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A prosthetist at the UCLA Prosthetics Training Center tests an artificial arm for Margaret during a 1954 “fitting.”

Margaret at the wheel, 1957. Photo by Wilbur M. Curtis for the Memphis Press-Scimitar. Courtesy George S. Curtis Sr.

Philip, Robert and Mother Photo by Wilbur M. Curtis, Memphis Press-Scimitar, 1957. Courtesy George S. Curtis Sr.

Margaret in her kitchen, 1957. Photo by Wilbur M. Curtis for the Memphis Press-Scimitar. Courtesy George S. Curtis Sr.

The Chanin family annual Christmas postcard

Dr. Margaret Chanin in her office at Meharry

Margaret tells her story in 1984 for an oral history project, University of Texas Dental Branch

Margaret, Robert, and grandchildren. Amy, Jonathan, baby Robbie, and Chris (right), Christmas 1986.

Margaret Jones Chanin, DDS, MPH