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The Governor Baxter School for the Deaf (GBSD), formerly known as the Maine School for the Deaf is a public co-educational school that serves the deaf and hard-of-hearing in the State of Maine. It is located on Mackworth Island , an approximately 100-acre (40 ha) island in Falmouth, Maine , USA, adjacent to its border with Portland, Maine .
Billy Brackett, 48; Steve Vozzella, 45; and Bryan MacFarlane, 41, were also stalwart members of Maine's community of deaf people who died in the shootings, the educational center said.
Among the 18 people killed in the Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting rampage on Oct. 25 were four deaf men, making for what appears to be the worst mass shooting of deaf people in U.S. history.
Maine shootings leave deaf community reeling after 4 of their own are killed Aria Bendix and Katie Reimchen and Minyvonne Burke and David K. Li and Emilie Ikeda Updated October 29, 2023 at 7:02 PM
Mackworth Island is an approximately 100-acre (40 ha) island in Casco Bay, Maine, United States. Politically, it is part of the town of Falmouth, which is adjacent to Portland. In 1631, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, who first attempted to colonize Maine, gifted the island to Arthur Mackworth, his deputy in Casco Bay, and the island has retained his ...
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The National Association of the Deaf (NAD) is an organization for the promotion of the rights of deaf people in the United States. NAD was founded in Cincinnati , Ohio, in 1880 as a non-profit organization run by Deaf people to advocate for deaf rights, its first president being Robert P. McGregor of Ohio.
The 36-year-old father of four deaf children was director of interpreting services for Pine Tree Society, an organization that helps people with disabilities, and he started a camp for deaf kids ...