Campus News
April 8th, 2025
Stone closing GC's 2024-25 JCLS season
Physician, Holocaust survivors' daughter, to present on April 16th
Dr. Judy Stone – whose book documented her family's history as Holocaust survivors – will close Garrett College's Joan Crawford Lecture Series season on Wednesday, April 16th at 6 p.m. in the conference center of the Performing Arts Center at Garrett College.
Stone is the daughter of Hungarian Holocaust survivors and has a longstanding interest in genealogy and oral history. These interests, as well as changes in global politics, prompted her write her survivor family's memoir, Resilience.
Stone is a physician and experienced clinical researcher specializing in infectious diseases. She is a former columnist for Scientific American, and the author of a nationally recognized textbook, Conducting Clinical Research.
Stone spent 25 years in solo practice in Cumberland and then cared for patients part-time until 2020. Since retiring, she's launched a free weekly infectious disease newsletter (drjudystone.com) and continues to lecture on the Holocaust.
Stone said that through telling her family's story, she hopes to “teach tolerance and contribute to making the world a better, more peaceful, and more just place."
The Joan Crawford Lecture Series honors dynamic educator Joan R. Crawford, who died in 2010 after serving the Garrett College community for 30 years in a variety of faculty and staff roles.
For more information about the Joan Crawford Lecture Series, contact Stephanie Miller at stephanie.miller@garrettcollege.edu.
