Alice Wellington Shepard Cary (born June 2, 1920) is an American retired physician and medical missionary, based in Kyoto from 1947 to 1996.
[6][7] Cary served an internship at New Haven Hospital, before moving to Japan with her husband in 1947.
[2] While he taught at Doshisha University in Kyoto,[8] she worked in the campus health clinic there.
[9] The Carys hosted campus visits from Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Adlai Stevenson.
[13] She celebrated her 104th birthday in June 2024, at Piedmont Gardens, a retirement home in California.