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 her MA in 1984.
Judy’s mom (Virginia Luke) reported Judy did not graduate from Gallaudet as we thought she did. She, a member of Class of 1982, left Gallaudet and graduated from another college near Salem, OR. Right now she is a third-grade teacher at Maryland School for the Deaf, Frederick Campus.
Therefore, William (Bill) Jacobs nailed down as the second deaf child of Class of 1957 classmates to be graduated from Gallaudet.
And, we would like to mention that some of the hearing children of Class of 1957 classmates went to Gallaudet, and they earned their degrees at Gallaudet.
They are as follow:
Helen Thumann, MA in Deaf Ed in 1991.
Mary Thumann, MA in Linguistics in 2006 and is on her way to receive PhD this August.
Helen and Mary are members of Gallaudet faculty/staff along with their sister, Carlene, who is working as Special Assistant to the Dean of Graduate School and Professional Programs for Research/Institutional Review Board Coordinator.
Okay, corrections have been made. Please help us if we need additional corrections.
Please feel free to send us any news about you and your family. We will be very happy to announce the news to CLASS OF 1957.
Thank you.
Hugs,
Kay Francis and Joe