Alice Cary oral history interview

1990-10-21

Cary, Alice; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Alice Cary conducted by Marlene Mayo on October 21, 1990. Alice Cary (1920 - ) was born in Gaziantep Province, Turkey, to Lorrin A. Shepard and Virginia Moffat Shepard. Cary moved to the United States in 1934 to attend the Dana Hall School. She studied at Wellesley College and later attended Yale School of Medicine. Cary was one of the only three women to graduate from the program in 1945. During this time, she met her future husband, Otis Cary, and they married in 1944. Following Yale, Alice Cary became a resident at New Haven Hospital. During the Occupation Otis was sent to Doshisha University Kyoto to by Amherst College, where he worked, to teach American Studies in 1947, and Alice went with him. She started out working with missionaries, and then used her medical background to help people after the war, working in a family counseling center as the medical advisor and then as director of the clinic. In 1957, Alice Cary joined the Kyoto Baptist Hospital, where she treated Japanese and foreigners. After retiring in 1993, Alice and her husband returned to the United States in 1996. She has served on the board of the East Bay Chapter of the United Nations Association of America. Alice continues to visit Japan to visit her two children who live there.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Japan; Kyoto

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:38:00 (audio cassette; mp3); Transcript: 49 pages (PDF)

This oral history interview is part of the Marlene J. Mayo oral histories. A guide to the full collection of Marlene J. Mayo oral histories is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42478.
Accession 2009-209-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087519