Jean,

I said, “not all are deaf, but they all had connections/ties to NTID.” I know Davila and Golladay are deaf (and Gallaudet alumni as well!).

Sandman:

Dr. Davila is deaf.

Dr. Robert Frisina? Non, jamais de la vie! Audistically, he told my former school superintendent Ambrosen that he would found the NTID to surpass Gallaudet College within 20 years in that he was not happy about something in GU’s Audiology Department. Himself specialising in orthoepy, Frisina was (has been [?]) affiliated with AGBell.

I cannot comment on Castle mentioned in your comment because I do not know him. I knew Loy Golloday. He was a Clerc scholar and used to teach at the American School for the Deaf for many years and was a poet..

Dr. Frisina and I used to have discussions. He wondered how Deaf can have more scholarship (the brain that works in his thinking of how deaf should improve) I told him that deaf can learn better using ASL. Oralism does not work.

As for Castle, he can take hike! He is like wolf in sheep’s clothing trying to sneak in audism and the Bell plaque.

Loy Golladay… I loved him and he was special guy at NTID. Same for Curtis Robbins and others down the years. Bob Davilia is cool, too. They are the right candidates for the naming.

To enlighten on Dr. Hurwitz, his hands are probably tied in regards to Hearing and Speech Association, AGBAD and other audistic organizations. His sister-in-law is the principal of oral school in St. Louis….so someone has to deprogram him from oralism world. He is nice guy but his heart is in wrong place.

To be blunt, I knew Alan for many years. I learned leadership pointers from him, but of course, I am not oralist anymore. i chose my deaf identity in deafhood as well as keep my faith in ASL and Deaf Culture. This is where I belong.

Like some others recommended “NTID ALUMNI HALL”, I am in favor of that at this stage.

=)

Off the top of my head: Frisina, Castle, Golladay, Davila… not all are deaf, but they all had connections/ties to NTID. NTID alumni and faculty could probably come up with a more comprehensive list of names than I could.