The California School for the Deaf is a school for
deaf
Deafness has varying definitions in cultural and medical contexts. In medical contexts, the meaning of deafness is hearing loss that precludes a person from understanding spoken language, an audiological condition. In this context it is written ...
children in
Fremont, California. The school educates deaf children from all over
Northern California. Its campus in Fremont is adjacent to the campus of the
California School for the Blind
The California School for the Blind is a public educational institution for blind children, K-12, located in Fremont, California. Its campus is located next to the California School for the Deaf.
History
The San Francisco area's education of b ...
.
Its companion school in
Southern California
Southern California (commonly shortened to SoCal) is a geographic and cultural region that generally comprises the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. It includes the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the second most populous urban a ...
is
CSD-Riverside.
History
Founded in San Francisco in 1860, the school moved to Berkeley in 1869. The new site, constructed in 1869 at 2601 Warring St., Berkeley, CA, adjacent to the campus of the
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...
, served as the school for the deaf until the late 1970s, when the University of California successfully petitioned for it to be condemned as seismically unsafe, forcing the school to move. A ''
Daily Cal
''The Daily Californian'' (''Daily Cal'') is an independent, student-run newspaper that serves the University of California, Berkeley, campus and its surrounding community. It formerly published a print edition four days a week on Monday, Tuesd ...
'' article on November 29, 1979, reported that the university administration had "coveted the Deaf and Blind School land for 57 years." Half of the school's land went to UC Berkeley, while the other half went to the city. After the location was taken over by the university, it was renamed
Clark Kerr
Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 – December 1, 2003) was an American professor of economics and academic administrator. He was the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and twelfth president of the University of California.
B ...
campus, in honor of the first chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, and has served as an additional dormitory unit for its students.
The school opened in a new facility in
Fremont, California in Fall 1980.
Henry Klopping became superintendent in 1975. By 2009 the staff became made up of predominantly deaf individuals when previously there were few in the administration.
Campus
The school has dormitories.
Notable alumni
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Robert R. Davila
Dr. Robert Davila (born July 19, 1932) served as the ninth president of Gallaudet University,[Pr ...]
, ninth president of
Gallaudet University[Lang, Harry G., Cohen, Oscar P. and Joseph E. Fischgrund. 2007. ''Moments of Truth: Robert R. Davila, the Story of a Deaf Leader''. Rochester, NY: RIT Press, p. 17]
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Jack R. Gannon, teacher, coach, and author
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Granville Redmond
Granville Richard Seymour Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter and exponent of Tonalism and California Impressionism. He was also an occasional actor for his friend Charlie Chaplin.
Early years
Re ...
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Louise Stern, writer and artist
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Shoshannah Stern
Shoshannah Stern (born July 3, 1980) is an American actress and writer.
Life and career
She was born in Walnut Creek, California, into an observant Jewish and fourth-generation Deaf family, the daughter of Ron Stern and Hedy Marilyn Stern (née U ...
, actress
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Douglas Tilden
Douglas Tilden (May 1, 1860 to August 5, 1935) was an American sculptor. He was deaf from a bout of scarlet fever at the age of four and attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley, California (now in Fremont, California). He ...
See also
References
article about history of Berkeley campus of School for the Deaf
External links
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CSD Alumni Association Website
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