Word: bigham
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carolyn Bigham, 19, was just out of high school when she suffered an attack of meningococcic meningitis - an inflammation of the covering of the brain and spinal cord. The disease left her memory so clouded that she could remember almost nothing of her life. She had to start school all over again in Charlotte, N.C., beginning with the first grade, until finally she could remember enough to graduate from high school again (TIME, July...
...Carolyn Bigham graduated from Central High School in Charlotte, N.C. last year, just before her 19th birthday, and went to work in the flower department of a local store. Last month Carolyn had survived a grave illness and was just finishing grammar school again...
First Word. But when Carolyn Bigham regained consciousness, she hardly knew who she was. She recognized her mother & father (a postman) and some of her six brothers & sisters, but could not speak their names. Even after she was sent home, five weeks passed before she uttered a word: "Water." Said her mother: "That was the most welcome sound I ever heard...
...process and, more important, kept her from withdrawing timidly into herself. Carolyn has been back at work, part-time, and she has recalled the names of flowers, though she still has occasional difficulty in bringing out the right name. This week, far from being timidly withdrawn, Choir Singer Carolyn Bigham is going to her church's Bonclarken Conference, just as she hoped to do in the fourth grade...