Clarence Webster Monroe was born on May 18, 1905 in Hillrose, Colorado. Monroe graduated from Whitman College, Washington in 1928, from the Rush Medical College of the University of Chicago in 1933, interned at the Chicago Rush Presbyterian Hospital and attended general surgery, and received plastic surgery training at the University Hospital in Philadelphia.

He married Ellen Matson in 1932 and volunteered as a plastic surgeon in Korea, Haiti, Liberia, and Honduris as an elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Oak Park, Illinois. In particular, Dongsan Christian Hospital in Daegu did volunteer work twice.

Leprosy patients, who suffered facial injuries, recovered their faces thanks to the medical technology of plastic surgeon Clarence Monroe, and performed several similar rehabilitation operations in two months.

In addition, he passed on aseptic technology to key members of the medical staff at Dongsan Christian Hospital and advised on the construction of a new operating room.

Clarence Monroe who performs facial recovery surgery for Leprosy patients at Dongsan Christian Hospital, 1963

Mrs. Monroe, who visited Korea with her husband, taught English 25 hours a week at a nursing school, made 75 surgical hats and donated them, and helped reorganize surgical lines such as surgical machine disinfectants, operating tables, and disinfectants.

Monroe returned to the United States after completing his volunteer work, working as a professor at Rush Medical College, retired in 1973, and was called by God on March 5, 2005, at the age of 100 years old.

The Monroe couple volunteered at Dongsan Christian Hospital

Mrs. Monroe at teach English at a nursing school