Me-Iung Ting

Me-Iung attended Mount Holyoke College and graduated from the School of Medicine, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

[1] She completed her medical school and two additional years of training in Detroit and Philadelphia hospitals before returning to Tianjin, China.

[7] She was a Tsinghua (Qinghua) special student and attended Mount Holyoke College from 1914 to 1916, preparing for medical school.

The Tientsin Infants Asylum was home to about one hundred unwanted girls ranging from a few days old to 18 years old.

She worked out simple Chinese diets to fit the different elements and calorie requirements for the different age groups.

They organized simple first aid boxes with drugs for wounds, cuts and minor infections.

The Alumni Association of the University of Michigan petitioned the American State Department to obtain her release.

She served as house physician and instructor at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, as medical director at the Connecticut State Farm for Women at Niantic, and at the Fernald School in Waverley, Massachusetts.

[15] In October 1952,[16] at the Convocation of Science and Human Values, Mount Holyoke College awarded Dr. Me-Iung Ting a citation for her outstanding work as a physician in Tianjin, China from 1922 to 1950.

Her award cited her achievements as head of two hospitals, developer of an urban health program, regional president of the China Medical Association, president of China's International Relief Committee (1943 to 1949), and administrator of UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) funds after its American staff was driven out by the Chinese Communist revolution.

One of her friends,[17] Madeleine Wayne Diehl, gave this personal tribute: "She bore the responsibility for human frailties in others.

Yes, I feel bereft, but I will try to incorporate, in the remaining time of my life, some of the steadfast faith and unswerving loyalty to her high code.

His purposes were ultimately achieved, as evidenced by the remarkable careers of subsequent Barbour scholars, including Dr. Ting.