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Inside this Issue

	Entire issue 448kb
	Interview 26kb Dr. Rachel Stone began work as the new superintendent of the California School for the Deaf–Riverside in March. The deaf daughter of deaf parents, Stone graduated from the North Carolina School for the Deaf, earned her college degree and her doctorate from Gallaudet University, and earned her master’s degree from Western Maryland College. She taught deaf children in Washington, D.C., and in Indiana School for the Deaf, and hearing and deaf students at Western Maryland College in Westminster, Maryland.
	Update 36kb Stories Include: Scuba Signs: Signing in the Seas; Patsy Ann: The Deaf Dog Who Welcomed Ships and People; Deaf Proverbs: Time-tested Writer
	Captioning Movies: the Time is NOW? 48kb Should all movie theaters provide captioning access? Eight deaf residents of Oregon think so. They filed a suit against the movie theaters demanding that they show captions. They say that captions are required for deaf people under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
	Card Collection Reflects Deaf Doing Everything 34kb Louis Schwarz, a certified financial planner in Washington, D.C., has a collection of business cards from deaf and hard of hearing people who have their own businesses.
	Politics: A Front Line of Change 33kb Judy Stout, family educator at the Gallaudet University Laurent Clerc National Deaf Education Center, is the newest member of the upcounty citizens board. The board advises the Commissioners of Montgomery County, Maryland, on everything from roads to schools to safety.
	Tall Ship... and a Star to Steer Her By (Cover Story) 103kb Paul Thompson remembers the first time he ever set foot on a boat. He was eight or nine years old when he met another boy on a cruise boat in the harbor. The boy invited him on board. "We crawled all around and I looked all over everything,"he said. "I decided I would have one of my own some day." First, of course, he had to grow up. Now at 43 years old, Thompson not only has his own sailboat, he made it himself. And he not only sailed it, but he sailed it without any crew. Thompson became the first deaf person to sail the southern Atlantic Ocean by himself.
	Hurricane 27kb Last fall Hurricane Floyd swept through North Carolina. The Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf (ENCSD) is in Wilson, North Carolina. Last issue ENCSD student wrote about their own experiences in the hurricane. Here are interviews conducted by the students that reveal the experiences of others.
	Sports 36kb Hitting Hard for New York Mets! Curtis Pride, an all-around athlete and one of the few deaf professional baseball players, is rejoining the New York Mets on their farm team. With this move, Pride returns to the first team who signed him in 1986. Then, fresh from graduation from a Maryland high school, he played with the Mets farm team during the summer and went to college during fall and winter. His signing with the Mets was contingent on his being permitted to attend college and to play baseball during the summer months.
	What Will Happen in the Millennium? Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Predict! 91kb Students from the Maryland School for the Deaf, Frederick, Maryland, give their predictions for the new millennium.