Learning the alphabet occurs over time; a child must learn each letterâs name, shape (upper-and lowercase letters) and common sound. This typically occurs in stages, beginning with a toddler singing the alphabet song.
Rosemary Kennedy, the third child and first daughter of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy, was born in the middle of a virulent Spanish influenza sweeping the country in September 1918. Pregnant women had feared the influenza affecting their unborn children.
Born on September 6, 1888, to an Irish Catholic family in Boston, Massachusetts, Joseph Patrick Kennedy overcame the class prejudices of the era and enrolled at Harvard University. He graduated from the school in 1912, and, by the age of 25, had become president of a bank.