Deaf Southern Star: 2012 (Vol. 34, No. 3)

Some of the items featured in the St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre’s ‘Deaf Southern Star’ (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2012) newsletter:

Manawatu Deaf Society celebrates its 50 jubilee.
A SC 101 – Introduction to the Old Testament – weekend was held in Auckland at the St. Francis Retreat Centre on Hillsborough Road. The course is now halfway, with the second half taking place in November 2012.
Big things coming up next year will be: a celebration of 35 years of Catholic Deaf chaplaincy work in New Zealand as well as 35 years of our newsletter. We are also planning a national Catholic Deaf seminar in Wellington for Queen’s Birthday Weekend next year.

Can you help?

Anna Tyler

Celia King

Cushla Henry (Crosby)

Cushla Henry (Crosby)

David Loving-Molloy

David Loving-Molloy

Felicity Crowe

Jackie Overall (Smith)

Jackie Overall (Smith)

Judith Mason (Serfontein)

Judith Mason (Serfontein)

Mary Johnson

Ruth Jessep

Taonga source:

St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre

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SignDNA – Deaf National Archive New Zealand, CDC2012-34-3-MJN

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In spite of wet weather, there was a large attendance of Catholic clergy and public at the blessing and opening of St. Dominic's School for the Deaf and Dumb, at Dover Street, Island Bay, yesterday afternoon. This school, conducted by the Sisters of St. Dominic, is the first Catholic School for the education of deaf-mutes to be established in New Zealand.

video – Taonga source: Television New Zealand Archive

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Following the potential closure of St Dominic's, parents express their concerns at a community meeting for their deaf children’s future if they were to be mainstreamed into a local school.

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publication – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre

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Images – Taonga source: Manawatu Deaf Society

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video – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre

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Around 250 people attended the 50th Jubilee, commemorating 50 years of St Dominic’s School for the Deaf. Footage shows many old photo albums, reunion photos being taken, a Jubilee Mass and a visit to the old Dover Street school grounds.

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article – Taonga source: NZ Catholic

Deaf community gathers to honour teacher and friend

The deaf community of the lower North Island gathered in Palmerston North on the last weekend of September to honour a teacher and chaplain, mentor and friend who has worked with the deaf since 1972.

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A solemn and impressive ceremony was witnessed last Sunday at St. Dominic's School for the Deaf, near Feilding, when the Catholic Prelate, His Grace Archbishop P.T.B. McKeefry blessed the new building at the school.

Images – Taonga source: Manawatu Deaf Society

Team Photo: St. Dominic’s O.B. Basketball Deaf Club, 1980

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video – Taonga source: St Dominic’s Catholic Deaf Centre

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Memories of Marlene Rush

Marlene Rush was the 20th Deaf student to enrol at St Dominics School for the Deaf in 1946. Marlene looks back on her life and involvement with the Deaf community.

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Archbishop Opens Feilding School for Deaf Children

Erected at a cost of £68,000 and standing in 23 acres of farmland and gardens, St. Dominic's school for the Deaf, at Feilding, was blessed and officially opened this afternoon by Archbishop T.B. McKeefry, Metropolitan of New Zealand.