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Virginia Association of the Deaf

Collection of the Virginia Association of the Deaf, 1912-2001

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Descriptive Summary

Repository: Gallaudet University Archives

Call No.: MSS 184

Creator:

Title: Collection of the Virginia Association of the Deaf, 1912-2001.

Quantity: 6.0 linear feet (10 document boxes)

Abstract: This collection describes the history of the Virginia Association of the Deaf. Included in the collection are correspondence, meeting minutes, financial reports, program books, constitutions and by laws, periodicals, newspaper clippings, and photographs.

Note:

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information: The collection of the Virginia Association of the Deaf was donated to the Gallaudet University Archives by Fred Yates on June, 2000.

Processed by: Michael J. Olson, 2011.

Processing Note:

Conditions on Use and Access: This collection is open to the public with no restrictions. Photocopies may be made for scholarly research.

Related material in the Archives

Deaf Film

Picnics: Maryland Association of the Deaf at Baltimore, Virginia Association of the Deaf, Frat # 47- Outing, 50th Anniversary of Maryland Association of Deaf and Tolchester Beach [motion picture] 1926-1927, 1948. Deaf Film 5-16

Deaf Rare

Alumni Association of the Virginia School for the Deaf: at V.S.D.B., Staunton, Virginia, June 6, 7, 8, 1940

Historical Sketch

The Virginia Association of the Deaf was formed during the first meeting that was held in the old chapel of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind in Staunton, Virginia, on June 11, 1884. John Walter Michaels, a deaf leader, was the founder and Rev. Job Turner, a deaf missionary, was the first president of the Virginia Association of the Deaf. For more information on the history of the association, please refer to Box 9, Folder 8 “History of the V. A. D.” in the collection of the Virginia Association of the Deaf.

Scope and Content

The collection of the Virginia Association of the Deaf consists of approximately 8,500 pages of correspondence, minutes, constitution and by-laws, financial reports, program books, brochures, directories, certificates, flyers, newspaper clippings, and photographs. The bulk of the collection dates from 1912 to 2001. The largest collections are correspondence files which span the years between 1934 and 1993 concerning the affairs of the organization. The collection contains newspaper clippings concerning the controversy of the selection of a superintendent of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind. Also included in this collection are the files of the Virginia Council for the Deaf and the Auld Lang Syne Alumni Association of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind.

Series Descriptions and Folder List

Series 1: Association Files

Box 1 (Folder 1) – Box 3 (Folder 16) 1912 – 2001

In this series are minutes from Board and general meetings, program books for the Virginia Association of the Deaf conventions, as well as the Miss Deaf Virginia Pageant.

Series 2: Office and General Files

Box 3 (Folder 17) – Box 7 (Folder 16) 1934 – 2001

Included in this group are incoming and outgoing letters written by the presidents of the association, as well as the officers. There are reports of the committees. Included are the files of the constitutions and by-laws and financial reports. Convention materials are included.

Series 3: General Files and Photographs

Box 7 (Folder 17) – Box 10 (Folder 22) 1919 – 2001

Within this series are newspaper clippings, addresses given by the presidents of the association, Alumni Association of the Auld Lang Syne (School for the Deaf), periodicals, legislative bills related to the school for the deaf and the blind, letters related to the controversy of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, also related to the National Association of the Deaf and Northern Virginia Association of the Deaf. Virginia Council for the Deaf is included in this collection. Two envelopes of photographs are included.

Box Folder Title of Folder Date
001 01 Minute Book (Oversized) 1912-1939
001 02 Minute Book (Oversized) 1941-1977
002 01 Minutes – 34th Biennial Convention – Norfolk 1973
002 02 Minutes – 35th Biennial Convention – Fredericksburg 1975
002 03 Minutes – 36th Biennial Convention – Richmond 1977
002 04 Minutes – 37th Biennial Convention – Virginia Beach 1979
002 05 Minutes – 38th Biennial Convention – Staunton 1981
002 06 Minutes – 39th Biennial Convention – Arlington 1983
002 07 Minutes – 40th Biennial Convention – Lynchburg 1985
002 08 Minutes – 43rd Biennial Convention – Richmond 1991
002 09 Minutes – Board Meeting 1973-1979
002 10 Minutes – Board Meeting 1980-1984
002 11 Minutes – Board Meeting 1985-1989
002 12 Minutes – Board Meeting 1990-1993
002 13 Minutes – Mini Convention 1978-1992
002 14 Minutes – Special Meeting of the Virginia School for the Deaf Alumni Association 1934
003 01 Program Book – 25th Biennial Convention – Washington, DC 1954
003 02 Program Book – 31st Biennial Convention – Richmond 1966
003 03 Program Book – 32nd Biennial Convention – Arlington 1968
003 04 Program Book – 33rd Biennial Convention – Roanoke 1971
003 05 Program Book – 35th Biennial Convention – Fredericksburg 1975
003 06 Program Book – 36th Biennial Convention – Richmond 1977
003 07 Program Book – 38th Biennial Convention – Staunton 1981
003 08 Program Book – 39th Biennial Convention – Arlington 1983
003 09 Program Book – 40th Biennial Convention – Lynchburg 1985
003 10 Program Book – 42nd Biennial Convention – Fredericksburg 1988
003 11 Program Book – 43rd Biennial Convention – Richmond 1991
003 12 Program Book – 44th Biennial Convention – Arlington 1993
003 13 Program Book – 45th Biennial Convention – Roanoke 1995
003 14 Program Book – 46th Biennial Convention – Hampton 1997
003 15 Program Book – 47th Biennial Convention – Staunton 1999
003 16 Program Book – Miss Deaf Virginia Pageant 1997-2001
003 17 General Correspondence 1934-1935
003 18 General Correspondence 1936-1939
003 19 General Correspondence 1946-1949
003 20 General Correspondence 1950-1951
004 01 General Correspondence 1952-1955
004 02 General Correspondence 1956-1957
004 03 General Correspondence 1958-1959
004 04 General Correspondence 1960-1964
004 05 General Correspondence 1965-1967
004 06 General Correspondence 1968-1969
004 07 General Correspondence 1970-1971
004 08 General Correspondence 1972-1973
004 09 General Correspondence 1974-1975
004 10 General Correspondence 1976-1977
005 01 General Correspondence 1978-1979
005 02 General Correspondence 1980-1984
005 03 General Correspondence 1985
005 04 General Correspondence 1986
005 05 General Correspondence 1986
005 06 General Correspondence 1987
006 01 General Correspondence 1987
006 02 General Correspondence 1988
006 03 General Correspondence 1989
006 04 General Correspondence 1990
006 05 General Correspondence 1991
006 06 General Correspondence 1992-1993
006 07 Correspondence – Busch Gardens 1986-1988
006 08 Correspondence – Kings Dominion 1982-1990
006 09 Correspondence – National Census of the Deaf 1968-1971
006 10 Correspondence – re: Kevin Craig Chinn 1983-1984
007 01 Bill submitted through the members of the Virginia Association of the Deaf – Blank n.d., 1990
007 02 Committee – Auditing Committee 1990-1992
007 03 Committee – Report of the Resolutions Committee 1950-1958
007 04 Committee – Report of the Resolutions Committee 1966-1968
007 05 Committee – Report of the Resolutions Committee 1971-1979
007 06 Committee – Report of the Resolutions Committee 1980-1994
007 07 Committee – Various Committee Reports 1951-1992
007 08 Constitution and By-Laws 1952-1995
007 09 Convention Materials 1970-2001
007 10 Convention Materials 1981
007 11 Convention Materials 1983
007 12 Convention Materials 1985
007 13 President’s Reports 1970-1990
007 14 Proceedings – Town Hall Meeting at the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind 1985
007 15 Resolutions – Corporation Account 1983-1984
007 16 Treasurer’s Reports 1973-1993
007 17 1983 Calendar 1983
007 18 Addenda to the Address of Linwood Holton, Governor of VA 1972
007 19 Addresses of the Presidents of the Virginia Association of the Deaf 1936-1989
008 01 Agreement between the Virginia Association of the Deaf and the Northern Virginia Association of the Deaf 1983
008 02 Americans with Disabilities Act n.d.
008 03 Auld Lang Syne Alumni Association – Constitution and By-Laws 1955-1994
008 04 Auld Lang Syne Alumni Association – Financial Report 1997
008 05 Auld Lang Syne Alumni Association – Hall of Fame 1994
008 06 Auld Lang Syne Alumni Association – Letters 1984
008 07 Auld Lang Syne Alumni Association – Minutes Meeting 1976-1982
008 08 Auld Lang Syne Alumni Association – Program Books 1959-1994
008 09 Auld Lang Syne Alumni Association – Remarks by Dr. James E. Price 1984
008 10 Certificate from the National Association of the Deaf 1946
008 11 Clippings – Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind Investigation 1919
008 12 Clippings 1931-1939
008 13 Clippings 1940-1949
008 14 Clippings 1953-1958
008 15 Clippings 1962-1967
008 16 Clippings 1970-1979
008 17 Clippings 1981-1989
008 18 Clippings 1990-1992
008 19 Clippings n.d.
008 20 Commonwealth of Virginia – Memos 1988-1992
008 21 Complaints against H. M. McManaway n.d.
008 22 Contract to Publish Virginia Association of the Deaf Program 1979
008 23 Copy of Appeal to Board (Pinter Report) 1936
008 24 Copy of Petition to the Board of Visitors of the Virginia School for the Deaf 1934
008 25 Demonstration Rally in Richmond, VA 1986
008 26 Directory of Services 1980
008 27 Directory of Services 1982-1983
008 28 Directory of Services 1986-1988
008 29 Directory of Services 1993-1994
009 01 Directory of Services 1994-1995
009 02 Directory of Services 1995
009 03 Directory of Services 1996
009 04 Dual Party Relay Service (DPRS) 1988-1990
009 05 Envelope addressed to Reuben I. Altizer from W. C. Ritter n.d.
009 06 Flyers 1958-1993
009 07 General 1982-1989
009 08 History of the Virginia Association of the Deaf 1991-1999
009 09 Inventory List 1988
009 10 Legislative Bills 1896
009 11 Legislative Bills 1940-1955
009 12 Legislative Bills 1970-1979
009 13 Legislative Bills 1985-1990
009 14 Letters from Altizer, Reuben I. 1934
009 15 Letters from the Alumni Association of the Deaf of the Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind n.d.
009 16 Letters from President Percival Hall of Gallaudet College 1934
009 17 Letters from Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind Patrons and Parents Association 1934
009 18 Letters to Altizer, Reuben I. 1933-1934
009 19 Letter – Veditz, George W. 1933
009 20 Memorandums from Frank Bowe 1992
009 21 National Association of the Deaf 1974-1992
009 22 National Association of the Deaf – Resolutions – Sign Language 1937
009 23 Northern Virginia Association of the Deaf 1987-1998
009 24 Paper – A Parent’s Perspective on the Education of a Deaf Child by Mrs. Nathan Katz 1967
009 25 Paper – Michigan’s Nursery School for the Deaf by Charles D. Watson 1949
009 26 Paper – My Visit to the Deaf in Russia by Reuben I. Altizer 1971
010 01 Periodicals – “The Deaf Virginian” 1936
010 02 Periodicals – Virginia Association of the Deaf Bulletin 1947-1949
010 03 Periodicals – The Virginia Association of the Deaf Bulletin 1953-1967
010 04 Periodicals – The Virginia Association of the Deaf Bulletin 1968-1975
010 05 Periodicals – The Virginia Association of the Deaf Bulletin 1976-1982
010 06 Periodicals – The Virginia Association of the Deaf Bulletin 1983-1999
010 07 Periodicals – The Virginia Guide 1922
010 08 Periodicals – The P. C. Bulletin 1952
010 09 Piedmont Chapter – 50th Anniversary Banquet 1996
010 10 Report – An information Program to Establish a Broad Understanding of the Need for Separate Schools for the Blind and Deaf in VA 1953
010 11 Report – In-Depth Study Committee, Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind 1983
010 12 Report – Schools for the Deaf and the Blind 1967
010 13 School for the Blind 1953-1957
010 14 Speech by Frederick C. Schreiber 1966?
010 15 Talk by Delegate Robert T. Andrews – 39th Biennial Convention, Arlington, VA 1983
010 16 Virginia Association of the Deaf Organization Contacts 1990
010 17 Virginia Council for the Deaf 1972-1973
010 18 Virginia Council for the Deaf – History 1985
010 19 Virginia Department for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 1985-1991
010 20 Virginia Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf 1979-2001
010 21 Photographs – Portraits – T. Vernon Cherry n.d.
010 22 Photographs – Events – Gov. John Dalton signs three Council for Deaf Interpreters Bills 1979

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