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...William Larimer Mellon Jr., scion of the Pittsburgh Mellons, was rich and 37, with a pretty wife and children and a new house on a smooth-running Arizona ranch. He was looking through the pages of LIFE one day when he stopped at a picture story about Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who 51 years ago gave up a brilliantly versatile career−as theologian, organist, teacher and musicologist−to become a doctor and work among the natives in the African jungle. "There was a picture of Dr. Schweitzer and an antelope," Mellon recalls. "I had thought he was an organist...
Gradually a strange and consuming determination took hold of Mellon. His wife Gwen gulped when she heard it: sell the ranch, become a physician and follow in Schweitzer's footsteps. Larry Mellon had plenty of money, but both age and education were against him−he had left Princeton after his freshman year. Mellon wrote to the great Dr. Schweitzer himself, and back came eight pages of encouragement and advice...
Constructing a modern hospital with unskilled labor was almost as grueling as studying medicine, took nearly two years. But last week, with no ceremonies or speeches, the trim little Albert Schweitzer Hospital opened its doors and went to work. It has 50 beds, three air-conditioned operating rooms and an "emergency entrance" designed with an eye to the fact that the only ambulance available to most of the region's poor is the Haitian burro. Water and outdoor cooking facilities are provided for outpatients coming down from the hills. Present staff consists of four doctors and a lab technician...
Quiet, white-haired Dr. Mellon and his wife, both Disciples of Christ, still exchange letters every month with 81-year-old Dr. Schweitzer in his jungle headquarters at Lambarene. As the hospital was about to open its doors, Schweitzer wrote: "The beginnings are always difficult. But you are courageous...
...study of man-his biology, physiology, psychology." He is so aware of his own personality that he frequently identifies with the characters in books and movies ("That's me. That's me all over!"). But most of all, Fourteen is an age of reason and searching. "Albert Schweitzer relates how in his fourteenth year the joys of seeking for what was true and good came upon him 'like a kind of intoxication' ... As a philosopher he holds the 14-year-old youth in high regard, and pays him a compliment: 'If all of us could...