Utah Deaf History and Culture
  • Home
  • Beginning of the Project
  • Why the Website?
  • Special Thanks
  • Editors & Testimonials
  • Utah Deaf Biographies
    • Biographies of Prominent Utah Deaf Men
    • Biographies of Prominent Utah Deaf Women
    • Biographies of Prominent Utah Interpreters
    • Biographies of Deaf Latter-day Saint Leaders
    • Biographies of Utah Deaf Artists
    • Utah Deaf Model
  • Utah School for the Deaf
    • Utah School for the Deaf Archives
    • USD Student Strikes
    • Utah School for the Deaf Reunions
    • Jean Massieu School of the Deaf
    • Kenneth Burdett School of the Deaf
    • Brandon R. Hill: USDB Eagle Logo
    • JMS' 20th Anniversary Celebration
    • Elizabeth DeLong School of the Deaf
    • Videos of the USD Experiences
  • Sociology of the USD in the Utah Deaf Community
  • Deaf Education in Utah
    • Utah Oral Leaders
    • USDB Advisory Council & Instititional Council
    • Dr. Jay J. Campbell: 1977 USD Comprehensive Study
    • Jeffrey W. Pollock: Utah Deaf Education Controversy
    • Videos of Dr. Grant B. Bitter
    • Dr. Robert G. Sanderson's Mainstreaming Persepctive
    • Dr. Robert G. Sanderson's Dream
    • ASL & LSL Controversy Correspondence
    • Minnie Mae Wilding-Diaz - Co-founder of Jean Massieu School
  • Utah Association of the Deaf
    • UAD's Brief History
    • UAD Bulletins/Awards/Logos
    • House Bill 60: Terms Associated With the Deaf Community
  • National Fraternal Society of the Deaf
  • Robert G. Sanderson Community Center
    • Directors of the Sanderson Community Center
    • Robert G. Sanderson's Honoring Ceremony - 2003
    • W. David Mortensen's Honoring Ceremony - 2014
    • Sanderson Center's 25th Anniversary Celebration
    • Sanderson Center's 30th Anniversary
  • Gallaudet University (Utah Connection)
    • Ronald C. Burdett's Gallaudet Honoring Ceremony, 2016
  • Utah Interpreting Service
    • Beth Ann Campbell, 1st RID Interpreter
    • UIP's 30th Anniversary
  • Deaf Latter-day Saints Community
    • Deaf LDS History Researchers
  • Utah Deaf Sports
  • Utah Deaf Organizations
  • Miss Deaf Utah Pageant
  • Sego Lily Center for the Abused Deaf
  • Utah Senior Deaf Citizens
  • Vocational Training Programs
  • Utah Deaf Technology
  • Utah Deaf Women's History
  • The Early Utah Women's History
  • Black Deaf Lives Matter (Utah Connection)
  • Sanderson Community Center Museum
  • Utah Deaf Films
  • Utah Deaf Ski Archives
  • George Sutherland Archives
  • Deaf World Library and Museum
  • Parker Holt, Gallaudet Award
  • Contact & Copyright Permission

Special Thanks 


 Special thanks to my father-in-law, Kenneth L. Kinner, for opening the gates to Utah’s rich Deaf history.
 
Special thanks to Jay Thexton, a devout genealogist, for unlocking my hidden passion for genealogy and history, which I never knew existed. 
 
Special thanks to three Deaf authors, Kenneth C. Burdett, Rodney W. Walker, and Dr. Robert G. Sanderson, for collecting, writing, and preserving Utah Deaf History. 
 
Special thanks to Anne Leahy and Doug Stringham for their extensive research on Deaf history in relation to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the early history of the Utah School for the Deaf.
 
Special thanks to David Samuelsen, an amateur historian and genealogist, for his direction and guidance while working on the Utah Deaf History. Likewise to Anne Leahy and Doug Stringham. 
 
Special thanks to Lisa Richards and Kleda Barker Quigley for their valuable guidance and support in this potential project. 
 
Special thanks to Eleanor McCowan for requesting that I work on the Utah Deaf History project. If not for her request, none of this would have happened.
 
Special thanks to Dr. Robert G. Sanderson for inspiring me to do my homework to make this project happen.  


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Students of the Utah School for the Deaf, spring 1945. They were going on the annual spring hike

Special thanks to Dr. Robert G. Sanderson and Valerie G. Kinney for collecting and saving the newspapers containing the history of the Utah Deaf community. 

Special thanks to W. David Mortensen for his enthusiastic support of this project. 

Special thanks to my colleague, Julie Smith, for helping me "unstick my stuck" in the writing and thinking processes.

Special thanks to Robert Kerr for donating his time to scanning the UAD Bulletins collected by Valerie G. Kinney, which contain a wealth of historical information regarding the Utah Deaf community. 

Special thanks to Minnie Mae Wilding-Diaz for donating her time to revise and edit some of the manuscripts. 
  
Special thanks to Helen Salas-McCarty for carefully editing some of my manuscripts and providing detailed advice. 


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Students of the Utah School for the Deaf, March 1952

Special thanks to Bronwyn O'Hara for editing some of my manuscripts with enthusiasm and dedication.

Special thanks to Valerie G. Kinney, the most trusted and reliable person, for providing supportive advice through consultation and proofreading/editing the manuscripts. 

Special thanks to Doug Stringham for sharing the version of the book with Dr. Bryan K. Eldredge and making a senior-level "special topics" class called "Deaf Education in Utah" possible at Utah Valley University in 2011 and again in 2016.

Special thanks to Robert L. Bonnell for his patience in letting me borrow his box of photos, program books, and Utah Eagle magazines.

Special thanks to Linda Berness for collecting and donating the obituaries and funeral programs of the members of the Utah Deaf Community. 


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Students of the Utah School for the Deaf with their teacher, Kenneth C. Burdett, 1953-54

Special thanks to Marion Brown West, Kleda Barker Quigley, Kenneth Lee Kinner, Ilene Coles Kinner, and Keith Stewart for identifying names and years from the photos.

Special thanks to Duane L. Kinner, technology savvy, for scanning hundreds of documents and photographs for the "Utah Deaf History" website.
 
Last but not least, special thanks to Philippe Montalette, then UAD president, for his support in making this a reality. 

Ultimately, much appreciation goes to Duane L. Kinner, my husband, and my children, Joshua and Danielle, for their support and patience in working on the Utah Deaf History.

Jodi Becker Kinner


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Students of the Utah School for the Deaf with their teacher, Afton Curtis Burdett, 1953-54

"The more you know of your history, 
​the more liberated you are."
​~Maya Angelou~