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Rodney
Patrick Moreland, Jr.
Age 24, of near York, Nebraska, killed in a car
accident on July 9, 1970. He
was a native of Washington State.
His nickname was Rod. Lived with his family (his parents and
sister, Dee Anne in Olympia, Washington. He attended at Summit School in
Seattle till 1958. Transferred to Washington State School for the Deaf
(WSD), Vancouver, Washington. He involved the activities: Boy Scout,
Senior Class Secretary, Literacy Society Vice President, Student Council
Secretary and Boys' Reading Room secretary, Totem Club, and sports:
football, basketball, and track. He graduated at WSD in 1963.
He went to Gallaudet College in 1965. He established several
swimming - 100 m freestyle records, twice for World Games of the Deaf in
1965 (Washington, D.C) and 1969 (Belgrade, Yugoslavia). During Gallaudet
College years, he had a good mind and passed his college courses with a
minimum studying time according to Mr. Jack Levesque. He was athletic,
starring on the Bison football, swimming and wresting teams. He played
the roles in several plays. Member of Kappa Gamma Fraternity. He changed
his major from Physical Education to Accounting. He graduated at
Gallaudet College in 1970 with Bachelor of Art - major accounting.
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