Margaret Schwartz
Margaret “Margie or Bommer” Camp Boes Schwartz, 94, of Twin Creek Drive in Peru died April 21, 2021 at her home, under the loving care of her family and Hospice of the North Country.
Margaret was born in Middletown, Connecticut on April 25, 1926, the daughter of Burton and Rachel (Rice) Camp. She attended Connecticut College 1943-47 and graduated with a B.A. in physical education. She then attended the Harvard Physical Therapy Program 1947-49 and graduated first in her class.
Margaret worked as a physical therapist at Massachusetts General Hospital before starting the Poliomyelitis Center of the South at Vanderbilt University in 1950. In 1955, she returned to Boston to teach at the Bouve Physical Therapy School at Tufts University while working at the Children’s Hospital doing muscle testing during the polio epidemic. She also later worked at the California Rehabilitation Center in California before serving as Chief Physical Therapist at Waterbury Hospital in Connecticut.