Military Experience at NYSD "Fanwood School" (subtitled)

My dad, Joe, shared his experience in the military program at NYSD "Fanwood" School in White Plains, NY back in 1950. There were many fascinating facts such as the undefeated Fanwood military band and Joe's first experience with Deaf teachers including Bob Davila who obtained his first job as a teacher there.

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Education

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• deaf history

[morada03]

That is very cool but i go to a school that has def kids i am an 4 th grade and i want to learn sighn language

[avbria]

@morada03 Awesome! Does your school offer sign language classes? If not, can propose for one. Also interacting with deaf peers will help you develop even more. Have fun!

[pdurr]

barb - an awesome interview - alot of work!. thank u for documenting Deaf history & for sharing ur dad with us. What a grand fellow. can i suggest u burn several DVDs of this interview and put in archives (tape would be better and more durable). Im sure RIT's Deaf Studies Archives would be interested. so much of Deaf history is lost, forgotten, unrecorded, distorted etc etc - nice to have primary sources - especially in ASL + English. Thank your dad for us big time.

[avbria]

@pdurr It has been my pleasure doing this since it is my hobby with love. Yes, it took me a week to finish the interview video but it is so worth it. I will take your suggestion in consideration as I do agree that it is important to preserve primary sources in Deaf Studies, :-).

[Jonrobrt]

Barb, I enjoyed this very much, but I do not read that fast:) I tried, but it FLEW BY!! Lol!

[avbria]

@Jonrobrt Yeah, it is really challenging to do subtitles as it took me more than five hours to do it. At least you can pause to read?

[silentone15]

Joe is lucky that he never had Mr Birck , He came to CSD as dean of boys. At that time he wore military uniform. Davila is real gem at CSD, I knew him when I was kid. We attended catholic with other boys and girls.

[pdurr]

@avbria awesome and again kudos!

[LivelyASL]

Oh I love Deaf History!!!! Thank you for sharing about your dad's experience at Deaf school!!!!

[matseattle]

@matseattle I am glad you share with us about his experienced. BUT BUT? I have a question

. After I distracted and am so confused when I saw your dad's last name is Motylinski is part of Polish or Czech and I realized you carried DiGi is part of Italian.. I understand that you keep your mother's maiden names.

[matseattle]

Barb, It is very interesting to know about Fanwood.Something that I was not aware of that deaf school have a some military clothes. Very interesting!! Wow.. I do not blame his parents knew nothing about deafness.. I assume Today is worsen than Fanwood. because Everything changed so much!

[mkrajnak]

Sweet, put a smile on my face. Dad is such a gentleman--a rare breed these days.