Interesting information about Deaf Americans
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2005 10:19 pmEvery year, the National Deaf Awareness Week usually falls on the last week of September; however, any school or Deaf club or organizations of deaf people can celebrate Deaf Awareness Day or Week.
I thought I would share some interesting information with you all about several famous Deaf people:
*William "Dummy" Hoy- many Deaf Americans to date still argue that he should be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. I read that he had a pretty good batting average; however, he was largely responsible for getting the umpires to call balls and strikes with his hands, so William will know which is a strike or a ball. You can see why those umpires are still doing that today.
Links to William Hoy:
http://library.thinkquest.org/5852/deafhoy.htm
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/exreading/reading8.html
*Football huddle- this was not really invented by the hearing folks. It started with the Gallaudet College football team many years ago when they had to huddle, so no other teams would steal their signs.
Link to about Gallaudet inventing football huddle at:
http://www.fredbowen.com/c100600.htm
Those information can be found in a book called Deaf Heritage
by Jack Gannon. You can google that.
*Laurent Clerc- Dr. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet invited him to come to America after he met with him and his teacher/supervisor/friend, Abbe Charles Michel De L'Eppe in Paris, France; Laurent, a deaf teacher, graciously accepted and stayed in America all of his life. He was the first deaf teacher in America when he taught at the first school for the deaf in America- American School for the Deaf (Hartford, Connecticut). That school is really a very beautiful campus.
*Robert Weitbrecht- he was the one who invented the TTY (some of you know it as TDD, but I prefer TTY). Some of you may recall very loud, clanking Western Union machines which serve as the first TTYs for the deaf. I used to have one like that when I was a teenager.
*Vint Cerf- the father of the Internet; he is hard of hearing.
*Erastus "Deaf" Smith- he was a scout, spy and a Texas hero. He is the only deaf person in America to have a county named after him- Deaf Smith County which is in West Texas. He is buried in Richmond, Texas, west of Houston.
*Douglas Tilden- a very famous artist and sculptor. He graduated from California School for the Deaf and got his training in sculpting from a deaf sculptor in France. He was responsible for several monmuents in California: The Baseball Player, The Mechanics Monument (both can be found in San Franscico. More about Douglas Tilden and photos of his famous works can be found at:
http://deafness.about.com/cs/deafhistoricpeople/p/douglastilden.htm
To find out more about famous or historic deaf people, you can go to:
http://deafness.about.com
You will need to scroll on the left side to get more information.[/url]
I thought I would share some interesting information with you all about several famous Deaf people:
*William "Dummy" Hoy- many Deaf Americans to date still argue that he should be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. I read that he had a pretty good batting average; however, he was largely responsible for getting the umpires to call balls and strikes with his hands, so William will know which is a strike or a ball. You can see why those umpires are still doing that today.
Links to William Hoy:
http://library.thinkquest.org/5852/deafhoy.htm
http://depts.gallaudet.edu/englishworks/exercises/exreading/reading8.html
*Football huddle- this was not really invented by the hearing folks. It started with the Gallaudet College football team many years ago when they had to huddle, so no other teams would steal their signs.
Link to about Gallaudet inventing football huddle at:
http://www.fredbowen.com/c100600.htm
Those information can be found in a book called Deaf Heritage
by Jack Gannon. You can google that.
*Laurent Clerc- Dr. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet invited him to come to America after he met with him and his teacher/supervisor/friend, Abbe Charles Michel De L'Eppe in Paris, France; Laurent, a deaf teacher, graciously accepted and stayed in America all of his life. He was the first deaf teacher in America when he taught at the first school for the deaf in America- American School for the Deaf (Hartford, Connecticut). That school is really a very beautiful campus.
*Robert Weitbrecht- he was the one who invented the TTY (some of you know it as TDD, but I prefer TTY). Some of you may recall very loud, clanking Western Union machines which serve as the first TTYs for the deaf. I used to have one like that when I was a teenager.
*Vint Cerf- the father of the Internet; he is hard of hearing.
*Erastus "Deaf" Smith- he was a scout, spy and a Texas hero. He is the only deaf person in America to have a county named after him- Deaf Smith County which is in West Texas. He is buried in Richmond, Texas, west of Houston.
*Douglas Tilden- a very famous artist and sculptor. He graduated from California School for the Deaf and got his training in sculpting from a deaf sculptor in France. He was responsible for several monmuents in California: The Baseball Player, The Mechanics Monument (both can be found in San Franscico. More about Douglas Tilden and photos of his famous works can be found at:
http://deafness.about.com/cs/deafhistoricpeople/p/douglastilden.htm
To find out more about famous or historic deaf people, you can go to:
http://deafness.about.com
You will need to scroll on the left side to get more information.[/url]
