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{SPEAKER name="Debbie Sonnenstrahl/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
to be able to stand on my own two feet. I did well in the hearing school but still my social life was so-so.

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Alright, now, I went to Gallaudet College for an interview and the first man I met there was Dr. Phillips, you know our Dean of Students there at that time.

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He told me this story, only three years ago. I graduated from Gallaudet in 1958, now imagine this, he told me this story that three years ago he said to me "Debby I remember your father very well."

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I said "what you remember my father after so many years, and what's more my fathers been dead since 1962, you remember my father? How? Why? You meet so many parents."

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He said "with you, it was a different case because over the many years as a Dean I had to work on the hearing parents, to allow their deaf child to go into Gallaudet College but with me he had to work on the child, on me, to make me come to the deaf college."

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I said "wow that's really a reverse for him." You know what happened to me? I entered to Gallaudet College and I had to take two aspirins every night, two aspirins every night, do you know why?

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I wasn't used to seeing all those hands, flying fingers every night but now it's part of me.
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{SPEAKER name="Jo Radner"}
Thank you. Nathie, do you have one?

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{SPEAKER name="Nathie Couthen/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
I remember the time when my mother took me to the deaf school in Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. After mother had found out that I was actually deaf, she asked around "where's a deaf school?" and she took me over to the Pittsburgh school