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Elizabeth Krynski spent her working years teaching classes for special education pupils, both in private and public schools (1937-1979). In 1952 she received her bachelor's degree from Duke University, and later, her master's from the City College of New York. In Durham, she worked as a teacher in Dr. Lenox Baker's hospital school for disabled children (1948). She is the widow of Dr. Magnus Krynski, Duke professor emeritus of Slavic languages and literature and former chair of Duke's Slavic Department.