Alsia Cherry, who was called Choi Guk-hwa, was born in the United States and graduated from Beloit College and the University of Chicago. And in 1956, she came to Daegu by dispatch of the Northern Presbyterian U.S.A.

Howard Moffett's report says the new medical secretary missionary was welcomed by staff within weeks of coming to the hospital, with exceptional skills, calm work, a sense of humor and kindness, and relieved Moffett of heavy communications and office work.

In addition, the results of the pathological biopsy were faithfully described in English in accordance with the style of leading U.S. university hospitals, and the diagnosis was concisely written for everyday doctors to understand. At that time, the pathological tissue result sheet was filled out three by inserting the ink with a manual typewriter Remington, and she tried to be accurate so that there was no typo.

Althea Cherry (central) and Dongsan Christian Hospital Nurses’s

Top: Marie Wooders, Katherine Befus, Pamela R. Strallen/bottom: Joanne Poe, Althea V. Cherry (left)