Happy birthday Valerie

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
February 22, 2008

Hello Stefan!
As always, you are so eloquent and amazing...Thank you for remembering  
my birthday, which I forget most of the time!

I have vowed I must start a "Birthday calendar" so I can remember all  
of your birthdays too...I have never done that, but I need to try...

I think it would be a great idea to write the Birthday Song in  
different signed languages...let's start with in ASL...I am not sure  
how to write it in ASL properly...can someone write the Birthday Song  
for us in ASL and send it to the List?

I am very blessed to have met you and everyone on this List and all  
those who write signs and movement...and everyone who expresses love  
and support... and my wonderful family, who have all called me from  
Florida and North Carolina today...It has been a busy morning!

And truthfully...the good news is the success that your students are  
having, Stefan, that is the best gift of all...thank you for telling  
us this:

Stefan wrote:
> My students develop excellent SW reading skills. This is a wonderful  
> support to develop a higher level in reading and writing spoken  
> language.


I am so glad to know this!! Please send my very best wishes to your  
students!

And THANK YOU for this glorious card...As always, your photos and  
beautiful True Type fonts for SignWriting are totally fantastic! I  
will place this card on the web in our Birthday Cards section ;-))

Val
born 1951 ;-))










On Feb 22, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Stefan Wöhrmann wrote:

> Dear Valerie and sw-list members,
>
> let us meet in cyberspace to hand out a paper  showing the  
> SignWriting transcription of some popular birthday songs –  must be  
> a wonderful chorus with all the people of different age, culture,  
> background –This is what Valerie had  in mind when she started to  
> invent a movement – writing system ...not tied to any one culture or  
> any one language...
> ...recording hundreds of languages, bringing cultures together...
>
> Would be an interesting project to write a little booklet with  
> signed birthday songs in all the different Sign Languages that are  
> already in touch with your wonderful invention
>
> Hi Valerie time for you to have a break and to accept hundreds of  
> birthday wishes...
>
> At least I would like to express my respect and gratefulness for  
> your never ending patience with newcomers and interested “want – to  
> – become –SignWriting –scribes!”
>
> In the past I learned so much from you that allowed me to achieve a  
> higher level in teaching deaf children. My students develop  
> excellent SW reading skills. This is a wonderful support to develop  
> a higher level in reading and writing spoken language.
>
> Happy birthday to you! Have a super day. Keep strong and take care
>
> Stefan ;-)
> <happy birthday Valerie 2008.jpg>
>
>
>
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