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LOS ANGELES — Lawrence R. Newman, a prominent advocate for the rights of deaf people and a former longtime teacher and administrator at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside, has died. He was 86.
Newman, who served two terms as president of the National Association of the Deaf, died Monday at his home in Riverside of complications from emergency surgery and a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, said his daughter Laureen Newman-Feldhorn.
“Larry was a true gentleman and someone I admired for his hard work and dedication on behalf of the deaf community,” T. Alan Hurwitz, president of Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., said in a statement to the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. Gallaudet is the world’s only liberal arts university for students who are deaf and hard of hearing.
“His legacy for his contributions to the betterment of education for deaf children will forever be remembered,” said Hurwitz, a former president of the National Association of the Deaf who served on its board of directors with Newman. “He was a significant role model for me, and I know he will always be regarded as a giant in the deaf community.”
Deaf since he was 5 in 1930, Newman joined the faculty at the California School for the Deaf in Riverside as a mathematics teacher in 1953. He taught there for 20 years and was chosen California Teacher of the Year by the state Department of Education in 1969 — the first deaf teacher so honored in California.
Newman always stressed the importance of education in the lives of deaf children and fought for the right of deaf students to be educated using sign language.
“If deaf people could get an education, their minds would be set free and the kingdom of the world would be theirs,” he once wrote.
After four years as principal of the Taft School for the Aurally Handicapped in Santa Ana, Calif. (now the Taft Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program) beginning in 1973, Newman returned to the California School for the Deaf in Riverside in 1977 as assistant superintendent. He retired in 1988.
Newman was president of the National Association of the Deaf in 1988 when student demonstrators at Gallaudet University, his alma mater, protested the selection of a hearing person, Elisabeth Ann Zinser, as president of the university over two deaf finalists for the position.
The California School for the Deaf in Riverside and Fremont closed in support of the Gallaudet demonstration.
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