Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-10 | Page 1 | Youthful Scion of Salt Lake Family Declared Prodigy

I I I I i I Y Scion ol of Salt Lake family I i Declared Prodigy IN II I I N Nancy ncy Woodward Eight Y Years Old G Granddaughter pd ug ter of John Judge Said lo to Have Vocabulary Vocabulary Vo Vo- of f Ten Thousand Thousand Thou Thou- s sand p Words NEW YOk YORK YORK May 10 Nancy Nancy Woodward Woodward Woodward Wood Wood- WoodI ward year 8 y 8 8 old ld daughter of General I and Mrs Jotin Jon Jonn E E. Woodward of Flushing Flushing Flush Flush- ing L. L I. I and and granddaughter of the late John Judge of Salt Lake City Utah recently recently c made madoe the phenomenal record of of intelligence quotients on the Stanford revision of the Binet tests The record means that Nancy has the intelligence found in one onoe child out of about every The child attends Foxwood school with her year old brother Edwin who also has made a remarkable record record record rec rec- ord in passing the Binet intelligence tests registering twenty less than his II sister Nancy has a vocabulary of about words nearly that of an average adult and passed several s veral of the superior adult tests Edwin was shown to have a mental age of 17 years The record places Nancy in the class with many of the other present day daychild daychild daychild child prodigies Yes Nancy said in a recent interview interview interview inter inter- view I want to be an authoress Ive I've already tried to write stories but when I 1 get them half done I 1 find that there is something wrong with them and anal usually I 1 dont don't finish themI them I did finish the story of Missy Meow however She wasa little baby I cat born to a yellow cat named Mo Mo- lasses She Shoe had ten brothers and SISters sisters sisters sis SIS- and and- was striped not yellow like her mother I tried to draw illustrations for I Muss Mussy Mpa MP JUt but they weren't good enough f If f I Iti try try- to draw an elephant It is sure to turn out to look lIk like a haystack They were awfully funny continued continued con con- Nancy when asked about the question she answered in passing t the e Binet tests They asked me the meaning mean mean- meaning meaning mean mean- I ing of a lot of words some of th them m were flaunt irony and gown None of Nancys Nancy's family showed prodigy tendencies in past generations says Mrs Woodward who was formerly formerly formerly for for- merly Miss Frances Judge of Salt Lake City Utah although her brother the Rev Father Luke Carney spoke seven different languages Nancys Nancy's father tather General Woodward is attending the general staff college at Washington I D D. C. C