Missouri School for the Deaf - Memories Yearbook (Fulton, MO)

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r F 1977 ME 0121125 MISSOURI SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF FULTON, MISSOURI VOLUME NO. 7 1 STRONG, HELPFUL HANDS Look on this bronze, this classic work ofart, And Know that here soul-lifting deeds are wrought.' See how the little maiden clasps to heart The book that gives expression to her thought! And mark her pedestal! Strong, helpful hands That lift her from the pressure of the night To help her view all that the scene commands, As bright by brighter stages grows the light! Alike as rose the maid, the students here Soon find the helping hands that shall uphold And ever guide them in their steps, and cheer Their happy rise to all things great and bold- And as they draw from learning's brimful cup, We can be sure the years will lift them up. -Stephen W. Koziar Gracing the front campus of the Missouri School for the Deaf is a statue of a little deaf girl as a memorial to pioneer efforts in teaching the deaf. Mrs. Frances B. Wadsworth of Simsbury, Conn., completed this second figure, made from her original model in Hartford, Conn., in 1960. The inspiration for duplicating the statue in Missouri came from Superintendent Lloyd Harrison, a former teacher at the American School for the Deaf, Hartford, Conn. Its message to passers-by is: Education, represented by the supporting hands which holds the little girl, has opened new opportunities to the deaf. Young Alice Cogswell, Hartford child of a century and a half ago whose deafness caused her father to push the idea of a special school, is represented in the statue. Symbolically, though, the girl represents all deaf children. In 1815, Alice's father, Dr. Mason F. Cogswell, brought together 10 men in Hartford, and they raised enough money to send Thomas H. Gallaudet to Europe to learn how to start a school. Gallaudet brought back a brilliant young French teacher, Laurent Clerc, and they started teaching. Gallaudet, Cogswell' and Clerc are the three honored names at the base of the statue in Hartford. The statue in Missouri stands in honor of Thomas H. Gallaudet. Leaders in work with the deaf have been impressed with the symbolism in Mrs. Wadsworth's sculpture-the simple but eloquent idea of great hands uplifting the child. The hands are in process of making the manual language word for Hlightf' Funds for the statue in Missouri were raised by the MSD Alumni Association and members of the school staff, and was unveiled on May 27, 1960. Mr. Stephen W. Koziar, a member of the teaching staff at MSD, composed the above poem on the unveiling of the Gallaudet Memorial Statue on the MSD Campus. The Missouri School and those connected with it are looking forward to still more successful effort in the field of education of the deaf and preparing our young people for happy and useful lives. , 1 4, ,px Crt f n ' ia, ul ri I

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