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Dr. Zenas Freeman Westervelt was named as the first Superintendent of the Rochester School for the Deaf. He served in that capacity until his death on Feb. 17, 1918.

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Dr. Thomas Carlaw Forrester, a teacher at the school, was named as the second RSD Superintendent serving until his retirement in 1943.

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Dr. James H. Galloway, an RSD teacher, becomes the third Superintendent of the Rochester School for the Deaf and serves until his retirement in 1966.

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Dr. Ralph L. Hoag comes to RSD from the U.S. Department of Education as the fourth Superintendent of the school. He serves until June, 1974 at which time he moves to become the Superintendent of the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind.

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Mr. Leonard G. Zwick is named the fifth Superintendent of RSD. Zwick had been a teacher, guidance counselor, the school's first audiologist and the school's principal for 17 years before becoming Superintendent.

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Dr. Harold Mowl becomes the sixth and first deaf Superintendent of RSD. He comes to RSD from the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf in Pittsburgh, PA where he was a former student and school administrator.

The first school building used by the Western New York Institute for Deaf Mutes was located at #70 S. St. Paul Street at the corner of Court Street. The building was rented from the city of Rochester.

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The boys were moved to the "Truant Home" on N. St. Paul Street (the current Perkins Hall) and the building was rented from the city of Rochester for the sum of $1 per year.

All of the students (both boys and girls) were moved to the new campus at #263 N. St. Paul Street.
This is the school's current location.

A fire destroys the shops behind the main building as well as some damage to the main building itself.

Three new buildings were built to replace the burned out buildings. These were the new KG building, the academic building, and the attachment to the boiler house building.

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The school also purchased the farm at the corner of Norton Street and Jewel Street bordered by Ceach Street and the R.W. and D. railroad line. (the Rome/Watertown and ? Railroad)

The campus property that the school was renting was purchased from the city of Rochester for the sum of $20,000.00

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Carolyn Hamilton Talcott Lyon donates money to build Lyon Hall (a girl's dormitory) in memory of her husband Dr. Edmund Lyon and her Aunt, Harriet Hamilton.

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The old "Steamship House" (once an inn on the stage and rail line and later moved to from the Ridge to the St. Paul Street location and used by the school as a laundry) is torn down to make room for the new Lyon Hall girls dorm being built on that spot.

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Willis Hall (a boy's dormitory) is opened. It is donated to the school by Robert Willis in memory of his parents.

A new preschool wing was added to the primary building to accommodate the preschol children.

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A new academic building with a shared auditorium and gymnasium in the basement was built (Westervelt Hall).

Dr. Galloway and the Board of Directors develop and approve a new expansion plan for the RSD campus.

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A new Preschool building is added to the campus. Denton Hall is donated by Mrs. Gormly, an RSD Board member, in memory of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nehemiah Denton.

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Galloway Hall (a dormitory for children 5 years of age and under) is built

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Forrester Hall, a dining room and infirmary are built on the campus.

The RSD campus is renovated bringing it into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act by making building accessable with ramps, elevators, larger bathrooms and airconditioning. Other renovations are also made to the campus at the cost of approximately 14 million dollars of NYS monies.

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Oliver Wendell Holmes visit the school to see the students put on a production of Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

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A. G. Bell visits the school to see the Lyon Phonetic Method in action. A. G. Bell and his father were also working on a visual phonetic system but was deemed to be not as good as the Lyon Phonetic Alphabet.

Both Helen Keller and A. G. Bell visit the school.

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Helen Keller visits the school again. The children present her with flowers.

Helen Keller visits the campus again for the dedication of the new academic building. (Westervelt Hall)

First Adventures in Education speaker. She crossed the Arctic and Antarctic by dogsled.

He discovered the sunken Titanic and the Bismark.

He bicycled across continents exploring different cultures.

One of the Apollo 13 astronauts who had to abort their flight and landing on the moon.

She trekked across the Sahara Desert and the Himalayan mountains. Her lecture focused mainly on the Taureg and Tibetans cultures.

Internationally known free rock climber who died from a fall on a climb after visiting RSD.

World Class sailors who survived a winter stuck in the Arctic ice with their sailboat.

World Class Kayaker who explored rivers of the world.

Ocean explorer and environmentalist who fights for the protection of underwater creatures.

First woman to win the Iditarod Dog Sled Race in Alaska.

Explorers of ice caves.

World Class pilot and balloonist who helped develop the first private aircraft to break the Earth's atmosphere and enter Outerspace.

Wildlife and environmental educator.

Renowned paleontologist who searches for and digs up dinosaur bones.

Film maker and global adventurer documenting extreme weather, natural disasters.

They traveled to different countries to explore deaf culture around the world.

Director of special projects for Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution shared his experiences exploring the under sea world.

Professional wildlife and landscape photographer from Germany.

Deaf HipHop Artist from Finland.

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Philip Brown becomes the first RSD college graduate from Gallaudet College.

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In June of 1911, Clara Noro is the first RSD student to be awarded a New York State Regents diploma .

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Barbara Tubbs, a 1978 graduate of RSD becomes "Miss Deaf America".

The first four teachers selected to work at the school included Mrs. Mary H. (Nodine) Westervelt, Miss Harriet E. Hamilton, Mr. Edward P. Hart, and Mr. Mills Whittlesey.

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RSD teacher Miss Annetta Thompson married Rev. Charles R. Mills, a missionary in China, and they establish the first School for the Deaf in China (The Chefoo School for the Deaf).

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Rosa was the first graduate of RSD and also became the first deaf faculty member.

Carolyn Hamilton Talcott (niece of one of the original teachers, Harriet Hamilton) marries Edmund Lyon and they have their reception at the school sharing wedding cake with all of the students and staff.

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Clayton McLaughlin, an RSD alumnus and math teacher establishes the RSD Alumni Association and becomes its first president.

General George A. Custer and his troops are killed in the Battle of Little Big Horn

Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone and gets a patent for it.

Thomas Edison invents the electric light bulb

The Brooklyn Bridge is built

The Statue of Liberty is given to the U.S. from France and is built and dedicated in the NY harbor

George Eastman develops the first "Box Camera" for Kodak

The Eiffel Tower is built in Paris, France

The first "modern" Olympic Games are held in Athens, Greece

The Spanish American War begins

President William McKinley is assassinated in Buffalo, NY

The Boston Red Sox win the first ever baseball World Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates

Henry Ford starts Ford Motor Company in Detroit, MI

George and Orville Wright fly the first airplane at Kitty Hawk, SC

The Great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 takes place

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded

The Boy Scouts of America is founded

The Titanic, on its maiden voyage sinks after hitting an iceberg

World War 1 begins

The Russian Revolution begins with the killing of Czar Nicholas and his family

Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs while playing for the NY Yankees

Charles Lindbergh flies solo from NY to Paris in a plane called the "Spirit of St. Louis"

The Great Depression begins following the Stock Market Crash of 1929

Amelia Earhart lost on a flight over the Pacific ocean. She and her navigator were never found

World war II begins

Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese and the United States enters WWII

The US drops the first Atomic Bombs on the cities of Tokyo and Nagasaki, Japan bringing WWII to an end

The first electronic computer is invented

The country of Israel is established and recognized by the United Nations

The Korean War begins as the North Koreans attack the South Koreans

The Vietnam War begins

The Russians put the 1st man in space followed by the Americans 2 months later.

President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, TX

Dr. Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, TN

Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinaed in Los Angeles, CA

The US lands a spacecraft on the moon and two astronauts leave the craft and walk on the moon's surface

President Nixon resigns after the "Watergate" scandal

The Space Shuttle "Challenger" with a teacher aboard explodes on take-off killing all the astronauts on board

On September 11, 2001 terrorists fly planes into to World Trade Center Towers in NYC and into the Pentagon in Washington, DC while another plane destined for the Capital building or the White House crashes into a field in PA. More than 3000 Americans are killed in these attacks.

Following an earthquake in Indonesia, a Tsunami strikes the shores of Thialand killing more than 225,000 people

The wars in Iraq and Afganistan begin