CHARLES V. PERRILL ’34

CHARLES V. PERRILL, M.D., a physician and surgeon, and a medical missionary in India for many years, died June 6, 2007. He was 94. A member of Sigma Chi, he received his degree with honors and was elected to Sigma Xi. He received a master’s degree and a medical degree from Northwestern University. Born in India to Methodist missionary parents, he returned there after medical school with his fellow physician and wife, Wilma Conger Perrill. As a physician, administrator, fund-raiser, and engineer, he built several hospitals while teaching and practicing medicine, and was widely respected for his many contributions. In 1971 he returned to the US, worked as an emergency physician, and continued to write and teach. His wife, Dr. Wilma Conger Perrill, died in 1981, and he later married Bertha Corfield Perrill, who also predeceased him. He is survived by his son and daughter-in-law.