May Wharton, founder of the Uplands Retirement Village in Pleasant Hill, Tenn., will be one of the subjects of a Monday talk at an American Association of University Women meeting at the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church.
Dr. Wharton, who came to Pleasant Hill in 1917, was called “Doctor Woman.â€
Monday’s talk by W. Calvin Dickinson, a retired history professor at Tennessee Tech, starts at 11:30 a.m. Dickinson will also talk about Dr. Dora Lee Wilder, the first woman to receive a medical license in Tennessee, early in the 19th century.
The title of the talk is “Drs. Dora Lee Wilder and May Wharton: Medical Pioneers on the Cumberland Plateau.â€
Reservations for the luncheon may be made by calling either Marge Congdon at (865) 483-3120 or Mary Uziel at (865) 483-1043. The luncheon of soup, sandwiches, and desert will be provided by The Soup Kitchen at a cost of $7.
The public is invited to attend. The program will begin at noon, with lunch served at 11:30 a.m.
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