Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 261, Decatur, Adams County, 5 November 1959 — Page 11

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Devoting Life To Aiding Deaf Persons By GAY PAULEY UPI Women’s Editor NEW YORK (UPD-Mrs. Hobart C. Ramsey, who for 20 years lived in the silent world of deafness, now is devoting her life to keeping others from suffering the same affliction. “I once made a promise to God,” said the 41-year-old socialite from Short Hills, N.J. “I am

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trying to keep that commitment.” Mrs Ramsey, the wife of the board chairman of the Worthington Corp., is founder and president of the Deafness Research Foundation, the first national voluntary layman’s group furthering research on this major health problem. Some 17 million Americans have impaired hearing, Mrs. Ramsey said. At least three million are children. “More people suffer from the invisible handicap than the combined total of those with cancer, heart disease, blindness, polio .. . well, the 10 major dis-

eases,” she said, in an interview at the foundation’s New York headquarters. Beard of Operation The foundation, financed by contribution, endowment and grant, underwrites hospitals and university research, and hopes to educate the public to the need for yearly hearing tests, early diagnosis, and methods of prevention and cure. Mrs. Ramsey, a native of Nashville, Tenn., said she was just turning into her teens when a normdl bony growth in the middle ear began to impair hearing. Her

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parents checked out every clue they heard to a deafness cure. When her mother died, her father sent her to New York to live with an aunt and to see more specialists. “All told me that I would just have to get used to a world of semi-silence ... ultimately total silence,” she saidAnother illness which would call for a spinal operation ultimately led to restored hearing. While taking some tests at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., she heard of Dr. Julius Lempert, a New York ear specialist who had developed

the “fenestration” operation—creating a “window” to let sound waves through. “I thought, ears first and spine second, as I hurried east,” said Mrs. Ramsey. “I don’t believe in bargaining with God. But I pledged that if the Lempert operation worked, I would do all I could so that others might also hear. And I also promised that if it didn’t ... the chances then were about one out of three. I also would accept deafness.” The Joy of Hearing She had the operation on her

right ear in 1952 .. . on her left a year later, when it started further deterioration. Both were successful, giving her whet she called “practical" hearing—“ft never will be perfect.” Six months after the second ear surgery, she was back in the hospital for the corrective operation on the lower spine. Mrs- Ramsey, a tall, striking brunette, is the. mother of two daughters—Colette, 21, named for her, and Janet, 18. She had told her husband of her deafness before their marriage and said that all through the years of silence,

he was her “ears”—“l would love him forever for that alone,” she said. “But you can’t know what a joy ft is to hear, once you have lived with deafness. “To hear rain ... birds singing. The tenderest things have to be said softly. You can’t shout ‘I love you’. I missed hearing my babies cry ... hearing their first words. “Now I am just eternally thankful. I can’t wait to get up in the morning and start listening.” Trade in a gooa town — Decatig

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