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Chapter Nine:
Personalities Through the Years
Chelsee Patterson
March 19th, 2021
Profiles
Intercultural leaders-born hearing to hearing parents
became Deaf after learning to speak
Extensive contact with larger and hearing society
benefiting Deaf community
22 NAD presidents 1880-1978 were post lingually deaf
Lost hearing due to serious illness
immunization = fewer occurrences of children who became Deaf
Networking
Social gatherings and publications main sources
The "Little Paper Family"
Larger firms that don't exist presently:
Silent Worker, Cavalier, The Frat, Silent News
Current firms:
Deaf Life, New Horizons, SIGNews
1996 Phil Moos (NJ) USA-L News
Barry Strassler
DeafDigest, DeafDigest Sports
"Tent City"
Prominent Leaders
Frederick Schrieber:
NY School for the Deaf
Washinton Evening Star / US Government Printing Office
(1996) NAD executive director / mortgaged his home
Well known sayings
Andrew Foster:
Deaf at 11 yo
1st African American to graduate Gallaudet / Eastern Michigan University
Became a minister
Went to Africa established 30+ schools
I. King Jordon:
Lost hearing in motorcycle accident while serving in US Navy in DC
Joined Gallaudet psych department later dean of College of Arts and Science
March 1988 first deaf president of Gallaudet
Robert Davila:
Vice president at Gallaudet University
Selected by Pres. George HW Bush for Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitation Services in the US Department of Education
First to serve as president for Instructors of the Deaf, Conference of Educational Administrators Serving
Marilyn J. Smith:
(1986)Founder/Exec director of nonprofit Abused Deaf Women's Advocacy Services (ADWAS) & replicated in 15 cities
(March 2005) "A Place of Our Own"
Ben Soukup:
Communication Services for the Deaf (CSD)
Publishes monthly SIGNews
Ruth Seeger:
Started girls' athletic program
Won several gold medals for US Track and Field Deaflympics
304 medals 280 Gold medals/National record in javelin
Referred Deaf Babe Zaharias
First female USA Deaf Sports Federation Hall of Fame
(1999) Honored newest member of TX Senior Hall of Fame
Forgotten Contributors
Thomas Edison: deaf at 14, inventor of lightbulb
John Gregg: Brainchild of shorthand writing
Juliette Gordon Low: deaf at 20, Girl Scouts organization 1912
Ludwig Van Beethoven: deaf at 30/musician
Nanetter Fabray: comedienne, singer, danser, actress
Deaf Firsts
Betty Lous Beets: to be executed
Thomas Coughlin: Deaf Catholic man to become a priest
Eugene Hairston: Black deaf professional middleweight boxer/ won 60 bouts & 45 matches
aka "Deaf Wonder"
William Hoy: Major League baseball player
Christy Smith: appear on TV series
Survivor, The Amazon
Erastus Smith: Soldier to spy against Mexico 1821
Nellie Whillhite: Pilot
Boyce Williams Serve in US Office of Vocational Rehabilitation
Heather Whitestone: Crowned Miss America
Entrepreneurs
David Birnbaum: Birnbaum Interpreting Services in Silver Spring MD
Joe Dannis: DawnSignPress / Signing Naturally ASL curriculum
Bob Harris: Harris Communications 1982 sells hearing loss equipment novelties books/DVDs
Louis Schwarz: Schwarz Finacial Services and tax preparation
Hobby - collect Deaf Americans' business cards = 700+
Exceptionals
Art
Hillis Arnold: Sculpture and ceramics / Professor Emeritus of Sculpture
John Brewester: Portrait Painter/
Daniel Coffin / Elizabeth Stone Coffin
Morris Broderson: Oil, water, pastel, lithograph painter / collection at Hirshhorn Museum
John Carlin: Painted personalities William Seward, Horace Greeley, Jefferson Davis; writer articles on architecture, geology
George Catlin: 8 years traveling to document paintings of Native Americans
Louis Frisino: Deaf John James Audubon won Duck Stamp
Douglas Tilden:
California Volunteers, Mechanics
/ "Michelangelo of the American West"
Cadwallader Washburn: taught cannibals sign language
Athletics
Lou Ferringo:
The Incredible Hulk
LeRoy Colombo: lifeguard 40 years, saved 907 lives
Paul Hubbard: Football Huddle
Business
Olof Hanson: first architect 48 homes, 28 buildings, 18 schools
Thomas J. Posedly: Arizona Architects Medal
Inventions
John R. Gregg: Gregg Shorthand system/Gregg Business School
Anson R. Spear: established Spear Safety Envelope Co.
Robert Carr Wall: gas powered automobile / first bike with same size wheels
Law
Michael A. Chatoff: first deaf lawyer to argue case before Supreme Court
Medicine
Donald L. Ballantyne: trained surgeons /
NYU designated Professor Emeritus of Surgery
Frank Peter Hochman: first deaf born physician
Service
Juliette Gordon Low: Girl Scouts in Savannah 1912
Erastus Smith: General Houston TX army spy beating Mexico