DeafDigest Mid-Week edition, April 16, 2014
-- a deaf person becomes president of a college
Jane K Fernandes, who is deaf, was selected to be the
next president of Guilford College in North Carolina.
Her first day on the job is July 1st. She was selected
to be Gallaudet president only to face campus unrest.
It forced the board to rescind her appointment. Why
Guilford and why not Gallaudet? It is a matter of
right fit - hearing people felt she was the right fit
for Guilford while deaf people felt she was a wrong fit
for Gallaudet. Right and wrong fits happens everywhere
with many leaders in colleges, businesses and corporations.
-- hope for Deaf Stamp in 2017
Will there be a new Deaf Stamp in 2017? This is the
year the American School for the Deaf (West Hartford, CT)
(ASD) will be celebrating the 200th anniversary of Deaf
Education in America. Spearheading the drive is Kenneth
S Rothschild and Albert Hlibok. They met up with a group in
West Hartford (Ed Peltier, Harvey Corson and Jeff Bravin)
to work on a proposal for the United States Postal Service's
Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee to review. If all
goes well, the stamp would be shown on April 15, 2017.
-- A big corporation helping the deaf in sports
In USA, our Deaflympics group is broke. Big American corporations
do not donate a cent to our deaf athletic groups, while they
donate millions of dollars to help the hearing athletes in the
Olympics. Well, in India, which is known for discriminating
against the deaf, the USHA International is becoming a corporate
partner of the All India Cricket Association for the Deaf.
Cricket is wildly popular in India as much as baseball is
in USA. What is USHA International? It is just like the
Procter & Gamble Co. in USA? Why not Procter & Gamble Co
help our deaf sports? They will laugh very hard at our faces!
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