Robert Panara deaf video collection, 1974-2001.

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Robert Panara deaf video collection, 1974-2001.

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Collection of VHS tapes and DVDs assembled by Robert Panara, the first deaf faculty member of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology. The recordings in this collection relate to Panara's teaching career and lifelong passion for ASL poetry and Deaf theater, and include recordings of classroom lectures, performances by the National Theater of the Deaf, television shows with deaf themes, and an interview with renowned Deaf actor Bernard Bragg.

4.5 linear feet (33 DVDs, 37 VHS)

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8179250

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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Panara, Robert

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The first Deaf faculty member at NTID, and a key figure in its history, Robert Panara was hired in 1967 to assist in establishing NTID on RIT's campus. He was instrumental in planning NTID's curriculum and preparing RIT's staff with ASL classes. He taught English at NTID and founded the Drama Club in 1970, which has grown into a full performing arts program with numerous productions yearly in the theater at NTID named in his honor. It was at the celebration of NTI''s 20th anniversary in 1988 tha...

National Theatre of the Deaf.

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Bragg, Bernard, 1928-

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National Technical Institute for the Deaf

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