Robert C. Stever Papers, 1969-1982

Robert C. Stever is a Seattle physician who was born December 5, 1933. He was educated at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania, interned at Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle, and served for 26 years on the medical staff at Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound. Stever traveled to northern India and Nepal on a clinical clerkship and worked in Cambodia for two years as a CARE-Medico volunteer. In 1973 he was part of a Quaker medical aid team in Hanoi in Vietnam, and he made a second trip to Cambodia on a Quaker aid team in 1979, after the fall of Pol Pot. His 1990 book, Magic Moments as Paths Cross , describing the above trips to Asia, has had individual chapters published.