Word: idas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ida Scudder's last idea was to spend her life in India-even though it might be the Scudder family tradition. As a child in India, the daughter and granddaughter of Reformed Church medical missionaries, she saw all too much famine, poverty and disease. After a Massachusetts seminary, Ida aimed to get married and settle down...
...early 20s, Ida Scudder went back to India to help her ailing mother. One night, as she sat alone in the mission bungalow at Tindivanam, a Brahman came to the door with a tale of woe. His child wife was in labor, and the midwives had given up hope of saving her. Would Miss Scudder come to the rescue? Ida said that she was not a doctor, but that her father would be glad to help. The Brahman, shocked at the idea of violating purdah, bridled: "Your father come into my caste home and take care of my wife...
Deadly Needle? The answer, as it came to Ida Scudder: "I must go home and study medicine, and come back to India." That was 58 years ago. Last week a sprightly 82, Dr. Scudder sat in her hilltop bungalow at Kodaikanal, overlooking the Vellore Christian Medical College and its hospital, and opened a stack of letters and telegrams. Her name is a famous one in India these days-a letter once reached her addressed simply, "Dr. Ida, India." But the mail was heavier than usual last week because friends around the world were congratulating her on winning the Elizabeth Blackwell...
...Ida Scudder took her M.D. at Cornell (1899). Then she headed back to India, fortified with a $10,000 gift from a Manhattan banker. With the money, she started a tiny clinic for women at Vellore, 75 miles from Madras. In two years she treated 5,000 patients...
Although there had been rumblings of opposition, only two Senators, Case (R.S.D.) and Dworshak (R.-Ida.), voted against confirmation. Case contended that a speech Conant made in 1944 advocating strict control of German industry after World War II raised "grave doubts" as to whether he could be effective in the post...