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Robert Panara
Robert Panara was a legendary professor of English, literature, and theater. He is also known as a poet, historian, drama-club coach, and an authority on deaf culture. Robert Panara was born in 1920 in the Bronx. One day, when he was ten years old, he awoke in hospital with blurry vision, and had no feeling in his right arm. When a nurse spoke to him, he heard nothing. Spinal meningitis had attacked his auditory nerves, leaving him completely deaf. But Panara did not give up. His strong reading and writing skills allowed him to attend mainstream public schools, and he often relied on classmates to take notes for him or mouth words so he could read lips. He learned sign language at the American School for the Deaf in Hartford,

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