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...came upon the name of Boston's private Speech School for Crippled Children in the phone book. He wondered whether it would make an education story for TIME. It did. Froslid reported about the school's 38-year history. its 78-year-old founder-director, Emma Tunnicliff, and its volunteer instructors who tried to help make ends meet by collecting old license plates to sell as scrap metal (TIME, Jan. 28). Since the story appeared, Boston newsmen have found their way to the school, donations by the hundreds have poured in from all over the U.S., and volunteer...
Learn to Control. The school grew out of the personal struggles of its 78-year-old founder-director, Emma Tunnicliff, who was born with a bone ailment that made it impossible for her to walk. An operation eventually cured her, but in her first joy at being able to run around like other children, she tripped over a fence and suffered an emotional trauma that prevented her speaking. Only after years of instruction from her mother did she learn to talk again and finish her education. By that time, she was determined to devote her life to other unfortunates...
Today, Mrs. Tunnicliff has a volunteer teaching and medical staff of seven, branch clinics in Lynn, Springfield. Lowell, Jamaica Plain, Lawrence and Merrimac. Her approach does not involve elaborate psychiatric techniques. It relies mostly on developing in each pupil control and coordination...
Because its instruction, lunches and transportation are free, Mrs. Tunnicliff's school has never been out of financial trouble. Last week, in a poignant effort to raise money, its volunteer staff began a drive to collect old license plates that it hopes to sell for scrap. But somewhere, insists Mrs. Tunnicliff, the school will find the funds it needs-for the sake of the eleven-year-old with the body of a child of six, for the small boy who developed an emotional trauma from so many beatings at home that he can only say the word "pump...
Twice in two years, Big Nine teams had invaded the Rose Bowl and made the Pacific Coast champions look like second-raters. Last week, a Big Nine team won again, but not until Northwestern Halfback Ed Tunnicliff broke loose for a 43-yard run in the last minutes of play. Final score: Northwestern 20, California 14. Some scores in other bowls (16 in all, which did a more than $2,000,000 business before some 600,000 fans...