sad news - Elena Pizzuto (CNR Rome)

[Erika Hoffmann]

I'm so sorry to hear that! I never met her, though I did exchange
emails with her this summer when I was passing through Rome. At that
time I learned more about her very interesting work. What a loss.
Best,
Erika

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Shane K. Gilchrist
<shane.gilchrist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>



-- 
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Oberlin College