More on Dr. Beasley

Henry  ---  You have a good memory.  It was the same Rogers Beasley.  Evidently he came back to Memphis after serving as a medical corpsman in WW II, applied for readmission to medical school, was accepted (it helped that his grandfather had been President of the University) and he probably contributed more to the service of humanity than any other medical graduate of the University.  He was instrumental in bringing medical care to Appalachia through the Frontier Nursing Service, worked with Dr. Hertig in Boston to formulate and test the “pill” that brought contraception to millions of women, went to Africa and established a Leper Hospital for those suffering from that disastrous disease, and closed his medical career as director of the medical mission to the underserved in India and Pakistan.  He retired to live at Sewanee where he went to undergraduate school.  I visited him there before he died of ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease).      Will Meriwether