hclib:Dr. Susan Ellis CrutchfieldSusan Ellis Crutchfield twice appeared in the Minneapolis Star on J
hclib:Dr. Susan Ellis CrutchfieldSusan Ellis Crutchfield twice appeared in the Minneapolis Star on June 15. On June 15, 1946, the paper profiled Susan Ellis as she prepared for a national radio show. Seventeen years later to the day, the same newspaper profiled her again (under her married name Susan Crutchfield) as she became the first African-American woman and the youngest person to graduate from the University of Minnesota Medical School.In 1946, Susan Nan Ellis was about to appear on the national radio program Hobby Lobby. Like all the show’s guests, five-year-old Ellis (already a rising third grader at Clinton School) was invited to demonstrate her unique hobby–the impressive game she and her mother, Mary Jackson Ellis, played in their home. The Minneapolis Star explained the game like this:“The mother asks a long question by spelling it out rapidly, with no breaks between worlds. (W-h-a-t-h-a-v-e-y-o-u-l-e-a-r-n-e-d-t-o-d-a-y?) Without a second’s hesitation, the girl replies.”Seventeen years later, in 1963, Susan Crutchfield was profiled along with her husband Charles Crutchfield. Both Crutchfields were new graduates of the University of Minnesota Medical School, and they were the only married couple in the their class. Dr. Susan Crutchfield, at age 22, was the youngest person and first Black woman to graduate from the medical school. Both Doctors Crutchfield went on to distinguished medical careers in the Twin Cities. The Doctors Charles and Susan Crutchfield Annual Dermatology Lectureship Series at the University of Minnesota was named in their honor by their son, Dr. Charles E. Crutchfield III, who appeared with his parents in this newspaper photo.Photo of five-year-old Susan Ellis from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. Graduation photo of the Crutchfield family from the Star Tribune Photograph Collection. -- source link
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