Past Officers
1817-Present
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CHRONOLOGY |
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| 1817: |
April 14th. The new York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb legally incorporate…school's Board of Directors, headed by the Hon. DeWitt Clinton, holds first meeting (May 22). |
| 1818: |
May 12th. Classes began in rear of City Hall…four pupils selected from total population of sixty-six deaf individuals in New York City…Rev. Abraham O. Stansbury was first Principal. |
| 1821: | Horace Loofborrow succeeded Rev. Stansbury as Principal. |
| 1829: |
September 30th. School located at 50th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues. |
| 1831: | Dr. Harvey Brindle Peet assumed post of Principal. |
| 1850: |
August. Dr. Peet convened first Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf. |
| 1856: |
December 4th. School moved to 99 Fort Washington Avenue in Washington Heights…named "Fanwood" after daughter and wooded estate of cousin of former President James Monroe. |
| 1862: | Ladies’ Committee organized. |
| 1867: |
June 26th. Fanwood celebrated its first fifty years…Dr. Issac Lewis Peet succeeded father as head of school. |
| 1874: | September. Classes for the deaf-blind initiated. |
| 1880: |
January. Under Edwin A. Hodgson, the Deaf-Mutes Journal was published at the school for the first time. It had eventually became a world famous eagerly sought after periodical. |
| 1890: | August. Fanwood hosted first International Congress of the Deaf. |
| 1893: |
January 1st. Dr. Peet’s posted to Enoch H. Currier…notable like Dr. A.G. Bell, Rev. T.H. Galaudet, Dr. E.M. Gallaudet, and Miss Helen Keller attended school’s 75th Anniversary celebration (May 16). |
| 1894: | April. Fanwood’s first gymnasium opened. |
| 1895: |
April 8th. School’s vocational building burned down…boys donned their first cadet uniforms (May). |
| 1896: |
September. Military drill, including daily battalion exercises and dress parades, adopted. |
| 1917: |
April 15th. 100th Anniversary commemorating Fanwood’s charter is celebrated…Isaac B. Gardner named Principal. |