Dr. Frank Boston legacy honored in Washington D.C.

A neighborhood icon has now been acknowledged within the nation’s capital. Native officers journeyed to Washington D.C. this weekend to honor Dr. Frank Boston, a neighborhood Black physician whose influence lasts to this present day, as a part of nationwide Emergency Medical Providers week.

“On Might twentieth the VMSC along with the Boston Legacy Basis hosted an EMS occasion on the World Conflict I Memorial, subsequent to the White Home,” mentioned organizer George Whitehair. “Our occasion featured the U.S. army sending an Honor Guard comprised of all 5 companies (Military, Navy, Air Drive, Marines, and Coast Guard) to honor Dr. Boston,” he mentioned.

Dr. Frank E. Boston was a Black doctor born in 1891 in Philadelphia, who served in France within the U.S. Military in the course of the First World Conflict, then returned to settle in Philadelphia, and established what’s now Jefferson Lansdale Hospital and the Volunteer Medical Service Corps of Lansdale. Over the previous two years, a nonprofit “Dr. Frank E. Boston Legacy Basis” has been based to maintain his reminiscence alive and acknowledge his legacy, a course of that continued within the nation’s capital this weekend.

In a message Sunday, Whitehair reported on the long-planned journey to Washington as a part of nationwide celebrations of Emergency Medical Providers week, together with a photograph of members of the volunteer ambulance corps the physician helped discovered.

“The VMSC honored Dr. Boston by including Dr. Frank Boston’s identify as founder to the facet of their model new ambulance,” Whitehair mentioned.

Members of the Boston Legacy Basis plan to proceed selling consciousness of the “Doc Boston Adventures” comedian printed earlier this yr and primarily based on the late physician, and are trying into methods to honor the physician with an historic marker — along with a memorial plaque already in place on Broad Avenue, subsequent to a stretch of roadway the group hopes to have named after Boston — and a movie telling his story.

“Please proceed to help us as we now have efficiently introduced hidden historical past to life,” Whitehair mentioned.

For extra on the Boston Legacy Basis, seek for “Dr. Frank E. Boston” on Fb or e mail FEBlegacy@gmail.com.