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Taken from: Booth, Frank W., ed. The Association Review. Washington, D.C.: American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, 1908.  p. 229.

NATHAN FRANK WHIPPLE.

On Wednesday evening, February 12, 1908, Mr. Nathan Frank Whipple, an oral teacher in the California Institution at Berkeley, dropped dead while officiating in his accustomed capacity as reader in the Christian Science Church, Oakland. Mr. Whipple had recently been suffering from an attack of grip, and this had probably weakened his heart. Mr. Whipple was a cousin of Zera Whipple, a teacher of the deaf, the founder of the Mystic (Conn.) Oral School, and the inventor of the Whipple Natural Alphabet, which was described by Miss Daisy Way at the first Lake George Summer Meeting of the Association. (See, for her paper and illustrations of this Natural Alphabet, the Report of the First Summer Meeting.) Mr. Whipple began teaching the deaf at the age of thirty years, at the Mystic School, and entered the California Institution in 1886, where he continued his work until his death, at the age of fifty-nine years. The following resolutions of appreciation were adopted by his fellow teachers of the California Institution:

WHEREAS, The death of Mr. Whipple has removed from among us a valued colaborer and an esteemed friend, and

WHEREAS, We desire to express to his family our sympathy in. this trying hour, therefore be it

Resolved, That in the death of Mr. Whipple this Institution and the profession of deaf-mute instruction at large have lost a teacher of rare success and, ability and a man of high and noble character.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to his family and printed in the Annals, the ASSOCIATION REVIEW, and the California News.

L. Moffat,

R. S. French, 

Wm. A. Caldwell,

Committee.

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