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Show Hr Woman on Hospital Board. Hf Unique Distinction Held bp Miss Bui- i lard of Virginia. H Illchmond, Va. Dr. Irono I). Dullard , of Radford, recently nppolntcd by tho ; " kcnornl hospital board as third assist- H knt physician nt tho Kastorn Stato H Dr. Irene B, Dullard. M (Southern Ctrl Who Has Had An Un- H usual Career.) H Hospital for tho Insano at Williams- M burg, la tho only woman physician in 1 tho state nnd probably In tho south H holding a rosponBlbllo ofllclal position M under a stato government in a profes- m rdonal capacity as n doctor of modi- M clno. Dr. Milliard, who Ih yet In her m twenties, looks younger han her M years. Hor social standing la so high M and her beauty so marked that she M could long since havo blossomed Into M a belle, but alio would have nono of It. m Sho has been a bookworm from a child, fl devouring subjects far boyond hor fl years, wlillo othor girls wero yt with H their dolls and their toys. H Dr. Dullard graduated from Wads- H worth high school, ltadford, whero sho H was born nnd reared, nt un early ago. m Sho attonded a school nt Madison, B Wis., afterward taking tho profession- H al course at rnrmvlllo, toachlng three H years In tho public schools of Pulaski m after hor graduation. Hut tho uclonco H of medicine, to which tho child had M boon attracted, now lured tho girl, M and, hroadonlng her studies as hor M years udvanced, she In tlmo obtained m her degree as a doctor of medicine. H To achieve this end sho becamo a H trained nurse, practicing her profes- H slon at the bcdsldo of her patients for H snvoral years with r'M success. Dr. Dullard is the youngest daugi tcr of Mrs. Metn O. Dullard, nnd tho lato Danlol Dullard, who sottlcd in Virginia Vir-ginia prior to tho civil war. Though a nattvo born Virginian, sho comes from Puritan stock, uniting tho onorgy nnd progressiva traits of tho Ynnkco with tho warm-heartedness nnd genor-ous genor-ous Impulsiveness of tho south. |