We spoke in last month’s issue of Dr. Rosalie Namer Aoudeh’s visit to her mother country — Lebanon — in the company of two American women physicians, specialists in children’s medicine, on a journey by way of England, Greece, Lebanon, Iran, Europe, and then Aden to New York.

And since Dr. Rosalie enjoys a high standing in New York as a physician and as a lady of society, and in fulfillment of our promise of last month, we have devoted this piece to introducing her to our readers as a Lebanese lady in whom one may take pride and glory!

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Who is she?: She belongs to that seasoned generation to whom it was given to be born and to grow up in America, land of liberty and learning, of Lebanese parents. Her father, Daoud Namer, emigrated from Marjayoun in the closing years of the last century and, like other emigrants, made his way in the world of commerce until he attained a distinguished commercial and social position. He married her mother, of Hasbaya, and they were blessed with six children, three boys and three girls, the eldest of them all being Rosalie.

The dream of childhood: Rosalie received her education in the schools and universities of the state of Texas, where her father was settled, and her childhood soon blossomed into gifts we do not exaggerate in calling extraordinary. Medicine was “the dream of her childhood!” Before the end of the elementary stage her bent revealed itself, through her activity and her excellence, in the natural sciences and mathematics, then in physics and chemistry; and when, years later, she obtained her medical degree “with distinction,” the result came as a surprise to none of her acquaintances!

She specializes in children: She took delight in watching children grow and develop, and in watching the sick among them mend toward recovery. Hence the idea occurred to her of specializing in children; she entered the Hopkins medical school and graduated after four years, to direct her vitality and her intelli-gence to research into tuberculosis and pneumonia in children. She did this work at a California hospital, then at “Bellevue” Hospital in New York, where she completed her specialization in children.

She founds a children’s department: Here, at

“Bellevue” Hospital, the gifts of the young Lebanese doctor crystallized; she shone among her colleagues, men and women, through six years of work and spe-cialization, until in 1947 the administration entrusted her with founding a department for children. This was a great honor for her, and an eloquent acknowledgment of her ability and her excellence.

A professor of pediatrics and an author: Two years after founding the children’s department at “Bellevue” Hospital, she moved to the “New York Medical Institute and Hospital,” and she is still at this institute as “professor of pediatrics” — reckoned the highest post a woman can attain in the world of medicine...

She has medical works on the subjects into which she has inquired and researched — I mean “Tuberculosis in Children” and “Pneumonia” — and also on general subjects concerning children and how to keep their small bodies sound and strong to resist disease.

She married Elias Aoudeh: Dr. Rosalie’s success in medicine, and the spread of her name in its world, did not come at the expense of her remaining possibilities, as so often happens. Nor did the practice of her profession absorb her so completely as to keep her from looking about for the knight of her dreams! She was a comely young woman, brimming with femininity and charm,

And the plain, unequivocal truth is that nature was