Natividad "Naty" Crame-Rogers (23 December 1922 – 1 February 2021) was a Filipina actress, drama teacher, writer, producer and researcher.
She later went to the United States, where she completed a Teaching English as a Second Language Program at the University of California, Los Angeles.
A patron of the arts, she formed the Philippine Drama Company and the Amingtahanan Sala Theater.
Her father was Don Ramon Crame, a jazz player who played for the Tirso Cruz Band and was known as the “Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. of the Philippines”.
[4] Beginning in 1939 at 17 years old and during World War II, she studied at the University of the Philippines, graduating with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and letters.
[2][1][5] She then got a Fulbright scholarship, completed the English as a Second Language Program at UCLA, and earned a masterals degree in Speech and Drama Education from Stanford.
[6] In 1946, Crame-Rogers was selected out of 600 candidates to be part of the first batch of international flight attendants for the Philippine Airlines (PAL).
After completing her education abroad, Crame-Rogers taught Speech and Drama at the Philippine Normal College, and became its founding chairman of the Drama-Speech and Theater Department.
[2] She then took a five-year hiatus from work as she and her husband moved to Bangkok, Thailand, where he served as the country’s representative to the Southeast Asian Treaty Organization.
[1] Crame married Lieutenant Jose "Joe" Rogers, a half-American pilot who survived the Bataan Death March.