FULTON, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton has its first deaf superintendent.
The Fulton Sun (bit.ly/1ceaNjs ) reports that Ernest Garrett III has been selected to lead the school effective July 1 by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The school was established by state lawmakers in 1851.
Garrett is a St. Louis native who now works as executive director of the Missouri Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.