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1. GALLAU_970811_01.JPG: Gallaudet College; Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet Gallaudet University is the only accredited liberal arts university in the world devoted to the education of students with hearing impairments. It was begun here on the Kendall Green estates back in 1856 when Amos Kendall set up a small school on his estate to tutor five orphaned children who were deaf and mute. Kendall had been President Andrew Jackson's Postmaster General and went on to make a killing as business manager for Samuel Morse (the telegraph). In 1857, the school was chartered as the Columbia School Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. In 1864, it was chartered as a four-year college. Kendall died in 1869 and the school was renamed in honor of the school's first teacher, Edward Miner Gallaudet in 1894. In 1894, the school became a football first. The school's football team, the Bison, found that opposing teams could read their sign language used to call on-field plays. They found they could communicate in private by forming a tight circle around the quarterback. This was the origin of the football huddle. In 1989, the school board selected a new president who could speak sign language but was not actually hearing impaired. The student body effectively shut down the school at this slight and the president was replaced by a hearing-impaired individual. Shown here is a statue of one of the Gallaudets. Edward Gallaudet, for whom the school was named, also has two buildings named for him but his statue is located in a less public area.
2. GALLAU_970811_06.JPG: Track & Football Field. A picture of the Gallaudet track and football field. This might have been where the football huddle was invented.
3. GALLAU_970811_08.JPG: Gallaudet College; Chapel Hall. This is a photo of Chapel Hall which is the main building that visitors see when they first enter the campus. The statue of Thomas Gallaudet (see previous photo) is the shape in the front right of the photo.
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Wikipedia Description: Gallaudet University
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Gallaudet University is a federally chartered, quasi-governmental university for the education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing, located in Washington, D.C. It was the first school for the advanced education of the deaf and hard-of-hearing in the United States, and is still the world's only university in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students. The university was named after Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, a notable figure in the advancement of deaf education.

Gallaudet University is a bilingual community in which American Sign Language (ASL) and English exist side-by-side. While there are no specific ASL requirements for undergraduates, many graduate programs have sign language proficiency requirements.

History:

In 1856, philanthropist and former United States Postmaster General Amos Kendall became aware of several deaf and blind children in Washington, DC who were not receiving proper care. Kendall had the courts declare the children to be his wards, and donated two acres of his land to establish housing and a school for them.

In 1857, the 34th Congress passed HR 806, which chartered Kendall's school as the Columbia Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind and provided funding for the tuition of indigent deaf, dumb, or blind children belonging to the District.

In 1864, the 38th Congress authorized the Institution to grant and confirm college degrees.

In 1865, the 38th Congress removed the instruction that the Institution was to educate the blind, and renamed it the "Columbia Institution for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb"

In 1954, Congress amended the charter of the Institution and changed the corporate name to "Gallaudet College" to match the name that had been the official name of the collegiate department since 1894.

In 1986, Congress again amended the charter of the Institution, and ...More...
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