Golden Anniversary
Jack Hathway who was with Class of 1957 for a year in his preparatory year is now at Columbus Colony Elderly Care. Because of lack of communication in some places where he was placed in Wisconsin, his wife, Ann Marie, and children decided on Columbus Colony for the sake of communication. Jack was stricken with [...]
Karin Joan Polzin, Deaf daughter of Marlys and Robert “Bob” Scribner also graduated from Gallaudet with a BA in 1988 and a MA in 1992. Karin got her second MA in Guidance Counseling in 2005. She is presently employed at Maryland School for the Deaf, Columbia Campus as Mental Health Counselor. Bob, thank you for [...]
May 24, 2010
1957 Classmates
We are very happy to share a newsworthy note from Al and Sally Pimentel with you. They have a hearing daughter, Carolyn, who received her Master’s at Gallaudet in 1981. She graduated with School Psychology as her major, and she has been with Indiana School for the Deaf as school psychologist ever [...]
May 18, 2010
Class of 1957
CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS
The other day we emailed reporting Judy (Diot) Pfau was the first child of Class of 1957 classmates to be graduated from Gallaudet. We were wrong, and we want to apology to Miriam (Bredahl) Thumann who reported her daughter, Carlene Prezioso, graduated in 1980 with BA and she got [...]
John and Judith Jacobs were in town (Washington, DC) for few days recently. They were here to attend graduation event at Gallaudet and witnessed their son’s (William) big day on Friday, May 14.
William, heartfelt congratulations to you from Class of 1957. We also extend the congratulatory message to John and Judith, too.
We had an opportunity [...]
Classmates:
We were notified of the death of Sherman Robertson who was one of seven students from Alabama School of the Deaf attending Gallaudet College in the fall of 1952.
We believe Sherman left Gallaudet at the end of 1952-53 school year.
We have an obituary article about him, and the message was sent to us from Kay [...]
With deep regrets, we have learned about the death of our dear classmate, Betty (Johnson) Battle, on January 24, 2010. Betty passed away a day after her birthday, and she came to Gallaudet College in fall of 1952 from Alabama School for the Deaf. We, the class of 1952, wish to express our deep condolences [...]
The 10th biennial conference of DSA came out a success with tentatively reported 2000 plus attendees. A contingent of 17 Class of 1957 classmates attended the conference, and we had an opportunity to get together while dining at Paris Hotel & Casino’s Le Cafe restaurant one evening.
We had 22 patrons (classmates and some spouses) at [...]
Here are some messages from classmates re: The Brick and Endowed Museum Fund
Allie Joiner: Hands wave, wave, wave, wave. Thank you very much for representing us so well. Hugs.
Ruth Ann Wilding: Way to go!!!! Yayy!!! for Class of 57!!!
Norma Seaton Nelson: Thanks. Wow, it is so nice.
Eugene Landyshev: Many thanks for this informative notice, and [...]
On Friday, June 12, 2009, we (Kay Francis and Joe) went to Gallaudet University, Office of Development, to finalize Class of 1957 donation for the Brick and Museum projects with Matt Sickon, Donor Relations Specialist.
The Brick will plainly be engraved “Class of 1957″, and we paid $500 for the brick project. The 1957 Brick will [...]