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...other time, the sight of children playing in his father's garden might have seemed a happy one to young Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet of Hartford, Conn. But on one particular day in 1814, it was not. Among the children was nine-year-old Alice Cogswell-the little deaf girl from next door who could neither speak nor write. As he watched her trying so hard to keep up, 26-year-old Thomas Gallaudet began to think: perhaps he could teach...
Improvising his methods as he went along, Gallaudet did teach Alice, and her physician father was so grateful that he decided Gallaudet should teach other Alices too. Though the deaf in those days were considered all but hopeless, Dr. Cogswell managed to scrape together about $2,000 from friends, even persuaded the Connecticut legislature to make the first state appropriation in the country for a humane institution. By 1817, he and Gallaudet had enough to open a school-the first school for the deaf...
...anybody in Canterbury's highly impressed audience of 500 had seen the girls a few hours earlier, the disciplined performance might have seemed even more impressive. Instead of a raptly dedicated chorus, an Englishman would have seen a crowd of average-looking American girls (with names like Foy, Gallaudet, Zuromskis, Lutov, Pierson, Schmidt, Saltonstall) scuffling their low-heeled shoes, swinging their shoulder bags, gaping at the sights...
When Rube Fleet resigned in 1923, the Army was sorry to see him go. He went to work for Gallaudet Corp. (airplanes) as vice president and general manager, saw it fold up, with his active assistance, because it lacked the breath of life. Then he organized Consolidated, and settled down in Buffalo. He had a trick of picking good men. One of them was Isaac M. Laddon, onetime Army aircraft engineer who is now vice president of Consolidated and the design genius who turns out Consolidated planes. Another was Larry Bell, now head of Bell Aircraft Corp. When Fleet decided...
...succeed resigned Joseph A. Broderick in the longest (14 years) term on the Federal Reserve Board, Franklin Roosevelt nominated bright-eyed Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper, whose job it was to ride herd on the riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington (TIME, Feb. 14). Six years out of Amherst, in 1912 Ernest Draper became president of American Creosoting Co., in 1920 shifted to vice president of Hills Brothers Co., packers of Dromedary Dates. Long prominent in such groups as the New York State Advisory Commission on Minimum Wage and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper...