DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 3, 2014
-- sometimes dangerous to be famous!
Many famous people face dangers - the Paparazzi,
physical threats from strangers, e-mail threats,
facebook bashings, jealous twitter messages,
autograph requests, etc. Marlee Matlin is no
exception. She received a twitter message from a
hearing fan who threatened to kill herself. The
fan gave her name, saying she lives in Halifax,
Nova Scotia. Marlee immediately forwarded the
tweet to the Nova Scotia police. They are
looking for her but think the tweet may be a fake.
If that woman is arrested she faces 5 years in
jail for being a public nuisance!
-- a deaf person leaves a big and important job
We have had a deaf person in a big and important
job at the White House - Claudia Gordon, a deaf
attorney, who served as Obama's advisor on
disability-related, and deaf-related issues.
She is leaving her job and returning to her old
job in the federal sector. Do keep in mind that
all White House jobs are political and temporary.
Will White House find a deaf person to replace
her? Good question as people in politics may not
want to accept a new job for only a short time as
we will have a new president in 2016.
-- a school for the deaf is low on cash
It is not happy news. The Austine School for
the Deaf/Vermont Center for the Deaf and Hard of
hearing is broke. Not willing to allow a school
for the deaf to permanently shut its doors, a
committee was formed by a group of alumni members.
The committee name is Save Austine Committee.
Why cannot the state pour more money into the
school? Austine is a private school, like with
almost all of the schools for the deaf in the
Northeast. And legislators may not want to give
money to a private school.
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