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Hanson and her husband were both influential leaders in the Seattle-area deaf community. [2] She was active in several organizations, including the Puget Sound Association of the Deaf, the Washington State Association of the Deaf, and the deaf mission of the Episcopal Church. [4] Hanson died in Portland, Oregon on October 17, 1959. [9]
Gertrude Scott Galloway (November 12, 1930 – July 17, 2014) was an American educator and administrator working with deaf children. She was the first female president of the National Association of the Deaf. She is among the first deaf women to head a school for the deaf in the United States.
Edith Mansford Fitzgerald (1877–1940) was a deaf American woman who invented a system for the deaf to learn proper placement of words in the construction of sentences. Her method, which was known as the 'Fitzgerald Key,' was used to teach those with hearing disabilities in three-quarters of the schools in the United States.
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is an organization for the promotion of the rights of deaf people in the United States.NAD was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1880 as a non-profit organization run by Deaf people to advocate for deaf rights, its first president being Robert P. McGregor of Ohio.
While attending a clergy training program in the late 1970s at Gallaudet University, a Washington, D.C., school for deaf and hard of hearing students, Marsh met his future wife, who was studying ...
Hampton graduated form Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Edgewood, Pennsylvania in 1951. [1] [2] She earned a Bachelor’s in Education from Gallaudet University in 1957 making her the first Black deaf woman to graduate from the school. Hampton went on to earn a Master’s in Special Education from the University of North Florida. [2]
Furthermore, Geraldine remained very active. She attended the convention of the American Association of the Deaf-Blind at the University of Washington, along with 175 other deafblind people. She was present at the 80th birthday ceremony of Helen Keller organized by the Industrial Home for the Blind in Brooklyn
National Association of the Deaf Randall McClelland Memorial Award, 2012; Person of the Month, Deaf Life, April 2010; Gallaudet University Alpha Sigma Pi Fraternity Woman of the Year, 2010; Empire's Who's Who of Women in Education, 2005-2006; National Association of the Deaf, Stokoe Scholarship, 2000 – 2001