
• Total Balance: $41,461.39

IAD Finance Report June 2010

IAD Conference 2010 Report

In the meeting, we covered a wide variety of issues. We had a guest presenter from Indianapolis Museum of Art, Linda Duke. She talked to us about starting an ASL docent (tour guide) program with interested members of the Deaf community. Aileen Vasquez will be our point of contact for this.

IAD Conference last March realized over $2,200 in profit. A first in quite a while. Hats off to Aileen Vasquez and Norman Wilson and their committee! Next year conference will be held on ISD campus — pending their approval — on July 29-30, 2011, and this event will be chaired by Michael Reis and Charleen Sculley, our vice president.

IAD has resumed weekly publication of Indy Deaf News using MailChimp.com service with Bea Pfaff and her committee as our interim editor.

IAD will host New Year’s Eve party at Auto Vault — an AWESOME place in downtown Indianapolis — and more information will be coming. Andy Leffler and Juliet Maucere will be co-chairing this amazing event. Limited tickets so DO NOT MISS THIS ONE!

Adhoc joint taskforce between IAD and Indiana Chapter of Registry of Interpreters of the Deaf (ICRID) will be formed to pursue Interpreter License and Funding bill, and selected people will be contacted shortly for the first meeting.

You can now join Indiana Association of the Deaf online with your credit card. We are using PayPal system which does not require you to register as a user of their system.

Patrick Flores and Stu Ikeda will tackle the issue of relocating open captioned movies from Avon, Indiana to northeast Indianapolis or Fishers area.

IAD will host Deaf Awareness Day at the Indianapolis Zoo during the Deaf Awareness week this September 2010. This event will be coordinated by our secretary, Aileen Vasquez.

The board will hold an all day retreat sometime in August.

To announce an event or share a news, please contact Bea at IDN500@IADHoosiers.org.

Anyone now can subscribe to Indy Deaf News by filling out the form at top right on this web page.

Paige Hawkins received the Jerry Thixton Award at the Middle School Promotion ceremony outstanding character, leadership and diverse fellowship. Paige received $50 and a plaque from Kathy Thixton and her family.

IAD Board voted in a special board meeting to close the Dr. J. A. Raney Award this year, and IAD will begin giving out the Bob Canty Leadership Award next year to ISD high school graduate.

This will be our first regular board meeting in addition to two special board meetings recently. Our special board meetings were to discuss awards, NAD conference delegates trip and planning, and Indy Deaf News.

Tentative agenda (subject to revisions):

Reports (2010 Conference, Financial, Secretary and more)
The big picture for the year. (President)
What should be our major goals?

• Fight for interpreting licensing and funding (Set up ad hoc committee)
• State universities provide free tuition to Ind deaf/hh residents? (Texas)
• Move OC movies from Avon to NE Indy?
• Concerned about Deaf Community Services (DCS) and Easter Seals

Fundraising needs? Youth (NYE). Delegate fund? Conference fund?
IDN500 Purchase and operation (Marvin and Bea)
IAD Conference 2011 (Mike Reis and Char)
IAD New Year’s Eve Party (Andy Leffler and Juliet Maucere co-chairs)
NAD Delegate trip wrap up
Newsletter and web site

The meeting is open to the public. See you there!

The Indiana Deaf Literacy Project
Summer 2010 Registration starts May 17th

To get started, contact:
Barbara J. Cain, MA
Director/Instructor
Indiana School for the Deaf
317-­514-­7084 Voice
317-­748-­3674 VP
ged@isd.k12.in.us

Summer 2010 ABE flyer (PDF download)

Welcome to the new Indiana Association of the Deaf web site. We’ve switched over to WordPress software that helps us manage all these pages and post vlog and blog entries. WordPress is more user-friendly than what we had earlier, and we hope to keep things simple here so IAD can continue to use this site for a long time to come.

It’s our hope to add older content, minutes, records, photos and information to this web site eventually with their “original posting” date so they can be searched. This will require a lot of time and commitment. We’re going to do this a little by little.

As for IAD, the new board has met once in special board meeting on April 9th to discuss our plans to send delegates to National Association of the Deaf this coming July in Philadelphia. The board voted to budget $3,500 for 4 delegates: Charleen Sculley, Patrick Flores, Marvin Miller (President and alternate) and Jaye Johnson (alternate).

We also voted to donate $150 to ISD students attending MathCounts. They’ve done very well at this event. Congratulations to Tyler Berdy, Joshua Skjeveland, and Jeffrey Spinale.

IAD will be at PTCO Day this coming Sunday, and see us there! Be sure to sign up for membership and tell us what our priorities should be.

The board also voted to hold a day long retreat by this fall. We also will decide on date for IAD biennial conference next year as IAD will be celebrating its 125th year!

What do we do at IAD? We currently provide non-credit ASL classes for families and friends at ISD, coordinated by capable Wanda Kirby. Many thanks for your hard work, Wanda! In addition to ASL classes, we support our community by being involved — oftentimes behind the scenes — in interpreting, deaf services, ISD, and more.

So your feedback on what IAD can do for the community is needed! E-mail us or tell us in person.

In closing, I hope to simplify things at IAD so we can strengthen our organization and our ability to advocate and push for what our Deaf community in Indiana needs. This is just a beginning.

Thank you!
Marvin T. Miller
President

IAD also has a page on Facebook. Visit us there as well.