DELAWARE DRIVER EDUCATION ON CAPE GAZETTE VIEWPOINTS.

HISTORY OF DELAWARE DRIVER EDUCATION

The Tuesday's June 4, 2019, Cape Gazette's Viewpoints shows a 1949 vintage

Ford automobile practicing parallel parking by a marked Student Driver Training car.

A Brief History of Drivers Education article is posted by Delaware Department

of Education on the www. internet.

The comprehensive program Drivers Education was enacted in Delaware in 1934,

by Delaware Safety Council that sponsored classroom instruction in several schools.

Behind the wheel instruction was introduced in the 1935-1936 school year. Eight cars were

made available by Hugh Gallagher Union Park Motor Company of Wilmington to make this

high school course possible. By 1948 Driver Ed was offered by all public schools of

Delaware. In 1948 – 1949 school year Delaware's Legislature appropriated $50,000

to the State Board of Education for the program.

Recognized leaders of Drivers ED are Hugh Gallagher, Captain Clarence Lynch, Delaware State Police, Theodore Burton, and other educational people.