Photograph, courtesy of RIT Archives. Image description: LBJ is seated and signing the 1965 NTID bill outside in the Rose Garden. In the background are legislators.
Image courtesy of NTID. Image description: The stained glass work is based on a photo of LBJ seated and signing the 1965 NTID bill. An American flag is to his right, and three people are in the background.
The Deaf Belgian artist is Sander Blondeel, who specializes in stained-glass work. The work is located at NTID, on the second floor, near the NTID president and dean's offices.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1965 Public Law 89-36, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf Act (linked below). The bill provides for establishing and operating a coeducational, postsecondary institute for the technical education of deaf or hard-of-hearing people. Read his remarks linked below.
Below are documents from the agreement with 1966 HEW and RIT and a 1989 report on the Origin and Establishment of NTID by Ralph Hoag, an NAG member.
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