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Said Hodge: "God gave me these hands and endowed them with some surgical ability [to help] suffering humanity." With that, he applied for reinstatement at Bryn Mawr Hospital. The directors turned him down just before Christmas. Then the storm broke. Expressing their "shock and displeasure," 27 of Bryn Mawr's medical staff urged the directors to back down; a majority of the hospital's other staff members joined in protest. Local organizations passed pro-Hodge resolutions. Seven local Protestant churchmen sent the directors an open letter: "[Hodge] has been judged, punished and returned to us . . . Shall we deny...
There was no denying that Hodge had a special talent. Iowa-born, he interned at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Hospital, studied surgery at Boston's Lahey Clinic before he moved to Bryn Mawr in 1940. Said one fan: "I am the father of three children whom I love deeply. Should they require surgery, I would unhesitatingly ask Dr. Hodge to perform that operation." But Philadelphia Attorney Laurence H. Eldredge commended the Bryn Mawr board and said: "It is not enough that Hodge can serve a patient with satisfactory results. He must also be a man of integrity." The American...
Last week, the embattled doctor tried to get away from Bryn Mawr. He applied for a position as surgeon at Philadelphia's St. Joseph's Hospital, a 200-bed institution run by the Roman Catholic Order of Felician Sisters. Without having been formally accepted, Hodge had already performed one operation at St. Joseph's, and more were scheduled. Nevertheless, at week's end Hodge's supporters were still hoping to bring him back to Bryn Mawr...
After 15 years of teaching, bustling, buoyant Carmelita Chase Hinton in 1935 decided to quit the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Mass. and start a school of her own. The Bryn Mawr-trained daughter of an Omaha editor and art patron, widow (with three children) of a Chicago lawyer, Mrs. Hinton was no ordinary schoolmarm. And as a disciple of John Dewey, she intended to found no ordinary New England boarding school...
...Taubes) she described a friend of hers who was "brilliant and beautiful, and locked herself in the library at night to study." Taubes arrived in American and met an American girl to whom he was soon engaged. When he told the exchange student that he was engaged to a Bryn Mawr girl Susan Anima, "she nearly fainted," said Taubes. "It was the same girl she had described to me in Switzerland...