A. EDWARD MAUMENEE, an international leader in the prevention and cure of blindness, for many years headed the Wilmer Eye Institute and was the William Holland Wilmer Professor of Ophthalmology. He received scores of professional awards, including the 1970 Lucian Howe Gold Medal from the American Medical Association. Dr. Maumenee died in 1997.
MARGARET C. MOSHER, who died in 2002, was a businesswoman and philanthropist from Santa Barbara, California. She was a member of the Wilmer Eye Institute Advisory Council with many ties to the institute. In addition to the establishment of the Margaret C. Mosher Professorship in Ophthalmology by her estate in 2002, she also provided generous support for the A. Edward Maumenee Professorship and a chair honoring Hopkins ophthalmologist Walter J. Stark for his corneal research. In 1998, she created the Walter J. Stark Corneal Research Fund. Her estate initiated the Walter J. Stark, M.D. and Margaret C. Mosher Center for Cataract and Corneal Diseases. The widow of Samuel B. Mosher, founder of Signal Oil and Gas Company (later AlliedSignal, Inc.), Mrs. Mosher served on the board of the Signal Companies and was president of the Samuel B. Mosher Foundation.