Imagine someone in the early 1900s choosing her career based on her love found in her parents’ professions! The post “RIP to ...

The last survivor of the American team that competed in Hitler’s 1936 Games in Berlin, she went on to become a wartime pilot ...

Passages: Iris Cummings Critchell, Oldest Survivor of 1936 Olympics, Dies at 104 Iris Cummings Critchell, a swimmer who was the last surviving athlete from the 1936 Olympics, died on Jan.

swam in the 1936 Berlin Olympics and went on to serve as a US Women’s Air Service Pilot during the Second World War. Iris Cummings was 15 when, with two national titles for the women’s 200 ...