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MSS 127
Scouten, Edward L.,
1914-2004
Gallaudet University Archives.
Descriptive Summary
Repository:
Gallaudet
University Archives Administrative Information
Acquisition
Information:
The Edward L. Scouten papers were given to the Gallaudet University
Archives by Edward L. Scouten on October 29, 1987.
Related Material in the Archives:
· Life on campus [motion picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Film 1-4
Photographs · Albert W. Atwood [picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Portraits · Rudolph C. Hines [picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Portraits. · Edward L. Scouten [picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Portraits · Photograph album of Rita Ann Lloyd Slater [picture]. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Photograph Album AL 89
Small Manuscripts · Papers, Edward L. Scouten, 1950-1971. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: SMSS
· Edward L. Scouten. Gallaudet University Archives, Call Number: Deaf Biographical.
Biographical Sketch Edward L. Scouten was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on July 10, 1914. A graduate of the Omaha Central High School, he served as Boys’ Supervisor and Instructor at the Nebraska School for the Deaf from 1934 to 1937. Upon receiving a B.A Degree from the University of Omaha in 1937, he enrolled in San Francisco State Teachers College, where he received a Teacher’s Certificate in 1938, he was a teacher in training at the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley. From 1938 to 1940, he was an Instructor at the Rochester School for the Deaf. He taught in the Normal Department at Gallaudet College, where he received an M.A. in 1941. From 1941 to 1946 he served as Demonstration Instructor at Kendall School. During the world war years, 1943-1945, he served as Instructor of Lip-Reading as well as a Supervisor in Special Education in the Medical Department of the United States Army. He joined the Faculty at Gallaudet College in 1946. He served as the chairman of the College Preparatory Department beginning in 1954. He wrote two books, “A revaluation of the Rochester Method” and “Language through opportunity”.
In 1962 he moved and became principal of
the Louisiana School for the Deaf, where he was an advocate of the
Rochester Method. Alpha Sigma Pi Fraternity of Gallaudet College selected
him “Man of the Year” in 1964. In 1967 he became principal of the Florida
School for the Deaf. In 1970, he joined the English Department at the
National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID) at Rochester Institute of
Technology (RIT). In 1978, he served as a technical English specialist in
the NTID data Processing Department. He passed away on April 25,
2004. The Edward L. Scouten Collection consists of approximately 750 pages, dating from 1941 to 1987. The bulk of this collection consists of articles, booklets, course outlines, newspaper clippings, poems, term papers and speeches. One folder is dedicated to dissertations he wrote for his master’s thesis about the history of the graduate level at Gallaudet College. There is a folder containing letters concerning Jan Afzelius written by a Swedish student who attended Gallaudet College. In another folder is the Rochester method, of which he was a strong advocate.
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