Background
Natalie Davis Spingarn was born on May 26, 1922, in New York City, New York, United States, and reared in New Rochelle.
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Natalie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in 1943.
Natalie Davis Spingarn (left) and Catherine Logan Carrillo (right), a pioneer of the Survivorship Movement.
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1982
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1999
activist advocate government official writer
Natalie Davis Spingarn was born on May 26, 1922, in New York City, New York, United States, and reared in New Rochelle.
Natalie graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in 1943.
After graduation from Vassar College, Natalie began her professional career as a reporter, working for the New York newspaper PM. After World War II, she came to Washington with her husband Jerome Hersh Spingarn.
Later, Natalie began writing on health and social policy for the federal government. In the early 1960's, she became a staff assistant to Abraham A. Ribicoff, the secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and, in 1962, was appointed an executive assistant to him, when he was elected Senator from Connecticut. Natalie held the post of an executive assistant till 1967, when she returned to the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare (also known as HEW) as an assistant director for communications and training at the Center for Community Planning, which was established to coordinate urban efforts in the War on Poverty. She remained on that job through the early 1970's.
In subsequent years, Spingarn served as a public affairs assistant at the Department of Education and a D.C. General Hospital commissioner. She also was a White House volunteer in the Clinton administration.
In addition, during her lifetime, Spingarn wrote increasingly about issues, related to cancer treatment and care. She reviewed several books on health care for the Health section of The Washington Post and wrote first-person accounts about her own treatment and care. Her books included "The Volunteer and the Psychiatric Patient" (1959), "To Save Your Life" (1963), "To Save More Lives" (1966), "Heartbeat: The Politics of Health Research" (1976), ''Hanging in There: Living Well on Borrowed Time'' (1982) and ''The New Cancer Survivors: Living with Grace, Fighting with Spirit" (1999).
A cancer survivor herself, Natalie also devoted her time to advocating for cancer patients. She served on the boards of the International Alliance of Patients' Organizations and the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. It's also worth mentioning, that Natalie created the ''Cancer Survivor's Bill of Rights'' for the 75th anniversary of the American Cancer Society. The document, written in 1988, was widely distributed among those with cancer, and Spingarn became an important figure in the patients' rights movement.
Moreover, during her career, Natalie served as a consultant for organizations, such as the Ford Foundation and the National Urban Coalition.
Also, in her later years, Spingarn was appointed Executive Director of the National Commission of Confidentiality of Health Records.
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1963Natalie was active in Democratic Party politics and was a District of Columbia delegate to two Democratic National Conventions. During the 1968 presidential campaign of Hubert H. Humphrey, she traveled with the vice president as a speechwriter.
Physical Characteristics:
Cancer pervaded Spingarn's life and the lives of many around her. She had a mastectomy in 1974. Cancer spread, first to her spine, for which she had radiation therapy in 1977, then to her hip, for which she had chemotherapy in 1979. Later, in 1981, Natalie had the second mastectomy.
Spingarn's grandmother died of cancer. Her two sisters had breast cancer and one died of pancreatic cancer. One of her two sons is a lymphoma survivor.
Ultimately, Natalie died of pancreatic cancer.
In 1944, Natalie married Jerome Hersh Spingarn, a lawyer, who served as a governmental advisor on arms control. Their marriage produced two children - Jonathan and Jeremy.