Mills’ good works extended to Haiti
What I am writing will no doubt embarrass Norma and Olan Mills as they do not want their good works shouted from the hilltops, but I am compelled to tell about a bit of personal experience I had with them.
After 40 years of dental practice, I went to Haiti as a volunteer dentist and continued for more than a dozen years. I was sponsored by the national Episcopal Church, which sent me to school to learn how to live in a third-world country, assured me of their prayers and I told me I was on my own. Of course my local church was helpful and my dental colleagues generous as to equipment and supplies. However, I took over a rundown clinic in a school for handicapped children that needed everything; a school that fed, clothed, schooled and provided medical care for about 350 children.
Equipping and supplying a dental clinic was a big undertaking financially. It was a great relief when Norma and Olan Mills stepped up and assured me this was not going to be a problem. They also outfitted a mobile facility so I could run an extraction clinic in the mountains where I saw hundreds of patients on a weekend. They never knew a generous couple in Chattanooga paid for their Novocaine, needles, antibiotics and pain medications.
FRANCIS A. GREEN
Chickamauga, Ga.