
ALBANY IN '91

     Mark your calendars! 
November 1-3, 1991, should be
reserved for the best weekend
of the year!  The Annual
Convention of the National
Federation of the Blind of New
York will take place at the
Albany Quality Inn and we want
you there!  
     Plan for a weekend which
will include such activities as
an adaptive technology exhibit,
a Parents of Blind Children
seminar, a talent show, a
Halloween costume party/
hospitality auction, the Blind
Merchants Committee breakfast,
the Dog Guide Users luncheon,
the Diabetic Concerns breakfast
(with guest speaker), and a
gala banquet dinner.                                        The NFB of New York's
scholarships will be awarded,
too.  An exciting weekend of
food, friends, entertainment,
and information awaits you.  
                                        Get your reservations at
the Quality Inn as early as
possible.  They will only hold
a limited number of rooms for a
short time at the fantastic
rate of $45 per night.  A
Convention registration form is
included in this newsletter. 
Please return your reservation
slip directly to the hotel.
                                        Albany in '91 will be
great and the Convention
Committee wants you to be a
part of it.  We can't wait to
see all of you there!


(The following article is reprinted from the Albany Times Union)

                        Miracle Gadgets 
                     For Blind, Their Price 
                        May Be Illiteracy

     Miracle machines that once
were the stuff of science
fiction are making life more
livable for the blind and those
with limited vision. Consider
the following, all of which
already exist:
     - Gadgets that read books
and magazines to blind people
by converting them to computer-
generated speech.
     - Computers that take
instructions verbally rather
than through a keyboard.
     - Radio stations that
broadcast readings of daily                                      
newspapers.
                                        Critics, however, say
these advances have had an
unexpected effect on the
nation's 13 million visually
handicapped people.  They are
becoming illiterate.
                                        The American Printing
House for the Blind, which
produces books in Braille, the
raised-dot language invented
for the blind, said the
percentage of visually
handicapped people who can read
Braille declined from 50
percent in 1965 to 12 percent
in 1989.
     The reason, some advocates
for the blind contend, is that
new high-tech gadgets are
making Braille seem less
essential.  Why learn to read
when you can get a machine to
do it for you?
     Some blind people and
their advocates argue that
learning Braille may be
obsolete.  A blind person could
be able to function quite
normally using only the new 
machines.  
     Other advocates, including
the National Federation for the
Blind, however, say learning
Braille is essential if blind
people are to become full and
independent members of society.
     They have lobbied for so-
called Braille Laws that would
require each blind student to
learn the language.  Such laws
have been passed in five
states, but not in New York.
     "Technology has opened
doors and created tremendous
opportunities, and they should
be used to their full
capacity," said Jack Ryan,
director of the state
Commission for the Blind and
Visually Handicapped, "Yet the
irony is that while technology
makes us more independent, it
makes us dependent at the same
time." 
     Ryan, who is legally but
not totally blind, said that
only about 15 percent of blind
people are totally blind.  Many
with limited sight, he said,
can read normal print if it is
enlarged through computerized
magnifiers.
                                        For those people, he said,
there is probably no reason to
learn Braille unless there are
signs that their vision is
deteriorating and they may
become totally blind.
                                        "Our policy is to allow
the recipient of services to
decide (whether to learn
Braille or not)," he said, "I
use all forms of communication. 
The best solution is to
complement the advantages of
technology with Braille
skills."
                                        Ryan said that learning
Braille allows blind people to
do everything from identifying
the colors of pieces of
clothing to make sure they
match, to reading the
indicators on a stove to tell
how high the flame is.
                                        The problem with many of
the machines, he said, is they
are very expensive and not very
portable, while a Braille
notepad can fit in a pocket.
                                        Machines such as the
Kurzweil reader, which turns
books and magazines into
computer-generated speech, can
cost more than $10,000 - well
out of the reach of most
people.
                                        While most organizations
that promote the interests of
blind people are pro-Braille,
some prominent blind people
take the opposite view.
                                        Laura J. Sloate, president
of a New York stock brokerage
firm, is totally blind and
thinks Braille makes blind
people less independent.
                                        "Braille is an antiquated
means of communication with THE
world," she said, "You can get
a tape recording of any book
you want.  The technology has
to a great extent made up for
our lack of sight.  It has
become a minor disability.  We
no longer have to be treated
like we're handicapped.  It's
become a level playing field."
     Sloate can use her
computer terminal to call up a
verbal reading of articles in
the Wall Street Journal or the
New York Times and sLOATE  believeS
that a good communicator is
someone who canPUSH
a few buttons.
     "Braille is a symbol of
the old way of looking at the
blind," she said, "It's one of
the things that separates blind
people from the rest of
society."
     The organizations that are
advocating laws requiring
Braille, she said, are allowing
outdated ideas about the blind
to continue.
     "They're perpetuating a
myth," she said, "If the blind
become totally integrated into
the mainstream, there will be
no reason for those
organizations to exist."
     Sloate said she was most
offended by the organizations
that considered blind people
illiterate if they cannot read
Braille.  She said if they can
learn how to use a computer
terminal instead of a Braille
writer, "the world has opened
up just as much."
     Local organizations for
the blind and teachers of the
blind, however, said they still
thought learning Braille was
essential, especially for those
who were totally blind.
     Grace Franze, a teacher of
the blind at various schools in
the Capital District for 20
years, said local schools own
millions of dollars worth of
the new machines.  They have
their uses, but will never
replace Braille, she said.
                                        "A lot of books are
available on taped and in
Braille," she said, "When that
happens they choose the
Braille.  They think the person
reading the tape sounds bored."
                                        Also, she said, a student
who has learned Braille can
read faster than a person
reading a book on a tape.
                                        "I feel very strongly that
blind students, especially the
totally blind, have to be
taught Braille," she said. 
"It's not an easy thing to
learn, but none of my students
have ever regretting taking the
time to learn it."
                                        While the machines may 
someday replace Braille, those
currently on the market all
have deficiencies, she said,
"They go out of date as soon as
you buy them."
                                        Scott Oliver, assistant
executive director of the
Northeaster Association for the
Blind in Albany, said his
organization favors teaching
Braille to anyone who wants to
learn it, but opposes mandatory
Braille laws.
                                        "For a blind person,
learning Braille is the
equivalent of learning how to
read and write," he said,
"Without it they would be
illiterate.  Even people who
use tapes use Braille so they
can tell which tape is which."
                                        Oliver said he thought
that those who wanted to make
Braille obsolete may be looking
more at the economic issues
involved.  Braille books are
bulky and take up lots of space
in libraries and warehouses. 
Replacing them with tapes and
discs, he said, could be less
costly.
     The biggest argument
against the machines, said
Oliver, is that the blind may
become too dependent on them. 
"What happens when the power
goes out?" he said, "Then they
would be completely in the
dark."

Editor's Comments:

     Technology is not a
replacement for Braille.  On
the contrary, Braille has
benefited and improved over the
years because of improvements
in electronics, computers, and
the printing process.
     As good, or rather, as
exotic as Kurzweil readers are,
they are too expensive, and
impractical for the use of many
blind people simply because of
their cost and that one must be
"tied" to one's computer to
read.
     Verbal recognition
software is a nice novelty, but
real benefits for blind
computer users will only be
realized when manufacturers
find a way to display a whole
page of Braille, and to cut
down the price of Braille
printers to make them more
affordable for the average
blind person.
     Radio reading services may
be a useful resource if one has
the time to sit beside the
radio and wait for an article
of interest to be read.
                                        Most blind people, as most
sighted people, find technology
helpful.  However, no one is
suggesting that sighted people
stop reading and writing print. 
Even with the new and smaller
computers, some without
keyboards, people will always
continue to use the familiar
pen or pencil and the same can
be said of the trusty slate and
stylus.
                                        Reading a book or article
on tape, or via a computer
speech synthesizer is in many
cases not as useful, efficient,
or productive as reading that
same document in Braille; just
as for a sighted person,
reading the same document on a
computer screen is less
efficient than printing out the
document or leafing through a
book.  The same is true of
Braille.
                                        Technology will never
advance to the point where
blind people will not need to
learn to read and write for
ourselves.  Braille is the
universal medium of
communication for blind people,
both those who are classified
as "totally" blind, and those
who may have some usable vision
which may allow them to use
print. 
                                        Machines are no substitute
for sitting under a tree and
reading a good book, machines
cannot help with the
pronunciation of a foreign
language, they cannot allow for
reading aloud with classmates. 
In short, if machines are
really the answer for reading,
then sighted people should stop
reading print and begin using
tape recorders, computers, and
radio reading services, too. 
But since we're talking about
blind people, and society isn't
sure how blind people can
really do what it takes to be
responsible members of our
society, they feel we really
don't need Braille since it
makes us look different.  Yet
many blind people read hundreds
of words per minute, and we
still look "different" whether
we're using Braille, tape
recorders, or whatever, since
that is not what the majority
of people use to read and
communicate.  It is the
perception on the part of many
blind people themselves that we
really can't compete on terms
of true equality which hurt us,
not the fact that we read with
our hands and not our eyes.
     What is normal functioning
for someone who is illiterate? 
We would surely function like a
normal illiterate.  No matter
how many gadgets come into our world to improve our lives,
nothing will ever take the
place of, or rid us of the
joys, the satisfaction, and the
necessity to read and write
Braille.
                                        Agency heads contradict
themselves when they say blind
children need not learn Braille
as a matter of course, and that
people with usable vision don't
need Braille, yet praise how
useful Braille is for those who
use it.  Playing both ends of
the field seems to be okay for
blind people, but if there were
laws against the reading of
print, the sighted would never
allow it.
                                         We will continue to fight
for the rights of all blind
people to learn and use
Braille.  If we don't, we'll
have it on our consciences that
a new generation of blind
children and later blind adults
can't, and possibly will never
be able to reach their fullest
potential.


                      When Good Intentions
                Take Precedence Over Good Sense:
                  Reflections on Beep Baseball
                      By Beth Hatch-Alleyne

     I have fond memories of
playing baseball with my
friends and family throughout
my years in elementary school
and all the way into my
adolescence.  Sports was a way
to meet and make friends, a way
to show people that blind
people could excel and have fun
by being an active participant
in community, school, and
individual athletic activities. 
It improved my self-esteem to
know that I was playing and
competing on terms of equality.
                                        I went downhill skiing,
played basketball, football,
tennis, wrestling, bowling,
swimming-- whatever my friends
were doing, I wanted to try it. 
Was I always good at these
sports?  No, but I always gave
it my best shot, and I never
let anyone tell me that a blind
person couldn't do this, or
should do that.
     I did not know about the
Federation until I began
college,   but my parents had
the good sense to make sure
that I went to public school
and ensured that I participated
in regular physical education
classes.  They always went out
of their way to support me
academically and in athletics,
and for this I am truly
thankful.
     Not everyone is so lucky. 
I was encouraged to shoot
baskets with a friend after
school, was asked to go bowling
on a Saturday afternoon, or was
encouraged to play a game of
catch in the evening after
school.  Fortunately, for those
blind children who will be
making up the later generations
of the National Federation of
the Blind, these kinds of
attitudes are becomming less
rare.  A series of reports
aired on Wedndsday and Thursday
July 17 and 18 shows us how far
we still must go to achieve
full equality and respect on
the playing field.
     On Wednesday and Thursday,
July 17 and 18, WXXI, the local
public radio station, ran a
series of reports on an
exhibition beep baseball game
to be played on Sunday, July
21,at Silver Stadium,  the home
of the Rochester Red Wings (the
Triple A minor league team of
the Baltimore Orioles) prior to
the team's scheduled double-
header that evening.
                                        There was to be a team of
blind players called the
"Untouchables" supported by
WXXI Reachout Radio, the radio
reading service in Rochester
jointly sponsored by the radio
station and the Association for
the Blind and Visually Impaired
of Greater Rochester.
                                        The Untouchables would
play against the "mixed media"
team made up of employees of
WXXI and other radio and
television stations in the
area.
                                        Let's try to look at beep
baseball objectively.  Is it
enough that blind people are
shown to participate in sports
with sighted peers?  And isn't
it important to modify baseball
so that a blind person will be
protected and not get hurt?
                                        Some may be surprised by
this, but I believe the answer
is a resounding NO!
                                        We of course need helmits,
cleats, and other standard
equipment, but any adaptive
equipment beyond beeping balls
and bases is unnecessary and
unnedded for blind people to
appreciatethe joys of playing
baseball.
                                        When we speak of adaptive
equipment, we commonly speak of
equipment that will help blind
individuals gain access, or to
participate equally with their
sighted peers.
                                        A beeping baseball could
give blind people access to the
joys of playing a game of
baseball, as it did for me in
my youth.  I played right along
with my sighted peers. 
                                        Sometimes I used a regular
baseball since the beeping
ball, about threee inches wide,
was too big for small hands and
small gloves.  I was expected
to participate, even learning
to pitch strikes in hard ball.
     Beep baseball does not
follow any of the conventional
rules of baseball.  Note the
following examples, and keep in
mind whether blind people, and
the public at large, are
getting the idea that blind
people can't participate
equally with our sighted peers
in  baseball, without changes
so fundamental to make baseball
not even resemble its name.
     If this is true of
baseball, how can we rightly
expect these same people to
hire us, trust their kids in
our care, or think we are
competent to sit in an airline
exit row seat.
     Offensively, all batters
are given a "ready, pitch"
command by the pitcher, who
incidentally happens to be
sighted.  This is supposedly to
tell the batter the ball is
coming at him or her.  If the
ball is really beeping, I'm
sure anyone in earshot could
hear it.
     Three strikes and you're
out in baseball, but not beep
baseball.  Batters get five,
not three, strikes before they
are called out.
     All sighted participants,
with the exception of the
pitcher and the catcher, are
blindfolded.  Is it any wonder,
then, that the reporter quoted
a gentleman saying that after
he hit the ball and took about
five steps he panicked?  Of
course he panicked!  He could
not understand what adjusting
to blindness means by being
blindfolded for a run around
the bases.
                                        Oh, yes, the bases.  The
bases do beep.  However, when
hitting the ball, a sighted
person stands at first or
third, (there is no second
base!) and shouts out
directions to the batter.  If
people are shouting, what good
are the beeping bases, unless
you prefer to find your base
independently without the help
of others like anyone else who
enjoys America's pastime.
                                        Now for the defense.  As
mentioned before, the pitcher
and the catcher are sighted.  I
used to have someone stand
behind me to  catch a non-
beeping ball, but I did pitch,
hit, and catch a beeping one
and heard it quite well.
                                        Problems arise with the
size of the ball, since it's
too big, even bigger than the
ball used in mens' softball
games, at least three inches in
circumference.  When a player
hits the ball, the ball hardly
moves, because its bulk makes
it impossible to give it a good
whack.  Another gentleman
quoted by the radio reporter
said blind people hit very few
fly balls in beep baseball. 
Blind people ccould hit fly
balls if the ball were lighter. 
Apparently the source quoted by
the reporter feels that a blind
person cannot hit the ball well
enough for it to become
airborne, since nothing was
mentioned about the size of the
ball influencing the number of
flys and pop-flys that were
hit.
     An individual is called
out in baseball if a fielder
catches the ball, or second, if
the infielder catches the ball
before, or one that was thrown
to him from the outfield,
before the runner arrives, or
third, the runner can be tagged
out by the infielder. 
     None of these thing
happens in beep baseball.  If
the batter hits the ball, and
gets to first base before
someone catches it, he/she is
safe.  However, if the fielder
(I use this term loosely since
there are six people positioned
around the field to catch the
ball but not in baseball
positions) catches the ball
before the runner arrives,
he/she is out.
     I believe such changes to
the game of baseball are
shameful and destructive to
blind people.  It says that we
cannot participate in a sport
in the same way that our
sighted friends anf family
members do because we are
blind.
     It seems like some,
probably innately benevolent,
but unfortunately unenlightened
about blindness, thought of a
game kind of like baseball, but
a game that was tinged with the
stigma blindness has in our
society.  Otherwise, blind
people would be using the
beeping ball and bases to aidus to do what others are doing
independently.  We do not need
people to tell us which way to
run, as this should be the
reason for having beeping
bases.
                                        We want equal treatment,
and it should go without saying
that sighted people should play
ball with their sight, and we
use our ears to use the ball
and the bases.
                                        Speaking of the bases, is
the lack of second base a
problem?  Surely it is.  It
changes the shape of the
diamond.  As a matter of fact,
it isn't a diamond without it. 
Just arbitrarily removing a
position, techniques, or
changing the way the game is
played so that blind people can
play the game is ludicrous.  We
want full participation, not
somebody's idea of what true
equality, and active
participation means.  
                                        It is not enough that the
public, those of us who are
blind and sighted, see us
hitting a ball, or running the
bases.  Our abilities will only
matter, and be truly accepted
when we are given an equal
chance to participate, and not
placed on a show piece, or on
the back burner to show that
with the proper modification,
blind people can kind of, but
not really, play baseball.


                    Fighting The Good Fight:
                 The NFB And A Personal Struggle
                           For Change
                         By Kate Mayer 

     My name is Kate Mayer.  I
am 23 years old and I live in
Buffalo, New York.  Though I
have been blind since birth, I
was never told I was legally
blind until I entered high
school.  I have been trying to
define that term ever since.  I
am rapidly realizing that I
have consistently overestimated
the amount of sight I actually
have, though my vision is at
the cut-off point for legal
blindness.  Yet it is with this
residual vision alone and no
adaptive aids other than
glasses that I made it all the
way through high school. 
     Not until college did I
become acquainted with such
commonplace things in the life
of a blind person as the
Commission for the Blind, SSI,
and low vision aids.  Yet all
through college I relied on my
vision.  I never felt
comfortable with my blindness,
never knew how to describe it
to others with even a modicum
of accuracy, and never learned
that alternative techniques
existed which would allow me,
as a blind person, to do things
which I had taken for granted
could only be done with sight.
     When I graduated from
Syracuse University in 1990, I
realized I had a problem.  I
was lacking in self-confidence
even though I had graduated at
the top of my class.  A major
reason for this was that I had
allowed my blindness, which I
had never honestly dealt with,
to isolate me from others, and
I didn't want that separation
to continue in the workplace. 
I did not want to keep
pretending I had more sight
than I actually did, to
continue feeling ashamed and
reluctant to reveal my
blindness to others, and to
keep using the inefficient
visual techniques which I had
long believed were my only
means of doing things.
                                        Two recent events have
been valuable to me as a blind
person who is "coming out," so
to speak.  In June, I got a
mobility evaluation and decided
to use a cane.  I was finally
ready to affirm my blindness to
myself and others.  Rather than
feel awkward or embarrassed
when I first used the cane, I
felt liberated.  I was finally
being honest about my
blindness.  It wasn't a
shameful thing anymore.  I felt
proud and independent, and I
have found the cane to be a
great aid to both my confidence
and mobility.
                                        The second event was my
attendance at the 1991
Convention of the National
Federation of the Blind.  This
experience truly opened my eyes
to the normalcy and competence
of blind people, and the fact
that my potential need not be
limited by my blindness.  I
discovered that blind people
with a high degree of residual
vision often shared the common
misconception that we possessed
more sight than we in fact had. 
Use of our sight, and the
consequent denial of our
blindness, had been overly
encouraged to the detriment of
our development of non-visual
techniques.
     This is a major concern of
mine.  I am no longer
comfortable denying my
blindness.  I am no longer
willing to set myself apart
from other blind people just
because I possess a high degree
of usable residual vision.  I
have become highly aware of the
problems which relying on my
sight alone is bound to cause
me in the world of work. yet I
possess only limited knowledge
of alternative techniques.  I
want to develop effective
blindness skills so I can make
informed decisions on when I
will use my sight and when I
will not.
     At Convention, I learned
of the Center for the Blind in
Ruston, Louisiana.  I became
enthusiastic about the
possibility of going to Ruston
to learn the skills of
blindness which I have never
received in my 23 years as a
blind person.  In addition, I
would have the chance to
bolster my independence and
confidence through my close
association with competent
blind people during my time
there.  I would strengthen my
belief that it is respectable
to be blind, a belief often
slow in coming to one just
beginning to accept her
blindness.  This feeling of
acceptance has been denied me
the whole of my psuedo-sighted
exit life, and it is a feeling
I can no longer live without.
                                        Now I am experiencing
another circumstance with which
many blind people are all too
familiar.  I must now fight the
Commission for the Blind to get
the funding to go to Ruston.  I
feel I must prove the
worthiness of my request, since
the Commission believes I can
get the same benefits from
rehab training in Buffalo.  I
now have the difficult and
scary job of proving them
wrong.  Self-advocacy is new to
me, and I am glad I have found
the NFB in time to help me deal
with this situation.  Only in
the past year have I become
assertive in a positive, self-
affirming way.  I guess I have
always felt like it was too
much to ask for extra help when
I had some vision to fall back
on.  So I struggled to do
everything visually, assuming
that was the best I could hope
for.  But now I have found a
caring organization whose
members will listen to me and
offer me the benefit of their
expertise and involvement.  The
NFB is a resource which seems
too good to be true, more than
I would ever have felt entitled
to, yet here it is, and I am
grateful for it.  
                                        I will need help getting
to Ruston.  It will be a
battle, or at least a struggle,
to bring it about.  But I want
to be a proud, independent
blind person, with a whole-
hearted commitment to the
positive philosophy of the NFB. 
Your support will help memaintain the courage and
strength I need to fight for my
rights as a blind person, and
bring about my successful
transformation.


                1991 State Scholarships Announced

     The National Federation of
the Blind of New York State,
Inc., proudly announces our
1991 Scholarship Program. At
least three scholarships will
be presented at our State
Convention Banquet, in Albany,
NY, on November 1, 1991. We are
sure one $50 scholarship and
two $250 scholarships will
awarded. There may be more and
bigger scholarships available,
so why not apply?

Applicants must meet the
following requirements: 

-    you are a resident of New
     York.
-    you are legally blind.
-    you are currently
     accepted at or enrolled
     in a degree program at
     the under-graduate,                                        graduate, or post-
                                        graduate level.
-                                       you submit a completed
                                        application and essay
                                        which are received by the
                                        Scholarship Committee on
                                        or before September 30,
                                        1991.

If you're interested, please
answer all the questions on the
application. In addition,
attach an essay of 500 words
(or less), explaining how this
scholarship will help you
accomplish your goals.
                                        If you have any questions,
please call Ray Wayne,
Scholarship Committee
Chairperson, at  (718)
596-8195. An application is
included elsewhere in this
issue of THE BLIND NEW YORKER.

                       NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
                            OF NEW YORK STATE, INC.

                         1991 Scholarship Application


                         APPLICANT'S HOME INFORMATION:


NAME: _____________________________________________________


STREET: ___________________________________________________

CITY, STATE
 & ZIP: ________________________________________________


TELEPHONE: (     )                             


                          YOUR INFORMATION AT SCHOOL:


SCHOOL'S NAME:
_____________________________________________________

YOUR ADDRESS AT SCHOOL (if different from above)   :

               ___________________________________________________

CITY, STATE
 & ZIP: _______________________________________________________


TELEPHONE: (     )                                    


DEGREE PROGRAM: ________________________________________________


YEAR EXPECTED TO GRADUATE: ______________________

Please return this application and  an essay of 500 words (or
less), explaining
how this scholarship will help you accomplish your goals, to:

          Mr. Raymond Wayne, Chairman
          NFB/NYS Scholarship Committee
          450 Clinton Street  Apt. 2-B
          Brooklyn, NY  11231

Application and essay must be received by September 29, 1991
for consideration.                                        Quality Inn
                                        Watervliet Avenue
                                        Albany, New York 12206
                                        Phone: (518) 438-8431
                                        FAX# 1-518-438-8356

Dear Attendee:

The Albany Quality Inn is pleased to have been selected as the
union host hotel
for the National Federation of the Blind of New York State, Inc.,
November 1st
through 3rd, 1991, annual conference.

A special group discounted rate has been set for those dates.  We
are presently
holding a limited number of sleeping rooms at this rate.  If you
are planning to
attend the Conference, please fill out the below information.  Room
rates per
night are the same for single or double occupancy.  Accompanying
children under
16 are free.

Sleeping room rates are:  Single   $45.00         Double  $45.00
                          Tripple  $45.00         Quad    $45.00


Arrival______________________   Approx. Time:______________________


Departure  Date:_____________  Number Sleeping Rooms_______________ 



Guest  Name:_______________________________________________________


Number of People Occupying Room: _________________________________


Address: _________________________________________________________


City/State: ________________________  Zip: _____________________


Home Phone: ____________________  Business Phone: ________________


Additional  Names:_________________________________________________

Check in time is 3:00pm                 Check out time is 1:00pm

Room will be held until 4:00pm on date of arrival.  In order to
guarantee your
reservations for arrival later than 4:00pm, please send
information.  (Hotel
accepts Master Card, Visa, Diner's Card, Carte Blanche, American
Express or
Discover).


Card: _____________________________________________________________


Card Number:____________________________  Exp Date: _______________

Complete this letter and mail to:  Sales Office
                                   Albany Quality Inn Hotel
                                   Watervliet Avenue Ext.
                                   Albany, NY  12203
                                             or 
                      call the hotel directly (518) 438-8431

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