Curry and Alexander Graham Bell
<p><span editfieldname="BodyContent" editfieldrequired="true" xmlns="">Alexander Graham Bell's father, Boston University Professor Alexander Melville Bell, a leading elocutionist, was a valued advisor of Curry and endowed a chair for the School of Expression. When the School gave the elder Bell its highest honor, the diploma of honor, in 1899, it addressed him as one of its co-founders.</span></p>
<p><span editfieldname="BodyContent" editfieldrequired="true" xmlns="">One of Curry's Boston University School of Oratory teachers was Alexander Graham Bell. Bell's opening lecture, in 1873, stimulated Curry with regard to the possibilities of the science of voice." According to one of the Currys' daughters, Curry was present when in 1876 Bell made his first telephone call, requesting help from Mr. Watson. Bell was the Chancellor of the School of Expression from 1907 until his death in 1922.</span></p>