|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Event:
|
Movie Party for Dr. Daly’s 100th Birthday
|
|
Date:
|
Saturday, January 25th, 2025
|
|
Time:
|
1:00 PM − 5:00 PM
|
|
Location:
|
Bohm Theater
201 S. Superior
Albion, MI
Phone: 517-343-2116
bohmtheater.org
|
|
Contact:
|
John Daly
Phone: 7342232850
Click Here to Email
|
|
Description:
|
The Daly family is hosting a
movie party for Dr.
Miriam S.
Daly’s 100th birthday at 1:00
pm
on Saturday, January 25th
at the Bohm Theater
in Albion.
The Bohm will show The Wizard
of Oz free to the community
followed by a
reception at the
Albion Courtyard by Marriott
hotel at 3:30 pm.
Dr. Miriam and her
husband Dr.
Harold L. Daly arrived in
Albion
in July 1955 to
practice medicine. They
initially lived in a rented
house on South
Ionia Street,
just two blocks from Sheldon
Memorial Hospital and
established their
first office
above Parks Drug Store.
Graduates of the University of
Maryland
Medical School, he
was a general surgeon, and
she
was a pediatrician who later
added an
obstetrics specialty.
They brought their two
children with them from
Baltimore and in
1957 moved to
Irwin Avenue. By 1959 they
had two more children and
Harold’s sister,
Mary V. Daly,
had also come to Albion to
practice internal medicine,
giving the
Albion community
three doctors Daly.
Dr.
Miriam, who turns 100 on
January 26th, is often
called
“a pioneer”. She became a
doctor in
1950 at a time when
there was a 10% quota for
female students at medical
schools. To
claims of being
“a pioneer,” Doctor Daly
responds, “I wasn’t a pioneer!
My mother
graduated from
medical school in 1907. She
was the pioneer.” While not a
pioneer in her
own eyes,
Miriam Daly’s century long
life is
certainly noteworthy.
She practiced medicine in
Albion, Michigan, from 1955 to
1994. In her
four decades as
a physician, she took care of
thousands of patients, raised
four children,
mentored more
than 70 medical students and
involved herself in a long
list of Albion
organizations.
When she found there were no
Girl Scout troops for her
daughter, Martha,
to join, she
started one and remained a
Girl
Scout troop leader for 15
years, eventually
becoming
President of the Irish Hills
Girl
Scout Council after her
retirement. She also
served
as board president of the
Albion
Community Foundation
and the Albion-Homer
United
Way.
The death of a ten-year old
classmate from diphtheria
influenced
Miriam to become a
lifelong advocate for
vaccinations, holding free
polio clinics in
Albion
attempting to vaccinate every
Albion
child. One Saturday
morning the officer in
charge
of the Albion Armory attempted
to
cancel her Saturday morning
polio clinic with
only a few
hours’ notice because he had
double-booked a wedding at the
facility. A
call to Albion’s
Brigader General Noble O.
Moore quickly found a way to
accommodate both events.
She added an
obstetrics
specialty later in her career.
Her
most dramatic case
involved a woman in active
labor with premature twins who
refused
medication for her
very high blood pressure for
religious reasons. The vital
signs of both
mother and
babies were all going in the
wrong direction, indicating
one or all of
them might die
without proper treatment. She
believed the mother and babies
needed
immediate transfer to a
hospital with maternal
and
neonatal intensive care units.
She
packed them up in an
ambulance, grabbing
some
equipment in case the mother
delivered the children in the
ambulance.
Upon arrival at
Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo,
the wife was “out-of-it” and
the husband
was reluctant to
give consent for treatment
because “God would take care
of her.”
Other church members
had arrived and were
singing
and praying like the
background
chorus in an opera.
Dr. Daly convinced the
husband
that God had put them in a
hospital with doctors and
nurses who knew
how to save
their lives. After an
emergency
Caesarian section,
the mother and babies
survived.
Dr. Miriam moved to
independent living at Chelsea
Retirement
Community in 2016
to be closer to two of her
children. In 2022, she
published her
memoirs, Doctor
Miriam, and more recently
contributed to her sister’s
book, Four
Generations Through
Women’s Voices. Now
nearing
100, Dr. Miriam continues to
walk at
least 1/8 of a mile
every day, go to exercise
classes, do daily puzzles, and
read a wide
variety of
magazines.
Dr. Miriam has
eleven
grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren. Several other
family
members have continued
her legacy. Her
daughter,
Martha Daly, was an
anesthesiologist and son-in-
law, Marshall
Yacoe, was a
radiologist. Her
granddaughter, Madeline Yacoe,
is an
emergency room nurse and
grandson, Tommy
Yacoe, is
studying to become a
physician’s
assistant.
Dr. Daly first saw The Wizard
of
Oz as a child in Baltimore
and says that
Somewhere Over
the Rainbow is her favorite
song. The Daly family
encourages all of Dr.
Daly’s
former patients, friends and
their
families to come help
them celebrate at the
Bohm
Theater. Mark your calendars
for
Saturday, January 25th at
1:00 pm.
|
|
Categories:
|
Theatre/Performances
|
|
(89)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
