Through One Child's Eyes: Medical Missionaries in Nigeria in the 1960s
In summer 1961, Texas physician, Gerald Gene Pitman, moved his wife and three young daughters from Waco, Texas, to West Africa. Under the auspices of the Foreign Mission Board, Pitman worked as a Baptist medical missionary conducting life-saving surgery and providing general medical care for local communities at Baptist hospitals established in Nigeria. In 1967, when escalating regional conflict made it unsafe to remain in the area, the Pitman family returned to the United States, unaware that their time in Africa had come to a close.
This exhibit is made possible by the College of Liberal & Creative Arts, Museum Studies Program, History Department, J. Paul Leonard Library, an anonymous donor and SF State Foundation Board member and University benefactor Laurie Pitman.