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(5/20/81 mtg page 5)

T-2,S-1

002   Picks up in the midst of SC telling about Jan dc Lap and Studio 101 (explanation of "101")
019   Discussion of how to interpret ABC stories.
080   Arrival of Tom Fields. [Quite a bit of teasing of him as oralist by the Ennises] 
098   JR: Asks JG what kinds of things he'd most like to tell people in FAF--favorite stories?  
(105) JG: People always like jokes [Banter: clean or dirty?-- DH is a family book--this is a family festival] but we mustn't leave 
them with the idea that being deaf is a barrel of laughs, either; mix it up. JE: People might like 
stories about accomplished deaf people.
117   JG: Tells about Laura Searing, a newspaper reporter, deafened age 12; also a poet; very successful.
129   JE: Remembers in Texas the segregation of black deaf when he was a child; there was a school for white deaf and another one for the blind and the black deaf; Bill didn't know about black deaf people till later because he'd never seen one. [conversation with JG]
143   JG: [unintelligible] on tape] (158) We don't have as many stories about the deaf-blind. [General tenor of this discussion: idea that FAF should include stories about as many different deaf groups as possible]
✓161   JG: Douglas Craig, a [black deaf] waif found wandering the streets of Washington [in 1871] by a congressman named Craig, who brought him to E.M. Gallaudet and asked him to place him in Kendall School; he had no name so EMG called him Douglas Craig, after the congressman; he went to the school, perhaps never graduated, but stayed to work there, became a legend, One story: when new Gally students would arrive, Craig would come up to the them: "Give me a dollar." They always didn't dare to refuse. Then in the spring when the class went to Great Falls for their picnic, he would give each one his dollar back so that he would have some money to spend at the picnic.
(178) Another story: His name he always wrote "Douglas Craig, M.M." Speculations about the meaning of M.M.: "Master of Mail" (b/he was responsible for getting the Gally mail); "M. of Mechanics" (b/he did mechanical repairs on campus); "Master of Manure" (responsible also for the grounds).