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Harry G. Lang writes about education and history in the deaf population | democratandchronicle.com | Democrat and Chronicle
Harry G. Lang: Honeoye Falls resident, a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, received the 2008 Robert F. Panara Award for contributions to deaf education at a statewide conference held in Rochester earlier this month. (Panara, 87, presented the award.)
Most recent books: Moments of Truth — Robert R. Davila, The Story of a Deaf Leader, written with Oscar P. Cohen and Joseph E. Fischgrund (RIT Cary Press, $26 cloth, $18 paperback). Biography of the educator and administrator who was the first deaf chief executive officer at NTID. He is now president of Gallaudet University.
Also, Teaching From the Heart and Soul: The Robert F. Panara Story (Gallaudet University Press, $29.95). Biography of the deaf educator who, after a long career at Gallaudet University, in 1967 helped establish NTID as well as National Theatre of the Deaf. He retired from NTID in 1987 and now lives in Gates.
Backlist: Five books on deaf history and personalities and one on educating deaf students.
Motivation: As an educator, I see great value in historical research, both for developing aspirations in young deaf people and for informing the general public of the significant contributions deaf men and women have made to society throughout history.
Research: There are treasures of information in attics, basements and garages waiting to be found. Two of my published books and one in progress would have been difficult to write had it not been for people who offered me materials from family records or old documents from their work decades ago. As I have completed my works, I have donated these materials to the deaf archives at Gallaudet University and now at RIT's Wallace Memorial Library. Family records, thousands of old books, photographs and documents on the Web can also provide leads for follow-up research in archives and other resources.
It might surprise you to know: Although I have degrees in physics, engineering and education, I have an intense interest in the arts and humanities. I am not a historian by train-ing.
Harry G. Lang: Honeoye Falls resident, a professor at National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology, received the 2008 Robert F. Panara Award for contributions to deaf education at a statewide conference held in Rochester earlier this month. (Panara, 87, presented the award.)
Most recent books: Moments of Truth — Robert R. Davila, The Story of a Deaf Leader, written with Oscar P. Cohen and Joseph E. Fischgrund (RIT Cary Press, $26 cloth, $18 paperback). Biography of the educator and administrator who was the first deaf chief executive officer at NTID. He is now president of Gallaudet University.
Also, Teaching From the Heart and Soul: The Robert F. Panara Story (Gallaudet University Press, $29.95). Biography of the deaf educator who, after a long career at Gallaudet University, in 1967 helped establish NTID as well as National Theatre of the Deaf. He retired from NTID in 1987 and now lives in Gates.
Backlist: Five books on deaf history and personalities and one on educating deaf students.
Motivation: As an educator, I see great value in historical research, both for developing aspirations in young deaf people and for informing the general public of the significant contributions deaf men and women have made to society throughout history.
Research: There are treasures of information in attics, basements and garages waiting to be found. Two of my published books and one in progress would have been difficult to write had it not been for people who offered me materials from family records or old documents from their work decades ago. As I have completed my works, I have donated these materials to the deaf archives at Gallaudet University and now at RIT's Wallace Memorial Library. Family records, thousands of old books, photographs and documents on the Web can also provide leads for follow-up research in archives and other resources.
It might surprise you to know: Although I have degrees in physics, engineering and education, I have an intense interest in the arts and humanities. I am not a historian by train-ing.
