An Indian Chronicle
by Charles S. K. Scudder
President of the Scudder Association Foundation, Inc.
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A Royal Salute for the Gillmar Family in India Foundation board member Jack Scudder Gillmar and his family were greeted with fanfare when they visited the Arni School in Tamil Nadu, India, in January, 2024, including a musical salute from Arni students. The...
Foundation Board Member and First Vice President Dr. James Taylor was on hand in Vellore in mid-January for some big developments at Christian Medical College. They included launching of new laboratories, groundbreaking for the new pharmacy college, and expansion of housing facilities. The details, with pictures, are in the CMC Newsletter.
Walter Scudder IV, a student at Eastern Connecticut University and a Scudder Association Foundation scholarship winner, returned home in mid-January from a memorable trip to Scudder-supported facilities in India. He is the great-great-grandson of Reverend Walter Scudder who founded Walter Scudder High School. Here’s his account of the visit.
“It is still like a dream that came and went—something beyond our wildest imaginations.” So wrote Dr. Sam Raj in an email to Scudder Association Foundation Board member Jack Gillmar.
From the city Ranipet, South India, Dr. Anbu Suresh and the staff of Scudder Memorial Hospital says “Merry Christmas” and best wishes to Scudders around the world.
Christmas, surrounded by warmth, love, hope, and laughter, let us not forget those whose lives are clouded with darkness and despair. In the Holy lands of Israel and Palestine, where our Savior once walked, countless innocent children are caught and lost their precious life and future in the crossfire of conflict, enduring terrifying circumstances that no child should ever have to face.
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I am a distant relative of Ida Scudder. My grandmother Rose Geukes Strauss' first cousin Dr. Bernadine Siebers De Valois was a Dr. with Ida Scudder from 1930-1960 at the … Read more
I am a distant relative of Ida Scudder. My grandmother Rose Geukes Strauss' first cousin Dr. Bernadine Siebers De Valois was a Dr. with Ida Scudder from 1930-1960 at the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Valore S. India
Congratulations to Jim and Jack for sponsoring this project
This is a great program. James Taylor is a very effective fundraiser.
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What a wonderful project, Aunt Ida would be proud
maternity hospital
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I will have the check drawn on the philanthropic account of my employer, Vohra Post Acute Physicians. I look forward to the benefit of lifetime membership. Thank you for all you do! Best regards.
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Helping my friend, Betsy Steel, help the people of India with a small contribution.
I've sent the link on to many including my church congregation.
Praying for you all. Thank you so much for your work. May the Lord bless and keep you.
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Thank you so much for writing this delightful account of your visit. It brought back many memories of my visits to CMC&H and also to SMH. (My great-grandfather, Dr. Silas Scudder, founded SMH in 1866.) In 1978 Dr. Ida B. Scudder and D.V. Scudder and I went to India to help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of the “new” Scudder Memorial Hospital in 1928. D.V. was there to dedicate the new CMC&H blood bank named in honor of her husband, Dr. John Scudder (a pioneer in developing blood banks) who had served there for 5 years. I returned as a member of a delegation from the Vellore Board (I served on that board for 10 years) in the 1980s and later as a rep of The Scudder Association for the dedication of the statue of Aunt Ida in Vellore. My father, Hamilton Cochran, (Silas’ grandson) served as president of The Scudder Association in the 1960s and later in the 1970s both my husband and I also served as president. D.V. Scudder was secretary for many years before Cy Scudder took over. It’s wonderful to see my nephew, Dr. Jim Taylor, and his wife, Dr. Susan Pepper, so involved with both the hospitals and the Association. Good Scudder work continues!! Keep it up!
Susan,
Thanks for your comments. We really had a wonderful trip, and I am glad you enjoyed my write up. We would love to have you back and active on the Board if you have the time.
Dear Charles
This is a delightful account of your visit to Vellore and Ranipet and the surrounding areas. Thank you for sharing! I am so glad the Scudder family was able to visit my Alma Mater, Christian Medical College, Vellore where I spent 6 of the best years of my life! I hope this will be the first of many visits of the Scudder family to this area where Aunt Ida, as she was fondly known, founded the Christian Medical College for women 100 years ago. The founding of a medical college for women by a woman to care for women is a remarkable achievement. As Chair, and on behalf, of the Board of the Vellore Christian Medical Foundation, we are honored to continue our longstanding partnership with the Scudder Association Foundation.
Warm regards
Honorine Ward, MD
Honorine, Thanks for the nice note. We really enjoyed the trip, and it turned out to be a real eye opener as to the many projects my Scudder ancestors had been involved in throughout Tamil Nadu. I look forward to seeing you again soon at the CMC events later this month. Charles
I am a CMC Nurse would like to contact Mr. John Riehl Scudder Please.
IDA SCUDDER WAS MY GRANDMOTHERS COUSIN, EVA DAVIS MUELLER.
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HONORED BY Dr Ida Scudder being in any way related to me. The stories my grandmother told me from the time I was a young boy about her work in India helped give me purpose of doing positive work for the good of civilisation during this life.
Thankyou to my grand cousin Ida.
Wish I could have known you in life but have always been alive in my heart and my Grandmothers and Aunt Elizabeth’s stories and writings.
May I know her and all my great relatives in death and beyond.
Peace
George Christopher Bavin
Hollywood, California