In 1955, the year before her retirement, she served a term as the only woman president of the American Society of Parasitologists.[5] Cram was remembered for her “high degree of industry coupled with a patient endurance of disappointments, an ability to overcome difficulties she encountered in research, and a vigorous persistence of effort in order to arrive at solutions of perplexing problems,” for devoting her life “unstintingly” to the study of human and animal parasites, and for her cheerful, humorous brilliance and sharp focus which persisted even as she neared the end of her life in the face of a debilitating disease.[5]