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{{short description|American medical missionary}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ivylyn Girardeau
| image = IvylynGirardeau1922.tif
| alt = sepia-toned picture of a 21-year-old woman in graduation robe and mortarboard
| caption = in 1922 yearbook of Agnes Scott College
| birth_name = Ivylyn Lee Girardeau
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|10|16|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Thomaston, Georgia]], U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1987|09|11|1900|10|16|mf=y}}
| death_place =
| burial_place = [[Upson County, Georgia]]
| other_names =
| education = [[Agnes Scott College]],<br/>[[Tulane University]]
| occupation = medical doctor, missionary
| years_active =
| known_for = missionary in India and Pakistan
| notable_works =
| father = John Bohun Girardeau
| mother = Emma Trice Girardeau
}}
'''Ivylyn Lee Girardeau''' (October 16, 1900 — September 11, 1987) was an American medical doctor and missionary in India and Pakistan.

==Early life==
Ivylyn Lee Girardeau was from [[Thomaston, Georgia]], the daughter of John Bohun Girardeau and Emma Trice Girardeau.<ref>Horry Frost Prioleau, Edward Lining Manigault, eds., [https://books.google.com/books?id=44FBAgAAQBAJ&dq=Ivylyn+Girardeau&pg=PA851 ''Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 2, Dupre - Manigault''] (2010): 851. {{ISBN|9780557242665}}</ref>

Ivylyn Girardeau attended [[Agnes Scott College]], graduating in 1922,<ref name="Agnes">Ivylyn Girardeau, [https://archive.org/stream/agnesscottalumna06agne/agnesscottalumna06agne_djvu.txt "Medicine at Tulane"] ''Agnes Scott Alumnae Quarterly'' (1927-1928): 7.</ref> and earned her medical degree in 1931, at [[Tulane University]].<ref name="Cemetery">[https://www.upsoncountyga.org/DocumentCenter/View/432/Glenwood-Cemetery?bidId= ''Glenwood Cemetery Self-Guided Tour''], stop 12, page 6.</ref><ref name="Hanna">Evelyn Hanna, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22979527/ivylyn_girardeau_1948/ "Rural Georgia's Woman Doctor"] ''Atlanta Constitution'' (September 13, 1948): 7. via [[Newspapers.com]]{{open access}}</ref>

==Career==
Girardeau traveled to India with sponsorship from the Woman's Union Missionary Society (WUMS). She learned to speak Hindi and Urdu. From 1933 to 1945<ref name="Hanna" /> she ran a fifty-bed facility, the Mary Ackerman Hoyt Memorial Hospital in [[Jhansi]], mainly providing obstetric care.<ref name="Shoes">Yolande Gwin, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22971137/ivylyn_girardeau_1938/ "First Comfy Shoes in Five Years Bought by Missionary in Atlanta"] ''Atlanta Constitution'' (May 27, 1938): 32. via [[Newspapers.com]]{{open access}}</ref><ref>Evelyn Hanna, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22980805/ivylyn_girardeau_1945/ "Medical Missionary Reports on India"] ''Atlanta Constitution'' (January 30, 1945): 7. via [[Newspapers.com]]{{open access}}</ref>

In the United States, Girardeau served her internship at the Women and Children's Hospital in Boston.<ref name="Shoes" /> When she was in the United States on extended furloughs in the 1940s and 1950s, she toured and gave lectures about her work at churches and for civic clubs.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22979186/ivylyn_girardeau_1945/ "Covenant Church Group"] ''Atlanta Constitution'' (April 8, 1945): 26. via [[Newspapers.com]]{{open access}}</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22979266/ivylyn_girardeau_1952/ "Dr. Girardeau BPW Speaker at Warrington"] ''Pensacola News Journal'' (October 19, 1952): 35. via [[Newspapers.com]]{{open access}}</ref><ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22971200/ivylyn_girardeau_1959/ "Mount Calvary Church"] ''Elizabethtown Chronicle'' (August 6, 1959): 8. via [[Newspapers.com]]{{open access}}</ref> "It is the most fascinating country in the world — and potentially one of the most powerful or dangerous," she told ''[[Atlanta Constitution]]'' readers in 1945.<ref>Evelyn Hanna, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/22980574/ivylyn_girardeau_1945/ "More Concerning Conditions in India"] ''Atlanta Constitution'' (January 31, 1945): 5. via [[Newspapers.com]]{{open access}}</ref> At age 72, she went to Pakistan and India again, as a medical relief worker.<ref name="Cemetery" /> She was a pediatrician in Thomaston, and on the original staff of the Upson Regional Medical Hospital.<ref name="Cemetery" />

==Personal life and legacy==
Ivylyn Girardeau died in 1987, aged 86 years. Her gravesite is in Upson County.<ref name="Cemetery" />

Girardeau House, a Christian orphanage and school in Uganda, is named for Ivylyn Girardeau.<ref>[http://www.graceforeducation.com/the-girardeau-house/ "The Girardeau House"] ''Grace for Education'' website.</ref> There are two folders of papers related to Ivylyn Girardeau's work in the Records of the Woman's Union Missionary Society, at the Billy Graham Center in [[Wheaton, Illinois]].<ref>[https://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/guides/379.htm Records of the Woman's Union Missionary Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240421153253/https://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/guides/379.htm |date=April 21, 2024 }}, Billy Graham Center, Wheaton IL.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Find a Grave|83380211}}

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[[Category:1900 births]]
[[Category:1987 deaths]]
[[Category:American Christian missionaries]]
[[Category:Female Christian missionaries]]
[[Category:20th-century American medical doctors]]
[[Category:People from Thomaston, Georgia]]
[[Category:Agnes Scott College alumni]]
[[Category:Tulane University alumni]]
[[Category:20th-century American women medical doctors]]
[[Category:American medical missionaries]]
[[Category:Christian missionaries in India]]
[[Category:American missionaries in India]]
[[Category:Christian missionaries in Pakistan]]

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