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*Junior NAD History*
Once upon a time, during the 1960 National Association of the Deaf
Convention in Dallas, Texas, Caroline H.
Burnes, wife of the reigning NAD President Byron B. Burnes, proposed
that a Junior NAD organization, with chapters nationwide, be formed. it
would be a simple and exciting concept - providing opportunities to
develop new leaders among young deaf students.
Mervin Garretson,
Principal of the Montana School for the
Deaf, was asked to direct this project. He, together with California's
Lawrence Newman and Caroline Burns, and Missouri's G. Dewey Coats, laid
the foundation of the present Junior NAD. By the 1961-1962 academic
year, six chapters were organized in Missouri,
South Dakota,
Montana, California (with two chapters), and
Oklahoma. At that time, the Riverside
(California chapter had the distraction of being the largest chapter
with 124 members, which kept their advisors extremely busy!
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