Texas Governor's Committee on People with Disabilities Annual Report: 1998 Page: INSIDE FRONT COVER
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In 1998, Special Olympics athletes were featured on Wheaties cereal box.
Governor George W. Bush is pictured with appointee James L. Caldwell who chairs the
Governor's Committee and also serves on the Texas Science and Technology Task Force, Texas
Commission for the Blind, and the Continuing Advisory Committee on Special Education.
Governor's Committee member Victoria Christman, and past member Kym Iris King
attend the Barbara Jordon Media Awards event along with Roland Guzman, chairman
of the Corpus Christi Mayor's Committee. The Fort Worth Mayor's Committee
hosted the event.
Braille Lite. Photo courtesy of Carole Keeton Rylander, Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Robyn Miller, a student at Arlington High School, plays the xylophone during marching
band practice. Photograph courtesy of J. Mark Kegans, The Arlington Morning News.
Lubbock student Skyler Boyd is operating the camera. George Campbell says "90 percent
of the students are placed in jobs after they earn a certificate of completion from the Free
Enterprise program. One former student is currently working in television, and this year
we are actively recruiting radio and television stations to hire more."
A lift at the entrance to the Hood County Courthouse conserves space, but requires
maintenance and sometimes assistance in operation. Photograph courtesy of Arthur
Weinman Architects.
Lex Frieden, Senior Vice President TIRR (center), winner of the Henry B. Betts Award of
$50,000, receives honors at a Houston reception hosted by TIRR, Baylor College of
Medicine and the Texas Medical Center. E. Ashley Smith, TIRR Systems' President and
Chief Administrative Office (right), and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (left)
congratulate Frieden.
Justin W. Dart, Jr. shares his Presidential Medal of Freedom with Greg Smith, Founder of
On-A-Roll Radio.
At Hollywood Theater Jewel 16 GC Stewart Bigham, general manager, works with the
Waco Mayor's Committee to show movies in an open-captioned format. Kelly Yarbrough
provides interpretation for movies goers who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Ron Lucey. Photo courtesy of Carole Keeton Rylander, Comptroller of Public Accounts.
Elizabeth Santiago gears up to go horseback riding at the Peaceable Kingdom Retreat for
Children. Photograph courtesy of Susan B. Chambless, Bell County Judge and
Commissioner's Committee on People with Disabilities.
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