[Slling-l] Robert Panara stamp

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
There is a Wikipedia article about him and consequently I could add a lot
of information in WIkidata .. The stamp does also feature and it links to
the Wikidata information.. I did add two people with "language spoken"
"American Sign Language".
Thanks,
      GerardM

https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/?&q=29018852

On 31 May 2017 at 22:27, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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