Leonard M. Elstad (February 8, 1899 – June 27, 1990) was the third President of
Gallaudet University
Gallaudet University ( ) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing. It was founded in 1864 as a grammar school for both deaf and blind children. It was the first sc ...
(then Gallaudet College) in
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. Elstad, who obtained a Master's degree from Gallaudet in 1923 and two honorary degrees later in his life, presided over an important period of Gallaudet's history, which came to be called the "Elstad Expansion Era," when Gallaudet achieved accreditation (1957) and was significantly expanded, both in terms of enrollment and the number and capacity of the buildings on campus.
[Gannon, Jack. 1981. ''Deaf Heritage–A Narrative History of Deaf America'', Silver Spring, MD: National Association of the Deaf, p. 230-236]
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External links
* http://saveourdeafschools.org/expansion_era.pdf
* https://www.gallaudet.edu/archives-and-deaf-collections/collections/manuscripts/mss-183
My Yesterday's: In a Changing World of the Deafby Mervin D. Garretson, pp. 188–120.
Oral History Project: Dr. Leonard Elstad filmed in 1977.
Deaf Mosaic episode 605 (21:14-24:01).
June 29, 1990.
Buff and Blue article October 23, 1945, p. 1.
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Presidents of Gallaudet University
1899 births
1990 deaths
Gallaudet University alumni
20th-century American academics