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| Dr. Jones Crockett |
My maternal grandmother, Ethelene Jones Crockett, was born in 1914 in St. Joseph, Michigan and grew up in Jackson, Michigan. She attended Jackson Community College and graduated from University of Michigan. She married
George Crockett, Jr. who was an accomplished lawyer, judge and congressman in his own right, and they had three children (including
my Mom!) before she decided to attend medical school at Howard University in 1942.
Grandmother Crockett served her medical internship at Detroit Receiving Hospital but completed her residency in a New York City hospital because no Detroit hospital would accept an African American woman.
She became the first Black female Ob/Gyn in the state of Michigan in 1952. She retired from active practice in 1972.
In 1978 she became the first woman president of the American Lung Association. Unfortunately, she died later that same year.
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| Laura Stanton |
My grandmother was larger than life.
I loved her very much. I'm sure that she would be pleased to know that
Laura Stanton, an alumna noted for her dedication to education and adoption, is Jackson College's 2016 Dr. Ethelene Jones Crockett Award recipient. The Crockett award is given annually by Jackson College to honor distinguished alumni who have displayed a positive and personal involvement in the betterment of humankind and has ongoing contact with Jackson College. Stanton attended what then was Jackson Community College in the early 1970s, finishing her education at Eastern Michigan University, where she obtained a teaching degree. [
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Stanton spent 20 years as a Jackson Public Schools teacher and was a reading and instructional specialist before retiring in 1997. In 1999, she and her husband David established the Stanton Foundation, which is dedicated to education and adoption. Stanton helped coordinate the annual Wendy's Charity Classic golf tournament, which in 15 years has raised more than $2.5 million for the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption and Wendy's Wonderful Kids programs.
Congratulations to Ms. Stanton ... she's officially part of our 'village' now!
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