Deaf Digest mentioned the story of Simon Roffe, a resident in Maryland. While enrolled at a school in New York, he had a job delivering auto parts. His employer gave Roffe a quarter every time Roffe had to make a delivery, telling him to confirm that the delivery had been made. Since Roffe is deaf and could not use the phone, he would put these quarters in a coffee jar. One day two weeks later, the employer asked Roffe why he never made the calls. Roffe showed a coffee jar full of quarters and explained that he was deaf and could not use the voice phone. His boss was aghast as he had thought Roffe was a foreigner with a strange voice accent! Roffe, 21 and former president of NCSY’s ‘Our Way’, was recently mentioned in the ‘New York Daily News’ for advocating Cued Speech as “a golden passport to new worlds”. He says that while “ASL is crucial to maximizing one’s social life, learning to cue early on helps in reading, academics and professional achievement… Without cueing, There’s no way on earth I’d be where I am today.” He is currently enrolled at New York University’s Stern School of Business.