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...read the Oct. 24 story about Northampton's Clarke School for the Deaf with great interest; I found some statements which I wholly disagree with-especially on the sign language for the deaf. It is a beautiful and fascinating language. We deaf people are proud of our language and learning. We learned faster under deaf teachers than others. A hearing person who is adept in sign language and has the welfare of the deaf schoolchildren in their hearts makes a good teacher; I will not argue that point with you, but the deaf teacher makes a better teacher...
...young Scotsman who had been a professor at the struggling experimental school in Northampton, Mass, was naturally delighted that his invention had proved such a success. But when he sat down to write his mother the news, he was not thinking of his own fame or fortune. "Now," wrote Alexander Graham Bell, "we shall have money enough to teach speech to little deaf children." As a matter of fact, had he not been trying to find an instrument to help such children, he might never have started experimenting with the telephone in the first place...
Today, at Northampton's Clarke School for The Deaf, a telephone is still called an Alexander. But to the school's faculty, the invention is not what Bell is primarily remembered for. He was for 51 years teacher, adviser and president of the board. More important, he was, like the school, a pioneer in persuading the U.S. that a child born deaf can be taught to speak rather than have to rely on the language of signs. Founded in 1867, Clarke has the oldest wholly oral program for the deaf...
ELIDA DEBEVOISE Northampton, Mass...
...March 5 and 6 the freshmen will travel to Northampton, Mass, to give a concert with the Smith freshman glee club...