A Tribute to our Past Testators

1914      Ms. Ellen Frances Evans               

1914      Mr. Ferris Thompson    

1936      Ms. Julia E. Roso                             

1941      Mr. J. J. Hoff

1949      Mr. Ed. A. Sumner          

1956      Ms. Aurie Dell Black                       

1958      Ms. Charlotte Pansy                      

1965      Dr. Emile F.  Tuchman   

1966      Ms. Edna L. Fox               

1966      Ms. Alice Florine Hayne

1966      Mr. L. Kronberg

1966      Mr. John B. Robinson    

1967      Mr. Henry Cachard         

1967      Ms. Amelia M. Harjes   

1967      Ms. Stella S Housman   

1967      Ms. Marie C. Smith McGrew     

1967      Ms. Theodore Rousseau                             

1972      Ms. Roberta Zuhlke       

1976      Mr. John Warden           

1986      Ms. G Campbell

1986      Ms. Guernay     

1986      Ms. Ethel Keyser-Got    

1991      Ms. Dolly Hoffman         

1992      Mr. Copelin Philip

1992      Ms. Risa Sussman           

1992      Mr. Benjamin Robinson

1994      Mr. Jean Boissevain       

1997      Ms. Suzanne Pijonet     

1997      Ms. Margaret Amster   

1998      Mr. Guy Bjorkman         

1998      Ms. Sylvia Kaffenburgh

1998      Mr. Daniel Plisson          

1999      Ms. Sofia Richards          

2001      Ms. Bernadette Drouin

2001      Ms. Micheline Libaude 

2001      Mr. Michel Malezieux  

2003      Ms. Doris Festetics        

2007      Mr. André Grosperrin   

2009      Ms. Reine Marguerite Ackermann          

2009      Mr. Jacques Vannier     

2009      Ms. Stéphanie Baudron

2010      Mr. Stanley Townsend 

2010      Mr. Aldo Kent   

2010      Ms. Lise Howard-Johnston         

2010      Ms. Françoise Piveteau

2010      Ms. Maria Bemberg      

2013      Ms. Jadzia Fullerton       

2013      Mr. Eliott Carter              

2014      Ms. Eliane Lesseur-Stojanovic   

2014      Ms. Denise Dussaux-Faivre        

2015      Mr. Antal de Bekessy    

2016      Ms. Christiane Guerlain

2017      Ms. Hélène Bugat-Pujol

2018      Ms. Huguette Danrée   

2018      Ms. Michelle Saurel       

2019      Ms. Hélène Sass              

2019      Ms. Georgette Sauvezon Gois  

2021      Mr. David Mc Govern   

2022      Mr. James L. Buttenwieser        

2022      Ms. Denise Peyrode      

2023      Ms. Catherine Pruzan, née Etave             

2023      Ms. Michelle Sotiault    

2023      Mr. Michel Zeller

We respect the wishes of our testators who prefer to remain anonymous.

The first bequest in the history of our institution was made by Ms. Ellen Frances Evans. Her generosity set in motion our institution’s unique philanthropic tradition. When Ms. Evans passed away in 1914, she bequeathed all of her assets to our Hospital. But her will, approved by the French courts, was only executed in 1918 when the Hospital was recognized by the French government as an institution of public benefit in gratitude for services rendered to France during World War I. Her bequest contributed to the construction in 1923 of the Memorial Building, which remains our Hospital’s centerpiece to this day.

Ms. Christiane Guerlain devoted 40 years of her life to the American Hospital of Paris. She helped create the American Hospital of Paris Volunteers’ Association in 1973, and was elected as a Governor in 1977. She was also one of our institution’s greatest benefactors and designated all of her donations to the acquisition of cutting-edge medical equipment. In keeping with her philanthropic choices and personal wishes, Ms. Guerlain’s bequest was also earmarked for the acquisition of latest-generation MRI machines and CT scanners, which are used daily to benefit patients in our new imaging center.

Michel and Huguette Zeller were loyal American Hospital of Paris patients who were deeply attached to our institution and its history, particularly during World War II. Having endured the German occupation and then witnessed the liberation by American troops, they were eternally grateful to the United States and its young soldiers. At the end of their lives, in recognition of the care they received at our Hospital, the Zellers chose to bequeath their entire estate to the American Hospital of Paris. In their eyes, our institution symbolized both medical excellence and the indestructible ties of friendship between France and the United States. True to their wishes, their bequest has been used for the construction, currently underway, of our new flagship building dedicated to the medicine of tomorrow.

Through these three testators’ stories, we wish to express our deepest gratitude to all those who have designated the American Hospital of Paris as a legatee, thereby passing our medical excellence on to future generations.