The Impact
Dr. Helen Bernfield Foreign Language Study
Abroad Endowed Scholarship
This scholarship was established by anonymous
donors in honor of the late Dr. Helen Cannon
Bernfield (1900-1996), pioneering woman
physician and specialist in the treatment of
tuberculosis.
Having graduated from the
University of Michigan as a doctor of medicine
in 1924 and pursued further study at the
University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Bernfield
practiced medicine privately until 1946, when
she entered the Veterans Administration, whence
she retired in 1973 as Chief of the Chest Clinic
at the Veterans Administration Center in
Jackson, Mississippi.
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During her long
and illustrious career, Dr. Bernfield was a
generous activist. Her life-long interest in
medicine reached beyond attaining her own
particular goals to strongly encouraging and
helping other women to enter the profession. In
addition, she co-founded Goodwill Industries of
Mississippi, helped organize the Girls Club of
Jackson and the Mississippi Society for the
Prevention of Blindness, and supported Belhaven
College and Reformed Theological Seminary.
Jack M. and Mary Lou Gruber Scholarship
"We believe
that today's students can make a
difference and we want to make that
difference for students"
Jack and Mary
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