PATRICIA WYATT
LEWES
Little Patricia Wyatt, a
Lewes school third grader is having the time of her life being the
heroine of all her
classmates. They envy her because she doesn't have to go to school
each day and
can keep up with schooling
right at home. The eight year old is confined to her bed with
rheumatic
fever and faces perhaps
two years of inactivity but goes to school each day by “School
to Home
Intercommunications” a
Bell Telephone system.
Patricia is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. G. Edward Wyatt of 117 Second Street, Lewes .
Last October a sudden
illness, diagnosed at Beebe Hospital as rheumatic fever caused her
to need
a long rest period. She
was allowed to return home, since her mother was a trained nurse, for
her
long convalescence. Her
father, a Lewes town commissioner, owns the Wyatt Taxi Service
here.
Patricia can sit up in bed
and hear everything going on in the classroom at school by flipping
the 'on' button of the
telephone gadget beside her bed. When ever the class teacher ask her
a question
she can 'answer' so
everyone in class can hear her as she presses the “talk key”.
Miss Irene Ford,
is the teacher this year.
When school time rolls
around, Patricia flips the on switch and the teacher flips the on
switch at school.
The telephone unit was
installed in cooperation of Dr. John S. Carlton, director of
State Child Development and
Guidance Division.
Source: Salisbury Daily
Times, Salisbury, Maryland, February 2, 1953. Abstract by
Harrison
Howeth, December 2017.
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