1. Madeline Esther "Madge" Skelly, later Madge Skelly-Hakanson, was an American actress, playwright, director, college professor, speech pathologist and audiologist.
17 Facts About Madge Skelly
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Madeline Esther Skelly was born in Hazelwood, a neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Charles J Skelly and Julia Purcell Skelly.
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Madge Skelly earned a master's degree at Duquesne University in 1928, and a second master's degree at the University of Arizona.
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Madge Skelly completed doctoral studies in speech pathology at Saint Louis University in 1962, in her late fifties.
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Madge Skelly worked at KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh, as a sound technician, writer, and on-air talent.
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Madge Skelly was director of the Tucson Little Theatre in Arizona, the Brattle Theatre in Massachusetts, the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre in Michigan, and, from 1952 to 1961, managing director of the Manistee Summer Theatre.
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The Manistee Civic Theatre has a Madge Skelly Tower, named for Skelly in 1974.
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Madge Skelly was dean of drama and dean of women at Duquesne University.
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Madge Skelly taught speech at the University of Arizona, and speech and drama at Maryville College.
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Madge Skelly incorporated gestural expression systems from Iroquois tradition into her work, and made a video, Compensatory techniques for the glossectomee, about her techniques.
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Madge Skelly's research was published in academic journals, including the Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, American Journal of Nursing, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, and The American Journal of Surgery.
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Madge Skelly married her first husband, actor Ray King Foust, in 1928; he died in World War II.
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Madge Skelly experienced arthritis, diabetes, and vision impairment later in life.
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Madge Skelly died in 1993, aged 90 years, in St Louis.
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Madge Skelly was awarded the Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton Medal from her alma mater, Seton Hill University.
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Madge Skelly gave an oral history interview to the Schlesinger Library in 1981.
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Madge Skelly was posthumously inducted into the Association of Veterans Affairs Speech-Language Pathologists Hall of Fame in 2002.