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Hate V. S. Olcot women’s hospital was "being used "by the De­
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! partment of Sanitation of the Municipality. The Scudders

themselves were still living in the old mission doctor’s

residence built by Mylrea back in 1916. Dr. Scudder had been

awarded the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen

. Elizabeth II and had been presented with a golden medallion
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by President Johnson for his services to the Kuwaiti people.
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Still active as a doctor at the age of 66, Dr. Scudder and

his wife would drive sixteen miles every day to the Kuwait

Military Hospital east of the airport where they were currently
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enlarging the X-Ray and operating theater facilities.

As for the other mission activities in Kuwait, the school

had closed in the 1930’s, after preparing several hundreds of

young Kuwaitis for promising careers in medecine, business or
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government. Amongst the most prominent of Edwin Calverley’s

students were Shaikh Fahed al-Salem, founder of Kuwait’s

modern health services, and the present Speaker of the National

Assembly, Mr. Khaled Ghunaim. The bookshop had moved from the

old town and was now located in a large modern building in the

prosperous suburbs of Salamiyyah, Like the bookshops in

Muscat and Bahrain, it was now being staffed by the Danish

Missionary Society and was turning over a respectable volume
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; of trade. But instead of scripture tracts or Bibles, the

shelves were stocked with do-it-yourself science kits and
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political science and general literature most of it in English

and not Arabic.

Looking at Kuwait in 1972 through the eyes of Samuel