GCB Digest Committee: Amanda Wilson, Chair

GCB Legislative Committee: Alice Ritchhart, Chair

Phone Number: 912 996 4213
Email Address: alice.ritchhart@comcast.net

Members:  

Betsy Grenevitch
Cecily Laney Nipper

Danielle McIntyre
Deborah Lovell

Jamaica Miller

Judy Presley
Marsha Farrow
Mike Hall

GCB Membership and Public Relations Committee:
Amanda Wilson, Co-chair
Phone Number: 770 547 4700
Email Address: moonrocks@bellsouth.net
Mike Hall, Co-chair
Phone Number: 770 535 2119
Email Address: N4hgo1@gmail.com
Members:
Betsy Grenevitch
Cecily Laney Nipper
Deborah Lovell
Jerrie Toney
Judy Presley
Marj Schneider
Marsha Farrow
Phil Jones
Steve Longmire

Tiffany Montalvo 

 

 

GCB Public Relations Committee: Mike Hall, Chair
Phone Number: 770 535 2119
Email Address: N4hgo1@gmail.com
Members:
Amanda Wilson
Cecily Laney Nipper
Danielle McIntyre
Tiffany Montalvo

GCB Scholarship Committee: Marj Schneider, Chair
Phone Number: 912 352 1415
Email Address: marjschneider@bellsouth.net
Members:
Deborah Lovell
Granger Ricks
Mary Woodyard
Tom Ridgeway

GCB Senior Fund Committee: Deborah Lovell, Co-chair

Phone Number: 706 726 4054
Email Address: lovell.d2000@gmail.com
Alice Ritchhart, Co-chair
Phone Number: 912 996 4213
Email Address: alice.ritchhart@comcast.net
Members:
Cecily Laney Nipper
Deborah Lovell
Jerrie Toney
Judy Presley
Mike Hall
Phil Jones

GCB Tech Talk Time: Steve Longmire, Chair
Phone Number: 404 234 5820
Email Address: info@sunbright.biz
Members:
Amanda Wilson
Cecily Laney Nipper

Jamaica Miller 

Janet Parmerter
Jerrie Toney
Ron Burgess
Ron Worley
Sharon Nichols 

Sophia Curtis  
Tiffany Montalvo

 

GCB Youth Gap Committee: Ron Worley, Chair 

Members:

 

Awards And Criteria

1. The Gerald Pye Community Service Award: The recipient must be an active legally blind member of GCB in good standing. He or she must have demonstrated superior service to his or her community in a number of ways that exemplify the work of Gerald Pye. The candidate must be nominated in writing by a GCB member who knows firsthand of the candidate's community services. Examples of this service must be included in the written recommendation.

Chair, Cecily Nipper
21 Butler Bridge Road
Covington GA 30016
Phone Number: 470 218 7885
Email Address: roses828@comcast.net

2. The Walter R. McDonald Award: The recipient is an outstanding visually impaired individual who has, through his/her leadership and service, contributed significantly to the betterment of the blind and visually impaired community, and who has demonstrated by deeds and achievements his/her dedication to the principles incident to blindness espoused and practiced by the late Walter R. McDonald. The recipient may or may not be a member of the GCB.

Chair, Deborah Lovell
3215 Lake Forest Drive
Augusta, GA 30909
Phone Number: 706 667 3085
Email Address: lovelld2000@gmail.com

3. The Rhoda Walker / Ann Sims Award: The recipient can be a blind or sighted individual. Services rendered must be of non-paying status. Services may be any endeavor in the field of teaching, service, and betterment of life for the blind. The recipient must provide public awareness through speaking, seminars, and/or demonstration. There must be involvement of the educational field/teaching braille. The recipient must push any innovation involving blindness or blind people.

Chair Hoyal Presley
P. O. box 231
Helen, GA 30545
Phone Number: 706 878 6041
Email Address: hoyalpresley@gmail.com

4. The June Willis Guiding Eyes Award: The recipient must be a sighted GCB member who is known to GCB members through attendance at GCB state activities, and through his/her willing assistance and service to the blind and visually impaired.

Chair, Keith Morris
3359 White Oak Road
Thomson, GA 30824
Phone Number: 706 799 5225
Email Address: Keithmorris53@icloud.com

Tiyah Longmire
Phone Number: 404 922 7474
Email Address: manifestiqueworks@gmail.com

The nominations shall include the name of the candidate, plus the reason the candidate deserves the award. Nominations for all awards shall be submitted to the respective award committee chairperson in writing (including email) no later than October 7, 2024. 

Awards Committee

Chair, Judy Presley
Phone Number: 706 878 2962
Email Address: judygpresley23@gmail.com

Al Camp Memorial Scholarship Committee

Chair, Marj Schneider
212 Oxford Drive
Savannah, GA 31405-5427
Phone Number: 912 352 1415
Email Address: marjschneider@bellsouth.net

Scholarship applications may be obtained from Chair, Marj Schneider, at the address above, or via the Website: Click Here to Visit the GCB Website