Acknowledgments

In this section, I receive acknowledgment for my support or mention of my involvement in their work. 

(in reverse chronological order) 

Malzkuhn, Matt, and Ted Supalla. Home Movies Hardly Silent: Unlocking Our Deaf Folklife Films. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025.

• "We also want to recognize Jerrod Grill and Michael Olson for appreciating the value of deaf historical materials, especially deaf film, through their assistance in locating some materials used for our research for this book." [Pages xv to xvi]

Sevilla, Febe S. KaleiDEAFscope: The Remarkable Lives of Ten Deaf Filipinos. Quezon City, Manila, Philippines: Kadena Press Asia Foundation, Inc., 2024.

• "Thanks to their friends namely: Jerrod Grill (Gallaudet University Archives)... for helping me verify some facts on one of the deaf featured in this book. I am truly grateful to them for leading me to several archival records of their institutions." [Page xi]

• "Pedro Santos's unpaid bill shown on the receipt above issues by the Columbia Institution for the Deaf dated June 10, 1922. (Copy sent via email to the author by Jerrod J. Grill, Archives Preservation Specialist, Gallaudet University Archives)" [Page 134]

• "Page 4 - Just Once a Month, cover of the school organ of Kendall School for the Deaf in Washington, D.C., January 1, 1922 issue. (Sent via email by Jerrod J. Grill... on December 18, 2023)" [Page 138]

• "Page 5 - February 1, 1922 issue of Just Once a Month, listing Pedro Santos in the Honor Roll and mentioning his being the Circulation Manager of the school organ. (Sent by Jerrod J. Grill... on December 18, 2023)" [Page 138]

• "Page 19 - Bernardo "Sonny" Cuengco posing for a boxing match. (Photo from Silent Worker Magazine, September, 1948:9. Sent by Jerrod J. Grill... on December 18, 2023)" [Page 140]

• "Page 28 - Wedding reception of Bernardo Cuengco and his wife, Rose Fong held at Delight Rice's house on Blake Street in Berkeley, California with Delight Rice and Mrs. Fong's mother, (Silent Worker Magazine, September, 1948: 8, 9). Photos sent by Jerrod J. Grill... on December 18, 2023." [Page 140]

• "The link to the following online sources were sent by Jerrod Grill, Archives Preservation Specialist of Gallaudet University via email to the author through their common friend, Patti Durr:..." [Page 147]

Christie, Karen, and Nancy Rourke. George W. Veditz WHO THAT? Surdists United, Inc, 2023.

• "For generous support of this project, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to:... Jerrod Grill..." [Page 1]

Hill, Corinna S. “Paternalistically Yours: A Historical Study of Five Friendships Between Deaf and Hearing Americans from 1840-1920.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Rochester, 2022. ProQuest (2778588300). https://www.proquest.com/docview/2778588300/.

• "Thank you, Jerrod Grill... for answering all my emails and putting up with my million requests." [Page vi] 

• "John Carlin had a younger deaf brother, Andrew. They are mentioned together in Andrew Carlin’s entry in Edward Allen Fay’s study of deaf marriages. Many thanks to Jerrod Grill at the Gallaudet University Archives for confirming their relationship." [Page 40 Footnote 9]

Lucas, Ceil, Robert Bayley, Joseph C. Hill, and Carolyn McCaskill. “Segregation and Desegregation of the Southern Schools for the Deaf: The Relationship between Language Policy and Dialect Development.” Language 98, no. 4 (December 2022): e173. https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2022.0027. Reprinted in Sign Language Studies 23, no. 4 (Summer 2023): 609. https://doi.org/10.1353/sls.2023.a905540. 

• "We owe a significant debt of gratitude to... Jerrod Grill of the Gallaudet University Archives..." [Page e173 and 609]

Ballard, Carey M., and Pamela Wright. “Casterline and Croneberg: Reframing the Stokoe Story.” Presented at the Gallaudet University Linguistics Department, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC, September 21, 2022.

• "We want to express our gratitude to Jerrod Grill for providing his support and sharing his findings for our research in the Gallaudet University Archives." 

Kelly, Arlene. “Deaf Women: Agents of Change.” Society for American Sign Language Journal 6, no. 2 (September 2022): 7. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/saslj/vol6/iss2/3.

• "Sincere acknowledgements are extended to... Jerrod Grill of Gallaudet University Archives. They were helpful in making my guest editorial job more easily managed than otherwise." [Page 7]

Trovato, Sara, and Anna Folchi. The Social Condition of Deaf People: The Story of a Woman and a Hearing Society. Vol. 16. Sign Languages and Deaf Communities. De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110763140.

• "Jerrod Grill, a student and young archivist at Gallaudet Library, tells that Joseph’s poems are presently studied in Galludet’s courses, where his poetry is appreciated especially for its richness." [Page 200]

• "Some time ago, an Arizona Deaf association sent fifteen cardboard boxes of materials to Gallaudet archives. While taking stock of the materials, young Gallaudet archivist Jerrod Grill, who was working on Joseph Castronovo’s theory of art... discovered there was a letter... by Joseph Castronovo – and he was very happy about it." [Page 202]

• "While on the subject of sign creation, an activity that Italian Deaf people love to engage in, to the present day, let us mention that Joseph wrote a theatre script for a play to be titled KissFist. The sign for KISSFIST, Graziella tells, “was one of his own invention, consisting in kissing first one’s palm than one’s handback, and was inspired by a Sicilian sign [at that time, in Sicily one could kiss hands out of respect]. But what he really intended by it was something really cool, that one loves so much one cannot live without. I think that he brought this sign with him to America, where, as Jerrod Grill tells us, it is now very used” (Graziella)." [Page 202-203]

• "Graziella remembers that Joseph intended to publish a book out of his Ph.D. thesis, so he applied to Gallaudet University Press, but Gallaudet UP did not accept his project. Anna as well tried to find an Italian publisher for an essay based on Joseph’s Ph.D. work, but without success. Apparently, the manuscript does not exist any longer. Gallaudet archivist Jerrod Grill has been looking for it in the rooms of Gallaudet University Press but could not find a trace of it. What remains of this project is only a 1996 documentary movie, “The Sign of Artistic Signature”, that has been aired twice in the United States (email to daughters, December 14 2001), and that is preserved in a series of VHSs videos that Gallaudet has fortunately recovered, through the Laurent Clerc [Cultural Fund], and has subtitled in English. In the documentary, Joseph can be seen telling his theory, as he moves in a museum, from painting to painting." [Page 210-211]

Gertz, Genie, Arlene Kelly, and Vicki Hurwitz. “Pioneering the Field of Deaf Women’s Studies.” Society for American Sign Language Journal 6, no. 1 (May 11, 2022): 45n21, 57. https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/saslj/vol6/iss1/7. 

• "Jerrod Grill & Arlene B. Kelly; Email communique; September 29, 2022." [Page 45 Footnote 21] 

• "The authors wish to thank... Jerrod Grill at Gallaudet University Archives... for their magnificent assistance with research for this article." [Page 57]

Brown, Bernie. “The Chapel Hall & Tower Clock: Celebrating The University’s Beloved Icons, 1870-2020.” Presented at the Central Florida Chapter, Gallaudet University Alumni Association, April 16, 2022.

• "Thanks to Jerrod Grill of the Gallaudet University Archives who assisted me in researching the information of the Chapel Hall and Tower Clock."

Christie, Karen. “Clarke, John L(ouis) (1881-1970).” PDF. US Deaf History, 2022. https://usdeafhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/clarke-john-l-info.pdf.

• "[Thanks to Jerrod Grill and Patti Durr for find this gem]" [Page 4] 

  • • "This gem" refers to the digitalized film of John L. Clark I found during my research. 

    • J. C. Clark - Indian Wood Carver--Outtakes. Fox Movietone News Collection. University of South Carolina Moving Image Research Collections, 1929. https://digital.tcl.sc.edu/digital/collection/MVTN/id/5485/rec/5.

Regina Olson Hughes: An American Illustrator. “Welcome,” 2022. https://nationaldeaflifemuseum.omeka.net/exhibits/show/regina/welcome.

• "Special thanks:... Jerrod Grill and the Gallaudet University Archives staff"

Brown, Bernie, ed. Class of 1970 50th Anniversary 1970-2020. Ford Press, 2020. http://gally70.com/Anniversary-Book/Editorial-Staff.htm. 

• "Thanks to Gallaudet Archives... Jerrod Grill who joined me to assist in developing the section detailing Chapel Hall/Tower during its restoration years."

Malzkuhn, Matthew L. “Preservation, Revitalization and Validity of Home Movies: Deaf Folklife Films as a Case Study.” Dissertation Defense, Department of Cultural Studies, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, December 4, 2019.

• "I want to thank Jerrod Grill for coining and sharing his insights on sign language preservation in the film as the textual print of sign language."