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Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Feb 8, 1999 3:21 pm Subject: Great SignWriting Meeting! | |
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February 8, 1999 Dear SignWriting List Members - Yesterday we held our annual SignWriting Membership meeting. It is a Board Meeting, but SignWriting members also attend and everyone can vote. We had 20 people here in my home in La Jolla, California. People from all walks of life attended..members of the Deaf Community, members of the Danish-American community, sign language students, scientists, and people working in marketing and fund raising. Phil Carmona and Nancy Romero interpreted. Refreshments were donated by "Jonathan's", a local supermarket. After the voting, Darline Clark Gunsauls and Dave Gunsauls told about their work with the DAC in 1998. Their adorable daughter Tiffany, who is two-and-a-half years old, wore a beautiful blue dress and patent leather shoes! She is a native signer, and chimed in that she likes videotapes. Her Mom did a wonderful videotape in 1998 which is the first in a series entitled "the SignWriting Children's Stories video series". So Tiffany sat and watched Mom tell Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty in ASL while we continued with our meeting! Our group then started a great conversation about fund raising. Everyone contributed ideas. It was like a family reunion with everyone pulling together - a warm feeling! Nancy Romero, who also interpreted, is skilled in SignWriting and DanceWriting. Nancy's story, "Ivan the Giraffe" was recently posted on our web site: Ivan the Giraffe https://www.SignWriting.org/writ002.html I asked Nancy to take her interpreter's hat off for a few minutes to tell us about her new story and she described this giraffe at the San Diego Wild Animal Park! Apparently several SW List members wrote privately to Nancy about her story, and she really enjoyed that! Anne Goldman, one of our Board Members, is originally from Denmark. Anne told the group about a project planned for 1999. Anne and I will be sharing the job of translating an 80 page report that is written in Danish. We will be creating an "English version" of the same document, although the diagrams will always be in Danish Sign Language. The report is called: Forsogsprojekt Paa Doveskolen I Randersgade Kobenhavn, Danmark, 1985 "Undervisning I Tegnskrift/Tegnsprog" Research Project At The Deaf School At Randersgade, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1985 "Instruction In SignWriting/Sign Language" You can read a little introduction about this report right now on this page: https://www.SignWriting.org/rese002.html I am scheduled to post our translation as a Special Feature on April 12th. I really appreciate Anne's help on this project...we barely know where to begin, but my guess is, once we get into the translation, it will go quickly. When the meeting adjourned the REAL fun began!! We all chatted and ate, while watching the new SW History video and the Children's Stories video. Several people discussed SignWriting at length with me, learning details of how we write down in columns. Others had new ideas for raising funds. One person feels he can get a donated Pentium for us. We need it badly, because the new version of the SignWriter Computer Program, version 5.0, which is written in Java, requires faster computers. Right now we have old computers that are not Pentiums...so you can see that our computers need to be upgraded! So that was our meeting - and it was great one....Wish you all could have been with us!! Valerie ':-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton at the DAC Deaf Action Committee for SW SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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