[Ads-l] Robert Panara stamp

[Mark Mandel]

The US Postal Service issued a stamp on April 11th honoring Robert Panara:

Robert Panara (1920-2014), an influential teacher and a pioneer in the
field of Deaf Studies.
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Robert Panara
> Two-Ounce 70¢ | 3 Stamp Formats
>
> The 16th stamp in the Distinguished Americans series honors Robert Panara
> (1920-2014), an influential teacher and a pioneer in the field of Deaf
> Studies. The stamp features a photograph of Panara taken in 2009. He is
> shown signing the word “respect.”
>
> During his forty-year teaching career, Robert Panara inspired generations
> of students with his powerful use of American Sign Language to convey
> Shakespeare and other works of literature. His contributions to the field
> of Deaf Studies included influential articles he wrote in the 1970s on deaf
> American writers and deaf characters in modern literature, and the book *Great
> Deaf Americans* (1983).
>
> Panara taught at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., for nearly
> twenty years beginning in 1948, and at the National Technical Institute for
> the Deaf (part of the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State)
> from its founding in 1967 to 1987. He was one of the founders, in 1967, of
> the groundbreaking National Theatre of the Deaf in Waterford, Connecticut,
> which provided deaf actors with a venue for thriving in the performing arts.
>
> Art director Ethel Kessler designed the stamp with an existing photograph
> by Mark Benjamin, official photographer of the National Technical Institute
> for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
>
> The words “Two Ounce” on this stamp indicate its usage value. Like a
> Forever® stamp, this stamp will always be valid for the rate printed on it.
>
> Mark Mandel

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