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From: Peter J. Sullivan
Date: 10/7/03
Time: 6:57:28 PM
Remote Name: 138.89.72.139
Dear Dorvan: Thank you for sharing your story with us. You were fortunate that you did not go to the Benjamin Bogue Institute. I wrote to Mr Bogue and received a letter from him that he knew how to cure my stuttering as well as a school boy knows his ABC's. I wanted to take the program. My therapist at the time did not endorse it but felt that since I was so motivated or so confident that it would work, maybe it would. By the time I went to Indianapolis for the School, Mr Bogue had died but his secretary, Clara Royer took over the program. She had worked with him for years and knew just what to do. So I swung my arm, pinched my finger and thumb on each syllable, and marched across the room taking a step at each syllable. But, to make a long story short, could not bring my hand down when I couldn't say the word, since we connected the arm swing to the speech. As I was talking in the stores while practicing, the clerk looked from my mouth to the raised hand, and still heard no word, she became more confused and I became more frustrated. Bottom line. I had to unlearn the Bogue Method at the next therapy program, which I took from Eugene Walle at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. I still stutter on occasion, but life goes on. I will telephone you sometime and we can talk more then. Enjoy your retirement. You have earned it. Peace,
Peter J. Sullivan