Physician, Educator and Author. She was the daughter of Reese Fell Alsop and Mary Lee Spring. She grew up in Brooklyn Heights, New York, where her father was the rector of St. Ann's Church. She graduated from Barnard College in 1903 and the Women's Medical College in 1908. She went to China as a medical missionary and became resident physician of Shanghai's St. Elizabeth's Hospital for Women and Children. She returned to the United States in 1917. In that same year she founded the medical department at Barnard College, which she headed for 35 years. She was the author of numerous works: April in the Branches (Dutton, 1947); Arms and the Girl: A Guide to Personal Adjustment in War Work and War Marriage (Vanguard, 1943) with Mary F. McBride; Deer Creek: The Story of A Golden Childhood (Vanguard, 1947); A Gift for Santa Claus (Samuel French, 1970); History of the Woman's Medical College: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850-1950 (Lippincott, 1950); She's Off to College (Vanguard, 1940) with Mary F. McBride; She's Off to Marriage: A Guide to Success and Happiness in Married Life (Vanguard, 1942) with Mary F. McBride; She's Off to Work (Vanguard, 1941) with Mary F. McBride. She never married. She was the sister of Mary O'Hara, author of My Friend Flicka.
Physician, Educator and Author. She was the daughter of Reese Fell Alsop and Mary Lee Spring. She grew up in Brooklyn Heights, New York, where her father was the rector of St. Ann's Church. She graduated from Barnard College in 1903 and the Women's Medical College in 1908. She went to China as a medical missionary and became resident physician of Shanghai's St. Elizabeth's Hospital for Women and Children. She returned to the United States in 1917. In that same year she founded the medical department at Barnard College, which she headed for 35 years. She was the author of numerous works: April in the Branches (Dutton, 1947); Arms and the Girl: A Guide to Personal Adjustment in War Work and War Marriage (Vanguard, 1943) with Mary F. McBride; Deer Creek: The Story of A Golden Childhood (Vanguard, 1947); A Gift for Santa Claus (Samuel French, 1970); History of the Woman's Medical College: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1850-1950 (Lippincott, 1950); She's Off to College (Vanguard, 1940) with Mary F. McBride; She's Off to Marriage: A Guide to Success and Happiness in Married Life (Vanguard, 1942) with Mary F. McBride; She's Off to Work (Vanguard, 1941) with Mary F. McBride. She never married. She was the sister of Mary O'Hara, author of My Friend Flicka.
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GULIELMA FELL ASLOP, M.D.
1881 – 1978
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills…"
Psalm 121
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