RIT-DSA. RIT/NTID Deaf Studies Archive

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Meeting minutes, club information, events information, deaf community related materials, photographs and media pertaining to the NTID Student Congress from 1974 to 2015.

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Materials related to the NTID Business Club at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). The purpose of the NTID Business Club is to improve the academic environment by providing the knowledge of business. The collection includes photographs from a trip to the Toronto Stock Exchange and a group photo from 1988.

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The TRIPOD Educational Model School (TRIPOD) program was started in 1982 as a method of teaching both deaf and hearing students together in a classroom using both sign language and voice. Eight DVDs contain Dr. James DeCaro's interviews with the founders of the TRIPOD program and parents of children who attended.

Overview Materials related to the National Women's History Project celebration of National Women's History Month 2014. In 1980, the National Women’s History Project (NWHP) was founded in Santa Rosa, California by Molly Murphy MacGregor and others to broadcast women’s historical achievements.The collection includes the Women's History 2014 Gazette (volume 6) and a bookmark from the same event. Feautred in the Gazette is 2014 National Women's History Month...

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Alan and Vicki Hurwitz were both employed at National Technical School for the Deaf (NTID) for many years. In 2013, they left to work at Gallaudet University. This collection includes several devices for communicating with the deaf, several coffee mugs from different events at NTID and cookbooks from different deaf schools across the U.S.

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The National Technical Institute of the Deaf (NTID) Drama Club photographs contain photographic prints from various plays, practices, and events performed by the NTID Drama Club from the early 1970’s to the mid-1990s.

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One of the fountain pens used by President Lyndon B. Johnson on June 8, 1965 to sign Public Law 89-36, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Act.

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1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson Official Inaugural Medal created by the Medallic Art Company.

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The materials in this collection are comprised of eight scripts of plays performed by the Lights On! theater group and five VHS videotapes. The items were collected and donated by Patricia Durr an associate professor at NTID.

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The collection includes two commemorative coins and two books related to deafness.