{"id":18688,"date":"2017-03-16T08:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T13:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=18688"},"modified":"2017-03-16T08:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T13:44:42","slug":"robert-panara-teacher-and-pioneer-of-deaf-studies-to-be-immortalized-on-a-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/03\/16\/robert-panara-teacher-and-pioneer-of-deaf-studies-to-be-immortalized-on-a-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Panara: Teacher and Pioneer of Deaf Studies to be Immortalized on a Stamp"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WHAT:<\/strong><\/td>\nFirst-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony for the Robert Panara two-ounce Forever stamp. The event is free and open to the public.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WHO:<\/strong><\/td>\nU.S. Postal Service Chief Operating Officer\u00a0<\/span>David Williams<\/a><\/em>
\nPresident of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) and Rochester Institute of \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Technology Vice President and Dean\u00a0<\/span>Dr. Gerard Buckley<\/a><\/em>
\nNTID Instructional\/Support Faculty member\u00a0<\/span>John Panara<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<\/span>(son)
\nStamp Photographer\u00a0<\/span>Mark Benjamin<\/a><\/em>
\nAuthor and Professor Emeritus NTID Dr. Harry Lang<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WHEN:<\/strong><\/td>\nTue., Apr. 11 at 10 a.m.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WHERE:<\/strong><\/td>\nRobert F. Panara Theatre
\nRochester Institute of Technology
\nNational Technical Institute for the Deaf
\nLyndon Baines Johnson Hall
\n52 Lomb Memorial Drive
\nRochester, NY 14623-5604<\/p>\n

The public may RVSP online at\u00a0<\/span>usps.com\/rpanara<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Followers of the U.S. Postal Service\u2019s Facebook page can view live streaming video of the event at\u00a0facebook.com\/USPS<\/em><\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>The media is asked to share the news on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtags\u00a0<\/span>#PanaraForever\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong>and\u00a0<\/span>#DeafEducation.<\/em><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

BACKGROUND:<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Postal Service\u2019s 16th stamp in the Distinguished Americans series honors Robert Panara (1920-2014), an influential teacher and a pioneer in the field of Deaf Studies. He inspired generations of students with his powerful use of American Sign Language to convey works of literature. At age 10, Panara was profoundly deafened after contracting spinal meningitis, which damaged his auditory nerves.<\/p>\n

Panara taught English for two decades, beginning in 1948, at Gallaudet College (now University), in Washington, DC. In 1967, he helped found the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) and became its first deaf faculty member. He taught English to both deaf and hearing students at NTID, part of the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York State for the next 20 years.<\/p>\n

The two-ounce Forever stamp features a photograph of Panara signing the word \u201crespect.\u201d The issuance coincides with the 200th anniversary of the founding in 1817 of the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, CT \u2014 marking the beginning of formal education for deaf students in America.<\/p>\n

Once purchased, the stamp is always good for mailing two-ounce First-Class letters anytime in the future, regardless of price changes. The current price is 70-cents.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHAT: First-Day-of-Issue dedication ceremony for the Robert Panara two-ounce Forever stamp. The event is free and open to the public. WHO: U.S. Postal Service Chief Operating Officer\u00a0David Williams President of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) and Rochester Institute of \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Technology Vice President and Dean\u00a0Dr. Gerard Buckley NTID Instructional\/Support Faculty member\u00a0John Panara\u00a0(son) Stamp […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18689,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18688\/revisions\/18689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}