Elizabeth Helm Nitchie | |
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Born | Elizabeth Logan Helm May 2, 1880 Elizabethtown, Kentucky |
Died | February 16, 1961 New York City |
Occupation | Educator |
Spouse | Edward Bartlett Nitchie |
Elizabeth Logan Helm Nitchie (May 2, 1880 – February 16, 1961) was an American educator and expert on lip reading.
Elizabeth Helm was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, the daughter of William Logan Helm and Florence Murray Helm. [1] Her father died when she was a little girl. She was from the same extended family as John L. Helm, governor of Kentucky, and Benjamin Hardin Helm, a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War. (Her grandfather Henry Benjamin Helm was the first cousin of the governor.) [2]
Nitchie worked as a stenographer as a young woman. [3] In 1917, Nitchie succeeded her late husband as principal of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing, later known as the Nitchie School of Lip-Reading, [4] in New York City. [5] [6] She frequently spoke and wrote about lip-reading in the 1920s and 1930s. [3] [7] [8] "My own greatest handicap in teaching lip reading to the deaf is that I myself have normal hearing," she told a Brooklyn Daily Eagle interviewer in 1927. "All my teachers are either totally or partially deaf, and the general feeling is that only a deaf person can understand the attitude of the deaf and be a successful teacher." [9] She retired from running the school in 1928. [3]
In her later career Nitchie worked in advertising at The New York Times, and ran a stenographic bureau. She taught lip-reading to children in St. Louis in 1937. [3]
Elizabeth Logan Helm married Edward Bartlett Nitchie in 1908. [13] They had a son, Edward Jr. [14] Her husband, who was deaf, died in 1917, [6] and she died in 1961, at the age of 80, in New York City. [15] Her grave is in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
Elizabeth Helm Nitchie | |
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Born | Elizabeth Logan Helm May 2, 1880 Elizabethtown, Kentucky |
Died | February 16, 1961 New York City |
Occupation | Educator |
Spouse | Edward Bartlett Nitchie |
Elizabeth Logan Helm Nitchie (May 2, 1880 – February 16, 1961) was an American educator and expert on lip reading.
Elizabeth Helm was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, the daughter of William Logan Helm and Florence Murray Helm. [1] Her father died when she was a little girl. She was from the same extended family as John L. Helm, governor of Kentucky, and Benjamin Hardin Helm, a Confederate Army general during the American Civil War. (Her grandfather Henry Benjamin Helm was the first cousin of the governor.) [2]
Nitchie worked as a stenographer as a young woman. [3] In 1917, Nitchie succeeded her late husband as principal of the New York School for the Hard of Hearing, later known as the Nitchie School of Lip-Reading, [4] in New York City. [5] [6] She frequently spoke and wrote about lip-reading in the 1920s and 1930s. [3] [7] [8] "My own greatest handicap in teaching lip reading to the deaf is that I myself have normal hearing," she told a Brooklyn Daily Eagle interviewer in 1927. "All my teachers are either totally or partially deaf, and the general feeling is that only a deaf person can understand the attitude of the deaf and be a successful teacher." [9] She retired from running the school in 1928. [3]
In her later career Nitchie worked in advertising at The New York Times, and ran a stenographic bureau. She taught lip-reading to children in St. Louis in 1937. [3]
Elizabeth Logan Helm married Edward Bartlett Nitchie in 1908. [13] They had a son, Edward Jr. [14] Her husband, who was deaf, died in 1917, [6] and she died in 1961, at the age of 80, in New York City. [15] Her grave is in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.