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1992: On March 13, 1992, Angel Ramos, via the Gallaudet University
Regional Center, chaired the "Victory" committee which planned a rally
at the City Hall in Dallas and various speakers came to honor the
anniversary of Gallaudet University's Deaf President Now event. A
banquet was held later that evening. |
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1993: No events in 1993 except awards at the Sympo
in Austin, Texas |
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1994: On March 13, 1993, Rita McMahon, chair of "Victory Day",
organized a party at the Dallas Community Center of the Deaf
(DCCD), to celebrate anniversary of Deaf President Now. |
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1995: In 1995, Coalition of Presidents' committee made a motion for the
Deaf community in Dallas to plan and organize a Deaf Awareness Week
in March. Mark Branson volunteered to chair this event and a committee
was set up to help him. This week long event was a huge success. |
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1996: In 1996, the Deaf Awareness Week committee, also chaired by
Mark Branson, decided to change name from Deaf Awareness Week to
Deaf Celebration '96. Again the week long event was a huge success. T-shirt was designed by Elizabeth Morris. |
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1997: Cindi Nagy
was the chairperson. The committee
dedicated the week-long event in the honor of Mark Branson. Also, instead
of having this event in March, it was voted to have Deaf Celebration
week in September from now on. No T-shirt
was designed. |
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1998:
Cindi Nagy was the chairperson again. Week of
September 15-20, we had a guest speaker, Matthew Moore
and a deaf comedian, Lynn Jacobowitz. We also held
booths at NorthPark Center. T-Shirt was designed by
Susan Eads. |
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1999: Cindi Nagy was the chairperson. Deaf Celebration's domain
www.deafcelebration.com launched! Week of September 16-19, resulted
HUGE successful with these deaf performers, Matt "Magic" Morgan show and Clayton Valli show.
Also, we had the highest booths we ever had -- 28 booths at NorthPark
Center! T-shirt was designed by Elizabeth Morris. |
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2000: Cindi Nagy was the chairperson. Deaf Celebration was at Bronco Bowl
on September 23 with over 700 admissions all day, all night. We had over 50
booths during the daytime with J.J. Jones, mime, and Squishy the Clown.
Our night performance,
we had two performers, Simon Carmel the Magician and Byron Bridges the
comedian. This year was the best selling T-shirts designed by Sam Dunn. |
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2001: Misty Laird was our new chairperson. It
was held at Bronco Bowl on
September 22. We had 45 booths during the daytime
with J.J. Jones and his daughter Juliana, mimes, and
two clowns, Squishy the Clown and Grapeape. Night entertainment
was performed by two separate deaf performers, Matthew "Magic" Morgan
and Vikee Waltrip. Beautiful T-shirt was designed by
Michael Banta. |
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2002: Misty Laird was the chairperson.
It was held at Arlington Convention Center on
September 21. We had an attendance of over 800 people.
We had 47 booths during the daytime with 6 different
workshops. For our evening program, we had 5 different
performers; Pinky the Juggler, Joshua Soudakoff (child
actor), Peter Cook, El Espiritu Silente (Mexican
Dancers), and Dr. Deaf. T-shirt, two different
colors purple and green was designed by Sam Dunn. |
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2003: Misty Laird was
the chairperson. It was held at
Arlington Convention Center on September 13. We had an
attendance of over 1,000 people. We had 48 booths during
the daytime with 4 different seminars. For our evening
program, we had 3 different performers; Matt "Magic"
Morgan, The Wacky Show from Austin and "Deaf Duet" with Roy Jones, Jr.
and April Alonso. T-shirt was designed by
our committee and the color was royal blue. |
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2004: Henry Whalen
was our new chairperson. It was held at
the Arlington Convention Center on September 11. We had
an attendance of over 1,000 people. We had 45
booths during the daytime with 8 different how-to
clinics. We also had daytime entertainers
primarily for the children; Paul Dymoke for "Professor
Snip." For our evening program, we had 2 different
performers; Ken Glickman for "Professor Glick" and "Club
Deafiano" T-shirt was designed by our committee
and the color was yellow. We used "patriotic" as
our theme. |
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2005: Henry Whalen
was the chairperson. It was held at
the Arlington Convention Center on September 10th. We
had an attendance of over 800 people. We had 38
booths during the daytime with 6 different how-to
clinics. We also had daytime entertainer primarily
for children along with bounce house and face-painting.
For our evening program, we started off with award
ceremony and then we offered attendees and exhibitors an
opportunity to socialize. T-shirt was designed by Rogelio Ibaņez and the color was
beige. |
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2006:
The Deaf Celebration Team
had to cancel the event in September 2006 because too
many overlapping events occurred in that month.
The Deaf Celebration committee also decided to host the
event biennially and the next event will be held in the
year of 2008. |
