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Joe had a life-long love of aviation. He designed, built and flew award winning model aircraft from 1930. Joe set numerous indoor freeflight records as a member of the Academy of Model Aeronautics and FAI. He helped organize the Valley Forge Signal Seekers (Pennsylvania) one of oldest Radio Control
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Model Airplane clubs in the USA. Joe remained active in mentoring students involved with the flying events in Science Olympiad as well as his long-standing art classes on illustrating.
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There are two collections of Krush papers at the University of Minnesota and one item at the University of Southern Mississippi. All of the materials date from 1964 and earlier.
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The Krushes planned to work separately but they helped each other meet deadlines and that collaboration was noticed and approved by editors.
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As a girl she enjoyed visiting the city institutions and special events and drawing at home. Joseph Krush was born May 18, 1918, in
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Before collaborating with his wife, Joe Krush illustrated the dustjacket and the interior of
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and its sequels, some famous books illustrated jointly by the Krushes were
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Joe worked as a graphic designer for O.S.S. during the war. He was a
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Beside collaborating with her husband, Beth Krush illustrated
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in May 2018, and died on March 8, 2022, at the age of 103.
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by Sally Scott. Sarah Scott Fisher, the daughter of
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Index

Joe Krush
children's books
Borrowers
Mary Norton
Washington, D.C.
Camden, New Jersey
Philadelphia Museum School of Art
Wayne, Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Jay Paul Krush
turned 100
courtroom sketch
Nuremberg Trials
Moore College of Art
Harcourt, Brace
Windwagon Smith
Wilbur Schramm
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
The Borrowers
Miracles on Maple Hill
Virginia Sorensen
Newbery Medal
Gone-Away Lake
Elizabeth Enright
Sydney Taylor
Huon de Bordeaux
Andre Norton
The Ponder Heart
Eudora Welty
The Shoe Bird

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