34th Annual Gallaudet & Clerc Banquet

November 11, 2006

Dear Fellow Gallaudet Alumni and Friends,

The Kentucky Chapter of Gallaudet University Alumni Association and Kentucky School for the Deaf are jointly sponsoring the 34th annual Gallaudet & Clerc banquet on Thursday, December 7, 2006.

You are cordially invited to attend the banquet in Walker Hall Dining Room at Kentucky School for the Deaf at 6:00 PM.
The cost of the ticket per person for the banquet is $15.00.

The theme of the banquet will be Deaf Ambassadorship and our guest speaker will be Dr. Bobbie Beth Scoggins.

Dr. Bobbie Beth Scoggins
Executive Director of Kentucky Commission on the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (KCDHH)
President of the National Association of the Deaf (NAD)

A reception will be in the parlor on the second floor of Jacobs Hall after the banquet. It will offer you a great opportunity to meet
Dr. Bobbie Beth Scoggins as well as to socialize with your friends.

Please buy your ticket as soon as possible, preferably before Monday, December 4th. There will be no tickets sold at the door nor at the KSD Business Office.

To purchase ticket(s) through the mail or in person:
Roger Coyer
723 Cave Springs Drive
Lancaster, KY 40444

Ph. Nbr.: (859) 792-3603 (TDD)

Email: Coyer74@adelphia.net

Do not send cash in the mail. Check or money order only is to be made payable to KY GUAA. Your ticket(s) will be reserved for you to pick up at the door just before the banquet. Please do it early! Thank you!

Your fellow alumna and friend,
Billy Lange
President

TAKE BACK GALLAUDET! WE DID IT! =)

Kentucky Chapter of GUAA alumni and friends gathered at Jacobs Hall museum at Kentucky School for the Deaf on Wednesday, November 1st to take part in the nationwide celebrating the protest at Gallaudet ending with good news! =)

Archie & Barbie Harris were at Gallaudet a week before homecoming visiting their daughter, Jennifer and participated in the protest. Barbie got this band and left it on until this day, it was finally cut off.

This picture is self-explanatory! YAY! =)

The banner was donated by City Art Signs, THANKS! =) The Harrises are mailing it to their daughter, Jennifer at Gallaudet and she would show the banner and talk about it there before it goes to the Gallaudet archives for historical purposes.

Alumni & friends

Byron Wilson leaves his autograph on the banner.

....and Sandy Johnson does the same thing.

KY Chapter of GUAA President Billy Lange prepares to autograph also.

Read below about the history of the painting above.

The museum has a painting of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet seen above.

A painting of Laurent Clerc with the banner. The painting is one of only 3 paintings of Laurent Clerc out there! American School for the Deaf has one and we are not sure where the 3rd one is but someone said it might be at the Library of Congress? Gotta find that out!

Autographs on the banner with the painting.