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Later, his mother, Christine, said, “We put him in a speech pathology school, and he didn’t have any words at that point. One day the director runs out and says, ‘Noah sang a whole song!’

In fact, the course emphasized speech pathology and audiology.

Her early college days were similarly circuitous, with McElroy eventually landing on speech pathology as a career after graduating from Kansas State University with a master’s degree in 1963.

Incorporating her expertise in speech pathology, McElroy was always hyperfocused on finding a melody in the staccato of syllables and the rhythm of sentences.

Lovat is scheduled to begin her senior year studying speech pathology in late August.