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Stephen Simpson on the campus of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois on October 7, 2015. (Jay Grabiec)
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Image from article about Oma Simpson of Muhlenberg County attending the Kentucky School for the Deaf in Danville, KY.
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Oma Simpson, Deaf and Blind, Makes Wonderful Progress in Danville School
Several days ago two of the teachers at the Kentucky School for [the] Deaf, at Danville, on entering one of the rooms of the institution were struck by a picture made by a child, one of the pupils of the school.
This child, a little girl of eleven, was half-lying, half-sitting among the pillows of a couch, holding a book as if she were reading it. She kept the graceful, unconscious pose without the turning of a leaf, without the flicker of an eyelash, for five or ten minutes.
One fact gave poignancy and poetry to this little picture and made it remarkable, the child “reading” the book was both deaf and blind, and yet in the prison of darkness and silence in which she lives, she had felt the lure of the printed page.
Everybody knows of Helen Keller, the deaf-blind young woman who has become one of the foremost thinkers and writers of the day. All have read with pity and admiration the story of her battles in the intellectual life and have marveled at her conquests. Very few know that in the Kentucky School for the Deaf and Dumb at Danville, Ky., a little girl, handicapped just as Helen Keller was, and who is making the struggle for education and for life itself that Miss Keller at length won. Her name is Oma Simpson and she comes from the little town of Hillside, in Muhlenberg County.
Began 3½ Years Ago.
Three and a half years ago when Oma first came to school she knew absolutely nothing, not even her own name. She didn't even know that she had a name or that other people and [other] things have names. A few rude gestures with which she could ask for food or water formed her only means of communication. Her own world must have been more void than even the most imaginative can conceive. It is not known positively that she was born deaf. At eighteen months, through an attack of spinal meningitis, it is supposed she lost her hearing and in a few more months, lost all memory of the few words her baby mind had possibly grasped. From two until five years of age she was in bed, very ill, all the time.
Just when she began to lose her sight, it is impossible to say, but at five, she recovered from the long illness and then it was known that she had become totally blind. The only objects which could have become familiar to her weak eyes during her sickness were the walls of one darkened room, her mother's face, and perhaps a few simply toys. In a few months' time all memory of the things she had seen must have been lost in the darkness which folded her about just as the baby-babbling was swallowed up by the blank stillness.
Loving Mother Helped Her.
Fortunately before Oma came to school, her mother kept alive the mind-germ by teaching her to do simple every-day tasks, to dress herself, to use a broom, to wipe the dishes, to put away her playthings. So it was that when she was sent to school she was extremely neat and independent in her personal habits. Except for these two marked traits, neatness and independence, in the beginning there seemed to be nothing remarkable about her. She was passive, willing to sit still just where she was left, inert, uninterested in everything about her. Her teacher says that the first time she was led into her room, she moved about until she found a Bible lying on a table, then she at once opened it and knelt down by a chair. That she could not know what the book was or what kneeling meant and that she has never done such a thing since gave to the incident the import of an omen. At any rate in Oma's case it seems much more reasonable to attribute to her unconscious act a religious significance than to explain it as a coincidence.
First Day in School.
Her first day in school was November 9, 1910. Several toys were put into her hands but the only one which seemed to interest her was a doll. Her teacher at once spelled “doll” into her hand. It was not until eight days later that she was able to pick out the doll from several other objects when the word was spelled against her hand, and give it to her teacher, thus proving that she knew the four letters d-o-l-l stood for the object that interested her. Two days later she could spell the word herself, forming the letters of the manual alphabet very slowly with her own right hand. A doll's bed next appealed to her and in four more days she had learned that word. In one month's time she knew four words, doll, bed, ball, cow. In teaching the word cow, she was allowed to feel a toy cow, then a real cow and her wakening mind at once seemed to establish the connection between the two.
About this time Oma seemed to weary of the learning that was being thrust upon her. She decided that she preferred to play with her doll and she spent nearly the entire five hours of her school day on the 8th of that December spelling the word doll, begging for the toy which a merciless foe in the person of a wise teacher was withholding from her. The next day she apparently made up her little mind to accept other things than dolls in this strange scheme of existence which was unfolding itself to her and learned the new word hat. By the 1st of January, she knew sixteen words.
Teacher Has Done Wonders.
Her teacher, Miss Sophia Alcorn, of Stanford, Ky., who has taught her from the time she entered school until the present time, determined to give her pupil the unspeakable gift of speech and lip-reading. Early in December she began to let Oma feel her lips as she talked, also to feel the voice-vibrations in her throat and chest. She selected for the first lesson two objects whose names Oma could spell on her fingers, cow and ball, putting Oma's thumb on her lips, her first finger on her cheek, her second finger on the jaw-bone and the fourth and little finger on her throat, she said these two words, slowly, many, many hundreds to times, letting the child feel with her left hand the object as she spoke its name. There were many weary days before the finger tips on the teacher's mouth and throat conveyed meaning to the struggling brain.
More difficult even than making the finger-tips hear was the work of teaching this child to speak. A deaf child who can see when he comes to school realizes that most of the people in the world go about moving their lips and he is dimly aware that these strange motions mean something although he as yet has very little, if any, conception of the meaning of language. But this child who can neither see nor hear knew nothing of men communicating with each other by means of speech. Therefore the attempts of her teacher to induce her to make sounds must have seemed a very senseless proceeding to her. The sounds which are represented by “p,” “t” and “wh” where given first, Oma feeling her teacher's mouth and then imitating her. After many weeks' trying she finally succeeded in giving the broad sound of “a” and soon this was combined with the sound of “m” and her first word, “arm,” was spoken three months after she entered school.
By the first of June she had acquired a vocabulary of about two hundred words, consisting of nouns, adjectives and verbs. She could spell simply sentences expressing her ideas and her wants. She had learned that words were the magic keys which would unlock her prison.
Child's Wonderful Progress.
With wonderful patience and almost inconceivable effort on her own part and on her teacher's part her education has been continued, until now, after four years in school, during which time she has suffered several severe illnesses, she is studying language, arithmetic, geography, typewriting and Braille. She is able to understand almost anything said to her by feeling the speaker's lips and to answer in speech, which if not entirely natural, is always intelligible. Experts in speech teaching agree that her articulation is marvelous, many of them declaring that they have never heard better speech attained by the deaf. She continues to use the manual alphabet, spelling with great rapidity and accuracy, when she is thrown with the manually taught deaf. When she is with hearing people, she talks continually. She is able to sustain a conversation with her elders fully as interesting as that of a normal child of her age.
She Uses Typewriter.
She writes her letters, her journals and her school exercises on a typewriter, using the standard keyboard, having mastered it by the touch system. She reads, as yet somewhat slowly, Braille, the printing of the blind. Outside of school, she plays with her dolls, dressing them, putting them to bed, feeding them, scolding them and petting them. She plays, too, with the other children of the institution among whom she has her chums and her special friends. She often sits “reading a book,” that is, holding it before her face, or letting it lie in her lap, while she slowly turns the pages.
What it has meant to bring this child in touch with the universe not even those who have stood by while the miracle was being wrought can fully comprehend. Each of the facts of existence, each of the phenomena of nature have had to be presented to her slowly through her finger-tips. She has many curious ideas about things which she cannot touch or which she cannot finger in their entirety. Soon after the word “star” had been taught, one of the teachers in the school gave a pasteboard star to her to feel. She immediately told the teacher that God would be very cross with her for taking the star out of heaven. She shows great interest in the colors of things. The first question she always asks about a new dress is “what color is it?”
Her ideas of God are very much like those of a normal child. She knows that God can see her, that He loves her and that He wants her to be good. Not long ago her teacher asked her where God was and after thinking a moment, she answered, “In the moon.” Another time she was asked, “Why can't you see God?” and Oma promptly replied, “Because I have no glass.”
Few Language Errors.
She seldom makes mistakes in the use of language but when she does, they are often logical mistakes, such as foreigners learning our language often make. One day, on being given some hot tea, she said, “Please wind the tea.” She did not know the word blow but she did know that she wanted the effect of wind. Several days ago she said, “My thumb-toe hurts,” meaning her big toe.
She is an unusually happy child, easily controlled, affectionate, patient, well-mannered, quiet, retiring in disposition. She is at all times perfectly contented.
She is extremely fond of new clothes and of jewelry. During her first year in school one of the first things she asked for voluntarily was a “ring” for her wrist and a little coral bracelet given to her by one of her friends was one of her dearest treasures. Not long ago one of the children broke the bracelet and Oma's grief was pitiful to behold. A very human desire for vengeance was also apparent.
Source:
“Oma Simpson, Deaf and Blind, Makes Wonderful Progress in Danville School.” The Leader [Lexington, KY], 31 May 1914.
Note:
Oma was the granddaughter of George E. Simpson & Malinda Arrendell who were married in Ohio County, KY, 6 Aug 1874.
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Hillside, KY.
Kentucky School for the Deaf -- Danville, KY.
Newspapers -- The Leader -- Lexington, KY.
Simpson, Oma.
1910s.
Shore Acres State Park
on the Oregon coast
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Simpson car sticker: This car sticker with Simpson portrait.
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This was done in Photoshop. If you're really interested in knowing the exact steps that I took to do it, let me know in the comments section.
My decision to add the motion blur was kind of a last minute discovery. I was looking around in the "Filters" section to see if there was anything that caught my attention - and I ended up with a cool motion blur, which I think really fits well with the expression on the faces of the characters.
I took a long break in-between, but I'd guess that this entire photo took me about 4-5 hours to complete (from setting up the shot to finally saving the final draft).
All three of these characters are kids meal toys from Burger King.
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I keep thinking that I must have seen all episodes of The Simpsons by now but there still remain new ones. Odd.
Part of the memory game for my flat.
See all memory cards.
Dual meet between San Francisco State Gators and Simpson University Red Hawks.
Held at the "Swamp" on Friday 25th January 2019.
184lb Justin Pichedwatana v Bryce DeCamargo Simpson, 8-4
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133lb Jordan Gurrola - SF State by forfeit
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149lb Adrian Marrufo - Simpson by forfeit
157lb Mason Boutain - SF State by forfeit
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