Deaf History Month Honorees
3/13 Bridgette Bourne, Jerry Covell, Greg Hlibok, Tim Rarus, the four leaders of the Deaf President Now movement.
3/14 George Veditz, NAD President (1904-1910), the driving force behind the Preservation of Sign Language.
3/15 Helen Keller, Educator and Activist
3/18 Bernard Bragg, Performer, writer, artist, poet
3/19 Ed Waterstreet, Tony award winning playwright, “Big River,” Founder of Deaf West Theater
3/20 Andrew Foster, Educator and missionary
3/12 Ella Mae Lenz, Poet
3/22 Chuck Baird, Artist
3/25 Thomas Gallaudet, Educational pioneer and founder of Gallaudet University.
3/26 Laurent Clerc, Teacher
3/27 Marlee Matlin, Academy Award-winning Actress
3/28 Frank Bowe, Disability rights activist, author and teacher
3/29 Heather Whitestone McCallum, first Deaf Miss America
4/1 Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts
4/2 Dummy Hoy. First deaf major league baseball player
4/3 Clayton Valli, Poet
4/4 Gertrude Galloway, women’s rights advocate, civic leader, educator, activist and pioneer.
4/5 Nellie Willhite, first deaf woman to earn a pilot’s license.
4/8 Frances “Peggie” Parsons, Activist and author. Activated a deaf Peace Corps program in the Phillipines.
4/9 Dr. Robert Davila, Educator and leader, former President of Gallaudet University
4/10 I. King Jordan, first deaf president of Gallaudet University
4/11 Carol Padden and Tom Humphries, linguists and authors of “Deaf in America: Voices from a Culture.”
4/12 Kitty O’Neill
4/15 Alice Cogswell, deaf student and spark that ignited a movement in Deaf education.
