Laurent Clerc Award

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The Laurent Clerc Award is an annual honor bestowed by Gallaudet University's Alumni Association to recognize a deaf person for "his or her outstanding contributions to society," and specifically to honor their achievements in the interest of deaf people. It is named for Laurent Clerc (1785-1869). It has been given to notable scientists and inventors, such as deaf scientist Robert Weitbrecht, to honor his contributions in developing the teleprinter and an acoustic coupler for the early computer modem. It is given by Gallaudet University's Alumni Association through its Laurent Clerc Cultural Fund.

Recipients

2016 Nyle Lorenzo DiMarco

2015 Stephen C. Baldwin

2014 Alfred Sonnenstrahl

2013 Ann Silver

2012 Charles C. Baird

2011 Allison Schlesinger-Sepulveda, founder of National Center for Deaf Advocacy

2010 Barbara Kannapell

2009 Scott DeLoach

(2008: No award)

2007 Roy "Ed" Bosson and Nathie L. Marbury

2006 Gertrude Scott Galloway, died 2014, who "was the first female president of the National Association of the Deaf (1980-1982), the first deaf superintendent of MKSD in New Jersey, known as the Marie H. Katzenbach School for the Deaf (1990-1999), the first female president of CEASD, known as the Conference of Educational Administrators of Schools and Programs for the Deaf (1994-1996), and the first female president of Deaf Seniors of America (1999-2005)."

(2005: No award)

2004 Carol Padden and Tom L. Humphries

2003 Kevin Nolan, Sr.

2002 Berta Foster

2001 Frank Lala

2000 Ben Soukup

1999 Sam Rittenberg

1998 Alexander "Sandy" Ewan

1997 Marvin J. Marshall

1996 Ausma Smits

1995 Earnest I. Okwara

1994 Albert Couthen

1993 Gilbert C. Eastman

1992 John B. Davis

1991 Otto B. Berg

1990 Leo M. Jacobs

1989 Jack R. Gannon

1988 Ernest Marshall

1987 Charley E. Whisman

1986 William J. Marra and Willard Shorter

1985 William T. Griffing and Florence B. Crammatte

1984 Jess M. Smith

1983 Gordon L. Allen

1982 Alan B. Crammatte

1981 Byron B. Burnes

1980 Frederick C. Schreiber

1979 Frank B. Sullivan

(1977 & 1978: No award)

1976 Robert G. Sanderson

1975 Frank R. Turk

1974 Benjamin M. Schowe, Sr.

1973 James N. Orman

(1972: No award)

1971 Robert H. Weitbrecht

1970 David Peikoff

References

Laurent Clerc Award Wikipedia

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