GUAA Picnic Information

When: Saturday, November 4, 2006

Time: 1 pm – 5pm

Where: Faver Dykes State Park

Please bring comfortable chairs to lounge around in.

Driving Directions:
Take Interstate 95 to exit #298, which is US 1.
Go north on US 1 for 300 yards and turn right on Faver-Dykes Road.
Go 1.5 miles on Faver-Dykes Road to Faver-Dykes State Park.
Follow GUAA signs to find us.
To enter the park, there’s an entrance fee of $3.00 per vehicle.

Faver Dykes State Park offers canoe rentals for $20 all day – first come first serve. They also offer a beautiful nature walk along with a small playground and a fishing pier off of Matanzas River.

For more information about the park, go to: www.floridastateparks.org/faver-dykes

GUAA Picnic Celebration!

Wow, what a truly historic moment it was yesterday for all of us in the deaf community. Let us pay homage to FSSA, GUAA, NAD and the deaf community all over the world, who have worked so hard to see that the beacon at our beloved Gallaudet shines once again!!! Our tent city mayor, Carrie Cobb would love for us to celebrate jubilantly by establishing a couple of tents and paying respect to our Gallaudet this coming Saturday when we have our GUAA picnic and I agree with her.

Let us get in the festival mood and rejoice this coming Saturday. Let us also work together for a better Gallaudet!!!!!!

Long Live Gallaudet and Unity for Gallaudet!!!!!!!!!

--Debbi Penrose

News Articles about Jane's Termination

Washington Post

CNN

USA Today

Interview with FSSA

http://www.deafread.com/media/fssainterview.html

Statement by Jane K. Fernandes

It is with deep regret that I heard the Board’s decision to terminate my contract.

I love Gallaudet University and I believe I could have made a significant contribution to its future. I hope that the Gallaudet community can heal the wounds that have been created. I trust that we all want a stronger, better, more inclusive Gallaudet where ASL and Deaf culture have been and always will be at the core of academic and community life.

Statement from I. King Jordan

Statement by I. King Jordan

The struggle during the past several months has been very painful for all of us. I am deeply troubled by the divisions among us and by the anger that overtook reason, respect, and civility.

Now we must all come together for the sake of Gallaudet, particularly for the sake of Gallaudet's students--those who are our students now and those who will be students in the future.

I want to thank Jane Fernandes for her dedication and courage and her standing up for what's right. I am personally saddened--for Gallaudet and for Dr. Jane K. Fernandes--that she will not have the opportunity to show Gallaudet and the world what a great president she could have been.

Her vision and her plans to make that vision come to life would have guided the university we all love into a bright future. The Board of Trustees saw that promise when they selected Dr. Fernandes as president.

In order to resolve the current stalemate the Board has deemed it necessary to steer a different course, and I accept their decision. Now we must all put down our weapons of words and seek to restore a sense of community.

In my Town Hall speech last November I said there is more that unites us than divides us. I think we lost sight of that for a time and we must work together to refocus on the core values that unite us. We should not look for a resolution to the struggle of recent months in terms of winners and losers. If we do, Gallaudet and our students will be the losers.

Watch the Celebration!

http://www.deafread.com/media/celebration.html