European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 12 aces places deaf teenager fakes honors in speech tourney Todd Kos hear his own words and could Only Sec the standing ovation he received after the High school deaf since took first place in a state speech tourney in Elk in really Kos said after defeating 15 others with his opening the which advocated educating deaf students in traditional classrooms rather than schools for the 1 have accomplished a somewhat out Freach being deaf and taking the speech title in a Field dominated by the the Robbinsdale Cooper High school student and 1 feel Good that it May have brought some encouragement to other hearing impaired people who could probably attempt to follow the Steps i have i Hope i have opened up new avenues for the Kos was one of 176 contestants in class a compete which included 16 students in each of 11 he participated in the original oratory Kos spoke with a reporter by Telephone by Reading his fathers lips As his father repeated the reporters ques he said he initially backed away from the speech Competition when a math teacher encouraged him to enter two years but my parents bribed me with a baseball i bribe because i had to go to some extreme Effort to overcome my through work with the High schools speech Phyllis his math speech therapist and two Kos improved his speaking ability and his he chose his speech topic last when Rudy Perpich proposed closing the Faribault school for the deaf an idea Kos thought was the governor later withdrew his proposal in the face of the deaf will have to live in the hearing world All their and they have to develop an understanding of the values and priorities of the hearing he i have documentation in my speech that mainstream secondary education helps the hearing impaired develop positive identity with the human society and academic and communicative Abili Kos said he became so involved with his speech that his eyes filled with tears when he delivered the final sentence mainstreaming the open window Between the deaf world and the human world has traded my isolation and the sounds of silence for accept Friendship and the sounds of our May its Only skin deep a photo Bill Salmon of san Francisco shows off his tattooed Torso during an International Tattoo show in Rome this american and japanese Tattoo artists took part in the boyhood dream fulfilled at 80 millionaire Stanley retailing magnate and retired chairman of the Neima Marcus department stores in always told friends his one regret in life was that he haunt run away to join the so in Honor of his 80th Marcus got to work As guest ringmaster for the Ringling Barnum Bailey its been a wonderful a Ive been Able to pet tigers and elephants and perform with the clowns and be a Marcus said in an he said the Day was an added bit of i always tried to apply some showmanship principles in and Ive always been interested in factories and things like just to know something about Tref of North Pofe Falls Short two men who hoped to become the first adventurers to walk to the North pole ended their journey this week about 260 Miles Short of their a spokesman for the expeditions base Camp there being picked up by plane right Andy manager of the Camp in Northwest they Are 200 Miles off the coast of which is just barely Halfway to the North Miller he explained that the ice pack around the pole will begin to break up in about two making an on foot trek aint no Mountain High enough a Boston University graduate who lost a leg when hit by a car 13 years ago will try to climb North americas highest Mountain mount Mckinley in Sarah and three companions set out for Alaska this week and Hope to reach the Summit on May said her Jane from her Home in miss lives in Seattle where she practices occupational therapy and last August became the first on legged woman to reach the top of mount Ranier in Freud message of Mahler pay now a letter from psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud asking payment for a consultation with the composer Gustav Mahler will be sold in London next auctioneers so Thebes Freud wrote to Mahlers executor in May 1911 say ing that he had read newspaper reports of Mahlers death and wanted payment of 300 crowns about for a consultation the previous so Thebes expects the letter to make Between and pounds to and Freud receipt to pounds to Mahlers marriage was in difficulty and he was put in touch with Freud by the Bruno who had been a patient of Mahler three times cancelled an appointment but finally travelled to the where Freud was on Freud later told a Friend that the consultation lasted a whole he said that Mahler was a Man of and that they had explored together the com posers life need we say More at most St is
