Word: freudenberger
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...FREUDENBERG'S LIST A durable emigre breaks the language barrier...
Which of the many problems in our community that Margot Freudenberg has identified and just thrown herself into rectifying would you like to talk about?" asks James B. Edwards, president of the Medical University of South Carolina. "She's a captivating lady who is a stalwart in the community. Everything that is good here, she has been a part...
...live in Charleston, S.C., Margot Strauss Freudenberg, 91, is no less a legend than Fort Sumpter or Rainbow Row, though she arrived in Charleston in 1940, a humble immigrant from Hannover, Germany. Trained as a physical therapist, she established a private practice and worked at clinics and hospitals. In 1957 at the city's Roper Hospital, a doctor on rounds couldn't communicate with a critically ill Dutch sailor and enlisted her as a translator. The sailor didn't understand Freudenberg's German any better than he did the doctor's English. Alarmed by the incident, Freudenberg went on local...
...service is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and, it seems to Freudenberg, her calls "always come at midnight." (Generally a police car picks her up and takes her where she is needed.) She updates the list every 18 months, finding translators on her walks in town as readily as she does phoning area schools. In 1959 she told Charleston's News and Courier: "I have got so much satisfaction and happiness by trying to help people in distress. This is my repaying of my debt [to America...