EXHIBIT A DEAF PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT--PART 2

This is a continuation of Exhibit A. It had to be broken down in two parts because of its length. Below we continue with this Exhibit. Thank you for being patient.

Granville Redmond (1871-1935)

Granville Redmond was born in Philadelphia in 1871. His family was hearing but he was deaf either from birth or at the age of two or three due to scarlet fever. His family moved from Philadelphia to San Jose, California.

Redmond attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley from 1879 to 1890 where he learned painting drawing and pantomime. He then went to the California School of Design in San Francisco.

In 1893, Redmond won a scholarship from the California School of the Deaf and was able to go to Paris where he studied at the Academie Juliean. In 1898, he returned to California. Redmond became famous for his paintings which combined Tonalism with American landscapes. Tonalism used neutral hues such as gray, brown or blue. Tonalism was later superseded by impressionism.

A Landscape by Redmond

It is interesting that Redmond became friends with Charlie Chaplin and helped Chaplin develop some of the techniques that he used in films. Chaplin gave Redmond a studio on his movie lot and collected some of the paintings of Redmond.

Redmond died in Los Angeles in 1935.

Irving King Jordan (1943- )

Jordan became deaf at twenty-one due to a serious motorcycle accident resulting in complete deafness in one ear and damaged nerves in the other ear.

Jordan obtain both his master’s and his doctorate from the University of Tennessee. He later became a professor at Gallaudet and then later the head of its College of Arts and Sciences.

In 1988, he was one of the candidates for the Presidency of Gallaudet. The Board had determined to choose another candidate; however a student protest broke out called “Deaf President Now.” The students determined that they wanted a candidate who was deaf as opposed to one who was hearing.

Deaf President Now Movement 1988

Ultimately the Board of Directors selected I. King Jordan as President of Gallaudet and he became the first deaf president of Gallaudet since it was established in 1864.

Jordan won many honors and served as President of Gallaudet until 2006 and then retired from the Faculty of Gallaudet at the end of 2008.

Deaf Celebrities

Below are several well known deaf celebrities who are important to the Deaf Culture in the United States:

Marlee Matlin (1965- )

Marlee Matlin was born in Illinois in 1965 to a family who were Reformed Jewish. She lost all of hearing in one ear and 80% of her hearing in the other ear when she was eighteen months old due to illness. Matlin attended a synagogue for the Deaf. She also attended Harper College in Palatine, Illinois.

She had several roles as a child and as a teenager. In 1986 she was cast as Sarah Norman in the movie Children of a Lesser God which was based on 1979 stage play of the same name. The play is about two people falling in love. Sarah Norman is a young woman who is deaf and works as a janitor in a School of the Deaf in New England. The character for the male lead was Jeff Leads who is a new teacher who is able to hear. Matlin won both a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award for her role playing Sarah Norman. Matlin became the youngest actress to win the Academy Award and was the only deaf person to win for thirty six years.

Matlin’s success led to a number of additional roles in television. In 2009, Matlin was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Matlin is a deaf role model and has played many roles where she has used sign language on television. She has also been involved in numerous charitable endeavors especially those involving the Deaf Community. She has taken television roles only if the producers agree to use captions and to promote telephone equipment designed for deaf people. Matlin has also been active in various charities relating to the Jewish people, AIDs, ACLU, Red Cross and various organizations working for disability rights.

In 1987, Matlin received an honorary doctorate from Gallaudet University and in 2007 joined their Board of Trustees.

Matlin participated in Dancing with the Stars in Season 6 in 2008.

1n 2009, Matlin’s autobiography I’ll Scream Later was published.

Shoshannah Stern (1980- )

Shoshannah Stern was born in 1980 and came from a fourth generation Jewish deaf family. She attended the California School for the Deaf. Her first language is American Sign Language (“ASL”). She also learned to read lips and to speak English. She later attended Gallaudet University.

She has played a number of roles in Hollywood including the role of Holly Brodeen, a member of an anti-terrorist task force in Threat Matrix. She also played the role of a deaf doctor on Grey’s Anatomy and the role of Eileen Leahy on the show Supernatural. She has also played roles on ER, Providence and Cold Case.

Nyle DiMarco (1989- )

Nyle DiMarco was born in 1989 in Queens, New York as Nyle Thomas. He later changed his named to use his mother’s maiden name which is DiMarco. He grew up in Frederick, Maryland and attended the Maryland School for the Deaf.

DiMarco graduated from Gallaudet University. His primary language is ASL however he also uses English in writing.

DiMarco was employed as a freelance model and was contacted to participate in America’s Next Top Model in 2015. The producers at the time did not realize that he was deaf. DiMarco was the only deaf model in the show’s history and the first deaf person to win the show.

In 2016, DiMarco participated in Season 22 of Dancing with the Stars and was the second deaf person to ever participate, the first being Marlee Matlin. DiMarco was the first deaf person to win Dancing with the Stars.

DiMarco has been associated with a number of charities especially those which deal with Deaf Children and ASL

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