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FIFTY & FORWARD: Building on the Legacy

Legacy Stories

RID's 50th anniversary is about each of you and how your own individual story contributes to the greater legacy of RID. Leading up to the 2013 RID National Conference and through the following year, RID will be featuring Legacy Stories in VIEWS, online and at the conference. Information on how to participate is below. RID is the members and the members are RID. Without your legacy, there is no RID legacy. These are your stories.
 

A BEAUTIFUL DAY
Submitted by the Texas Society of Interpreters for the Deaf (TSID) Trilingual Interpreting SIG
Video Directed by Sharon Ferranti - Video Produced by Everett Puckett and Chris Grooms

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THANKS TO INTERPRETERS...
Dr. Alan Hurwitz, President of Gallaudet University
(Featured in the winter 2013 issue of VIEWS; photo credit: Matthew Vita, Gallaudet University)

When RID invited me to share my legacy story, I assumed it was for two reasons: first because I and others, including Anna Witter-Merithew, worked together years ago to set up the country’s first educational interpretation program at NTID; second, because I admire and respect the field of interpreting. But as I began to put down my ideas for this article, I realized that there is a third reason I was asked to share. It’s because…I’m old. Read more (PDF)>>

BUILDING BRIDGES (Featured in the fall 2012 issue of VIEWS)









Lloyd Wayne Bridges and Margie Lee Johnson met, fell in love and married in a small church in Guthrie, Oklahoma and then set forth in their young lives. Although graduates of the Oklahoma School for the Deaf, they would in time call Texas their home and their path would ultimately lead them to Austin. Through life long friendships and a passion for serving, the Bridges would help to change the culture of injustice and oppression toward deaf and hard of hearing individuals in Texas. This is their story and it is our history of how Texas became a model for equal access and deaf rights. Read more (PDF)>>