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At the age of ten, the Shadd's moved to West Chester, Pennsylvania where Mary attended a Quaker School for the next six years. This experience influence dMary later in life, whereby she returned to this location and opened a school for Black children in 1840.
Sarah Tucker, MS, OTR/L, the OTA Program Director at Brown Mackie College â Birmingham and member of the Alabama State Licensing Board, had this to say when asked why she decided to become an occupational therapist: âMy grandmother was an OT and graduated from OT school in 1946.