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184:. During her time at the college she became the first member of a junior class to be a member of the Gallaudet Phi Alpha Pi honour society, was in the 1961 edition of "Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities", edited the student magazines and won prizes for both her prose writing and poetry and for acting. Some of her work was published in
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Kingdom, where she became a key member of the British Deaf Community. By the early 1990s, Miles was experiencing
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