Thanks to all for the kind words, that take the sting out of first response. I now have accessed the Pottawattamie Historical Soc. page and learned that, indeed it was known by the name I gave and was changed after 1900 to School for the Deaf. Eileen ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [IOWA] Fw: Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf & ( explitivedeleted) > We all have to remember 'context' when researching our past. "Idiot" used > to be a medical term, so was "Moron" as was "deaf and dumb". And 120 > years ago society WAS from a different planet ! > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 9:47 AM > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Fw: Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf & Dumb > > > Eileen, Somewhere a village is being deprived of it's idiot. His response > to > your query does not deserve the courtesy of a reply. Tell him to go back > home. Dick > May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eileen" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 9:39 AM > Subject: [IOWA] Fw: Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf & Dumb > > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Eileen" <[email protected]> >> To: "johannd" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:04 AM >> Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf & Dumb >> >> >> > I'm sorry that you were offended but I took that wording directly from >> > a >> > report about a person I am researching. I think that it was probably >> > called this at that early date before "politically correct" arrived. >> > Eileen >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "johannd" <[email protected]> >> > To: "Eileen" <[email protected]> >> > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:15 PM >> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf & Dumb >> > >> > >> >>I hve no idea what planet your from ...but its called Education for the >> >>Deaf and 'MUTE' so get it right next time. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. > It has removed 1959 spam emails to date. > Paying users do not have this message in their emails. > Try SPAMfighter for free now! > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > from AOL at AOL.com. > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >

And not only that, a person with impaired hearing and/or speech was also at a period in time classified "insane". We only, at least I do, type verbatim, so I will eventually get my "come-uppance" also <grin>. You have always done a great "job" Eileen. Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 9:45 AM Subject: [IOWA] Fw: Fw: Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf > Thanks to all for the kind words, that take the sting out of first > response. > I now have accessed the Pottawattamie Historical Soc. page and learned > that, > indeed it was known by the name I gave and was changed after 1900 to > School > for the Deaf. > Eileen > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:18 AM > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Fw: Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf & ( > explitivedeleted) > > >> We all have to remember 'context' when researching our past. "Idiot" used >> to be a medical term, so was "Moron" as was "deaf and dumb". And 120 >> years ago society WAS from a different planet ! >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 9:47 AM >> Subject: Re: [IOWA] Fw: Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf & Dumb >> >> >> Eileen, Somewhere a village is being deprived of it's idiot. His response >> to >> your query does not deserve the courtesy of a reply. Tell him to go back >> home. Dick >> May you live to be a hundred, with an extra year to repent! Irish proverb >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Eileen" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 9:39 AM >> Subject: [IOWA] Fw: Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf & Dumb >> >> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Eileen" <[email protected]> >>> To: "johannd" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:04 AM >>> Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf & Dumb >>> >>> >>> > I'm sorry that you were offended but I took that wording directly from >>> > a >>> > report about a person I am researching. I think that it was probably >>> > called this at that early date before "politically correct" arrived. >>> > Eileen >>> > >>> > ----- Original Message ----- >>> > From: "johannd" <[email protected]> >>> > To: "Eileen" <[email protected]> >>> > Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 9:15 PM >>> > Subject: Re: [IOWA] Iowa Institute for Education of Deaf & Dumb >>> > >>> > >>> >>I hve no idea what planet your from ...but its called Education for >>> >>the >>> >>Deaf and 'MUTE' so get it right next time. >> >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> ---- >> I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. >> It has removed 1959 spam emails to date. >> Paying users do not have this message in their emails. >> Try SPAMfighter for free now! >> >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the >> body >> of >> the message >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free >> from AOL at AOL.com. >> _____________________________________________ >> >> For additional information concerning how the list >> works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit >> http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ >> _____________________________________________ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > _____________________________________________ > > For additional information concerning how the list > works, how to sub and unsub and list rules, visit > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~richard/ialist/ > _____________________________________________ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > >