Jacobine Rye
ARTISTJacobine Ulrica Rye was a Norwegian defence activist who is remembered above all for the advances she made in teaching deaf children. In 1915, she inaugurated special teaching courses for children with hearing problems at the Ila School in Oslo. After specialized studies in Copenhagen, in 1917 she founded Tunghørtes Vel, an association for those who were hard of hearing, and went on to support the founding of Statens skole for talelidende. After retiring in 1926, she spent her remaining years calling for efforts to reinforce arrangements for Norway's defence. In 1928 she established the association Norske Kvinners Frivillige Verneplikt, which she chaired until 1935.
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