Leonard Lau was an advocate for deaf driver education and held a lifelong interest in deaf affairs. The majority of the collection consist of papers related to driver education and alumni associations. There are several magazines journals, and newsletters from various schools for the deaf, which date from 1947 to 1983. Scrapbook pages are an interesting aspect of the collection, as they deal with deaf drivers education. Questionnaires about the policies of deaf institutions for drivers education are included, as well as a typed report of Lau’ s findings. In addition, there are numerous papers related to the Gallaudet University Alumni Association, as well as memorabilia from his student days. Finally there are newspapers from around the country covering a wide range of topic, dated 1933 1983.The Leonard Lau collection provides an excellent insight into the field of deaf drivers education in its infancy. During the 1940s and 1950s, it was believed that deaf people could not drive because they could not hear. Lau proved that adage wrong. In addition, the collection gives an interesting perspective on deaf education and culture during a period of fifty years, from 1933 to 1983.