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Personalities Through the Years - Coggle Diagram
Personalities Through the Years
Forgotten Deaf Contributors
Juliette Gordon Low
Ludwig Van Beethoven
John Gregg
Thomas Edison
Nannette Fabray
Some Deaf First
Eugene Hairston
William Hoy
Thomas Coughlin
Christy Smith
Betty Lou Beets
Erastus Smith
Luke Adams
Nellie Willhite
Boyce Williams
Heather Whitestone
Some Prominent Deaf Leaders
I. King Jordan - 8th president of Gallaudet University
Robert Davila - Hispanic descent; first person to have served as president for all three deaf education professional organizations
Andrew Foster - first known African American to graduate from Gallaudet College and the same from Eastern Michigan University
Marilyn J. Smith - founder and executive director of of the non-profit Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services (ADWAS)
Frederick Schreiber - remembered for his fights and advocacy for deaf people's rights
Ben Soukup- founded Communication Service for the Deaf (CSD)
Ruth Seeger - referred to as the Deaf Babe Zaharias
Robert Smithdas - first known deaf-blind man to finish college
Notable Deaf Writers
Jack Gannon
Ken Glickman
Mark Drolsbaugh
Steve Baldwin
Roy K. Holcomb
Damara Goff Paris
Maxwell Schneider
Raymond Luczak's
Bernice Singleton
Noteworthy Entrepreneurs
Bob Harris
James Macfadden
Joe Dannis
Myrna Orleck-Aiello/ Phil Aiello
Charles Crowe
Louis Schwarz
David Birnbaum
Trudy Suggs
Exceptional Deaf People
Rhulin Thomas
Olof Hanson
Lou Ferringo
Frank G. Bowe
LeRoy Colombo
Heather Whitestone
Douglas Tilden
David Pierce
John Brewster
Frank Peter Hochman
Hillis Arnold
Boyce R. Williams
William E. Hoy