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TAPE LOG
5/20/81: Meeting to prepare for Deaf Folklore presentations at FAF
[Present: Participants: Jack Gannon, Bill Ennis, Tom Fields (who came in later). Interviewers: Jo Radner, Simon Carmel. Interpreters: JohnMark Ennis, Karla Ennis, Shirley Shultz]

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000 JG: Life story. B. Missouri, moved to CA with family, deafened by meningitis age 8; returned to Mo. after WW II, graduated from Mo. School for the Deaf; to Gallaudet 5 years, met future wife. After marriage moved to Nebraska, both teachers of the deaf. Nine years in Nebraska, then back to Gally 1968 as Director of Alumni Relations. 
017 JG: History of writing Deaf Heritage (project beg. 1977). "Deaf Voltaire." 
031 JG: His aims for Deaf Heritage. His family's involvement in the book (047). 
053 His daughter's (8 yr. old) prayer in church service when book was finally finished: "Thank God Daddy's finished his book." 
063 Gannon's favorite stories from book: those about odd causes to which deafness used to be attributed. (sore eyes; sprain; immodest behavior; swallowing a chaw of tobacco). 
107 Stories about deaf baseball players discussed. Story re 'Dummy' Taylor and the rain collected by JG while JG was visiting Kansas School for the Deaf where Taylor went--museum there. Hoy--credited with invention of ball/strike count signs because he couldn't lipread from the outfield. 
146 S. Carmel: story about Hoy and jockey.
162 Helms Hall of Fame (for deaf athletes) in L.A. (JG)
173 BE: memory of baseball pitcher famous for cussing; JG identifies him as Taylor. 
190 SC: story about Taylor, bored on baseball field, wandering, looking in stands for deaf person, signing "Anybody deaf? Anybody deaf?" till he found someone to converse with. (collected 2 yrs ago from deaf man in NY)
195 JG: similar story re Fred Schreiber (NAD) trying to identify person sent to meet him at the airport, finally signing "I am F. S...." 
207 SC: similar airport story from last fall in Pittsburgh--signing "I am deaf" till he was identified. 
216 BE: story re Joanne Greenberg (JE?) telling me about how she wd go to mental hospitals where staff didn't know which patients were deaf, go through aisles signing till people responded.