Song of Haiti by Barry Paris   $0
	William Larimer Mellon Jr. of Pittsburgh’s renowned Mellon family was supposed to follow his forbears into a life of high finance and wealth accumulation. His great-grandfather, Judge Tom Mellon, had founded a banking empire today valued in the billions of dollars. His grand-uncle, Andrew W. Mellon had developed the Aluminum Corporation of America (Alcoa) and served as secretary of the treasury under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover. His father, William Larimer “W. L.” Mellon Sr., was co-founder and president of Gulf Oil Corporation. But Larry Mellon was made of different stuff. Graduating from medical school in his mid-forties, Mellon and his wife Gwen, a medical lab technician, left their comfortable Arizona ranch and moved to poverty-stricken Haiti. In the Artibonite Valley, where life expectancy was the lowest in the hemisphere, they founded, built, and ran the Albert Schweitzer Hospital of Deschapelles, devoting their lives—and Larry’s portion of the family fortune—to improving the health and welfare of some of the poorest people on earth. Song of Haiti is the beautifully written story of Larry and Gwen Mellon and of the passion that inspired them to leave behind a world of almost unfathomable luxury and instead devote their lives to the practice of medicine among the poorest of the poor. Excerpts from the book jacket		To Purchase