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{SPEAKER name="Dick Moore/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
They say what school did you come from? Uh-huh. Maybe they'd know a friend, maybe I would know a friend that came from their school.

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And I'd ask them if they knew. We'd begin to share information right of the bat, as if you'd known each other for months.

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{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}
Anything else you'd like to share with them?
{SPEAKER name="Jan De Lap/John Ennis (interpreter)"}
Well I was thinking about a deaf club having different groups that, uh, also there's religious groups, contacts in new towns,
and it came to mind that since Dick and I are printers.

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We have really a large group, a number of printers who are deaf, and if you can't find a club, we would go to a major daily newspaper and can almost always find deaf people there that would be working there and they would be able to tell, tell us where the club was and how to get there. You know that's interesting.

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{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
I'd like to add something to that also, I noticed working at the newspaper in town here. Naturally people don't come to work until it's time to come to work.

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The deaf people always get there half an hour or an hour early to talk to the people on the other shifts and catch up on the latest news and the gossip.

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And it's a source of wonder to hearing people why they always come in an hour before they have a starting time and why they hang around after quitting time. It's a social event.

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{SPEAKER name="Simon Carmel"}
Steve, I'd like to know about er your first experience when you went to a deaf club. Was it last weekend? Did you feel yourself as a stranger in the group of the deaf people?

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{SPEAKER name="Steve Jones"}
No, not, not at all. I'd been there several times before.

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Every time I was introduced to a new person by a, by another deaf friend and the friend, for example Dick, would say this is Steve Jones he works at the Washington Post and he's hearing.

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The other person would usually look surprised that a hearing person would be in the club. Not that many hearing people go to deaf clubs.

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But they made me feel right at home, they're very friendly, very warm people