COLLECTION NAME:
Deaf Studies, Culture, and History Archives
Record
Filename:
ds_0031_panarantid_cap_01.mp4
Identifier:
ds_0031_panarantid_cap_01.mp4
Title:
NTID
Creator:
Panara, Robert
Subject:
Simone, Albert J. Inauguration, 1992
Subject:
National Technical Institute for the Deaf Poetry
Subject:
Deaf Poetry
Subject:
American Sign Language literature
Subject:
ASL poetry
Summary:
NTID professor emeritus and renowned Deaf poet Robert Panara recites his poem "NTID" on the occasion of the inauguration (1992) of Dr. Albert Simone as President of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Publisher:
National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Digital Publisher:
Rochester Institute of Technology - RIT Libraries - RIT Archive Collections
Contributor:
Robert Panara Deaf Video Collection
Date of Original:
1992
Date of Digitization:
2018
Broad Type:
moving image
Digital File Format:
mp4
Physical Format:
VHS
Dimensions of Original:
3 minutes
Language:
American Sign Language
Language:
English
Original Item Location:
RITDSA.0031
Library Collection:
Sculptures in the Air: An Accessible Online Video Repository of the American Sign Language (ASL) Poetry and Literature Collections
Library Collection:
Robert Panara Deaf Video Collection
Digital Project:
2018-2019 CLIR Grant-ASL Poetry and Literature
Place:
New York - Rochester
RIT Spaces and Places:
Henrietta Campus
Rights:
RIT Libraries makes materials from its collections available for educational and research purposes pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. It is your responsibility to obtain permission from the copyright holder to publish or reproduce images in print or electronic form.
Rights:
CC BY-NC-ND: Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Transcript:
"NTID" by Robert F. Panara
Because it heard the silence of the heart, its destiny was daring from the start, beginning with a searching eye whose gleam, envisioned newer worlds for his kind, It gathered to a great crusading cause whose faithful followers held high the torch, for fiat lux and all the world to see
NTID! its time and tide had come to integrate the hearing and the deaf in kindred studies on a common campus each learning from the other an awareness of human needs and unfulfilled desires, of breaching the divisive wall of silence, and bridging the communication gap. And theirs became the challenge and the charge to mingle with the mainstream and to master their little fears and hang-ups and prejudgments---- not to belittle but to be big of heart. And from the experience in their vestibule where stand the many ports of destiny, embark upon their chosen odyssey.
Because it heard the silence of the heart, its destiny was daring from the start, beginning with a searching eye whose gleam, envisioned newer worlds for his kind, It gathered to a great crusading cause whose faithful followers held high the torch, for fiat lux and all the world to see
NTID! its time and tide had come to integrate the hearing and the deaf in kindred studies on a common campus each learning from the other an awareness of human needs and unfulfilled desires, of breaching the divisive wall of silence, and bridging the communication gap. And theirs became the challenge and the charge to mingle with the mainstream and to master their little fears and hang-ups and prejudgments---- not to belittle but to be big of heart. And from the experience in their vestibule where stand the many ports of destiny, embark upon their chosen odyssey.
Notes:
"This project is supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."