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February 23, 1998
MESSAGE TO THE SIGNWRITING EMAIL LIST

SUBJECT: Help In Research

From: Krakadoom@aol.com
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:06:14 EST
To: DAC@SignWriting.org
Subject: Re: Help In Research

Who cares if Cecelia is Deaf or not? The point is, she is in our corner furthering the world's understanding about the Deaf.

James Womack

 


>February 20, 1998
>MESSAGE TO THE SIGNWRITING EMAIL LIST

>Dear List Members:
>Someone on our list wrote privately to me and asked if Cecelia Smith is Deaf?
>Cecelia asked me to post this message in response...

>From: Cecelia40@aol.com
>Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:09:18 EST
>To: DAC@SignWriting.org

>Hello;

>Sorry.... I guess I should have told a little bit about myself.

>I am hearing, a certified interpreter, and first year graduate student at
>Galludet. I have been learning ASL for the past 6 years, and am finally
>starting for feel fairly fluent.

>I am a "non-traditional" student, 38, single, and doing the "dorm" thing here
>at Gallaudet. I do not have any relatives that are deaf. My reason for
>learning to sign is that I used to be a professional clown. I felt bad that I
>could not communicate with a deaf child at a party, so I started learning sign >language... and it has snowballed since then.

>My field of study is linguistics, and my only two languages are English and >ASL.

>Cecelia Smith
>Cecelia40@aol.com