sad news - Elena Pizzuto (CNR Rome)

[Shane K. Gilchrist]

Everyone,

I am very sorry to tell you that Dr Elena Pizzuto have passed away last night.

Announcement about her funeral (today) from ENS (Italian Deaf
Association) in Italian:

http://www.ens.it/articolo.asp?ID=3837

There are some videos of deaf Italians paying respect to Elena,
talking about how wonderful she was in the deaf community, encouraging
them to accept that LIS is a real language and all that and how
positive she was - and that her presence is much missed:

http://www.vlog-sordi.com/2011/01/un-ricordo-di-elena-pizzuto.html

Some of you may want to check out her home page at:

http://www.istc.cnr.it/createhtml.php?nbr=41

Shane