Gallandetr College

Bentall Green
Washington 2, 8. €.

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April 16, 1959

Hon, John E. Fogarty
House of Representatives
Washington 25, D. C.

My dear Mr. Fogarty:

I was in your office Tuesday, and your secretary
kindly gave me several copies of House Resolution #316.

Naturally Gallaudet College is very much interested
in this joint resolution which has been referred to the
committee on Education and Labor. Our college is one of
four major training centers in institutions where deaf
children are available for laboratory work, namely,
Gallaudet College; Clarke School for the Deaf, Northampton,
Mass.; Central Institute for the Deaf, St. Louis, Mo. 3
Lexington School for the Deaf, 904 Lexington Ave., New
York City.

It is very important that any bill passed protect
these comparatively smaller teacher training units because
it is these four training centers which have provided the
majority of teachers of deaf children down through the
years. Those training centers located in large universi-
ties, such as the one in Tennessee, are more interested in
speech correction for those having normal hearing and
those having a slight loss of hearing. A teacher trained
to do that work is not trained to teach deaf children. We
must be sure that the bill is so worded that teachers of
deaf children be included.

It is our hope, therefore, that we will have an op-
portunity to participate in any discussions on this bill.
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We do appreciate everything you do for the welfare
of the deaf child. Your contributions to the program
at Gallaudet College have been marvelous. I do hope

sometime you can get out to see the great advances made
here in the last few years.

Kindest regards. xo

Sincerely yours
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