by Bruce Checefsky
Tremont Functional Rehab and Health Collaborative at 2401 Scranton Road began with Dr. Alex Frantzis, a chiropractic physician, and Dr. David Perse, a general surgeon who had the idea of combining their practices in a single site to handle chiropractic, physical therapy, and general surgical needs.
The collaborative believes it has recently realized its original vision with the addition of Dr. Joy Marshall’s general practice.
Bruce Checefsky, a writer for both Plain Press and The Tremonster, interviewed Dr. Joy Marshall in the Tremont neighborhood for an in-depth story. The following is a joint report published in The Tremonster, Plain Press, and La Villa CLE.
Dr. Joy Marshall, from Cleveland Heights, attended medical school at the age of 36. By most standards, starting medical school at that age can be a significant challenge. Before then, while supporting her two children on welfare, she earned income in the local restaurant scene. Married at eighteen, she lived in Oaxaca, Mexico, for a year.
Returning to Cleveland, she and her husband started a restaurant in University Circle called Fantomas (now L’Albatros). Two children later, they ended up divorced and she began working as a barmaid and specials cook at Nighttown on Cedar Road.
One day, the president of Case Western Reserve University, Louis A. Toepfer (presidency years 1970–1980), came to lunch as he often did and struck up a conversation with Marshall. He asked her what she was doing with her life. “I know it sounds ridiculous,” she told Toepfer, “but I want to try to go to medical school and I am thinking about doing the undergraduate work at Cleveland State.” He told her, “We have a nice little university down the hill (CWRU).”
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