The Physician

In the early 1900s, only about 6% of medical students throughout the United States were women. One of these students was Lillian Ray. She would go on to become a leading physician in Los Angeles. Born July 10, 1873, in Santa Cruz, California, she graduated from Stanford in 1897 and then attended Johns Hopkins medical school. In 1920, she married architect Edwin Albion Titcomb. For 25 years, she worked as a physician at UCLA.

Two years after the Fraternity-wide philanthropy, Service for Sight (originally called Sight Conservation and Aid to the Blind) was established, Dr. Titcomb, along with other alumnae in the Los Angeles area, founded The Blind Children’s Center (originally called the Nursery School for Visually Handicapped Children). This was the first of the five Delta Gamma schools for children living with blindness and low vision. Dr. Titcomb passed away on May 15, 1974.