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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS SCHOLARSHIP IN THE HUMANITIES is most often a solitary enterprise . Research, writing, and editing are usually done alone, within the isolating confines of archives, library carrels, and small offices. In the end, however, despite the hours scholars spend by themselves, publication of valuable work inevitably requires the assistance of many people and is much the better for it. The preparation of this book is no exception to that general rule. The impetus for the papers in this volume was the First International Conference on Deaf History, and the people involved with that deserve credit for creating a forum in which, for the first time, deaf history could be discussed among a diverse international group of practitioners and consumers. Harlan Lane was the person who prodded me and the Gallaudet History Department to organize the conference . His belief in its viability carried away skeptics. The organizers , including Jack Gannon, Yerker Andersson, Ausma Smits, and Joseph Kinner, contributed their time and expertise in various areas. Robert L. Williams, Dean of the Gallaudet University College of Arts and Sciences, Eli Savanick, Director of the University's International Center on Deafness, and especially Harvey J. Corson, Gallaudet's Provost, provided the financial backing that allowed the History Department to undertake this venture. My largest conference debt, however, is due to my colleague in the History Department, John S. Schuchman. I have never participated in a conference as smoothly run or well organized as this one. Only Schuchman and I know the hours he put in, the care, expertise, and commitment the conference required. On behalf of all people working on deaf history, I thank him. Some of the papers in this collection needed all or parts translated into English, and occasionally my language skills were not satisfacxi xii Acknowledgments tory for communicating with the European contributors. Constantina Mitchell, Harry Markowicz, and Provie Rydstrom all helped with these difficulties. I want especially to thank Kurt Beermann, Professor Emeritus at Gallaudet University, for his prodigious translation of one of the articles. The illustrations contained herein are from a variety of sources. Many, however, are from the Gallaudet University Archives, and I wish to thank Marguerite Glass-Englehart for her skilled and cheerful assistance in locating and reproducing these. Finally, Ms. Lynne Payne, the Gallaudet University History Department secretary, has labored long and hard on this manuscript and is due many thanks. Every article and its endnotes have been typed and edited and revised and reviewed and corrected repeatedly. She has borne the responsibility for incorporating these changesoften in languages with which neither she nor I am familiar-and accomplished the task swiftly. [3.238.64.201] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 13:52 GMT) DEAF HISTORY UNVEILED ...