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(5/20/81 mtg page 7)
453 BE: 3 years ago I was at an Alabama tournament, staying in a hotel, had to catch a 7 a.m. plane back, and I had the same conversation with the clerk--telephone, etc. Finally he agreed to send someone into my room to wake me up (I felt silly asking this); in the morning he came in, stood at the foot of the bed, touched my toe! And same man got me a driver to the airport, too.
492 TF: Experience in NY when he had to get up early to jog.
506 JG: A friend of his slept with the telephone in bed with her so that its ring would wake her up.
[519: Jack Gannon departs] [all leave but SC, JR, TF]
T-2, S-2
109 JR: Explains TF´s place(s) in FAF. TF: He´ll have to bone up on stories about alarm clocks, etc. General discussions of FAF program.

Idea of including fan-doorbell signaller for deaf-blind in displays. Much discussion of displays (not clear on tape).
361 JR: asks re Tom Fields' life history.
TF: Born in Washington. Deaf. Parents decided to send him to Clarke School. He still remembers his first night at school: he cried all night, refused to go to bed, didn't know where he was. Spent 12 years at Clarke (instead of 13; skipped a grade.  After graduating from Clarke, went to Walt Whitman High School; played sports, worked on stage crew (now he acts, himself).  Accepted at Franklin & Marshall College in Pa.  Wrestled.  Majored in Fine Arts; realized he was wasting his time with that, decided to be an architect (431); transferred to U. Maryland. There were no interpreter services, notetaking, etc. Hardest subjects: English, History, Art History (b/of the slides). Structure and design course were easiest. Now they have interpreters. I'm taking a course now, Fundamentals of Writing; I shouldn't be taking it--too easy--but my superior told me to take it. I ask questions and answer them readily with an interpreter; participate a lot in class. Like Clarke School all over again.
511 Making presentation to architecture classes at U. Md. Frustration in seminars where people talked and he couldn't follow for hours.
545 TF: Learned to sign 7 years ago when his (hearing) ex-wife separated from him; learned so that he'd have friends in deaf community. Deaf tease him a lot. This summer he'll get married; HOH woman, can use phone for him, be "social sec'y". Won't have to deal with deaf any more.