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Education

  • went to school for colored deaf children before moving to Chicago
  • graduated high school in 1951
  • first African American admitted at Gallaudet- graduated 1954

Education cont.

  • First deaf admitted to Eastern Michigan Uni.
  • Masters from Seattle Pacific Christian College

Early Life

Born June 27, 1925

Lived in Birmingham, Alabama

Lost his hearing after having spinal meningitis

spinal meningitis

  • Meningitis is a bacterial infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord (meninges

Adult Life

  • went to Africa in 1957
  • became missionary for deaf and began fundraiser programs to develop more schools and churches for deaf
  • began first school for deaf in Ghana and founded African Bible College for deaf

Adult life cont.

one of Foster's classes in Africa

  • married a deaf german woman named Berta and had five children, 4 boys one girl

1987

  • in 1987, Foster was on a small plane traveling to Kenya with 12 others
  • the plane crashed due to mechanical errors and no one survived

citations

places Foster made all the schools for deaf and are still open today

fun facts

  • http://www.cmdeaf.org/resources/photos/dr-mrs-andrew-foster
  • http://beforeitsnews.com/health/2012/10/meningitis-top-natural-supplements-for-treatment-2453718.html

citations

  • Foster opened up 31 schools
  • Andrew foster is to Africa what Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet is to U.S.
  • in Africa they thought deafness was a curse so the parents were forced to hide the children, and hid them,the ones not were left in wilderness and eaten by animals
  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001700/
  • http://ifmyhandscouldspeak.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/andrew-foster-the-gallaudet-of-africa/
  • www.deafis.org/culture/celebrities/foster.php
  • love2asl.com/deaf_history_did_you_know
  • http://teacheredmonds.webnet.edu/edmondswoodway/seagold/document/download/history_of_deaf_sts.ppl?id=16449

Dr. Andrew Foster

1925-1987

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