Leonard M. Elstad

Leonard M. Elstad

3rd President of Gallaudet University
In office July 1, 1945 – July 1, 1969
Preceded by	Percival Hall
Succeeded by	Edward C. Merrill Jr.

Personal details
Born	(1899-02-08)February 8, 1899
Died	June 27, 1990(1990-06-27) (aged 91)

Leonard M. Elstad (February 8, 1899 – June 27, 1990) was the third President of Gallaudet University (then Gallaudet College) in Washington, D.C. Elstad, who obtained a Master's degree from Gallaudet in 1923 and two honorary degrees later in his life, presided over an important period of Gallaudet's history, which came to be called the "Elstad Expansion Era," when Gallaudet achieved accreditation (1957) and was significantly expanded, both in terms of enrollment and the number and capacity of the buildings on campus.^[1]

External links

http://saveourdeafschools.org/expansion_era.pdf
A Historical Timeline
https://www.gallaudet.edu/archives-and-deaf-collections/collections/manuscripts/mss-183
My Yesterday's: In a Changing World of the Deaf by Mervin D. Garretson, pp. 188–120.
Oral History Project: Dr. Leonard Elstad, filmed in 1977.
Deaf Mosaic, episode 605 (21:14-24:01).
New York Times obituary, June 29, 1990.
Buff and Blue article, October 23, 1945, p. 1.

References

^ Gannon, Jack. 1981. Deaf Heritage–A Narrative History of Deaf America, Silver Spring, MD: National Association of the Deaf, p. 230-236 (PDF Archived 2012-04-24 at the Wayback Machine)