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The Library received Dr. Boudreau's personal papers, reports, confidential memoranda, and memorabilia as a gift from his widow, Charlotte Boudreau, through the offices of the Milbank memorial Fund with which Dr. Boudreau was associated from 1937 and President from 1956 to 1962. He was born of American parents in New Glasgow, Quebec. He graduated from McGill University in 1910. he worked in the Ohio State Department of Health from 1911 to 1917, then served in the Army Medical Corps as a major for two years. Returning to Ohio after the war, he was put in charge of local health organizations throughout the state. In 1925, Dr. Boudreau went to Geneva, eventually becoming the Director of the League of Nations Health Section. In that post, he traveled to Europe, Russia, the Far East and South America. In addition to his association with the Milbank Memorial Fund, he was the chairman of the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council from 1941 to 1951, was a member of the Population Council, Inc., and a trustee of the Community Service Society. He also headed the United States Committee for the World Health Organization for more than a decade. He was made a Chevalier of the Order of Public Health in 1946 by France, and in 1957 he received the annual Albert Lasker Award of the American Public Health Association. In 1972, an exhibit of a few aspects of Dr. Boudreau's life as a private citizen, medical official, physician and public dignitary was organized in the New York Academy of Medicine Library's main Reading Room.

From the description of Frank G. Boudreau papers [1900-1970]. (New York Academy of Medicine). WorldCat record id: 77756170