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Show Filipino and Greek Learn to Teach Deaf Northampton, Mass. From the opposite op-posite ends of the earth there have come to the Clarke School for the Deaf two young women sent by their respective governments to learn how to teach deaf children of their native lands. Chrysoula Kyriakides comes from Athens, Greece. When she returns she will open the first government school for the deaf in that ancient city. From Baguio, Philippine islands, comes Frances McCann, a personal appointee of the late Maj. Gen. Leon ar Wood, governor-general of the Philippines. She will return to teach deaf children in the government school at Manila. Iu selecting the instruction of the deaf as their profession these two and the ten other women in the class are following in the fortsteps of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. As Grace Goodhue the President's wife trained at the Clarke school and subseiuently taught there for two years. While teaching she met Calvin Coolidge, who roomed at the home of the school steward. One-third of the teachers of the deaf in this country obtained their training at the Clarke school, the first in the Unitid States to .each the deaf lip-reading and speaking. Nearly 300 young men and women graduates are now teaching in schools for the deaf in 31 states and nine foreign countries. |