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Chapter 14 The Sizzling, Bountiful Sixties REI)ERICK C. SCHREIBER called the decade the "Sizzling Sixties." To Hugo Schunotf, an educator and superintendent of the California School for the Deaf at Berkeley, it was the "Bountiful Sixties." Both were appropriate labels for that decade. It was the d ecade that witnessed the founding of new national organizations such as the Council of Organizations Serving the Deaf, the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, the Professional Rehabilitation Workers Among the Deaf, and Teletypewriters for the Deaf, Inc. The National Association of the Deaf moved its headquarters to Washington, D.C. and hired its first full-time executive secretary. And, the long Burnes era came to an end. Higher education of the deaf reached a crossroads during the 19605. GaUaudet COllege and the Gallaudet alumni experienced their first major disagreement over the direction the college should take. A special study was made of education of the deaf in the United States, and the federal government became more directly involved in the education of deaf Americans. The Gallaudet alumni gave their alma mater half a million dollars as a centennial gift and established three permanent endowments. One, the Graduate Fellowship Fund, which provides financial assistance to deaf doctoral degree candidates, would begin to reap Tich dividends in the decade ahead. A permanent alumni office was established on the college campus. The 19608 The Bureau of the Handicapped in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare came into existence , and the role of Captioned Films for the Deaf, which had originally been charged wi.th providing entertainment films for deaf aduIts, was greatly expanded to include the educational needs of deaf children . Government-funded national and regional workshops brought educators, rehabilitation cou.nselors, religious workers, and others together for the first time and began to create a better understanding of the needs of deaf people. Common problems were identified , better working relationships formed, and common goals agreed on. More and more deaf leaders began to emerge on the national scene, and deaf administrators began to arrive. Congress founded the National Technical Instittlte for the Deaf at Rochester, New York, and the Model Secondary School for the Deaf in Washington, D.C. Post-secondary regional programs were begun at Delgado College in New Orleans, Louisiana, at Seattle Community College in Washington, and at the Technical Vocational Institute in SI. Paul, Minnesota. A National Leadership Training Program in the Area of the Deaf was sta.rted at San Fernando Valley State College, now California State University at Northridge . A Vocational Rehabilitation Service grant gave birth to the Natiopal Theatre of the Deaf at the Eugene O'Neil Theatre Center in Waterford, Connecticut. 317 The American people have no reasoll to be satisfied with their limited success in edllcating deaf children and preparing them fOT full participation in ollr society. - Dr. HOMER BABBIDGE Accessibility to the telephone was achieved late in the decade, and sign language began to come out of the closet. The Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf and the Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf opened an office on MacArthur Boulevard in Washington, D.C. , and hired an executive manager, Howard M. Quigley, superintendent of the Minnesota School for the Deaf. The CEASD and CAID joined forces with the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf to form the Council on the Education of the Deaf. Federal title funds made money available to schools for the deaf, provided educa.tional programs for teachers of the deaf, helped schools acquire new equipment , and provided funds to improve academic and vocational programs. Public Law 86-276, passed by Congress in 1961, provided funds for training urgently -needed teachers of the deaf. A Catholic college for deaf students opened as a division of Mount St. Joseph College in Buffalo, New York. It offered deaf students the opportunity to major in one of five fields---art, business, education, home economics, or phySical education and study theology. Although a Catholic college, the program was open to aU creeds and proclaimed its purpose to "develop well-informed, well-educated deaf leaders intellectually and spirituaJJy." Classes began on September 17, 1962 with approximately a dozen students enrolled . The venture was not successful, however, and the program closed a few years later. The United States hosted the 10th World Games for the Deaf in the summer of 1965. [t was the first time, since 1924 when the Games were organized, that they were played on American soil. Six...

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