William Bertalan Walsh, M.D.
William B. Walsh, M.D., a physician who founded the first peacetime floating hospital that later became Project HOPE, an international medical relief organization, has died. He was 76. He died of cancer at his home in Bethesda, MD.
Dr. Walsh founded Project HOPE, which stands for "Health Opportunity for People Everywhere," in 1958 by convincing President Eisenhower to convert a Navy hospital ship, the S.S.Hope, for the private peacetime enterprise of rendering medical aid to the world's needy.
*Excerpts from
Los Angeles Times
Dec. 31, 1996
Survived by
Beloved Wife (married 53 yrs.):
Helen Hjordise Rundvold Walsh
3 Sons:
William B. Walsh Jr. (Jane)
John Thomas Walsh (Mary)
Thomas Stephen Walsh (Catherine)
Grandchildren
G-Grandchildren
Predeceased by
Parents: Joseph W. Walsh, M.D., and
Irene M. Viola Walsh
Lieutenant William B. Walsh: First U.S. Doctor in Hiroshima after the Bomb, with Previously Unpublished Photographs:
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/173/2/159/4557717?login=false
William B. Walsh, M.D., a physician who founded the first peacetime floating hospital that later became Project HOPE, an international medical relief organization, has died. He was 76. He died of cancer at his home in Bethesda, MD.
Dr. Walsh founded Project HOPE, which stands for "Health Opportunity for People Everywhere," in 1958 by convincing President Eisenhower to convert a Navy hospital ship, the S.S.Hope, for the private peacetime enterprise of rendering medical aid to the world's needy.
*Excerpts from
Los Angeles Times
Dec. 31, 1996
Survived by
Beloved Wife (married 53 yrs.):
Helen Hjordise Rundvold Walsh
3 Sons:
William B. Walsh Jr. (Jane)
John Thomas Walsh (Mary)
Thomas Stephen Walsh (Catherine)
Grandchildren
G-Grandchildren
Predeceased by
Parents: Joseph W. Walsh, M.D., and
Irene M. Viola Walsh
Lieutenant William B. Walsh: First U.S. Doctor in Hiroshima after the Bomb, with Previously Unpublished Photographs:
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/173/2/159/4557717?login=false
William Bertalan Walsh, M.D.
William B. Walsh, M.D., a physician who founded the first peacetime floating hospital that later became Project HOPE, an international medical relief organization, has died. He was 76. He died of cancer at his home in Bethesda, MD.
Dr. Walsh founded Project HOPE, which stands for "Health Opportunity for People Everywhere," in 1958 by convincing President Eisenhower to convert a Navy hospital ship, the S.S.Hope, for the private peacetime enterprise of rendering medical aid to the world's needy.
*Excerpts from
Los Angeles Times
Dec. 31, 1996
Survived by
Beloved Wife (married 53 yrs.):
Helen Hjordise Rundvold Walsh
3 Sons:
William B. Walsh Jr. (Jane)
John Thomas Walsh (Mary)
Thomas Stephen Walsh (Catherine)
Grandchildren
G-Grandchildren
Predeceased by
Parents: Joseph W. Walsh, M.D., and
Irene M. Viola Walsh
Lieutenant William B. Walsh: First U.S. Doctor in Hiroshima after the Bomb, with Previously Unpublished Photographs:
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/173/2/159/4557717?login=false
William B. Walsh, M.D., a physician who founded the first peacetime floating hospital that later became Project HOPE, an international medical relief organization, has died. He was 76. He died of cancer at his home in Bethesda, MD.
Dr. Walsh founded Project HOPE, which stands for "Health Opportunity for People Everywhere," in 1958 by convincing President Eisenhower to convert a Navy hospital ship, the S.S.Hope, for the private peacetime enterprise of rendering medical aid to the world's needy.
*Excerpts from
Los Angeles Times
Dec. 31, 1996
Survived by
Beloved Wife (married 53 yrs.):
Helen Hjordise Rundvold Walsh
3 Sons:
William B. Walsh Jr. (Jane)
John Thomas Walsh (Mary)
Thomas Stephen Walsh (Catherine)
Grandchildren
G-Grandchildren
Predeceased by
Parents: Joseph W. Walsh, M.D., and
Irene M. Viola Walsh
Lieutenant William B. Walsh: First U.S. Doctor in Hiroshima after the Bomb, with Previously Unpublished Photographs:
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/173/2/159/4557717?login=false
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