Tad Chapman Newspaper Clippings
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- Title:
- Tad Chapman Newspaper Clippings
- Description:
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First article: Winthrop Clark Chapman. "'Tad,' as he is familiarly known, born April 4, 1915, was a former pupil of Miss Hall at the South Dakota School for the Deaf. He is a quiet, scholarly youth, a true gentleman, with a fine attitude towards life and a firm determination to win success. He has been carefully nurtured and trained, and his response to the influence brought to bear upon him is full and gratifying. He hopes to enter college, as did Helen Keller, and in his work there he will be greatly aided by his remarkable ability to read the lips in ordinary conversation through what appears to be merely a casual resting of the finger-tips on the corner of the mouth and through throat vibration. The Phipps Unit may prove to be a helpful coadjutor in his ambitions. He is now a member of the ninth grade and is doing well in it." "Religion is a true source of happiness to Tad, as it is to Helen Keller and had been to Laura Bridgman and Edith Thomas. He seems to have an innate and deep-rooted sense of the divine realities and respond to it wholeheartedly; for, quite unsolicited and as his own original thought, will come from his lips such a remark as 'God sings in my heart more beautifully than I can sing.' And once, when asked if he understood the phrase 'God is the light of the world,' he answered readily: 'It means that God is our sight and understanding.' Such an incident--and there are many of them--seems to illustrate and illuminate a point made by Mr. Farrell in a talk on the reality and significance and essential value of invisible things." "Tad has a devoted friend, tutor and companion in the person of Mr. Joseph Jablonske, a graduate from Perkins Institution, who has profited by the Harvard course on the Education of the Blind (N1) under Dr. Allen as lecturer, and that on 'special methods' of teaching the blind under Dr. Allen's lieutenant and assistant, Miss Jessica Langworthy. Miss Hall could hardly carry on without Mr. Jablonske's aid." / Second article: Perkins Graduates Deaf-Blind Boy. "A boy totally deprived of sight and hearing was among the eight to receive certificates of graduation from the eighth grade this morning at the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind." "Winthrop C. Chapman, Redfield, S.D., has been a pupil of Perkins for three years, and during this time has completed the work of the eighth grade. He plans to return next year to take up high school work and hopes to continue through college." "During his stay at Perkins, 'Tad' Chapman has impressed the authorities with his intellectual ability, and there is every reason to believe that he will make marked academic progress. He has the advantage of being taught speech, which is not always taught to deaf-blind pupils, and has learned to articulate exceedingly well." "On his way home to South Dakota next week this boy and Leonard Dowdy, Jr., a five-year-old deaf-blind pupil of Perkins, with Miss Inis B. Hall, head of the department of deaf-blind at the Watertown School, are to stop over at the Century of Progress in Chicago, to give a demonstration of the work being done at Perkins in the field of doubly handicapped children." "Those who received certificates were Winthrop C. Chapman, Redfield, S.D.; Emery Cliche, Waterville, Me.; Arthur J. Gambardelli, Providence, R.I.; John F. Hannon, Roxbury; Richard L. Hull, Rockport; Carl V. Ireland, Auburn; George V. Lahti, Chester; and Kenneth E. Spelman, Oakland Beach, R.I." / Image caption: "If you are both blind and deaf, there is a way to rise above your handicap. Seventeen-year-old Winthrop Clark Chapman of Sioux Falls, S.D., made deaf and blind through spiral meningitis at the age of four, is able to understand spoken words in nine different ways. His own speech is good, and he is able to communicate with others by means of the Morse code, the manual alphabet and the Braille text."
- Date:
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1933
- Format:
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Newspapers
Photographs
- Genre:
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Clippings
- Location:
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Perkins School for the Blind
Samuel P. Hayes Research Library - Collection (local):
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Students with Deafblindness at the Perkins School for the Blind
- Subjects:
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Deafblind people
People with disabilities
Special education
Perkins School for the Blind
- Places:
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Massachusetts > Middlesex (county) > Watertown
- Extent:
- 3 photographs and 3 clippings
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/mk61sn10p
- Terms of Use:
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Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA
Contact host institution for more information.
- Publisher:
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Boston Evening News; unknown
- Notes:
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Photographs and newspaper clippings from Boston Evening News article from Tuesday, June 13, 1933 titled "Perkins Graduates Deaf-Blind Boy," and other unknown clipping titled "Winthrop Clark Chapman."
- Accession #:
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587-8-7
