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Page Now that I'm going back overall this I realize that I would have liked more time to do the things I got started on but never became good at gunsmithing, ham radio constructing and operating, boatbuilding (mostly repairing, engraving,
sailing, cabinetmaking, flying (had my license renewed only once, gardening, tennis, racquetball, versifying. If the young deaf people carrying the ball now had only shown up twenty years ago, I could have left a lot of things to them and done more of my own.
Don't misunderstandI'm not complaining. It's been a wonderful life and I have surely had much more than a normal share of satisfaction, joy, and delight. But there are still all those things I'd like to have done well.
Maybe there's still time. For what it's worth, my new accounting software, Managing Your Money, has a planning module based on life expectancy, and it tells me I should see ninety-three. Bill Stokoe celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday on July 21, 1994. That day, he addressed the Stanford Archimedes Project in
Rochester, New York, visited friends, and then returned home to complete work on the fall 1994 issue of Sign Language Studies.
At this rate, Bill Stokoe may never get to concentrate on his many hobbies. But he probably won't mind that very much because,
one suspects, in continuing his work with American Sign Language and the deaf communityan endeavor he began more than forty years agohe is doing exactly what he wants to do.
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Notes
Introduction
1. Harlan Lane, ed, The Deaf Experience Classics in Language and Education (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984),
2.
2. Lou Fant, letter to the author, 1 May 1991.
3. Charlotte Baker and Robbin Battison, eds, Sign Language and the Deaf Community (Silver Spring, Md National
Association of the Deaf, 1980), 32.
4. Fant, letter to the author, 1 May 1991.
5. William C. Stokoe, letter to the author, 6 June 1991.
6. Harlan Lane, letter to the author, 13 March 1991.
7. Stokoe, letter to the author, 20 November 1990.
8. Stokoe, letter to the author, 5 December 1990.
9. "Citation of William C. Stokoe, Jr, on Being Presented the Degree of Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa, by Gallaudet
University," 14 May 1988.
10. I. King Jordan, letter to the author, 28 May Chapter One. Harlan Lane, When the Mind Hears A History of the Deaf (New York Vintage Books, 1984), 197.
2. Donald Moores, Educating the Deaf Psychology, Principles, and Practices (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), 55.
3. Edward Miner Gallaudet, History of the College for the Deaf, 1857-1907 (Washington, DC Gallaudet College Press,
reprinted 1983), 3.
4. Richard Winefield, Never the Twain Shall Meet Bell, Gallaudet, and the Communications Debate (Washington, D.C.:
Gallaudet University Press, 1987), 75.
5. Winefield, 109.
6. Gallaudet, 29.
7 Ibid, 21.

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