Daily News | Eleanor Fleming, pioneering speech therapist, teacher, administrator, and volunteer, has died at 92
Eleanor Fleming, 92, of West Chester, pioneering speech therapist, longtime teacher, assistant principal, and program supervisor in Chester County, died Tuesday, April 4, of congestive heart failure at her home at the Hickman senior living center.
It was her ability to listen, assess someone’s needs, and find a way to meet those needs that set her apart, said her daughter Beth Buglio. “She was a teacher at heart,” Buglio said. “As a supervisor she was about helping the teachers. They didn’t always like her upstairs, but she said it was important to do it first and apologize later.”
She sang in the 90-member West Chester Ecumenical Choir that included singers from eight local churches and Kesher Israel Congregation, and told The Inquirer in 2004: “It’s important for faith communities to work together.”Born Sept. 30, 1930, in Philadelphia, Eleanor Ann Hetherington had a knack for science and graduated from Frankford High School in 1948.
Imagination and individuality were at the core of her personality. “She was a progressive teacher who knew that the arts are a kind of play that nurtures child development,” her daughter said. “Her classroom and the home of her children were full of rhymes and pretending, stories and costumes, dancing and music, paint and puppets, and papier-mâché.”
She had an organic garden, dynamic mind, and open heart. Her son recalled her “absolutely beautiful caring, how she dealt with those in need and pain.”
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