Dr. Battaglia, members, and guests, I would like to thank the American Pediatric Society for the opportunity to introduce the recipient of the John Howland Medal for 1996.

She graduated from high school at Ward-Belmont School, a finishing school for young Southern ladies where her mother had also been prepared for the rigid demands of a proper society. In September 1940, she entered the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University. When I asked her why she chose Vanderbilt, she replied, “Daddy was on the Board of Trust. There was no other option.” Her father was himself a remarkable individual who, according to Millie (as quoted by Dr. Bob Merrill), “laughed heartily, swore violently, and wept openly. He could terrorize almost everyone.”

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