Crisp, Lucy Cherry, 1899-1977

Lucy Cherry Crisp (March 4, 1899-November 25, 1977), daughter of Sellers Mark and Annie (Gorham) Crisp, was born in Crisp, Edgecombe County, though her family moved soon after her birth to Falkland in Pitt County. Miss Crisp received a B.S. degree in music from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in 1919 and later studied at Columbia University, Boston University, and Radcliffe College.

For ten years following her graduation from Woman's College, Crisp taught piano and supervised music programs in several North Carolina and South Carolina schools. She served from 1929 until 1932 as education director and student secretary at the Church of the Convenant in Greensboro, N.C. Between 1932 and 1936 she acted as general secretary of student religious activities at Woman's College in Greensboro, n.C.. The 1936-1937 academic year found Crisp at the First Congregational Church, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she worked as director of the Pilgrim Foundation. Following her work between 1938 and 1940 with the YWCA at Macon, Georgia, she spent six years (1941-1946) in Greenville, N.C., working at the Community Art Center and as director of the U.S.O. Club.

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