| SignWriting List Archive 1 October 1997 - May 1998 |
February 23, 1998
MESSAGE TO THE SIGNWRITING EMAIL LIST
SUBJECT: Help In Research
From: Krakadoom@aol.com
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 19:06:14 EST
To: DAC@SignWriting.org
Subject: Re: Help In Research
Who cares if Cecelia is Deaf or not? The point is, she is in
our corner furthering the world's understanding about the Deaf.
James Womack
>February 20, 1998
>MESSAGE TO THE SIGNWRITING EMAIL LIST
>Dear List Members:
>Someone on our list wrote privately to me and asked if Cecelia
Smith is Deaf?
>Cecelia asked me to post this message in response...
>From: Cecelia40@aol.com
>Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:09:18 EST
>To: DAC@SignWriting.org
>Hello;
>Sorry.... I guess I should have told a little bit about myself.
>I am hearing, a certified interpreter, and first year graduate
student at
>Galludet. I have been learning ASL for the past 6 years,
and am finally
>starting for feel fairly fluent.
>I am a "non-traditional" student, 38, single, and
doing the "dorm" thing here
>at Gallaudet. I do not have any relatives that are deaf.
My reason for
>learning to sign is that I used to be a professional clown.
I felt bad that I
>could not communicate with a deaf child at a party, so I
started learning sign >language... and it has snowballed since
then.
>My field of study is linguistics, and my only two languages
are English and >ASL.
>Cecelia Smith
>Cecelia40@aol.com