Theodore D. Stevenson ’25

Ted prepared at Andover. At Princeton he was football manager, president of Cottage Club, and a member of our service council. He roomed with Bruno Hill and Mike Oates.

He went on to Johns Hopkins Medical School. In 1934 he married Bunny Scott; on their honeymoon they sailed to their assignment at Hacket Medical Center in Canton, China. Ted was chief surgeon there for the next five years -- not an easy assignment, since the Japanese were bombing the city before finally capturing it. They returned to the U.S. on furlough in 1939. When it was time to return to China in 1944, Ted sailed alone and was captured by the Japanese in the Philippines en route at the time of Pearl Harbor. He was held with 5,000 others for three and a half years. He served as their chief medical officer. After liberation by the 1st Cavalry Division in Feb. 1945, he rejoined his family in Philadelphia, where he worked in the Lankenan Hospital. He then returned to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions as medical director and was active on a worldwide basis.

He "retired" in 1975 and bought a home in western North Carolina and continued to be active in missionary work. Retiring again, he moved to Duarte, Calif., where he died Jan. 9, 1999.

The Class of 1925