Last living participant at 1936 Summer Olympics, co-founder and director of Bates Aeronautics Program at Harvey Mudd College
Height
5 ft 4.5 in (164 cm)
Iris Cummings (born December 21, 1920), also known by her married name Iris Critchell, is an American aviator and former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. After an active athletic career in swimming, which included a reign as U.S. national 200-meter breaststroke champion from 1936 to 1939, she was accepted into the University of Southern California's first Civilian Pilot Training Program in 1939. After graduation, she worked as a flight instructor prior to being selected to serve her country during World War II as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS) and Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). Following the conflict, she returned to California, where she developed and taught a curriculum on civilian flight for veterans returning from the war at the University of Southern California.
After racing airplanes competitively during the 1950s, Cummings and her husband, Howard Critchell, helped found the Bates Aeronautics program at Harvey Mudd College in 1962. They ran it together until he retired in 1979, at which point Iris continued alone until the program's end in 1990. A long-time certified FAA Pilot Examiner, she is the recipient of several international aviation awards and is a member of the National Flight Instructors Hall of Fame. In her later years, she has remained active as a lecturer, consultant, and curator of the Aeronautical Library Special Collections at Harvey Mudd.
IrisCummings (born December 21, 1920), also known by her married name Iris Critchell, is an American aviator and former competition swimmer who represented...
the torch run from ancient Olympia to the host city. Thus as swimmer IrisCummings later related, "once the athletes were all in place, the torch bearer...
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Cronan Nancye Ruth Lowe Crout, (Class 43-W-4), died January 21, 2016. IrisCummings Jeanne P. d'Ambly – member of the 43-W-5 class Mildred Inks Davidson...
1993 (aged 100) Last member of the Brownlow Commission 22 March 1936 IrisCummings Living (age 103) Last participant of the 1936 Summer Olympics 16 August...
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Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Eileen Collins (1956- 1995 Ann Lewis Cooper 2004 Vivien Crea (1952- 2010 IrisCummings Critchell (1920- 2007 Nancy J. Currie (1958- 2014 Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Macionis Jack Medica Al Vande Weghe Paul Wolf Women's team Alice Bridges IrisCummings Mavis Freeman Ann Govednik Bernice Lapp Olive McKean Edith Motridge...
Franklin Bruce Carruthers (Associate) – minister and aviation historian IrisCummings (Alpha) – aviatior and swimmer in 1936 Summer Olympics Ira C. Eaker...
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