What People are Saying:
Dr. Beeve is one of the most famous names in the Fiji Islands and has been profiled in Reader’s Digest as an American hero. Here is his own words is a mesmerizing account of his 20 plus years giving sight to the blind, and changing the lives of desperate native people. A man of prayer and faith, his miraculous stories will move and inspire anyone who reads this book.
Fred Lee, author of If Disney Ran Your Hospital
Gayle and I are delighted to offer our hearty congratulations and sincere appreciation for the outstanding humanitarian service you’re performing in providing eye and health care to people in under served areas of the Fiji Islands and the South Pacific.
When Americans journey to tropical locations, they usually come back with memories of the joyful sights they witnessed. You, however, returned with the memory of giving the joy of sight. From your first trip to Fiji, you’ve made it a personal mission to South Pacific — from simple testing to sophisticated surgery to corrective lenses.
Your devoted efforts with The Beeve Foundation reach out to needy people who have lived a life of impaired vision and blindness. You not only give them the blessing of sight; you give them the opportunity to lead more productive and meaningful lives. I commend your commitment to literally bringing light into the lives of many — you are sterling examples for people everywhere.
Once again, please accept my congratulations on a job well done and every continued success in the years ahead.
Pete Wilson, Governor
State of California
About Jerold E. Beeve, M.D.
Jerold E. Beeve M.D. F.A.C.S is founder and director of The Beeve Foundation for World Eye & Health, Inc. It is a non-profit organization that has produced 19 annual eye clinics for the people of the Fiji Islands. Over 25,000 adults and children have received vision testing, and the Foundation’s efforts have reached over 3% of the island’s population as of 2009. After examination and refraction over 23,000 pairs of recycled and new glasses have been dispensed and 2,111 major eye surgeries have been preformed!
These sight restoring procedures have been performed by many of the very best ophthalmologists in the world using the most modern techniques, lasers and supplies. Many of these eye doctors are current instructors and head of their Departments at Doheny, University of Southern California School of Ophthalmology in the United States and Melbourne University in Australia.
Dr. Beeve graduated from Loma Linda University in 1967 and was a captain in the U.S Army as a flight surgeon in the Medical Corp. While in Viet Nam he was awarded the Bronze Star for bravery. In 1970 he started the Ophthalmology residency program at the White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles California and He earned his Board certification in 1975 and became a Diplomat of the American Board of Ophthalmology. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Beeve started The Foundation For World Eye & Health in 1991 which is a Christian organization composed totally of all volunteers with no one including the board receiving payment. Dr. Beeve is listed in Who’s Who in Medicine and Health care.
Beeve has been married for forty-five years to Dorothy, who is a registered nurse and is the administrator of his office and manager of all Fiji Beeve Foundation projects. He has two boys that are both board-certified physicians. The older one is in much demand practicing internal medicine and the younger one became an ophthalmologist and joined Dr. Beeve in the year 2000. Both sons were voted as the best doctor in their specialty in 2008 in Glendale California, and both are on the Beeve Foundation Board.
Books and Documentaries:
Before his mother died his mother requested that he write a book on the Seventh-Day Adventist, titled, The SDA. His second book, Dear Lord, It’s Jerry Again, tells of multiple answers to prayer during the Fiji eye clinics. He has been the speaker for the Lyon’s Club, Rotary Club and different Christian churches. A one-half hour TV documentary of the Foundation functions has been made by KPAS, a Pasadena California TV station. In the Reader’s Digest, September issue 1997, the article HEROES FOR TODAY documented a story of one of his patients in the section “Sighted on Turtle Island”.
Memberships:
American Academy of Ophthalmology, California Ophthalmology Association, Los Angeles County Medical Association, American Intraocular Implant Society, Kerato-refactive Society, Ophthalmic Outpatient Surgical Society, Verdugo Hills Caduceus Society
Staff Affiliations:
Verdugo Hills Hospital, Glendale Adventist Hospital, USC Estelle Doheny Eye Hospital and Clinic (Prior instructor), Eye Surgical Center (Founder and past Director), The Beeve Vision Care Center (Founder and Director), The Beeve Foundation For World Eye & Health, Inc. (Founder and Director)
In Recognition:
In 1993, President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy honored Dr. and Mrs. Beeve with a letter of “congratulations and appreciation for your outstanding service, compassion and distinguished record enhancing the lives of others”. Also in 1993 the Governor of California Pete Wilson congratulated Dr. Jerold and Dorothy Beeve in a letter by writing “You not only give them the blessing of sight, you give them the opportunity to lead more productive lives.” In 1993 and also January of 2005 Michael Antonovich, the chairman of the board of supervisors of the County of Los Angeles, personally congratulated the Foundation and “commended it for outstanding and generous effort to help restore the eye sight to the people of Fiji.” In 1993 Mayor Tom Bradly of Los Angeles gave Dr. Beeve a “Certificate of Commendation” and in January 2005 United States Congressman David Dreier gave Dr. Beeve and the Beeve Foundation “Special Recognition” with a “Community Enhancement Award for Outstanding Service to the Community” Beeve and his wife have visited personally with the Honorable Laisenia Qarase, Prime Minister and Minster of Fijian Affairs, the President of the Fiji Islands Rata Josefa Iloilovatu Uluivuda and David Laurence Lyon the Ambassador of the United States of America to Fiji. He received congratulations from each and encouragement to continue his services in the Fiji Islands.
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