Which campus hosted the 1964 workshop that led to the founding of the Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf? I use this in trainings because knowing where our field took root keeps the work Deaf-centered and accountable to community history.
Ball State Teachers College in Muncie, IN (now Ball State University) — that 1964 workshop is where RID was born. > field took root keeps the work Deaf-centered and accountable to — I always add the name-change note and a quick map to anchor it in place. Do you also mention the Vocational Rehabilitation Administration’s role?
It was the 1964 workshop on the Muncie, Indiana campus, not at Gallaudet like folks sometimes assume — think of it as RID’s birth certificate stamped in Muncie. For trainings, I’d pull up Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf - Wikipedia as a quick anchor; do you also show a photo from that workshop?
, folks keep crediting D.C.; it started on the Muncie campus in ’64. One concrete add for trainings: a single slide with a campus photo + date and a link to RID’s history page (https://rid.org/about-rid/history/) to anchor that “keeps the work Deaf-centered” point. Do you also touch on how interpreting wasn’t yet a formal profession at that meeting?
Quick add for trainings: I drop a QR code to RID’s history page (https://rid.org/about-rid/history/) on the slide with the campus photo so folks can trace names and dates after class. I also flag that community organizing predates ’64, so the location is a waypoint, not the origin story.
I add ‘Ball State Teachers College, Muncie — 1964’ to the title slide; a small map pin works too, @c_hawkins345.