News Release
January 2000
(Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania) Moravian College's oldest living alumna, Mary Crow will
celebrate her one-hundredth birthday on Monday, January 17, 2000. Moravian
College president, Dr. Ervin J. Rokke, and his wife Pam Rokke with a
delegation from Moravian, will present Ms. Crow with a birthday cake
at her Westminster Village residence on January 17 at 1:00 p.m.
Mary Crow was an English major who graduated from Moravian
Women’s College as America recovered from the First World War
in 1920. She attended graduate school at Penn State and later transferred
to Lehigh University where she earned a Master of Arts degree. She taught
generations of children at the Calypso School in Bethlehem. She was
named "Teacher of the Year" in 1959 by Who's Who in American
Education.
Keepsakes that show her family shortly after the turn
of the century surround her in her Westminister Village retirement home.
Her father, the Rev. Harvey Crow, was a Congregational clergyman, pastor
of a church near Fourth Avenue in Bethlehem and a valued member of the
Cedar Crest College board of trustees.
Though coping with the travails of old age, the loss of
hearing, and dependence on a walker, she delights in being with people.
Two years ago, a Moravian College delegation paid her a call on January
16, the day before her 98th birthday. They brought an oversized card
and a big bouquet of flowers. She was delighted by the surprise visit.
