Lucy?

I know that you have said that you attendd Oral Roberts University in Tulsa.  Did you also attend Anna Vaughan School of Nursing or did you get your nursing some place else?

Hi Karla, This is Lucy.  I got my Bachelors Degree in Theology at ORU.  I recieved my nursing degree from the college of St. Catherine's in Minneapolis, MN.  

Thanks, I was just wondering if you did both degrees in the same place.  I guess I could have read your profile and not have had to ask.  I have a friend who did theology at ORU.  Debbie Wells in Mississippi, now.  I don't recall what her maiden name was, but she was a youth minister for many years, then got her Doctorate from Miss. State, and now has a private practice.  She seems to have done well with her degree.  She is very into "healing touch."

Hey Karla, not that you asked,  but  I graduated from the U.S. Army Hearing Aid School at Walter Reed.  Yes, there is such a course required of all military personnel before they are given hearing aids.  Its a five day school.  I even took Brenda along to monitor the course.  It has helped her to understand the needs of hearing impaired people.  I once had a license to operate a copy machine when they first came out, too.  Oh my, I am so old I remember carbon paper and that inovation of self carbonating paper.   

Now I know you are impressed.  lol
Glenn

I was born with 100% deafness in my left ear and  and over the years I have advanced to 40% deafness in my right ear.  Hearing devices will not help.  I learned to read lips at a very early age.  I learned so well that I was able to join the military and they did not note my hearing impairment.

I had a lucrative career in law enforcement and frequently used my sign language skills that I picked up along the way.  I also remember carbon paper and self carbonating paper.  I also remember going to the outhouse before we had indoor plumbing.  Glad that is only a memory  

Well, Glenn and Bob, I will pretend that I don't remember carbon paper, the invention of liquid paper, or the miracle of the self-correction tape on the old IBM Selectrics.  I, also, will pretend to not remember the wonder of erasable bond paper.  i was "told" that people who went to college in the late 1960s actually got portable typewriter and had to type their own research papers. 

My grandfather was totally deaf because of having contacted "fluid pneumonia" during WWI.  I grew up with him telling us to not mumble and to speak clearly.  We could all read lips a little and talked to him across rooms by just shaping the words with our mouths and not making a sound.  The whole family does it still.  He had "bone conduction" which allowed him to wear a hearing aid.  When the batteries would go out or if we needed him across the field, we would throw a clod and hit him on the foot.  That told him to look up and then we would just shape the words and not have to shout.  If he could see us, he could understand us.   It is why I project my voice so and speak clearly.  I have never had a deaf student who couldn't understand me.

I did learn a few signs after coming to Alabama.  I had a deaf girl in my class and several rehabilitation students who knew signs.  I learned to count and to indicate the correct answers in multiple choice quizzes.  It was really helpful to even the hearing, as they quickly learned to rely on the hand signs if they could not distinguish a "d" from a "b".   I learned things like  "Open your book," basic alphabet to spell difficult words, "short word", Long word", Where is..." and various signs to indicate names of students.  I knew some of the dirty words already from associating with the Speech and Hearing folks at North Texas.  I learned some basic conversation skills, but I am not good enough at it to translate or even to carry on a very complicated conversation.  However, learning a few basic signs has really helped out in the classroom.