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Trudging across this bleak land last week, surrounded by adoring crowds wherever he went, was a gentle, half-deaf little wisp of a man, dressed in the garb of poverty-a homespun dhoti and cheap brown canvas sneakers-but lighted by a flame of authority that has made him one of India's most notable spiritual leaders. His name is Vinoba Bhave (pronounced bah vay). He has no place in the government or any other secular organization; he is what Hindus call an acharya (preceptor). Only a land with holy cities, sacred rivers and thin margins between want...
...Light. Last week, near the original site of the school, a few miles from its present one, 400 Connecticut citizens gathered for a special ceremony. There was a speech by Lieut. Governor Allen and a letter from President Eisenhower, and each was translated into sign language for the deaf in the audience. Finally, six-year-old Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet III marched up to help unveil a symbolic statue of a girl supported by a pair of stone hands making the sign for "light." The ceremony was in honor of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and the co-founders of his school...
...prepare himself for his job as principal of the new school, Gallaudet set out to study the methods of Europe. In France, he met deaf Laurent Clerc, a teacher at the Royal School for Deaf-Mutes. Gallaudet persuaded Clerc to come back with him to America as the first member of his new faculty. On the long voyage home, Gallaudet taught Clerc English, and Clerc taught his new colleague more about the deaf...
...befriended every one of his pupils. Gradually, the school's reputation began to grow. President Monroe came to visit; so did such foreign notables as Charles Dickens. Clerc himself gave a special demonstration before the House of Representatives, later went to start the new Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. Other Gallaudet-trained teachers, including his sons, also spread his mission -to new schools in New York, Kentucky, Virginia and Washington...
Today, with 275 pupils, the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford carries on Gallaudet's work. But in spite of hearing aids and microphones, teaching the deaf is still a slow and laborious process. There are still too few teachers and too few schools. The work that Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet began, says the American School's Principal Edmund Boatner, is still far from accomplished: "It does seem too bad to see how often a deaf child is left out in the cold...