Stained Glass Window of Rev. Thomas Gallaudet and students at Yale University At Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, there is a beautiful stained-glass window of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet with 3 students at the American School for the Deaf. It is on the fourth floor of the Sterling Memorial Library. It's a great honor for T.H.G., who graduated from Yale University in 1805. He founded the American School for the Deaf in 1817. For more information about Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, read his biography.  "Rev. Thomas Gallaudet Teaching the Deaf and Dumb," stained glass window by G. Owen Bonawit, Slavic Reading Room, Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, c. 1930.