<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">That explains why I haven’t seen them in a while. ;-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Yes, I would love to be able to see them again.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I will tell Cindy hi tomorrow. :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 23, 2022, at 5:52 PM, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org" class="">sutton@signwriting.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">SignWriting List<div class="">February 23, 2022</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hi SignWriting List…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and Adam -</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Oh, I think it would be great if you could come to see Dave and Darline while they are here, Adam. They don’t live in San Diego any longer, so this is an opportunity… I will be sure to tell you once I know the dates of their visit...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I wish everyone on the SW List could meet our old DAC members - The Deaf Action Committee for SignWriting, the DAC, started in 1988 with Cindy O’Grady Batch (now Farnady)…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The DAC met every Wednesday evening in my home after work, from 1988 - 1996 or so… the majority worked at the Dr. Ursula Bellugi’s Linguistic lab at Salk Institute, which is near the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) campus. And after work at the lab, they would come and sit in my living room and discuss SignSpellings!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Here is an old video that we filmed in my living room ;-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Deaf Perspectives on SignWriting (1994)</div><div class="">Video 1: How Deaf Opinions Changed</div><div class=""><a href="https://youtu.be/5mo6nprwz3o" class="">https://youtu.be/5mo6nprwz3o</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And then this video was made in a local studio:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Deaf Perspectives on SignWriting (1995)</div><div class="">Video 2: How SignWriting Changed</div><div class=""><a href="https://youtu.be/1Uj3_TYZ9oc" class="">https://youtu.be/1Uj3_TYZ9oc</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Both videos show some of the enormous changes made to the system at that time...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Then years later, Adam and Cindy taught on video … There are a series of videos that Adam and Cindy made together teaching Contact Symbols and Dynamics Symbols… I will try to find those links to videos….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am so glad that you are teaching with Cindy again tomorrow evening, Adam - Yes, tell her hi!</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><span class=""><span id="cid:C0683B41-83AC-431B-A15C-E695CE43115D"><Valerie_Signature_5.jpg></span></span><br class="">Val ;-)<br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 23, 2022, at 4:51 PM, Adam Frost <<a href="mailto:icemandeaf@GMAIL.COM" class="">icemandeaf@GMAIL.COM</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">That is great that they will be coming to see you in person! Tell them hi for me. :-)<br class=""><br class="">I haven’t seen them in so long. I think the last time I saw them was several years ago. Has it been close to 10 years now?! Ekk!! And to think we live in the same city. Ha!<br class=""><br class="">I see some of the others that were DAC members along with them from time to time. Many have gone to do various other things in their lives, but it is still nice to see them now and then.<br class=""><br class="">Speaking of seeing old DAC members, I will be presenting tomorrow as a guest lecturer for another class along with Cindy (O'Grady Batch) Farnady. I will be sure to tell her hi for you.<br class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:BC7FF2BE-B327-4618-B076-E92B91C176BA@home"><namesign.png></span><br class="">Adam<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 23, 2022, at 3:50 PM, Valerie Sutton <<a href="mailto:sutton@SIGNWRITING.ORG" class="">sutton@SIGNWRITING.ORG</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">SignWriting List<br class="">February 23, 2022<br class=""><br class="">Hello everybody on the SignWriting List!<br class=""><br class="">I have been on a FaceTime with Deaf friends for several hours today, both in the morning and the afternoon and I have another FaceTime coming up in 15 minutes. Great experience!<br class=""><br class="">Do you remember this old newsletter? It was written in 1998 but actually I have known my friends in this newsletter since 1996:<br class=""><br class="">SignWriting Newsletter Spring 1998<br class=""><a href="https://www.signwriting.org/library/newsletter/news001.html" class="">https://www.signwriting.org/library/newsletter/news001.html</a><br class=""><br class=""><Image.png><br class=""><br class="">And they are coming to see me in person in a couple of weeks, in mid March! Can't wait to see them again.<br class=""><br class="">Darline is the ASL storyteller for our children’s stories series:<br class=""><br class="">Learn to Read American Sign Language in SignWriting<br class="">https://www.signwriting.org/lessons/readasl/<br class=""><br class="">Darline also taught SignWriting in Nicaragua -<br class="">https://www.signwriting.org/nicaragua/nic001.html<br class=""><br class="">Thank you James and Judy Shepard-Kegl for inviting Darline to teach there - she send her best wishes - Hope all if going well for you in Nicaragua -<br class=""><br class="">Val ;-)<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br class=""></div></div>________________________________________________
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