The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-06-10
DELAVAN READY
FOR DEAF-FEST
Interesting Program Has
Been Arranged for June
10th to 18th.

A coming svenS or absorbing inter
est to all the deaf of the state, is the
meeting of the Wisconsin Association
of the Deaf at the state school,
June 1914, 1920.
The State Board Of Control has
given Superintendent T. Emery Bray
full authority to make all necessary
arrangements for the entertainment of
the visitors, and he is going to make it
more than a mere meeting Of speeches,
business, picnics, banqueting, etc. It
is to be homecoming in full a
sense as possible.
Board and lodging will be $3.50 per
day. This is as it should be, for it
is where the old boys and girls spent
the happiest and most profitable years
of their lives.
President F. j. Neesanl, assisted by
the local committee Of which Profess
sor Warren Robinson is chairman, has
been bending every effort towards
planning for the business and social
side. The local committee has con-
tributed more thahsS1O00O to assist in
entertaining the association.
A large attendance is looked for in
spite OF these strenuous days of the
high cost of living. Advanced notices
already indicate that the deaf from
Minnesota, South Dakota, Illinois, Iowa,
Michigan and Washington are fgur-
ing on being present.
After the addresses Of welcome on
Thursday evening by Major O. R. Rice
and Superintendent Bray for the city
and school and the response Of P. S.
Engelhardt of Milwaukee, one of the
oldest members and also one Of
the oldest deaf in the state, there
will be reception.
Friday will be devoted to business,
the regular sessions opening with the
presidents address. A novel feature
of the proceedings will be the report
Of the director of the bureau of stats
tics, DR. Warren Robinson, dealing
with the Wisconsin deaf as property
holders, taxpayers and their financial
standing generally, line of investi-
cation which is believed to be unique
in the history of this or any other
state. A body OF statistics have been
collected and tabulated which show
remarkable record for the deaf in
this land.
In the evening there will be an en-
tertainment in legerdemain by Nels
Up. Olson Of Hammond, Ind.
Saturday has been set aside as pic
mic day, VIXEN the members will go to
Delavan Lake, and have dinner at the
Assembly Hotel, managed by Mrs. Bes-
sic Laudon. In the evening there will
be banquet at the institution at
which among others, former superin-
tendents, ]. W. Swiler, E. w. Walker
and Fl. G. Buell. are expected to be on
hand and respond to toasts.
Sunday morning will be given up to
services as arranged by visiting minis
ters. In the afternoon j. W. Swiler,
an honored guest of the association,
will deliver an address. He will be
followed by Mrs. L. l. Nyhus, form
erly of the Employment y Bureau
Of the Deaf of the Department Of
Labor of Minnesota.
The Wisconsin Association Of the
Deaf was founded about forty years
ago for the welfare and advancement
of the deaf and it has wilded salu-
tary influence in those affairs that af-
feet them. 1t has been instrumental
in determining the methods for their
instruction, it was the chief means in
preventing the state school here from
being diverted from it's purpose and
converted into an agricultural school,
it practically restored the shoe shop
that was at one time abolished, did
much to aid in securing the farm re-
Gently purchased by the institution and
in introducing instruction in agricul-
ture, and its activity led to the de-
feat of law two years ago in the
legislature which if passed would
have proved inimical to the educa-
tional interests of the deaf.
It's present officers are as follows:
F. ]. Neesam, Delavan, president;
Walter G. Redmond, Racine, first vice
president; Mrs. Mary Rideout, Osh-
kosh, second vice president; Mrs. VIM.
Sayles, Racine, secretary, and John
Peterson, Weyauwega, treasurer.