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DEAF-MUTE MISSIONARY TO DEAF-MUTES

WACO, TEXAS -- MISS ILA RUTH JENNINGS OF

CHARLESTON, MISS., A DEAF-MUTE SINCE BIRTH

(RIGHT), IS PREPARING FOR A CAREER AS A

MISSIONARY TO OTHER DEAF-MUTES BY ATTENDING

SPECIAL CLASSES AT BAYLOR UNIVERSITY (BAPTIST)

HERE. SHE IS SHOWN WITH MISS BARBARA BARBER OF

COLORADO CITY, TEXAS, A SENIOR AT BAYLOR WHO

HAS HELPED HER IM JOB-HUNTING AND IN ENROLLING

AT THE COLLEGE. MISS BARBER LEARNED THE SIGN

LANGUAGE FROM MISS JENNINGS WHEN BOTH SERVED ON

THE SUMMER STAFF AT THE BAPTIST ASSEMBLY GROUNDS

IN RIDGECREST, N.C., IN 1953. MISS JENNINGS

22, STUDIED FOR TWO YEARS AT CLARKE MEMORIAL

COLLEGE IN MISSISSIPPI WITH AN AVERAGE GRADE OF

"B."

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