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Anne Crumb
A Remarkable Woman
by Jelaine Workman
children the love of music during MA. Living on campus her senior
their childhood days. year gave Anne the ability to
participate in campus activities,
Anne and her siblings grew up in which included working on the
the small village of Jacksonville, yearbook and dorm council. In
NY - population 250. She attended June 1957, Anne graduated with
kindergarten through 8 grade a diploma in Physical Therapy
th
in a two-room schoolhouse. The from Bouve’-Boston School and a
summer she turned 16, Anne BS from Tufts University. After
worked as a nanny for a minister’s graduation, Anne took a job as
family and cared for their three a physical therapist at Baylor
children, earning $40 a week. University Medical Center in
Dallas. She drove from New York
In the fall of 1953, Anne began
her college education at Cortland to Texas in a 1952 Ford with $100 in
State Teacher’s College. She soon her pocket, but after several jobs in
discovered she did not like the the Dallas area, Anne returned to
teaching field and transferred the New York.
next year to Bouve’-Boston School In March 1961, Anne received her
in Medford, MA. It was an all- commission as a 1 Lieutenant in
st
argaret Anne Crumb women’s school affiliated with
was born May 28, 1933 Tufts University. Anne selected the Medical Specialists Corps as a
Min Seneca Falls, NY. She this school in order to major in physical therapist. She reported
was the fourth child of Margaret Physical Therapy. to Maxwell AFB in Montgomery,
Short and E. Delos Crumb. There Alabama for her basic orientation.
were two girls and three boys Times were difficult, and Anne’s There was much racial unrest at
in this very close-knit family. parents could not pay for her the time. After completing her
Anne’s father received his BS in education, so she participated in three-week orientation, she was
Civil Engineering from Clarkson a work study program. She lived assigned to Langley AFB, Virginia.
th
College. During World War II, he with a family in exchange for room Her assignment was at the 4500
was an instructor in the College of and board. She also watched their USAF Hospital as the only physical
Engineering at Cornell University. children and did housework. In therapist on the base. Anne
He married Margaret Short on her senior year, Anne received a recalls, “I was extremely nervous
June 27, 1923. Margaret graduated scholarship from Well Foundation and frightened when I arrived at
from the School of Chautauqua of Infantile Paralysis from the Langley. I wasn’t sure where to
and Lyceum Art of the Ithaca March of Dimes organization. She go. What to do. My fears were put
Conservatory of Music in 1923. did her internships at Children’s to rest by an airman who took me
She served her church as organist Rehab Center in Canton, MA and under his wing to get me adjusted
and choir director. She taught her Maine Medical Center in Portland, to this new life.” During her stay
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