Physician
Centurion, 1916–1935
Born 19 January 1874 in Newburyport, Massachusetts
Died 3 May 1935 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Buried Glenwood Cemetery
, Washington, District of Columbia
Proposed by Francis Rogers and Nellis Barnes Foster
Elected 2 December 1916 at age forty-two
Century Memorial
William Ropes May had led his class at the Harvard Medical School; he was always, in his profession, loved by his patients and respected by his fellow-practitioners. Perhaps he lacked the Midas-touch which leads so often to wealth and to reputation in the outside world; at any rate, so little had Dr. May to say of his own professional achievement that his closest friends were surprised to learn, at the special meeting of the Willard Parker Hospital, in which May had been Chairman of the Medical Board, how great a work he had done for that institution. Goldwater, Commissioner of Hospitals, along with every head of department in that hospital and the nursing staff, spoke of the endless care and attention Dr. May had given to raising the standards of efficiency of Willard Parker Hospital. The doctor was a person of exquisite taste and refinement, presenting in his social intercourse a picture of those amenities and courtesies which are not always met with nowadays.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1936 Century Association Yearbook
