Starting Work: Trade School Experience

Starting Work: Trade School Experience

In this video Jerry Hause, Dianne Hause, and Dennis Legler describe trade school experience.

Zilvinas Paludnevicius

Drs. John S. and Betty J. Schuchman Deaf Documentary Center Collection

2022

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American Sign Language

A video featuring ASL interviews with several subjects. Dianne Hause, an older white woman, seated at home with her husband Jerry Hause, an older white man; and Dennis Legler, a white older man seated at home. The video begins with a still black and white image of the Composing Room at the Washington Post with the text Trade School Experiences.

Dianne Hause: I’d heard about how so many Deaf people worked as printers. I saw them and I wanted that for myself. I wanted to become a printer. So I decided to go to Chowan College in North Carolina. Chowan College. The school was good for trades. I took a 6-week training course in printing and earned a certificate. Then I worked in several small printing shops to build my experience

Dennis Legler: Really, I learned about printing in Oklahoma. For training, you had to learn various skills. I learned press and linotype and others. I learned that and I just kept going. I got a lot of experience from that but not enough. After I left I moved back to Iowa. Vocational Rehabilitation wanted me to work for Meredith. That was a book bindery company and that had a lot of printing involved. So I gained even more training there. I was there for more than a year and then I felt like I had acquired my skills. Of course I obtained more skills as time went on, but that’s how I got my start.

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