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Alpha Auxiliary of Methodist Hospital Foundation Honors Dr. Bill White Sunday, May 4, 2003
Dorothy Cunningham of the Alpha Auxiliary also read a letter from a friend of Dr. White's, Eloise Ward Mahru, who talked about attending her first Rose Bowl game with Dr. White, of sailing on Dr. White's sloop "Ragtime," and who recalled how Dr. White had been there within minutes to assist the paramedics when a close family member had suffered a heart attack. She recalled an early morning meeting with Dr. White, in which he had appeared visibly shaken. She found out that the reason for this was that he had just come from seeing a cancer patient who had waited, too long, to see Dr. White. She said that she knew at that point, how deeply he cared for his patients, and will never forget it. She called Dr. White a "quiet, but super man, doing his job steady as a rock. Lucky Arcadia. Lucky Sierra Madre." Dr. White was introduced by his brother, James White, DDS, who told stories of Dr. White's childhood on Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. He said his family had known at an early age that Dr. White was special. He spoke of one of the first projects they worked on together, building a tree house, and how he, James, as the bigger of the two boys, transported lumber, while Bill White stayed in the tree. He noted that perhaps the reason Bill always got better grades than he did could be explained by the hammer that Bill had dropped on James' head from the tree. He spoke about Dr. White's passion for ham radios at an early age, and how night after night, from his bedroom, he heard Bill in his own room tapping with a telegraph key "Tap Tap-Tap-Tap Tap..." He said he prayed for him to move on to something else, and sure enough Bill then graduated to a level of operation which included a microphone. Then night after night, he got to listen to "CQ, CQW3..." He talked about how Bill had learned to fly and sail at an early age. He spoke of being invited to take a flight with Dr. White, and that he got to the airport and as Bill approached, he was a little too fast, and a little too long. He stated that the plane didn't touch down, it BOUNCED, and flew right through the tops of the pine trees at the end of the runway. He said he never did fly with Bill. He spoke about Bill learning to sail on Chesapeake Bay, and how after coming to California, he had become an ocean racer. And that on his racing sloop Ragtime, Bill had won race after race, including the CA Cup, and the granddaddy of them all, the TransPacific, from Los Angeles to Honolulu. He spoke of Bill having been Chief of Staff at Methodist Hospital, and his dedication to his profession and his patients. He spoke of Bill's affiliation with the British Home, the Sierra Madre Search and Rescue Team, and CLIMB, a learning center for the blind in Sierra Madre. He said that "Bill said 'You don't have to leave the country to find the needy.' He talked about a recent lunch with Dr. White where he asked him about retiring, and was asked "Why would I want to retire? I love what I do." He then introduced Dr. White as "A man's man, a doctor's doctor." Dr. White then got up and spoke about some of the changes that have taken place in his forty years in the medical profession. "Forty years ago, there were no HMOs, no Medicare. EKG machines were a luxury. There were no disposable needles, think of that.....A doctor visit cost $4.50." He spoke about some unusual events that had occurred during his career. How he received a call from Officer Chris Christiansen, of the Sierra Madre Police Dept., stating that a hiker in Bailey Canyon needed help, had a broken pelvis, and they needed to get him an IV. How he had stopped at the pharmacy and picked up what was needed, and then was helicoptered into Bailey Canyon, and had to step out onto one of the sleds of the helicopter and jump, because it was unable to land. How after jumping from the helicopter, he was then told "We're going to rappel down to the hiker." He had no training in how to rappel, but he managed to get to the hiker, and administer treatment. He spoke about receiving a call at Methodist Hospital from his Sierra Madre office, stating that a patient of his partner, Dr. Norman Johnson, was in the office, suffering from schizophrenia, and that he had an armed weapon in his pocket. Dr. White told them to send the patient to Methodist Hospital, and when the patient arrived, he was greeted by four members of Arcadia PD, all dressed in the white jackets of physicians, who quickly disarmed the man and took him into custody. He turned the attention to people in the audience, commending them on their volunteerism, such as Tom Pendlebury and Stan Hutchinson, who work with Lizzie's Trail Inn and the Sierra Madre Historical Preservation Society. He recognized Don and Jan Reed, with whom he had worked on a Hero Parade for firefighters after the big Sierra Madre fire. He recognized Floretta Lauber for her work with the Arcadia Historical Museum, and Carol Libby for her work with the Arcadia Historical Society. And he thanked the Auxiliary for the honor. I apologize, some of the photos below are of inferior quality. The distance from which I took the photos was really outside my camera's range, and many of the photos started out black, with no discernible features. However, thanks to the software, I was able to brighten them up, but unfortunately, between the distance and the image alteration, that means the quality is not up to standard, as they are quite grainy. I also apologize to James White, whose picture I somehow failed to take. Photos from the Alpha Auxiliary luncheon honoring Dr. White (click to see it larger)
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Alpha Auxiliary of Methodist
Hospital Foundation
Honors Sierra Madre's Only Honorary Citizen, Dr. Bill White
Sunday, May 4th, at a gala luncheon attended by more than one hundred
fifty people in the Westin Hotel in Pasadena, the Alpha Auxiliary of Methodist
Hospital Foundation honored
Dr. William E. "Bill" White,
long-time Sierra Madre physician and volunteer with its "Order of
Merit" Award. For Dr. White's bio from the program, click
