OPERATION RAINBOW

Bridget Beschen ’02 recently joined an Operation Rainbow team of orthopedic surgeons, nurses, and volunteers for a two-week medical project in rural Guatemala, where they performed 80 surgeries (repairing club feet, removing tumors, repairing displaced fractures and hips, etc.) and examined more than 500 men, women, and children, from infants (“displaced hips, mostly”) to a 75-year-old woman (“complete hip replacement”). Beschen, a biology major and captain of the Pilot volleyball team, scrubbed on surgeries, assisted doctors and nurses, made incisions, and finished stitching. Now a teacher in Capistrano, California, she is headed to medical school next fall.