Mabel Fossler was a pianist who earn a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska in 1907. From 1908-09 she studied at the Nebraska Wesleyan Conservatory of Music and gave various piano solo concerts while there. She later studied at Johns Hopkins Medical School, graduating as a nurse in 1912. For a time Fossler lived in Pasadena, California, where it is noted that she took graduate courses in education and psychological testing at UCLA and a medical course at Southern Cal. Later, she worked at the Occidental Art College in Los Angeles as a physiology teacher as well as for Los Angeles and Pasadena city health departments, mainly with children. In 1954 Fossler ran in the Democratic primaries for Nebraska governor, although she finished fourth of four candidates. In the 1932 copyright catalogue, she is listed with a song called “Our winning team”, which may well be also her Olympic entry.
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