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Helen Fairchild
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Helen Fairchild
b. 11-21-1885; Turbot Township, Milton, Pennsylvania
d. 1-18-1918; Western Front (post operative complications)
Helen Fairchild became known through her war-time letters to her family while she served as part of the American Expeditionary Force during World War I.
Helen Fairchild quotes ~
• “We all live in tents and wade through mud to and from the operating room where we stand in mud higher than our ankles. It was some task, but dear old Major Harte, who I am up here with, got a car and a man; to go down to our hospital and get us some things. He brought me six clean uniforms and aprons, beside heaps of notes from all the nurses, letters from home and all kinds of fruit and cake.”
• “Rained some last night and is frightfully windy and cold. I put on some woolen clothing for we do not have any fires in the hut yet, but in spite of two pairs of stockings my feet are cold. Right now I stopped writing and got two hot water bottles and have my feet on one and the other in my lap.”
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Dian Fossey
b. 1-16-1932; San Francisco, CA
d. 12-26-1985; Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda
Zoologist Dian Fossey is remembered for her intensive and extensive study of gorillas in the mountain forests of Rwanda. Fossey defined gorillas as being “dignified, highly social, gentle giants, with individual personalities, and strong family relationships”, a photograph of her with “Peanut” was the first recorded peaceful contact between a human gorilla. Fossey was murdered, probably by poachers who she regularly fought to keep gorilla parents from being killed as their infants were kidnapped for zoos.
She wrote of her experiences in “Gorillas in the Mist” which was later dramatized in a movie of the same name.
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