Lucile salter packard biography

| Ali Kagawa, Angie Lucia

Pediatrics, World-Class Care.

This week, we are celebrating Lucile Salter Packard, our hospital’s founder and visionary, in honor of what would have been her 100th birthday.

Lucile salter packard biography

Her dream was simple: to nurture both the body and soul of every child.

Mrs. Packard’s affiliation with children’s health dates back to her student days at Stanford University, when she volunteered at the Stanford Convalescent Home helping children recuperate from illness.

It was during this time that she met her husband David Packard, and helped him and his friend William Hewlett establish the Hewlett-Packard brand. She became a member of the Woodside Atherton Auxiliary supporting children’s health in 1946, joined the Children’s Hospital board in 1972 and was elected chairperson in 1983.

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Packard and her husband contributed $70 million toward the realization of the children’