Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Mary Luz COADY
Dr. Mary Luz Coady, known as "Luchie", of Gladwyne, died on April 14, 2010, at Bryn Mawr Hospital after a courageous battle with ovarian cancer. She was the wife of the late Henry Clay Baldwin III of West Chester. She was born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of the late Leo Dean Coady and the late Marie de la Luz Guillen Coady. She was 76.
Dr. Coady received her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955 and continued to study there for postgraduate and pre-medical classes. She earned her M.D. from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1962 and completed an internship at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in 1963. Over the next three years she completed residencies in pediatrics at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The Children's Hospital of San Francisco, where she was chief resident, and at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. She spent 1964 at the Ash-Sharq Hospital in Saudi Arabia where her first husband, the late Joseph H. Calhoun, M.D., was stationed in the Air Force. There she had the opportunity to treat childhood diseases rarely seen in the United States. Her 32-year career in pediatrics was spent mostly at Bryn Mawr Hospital, where she was the senior attending pediatrician from 1967-1999 and director of the Department of Pediatrics from 1984-1991. Dr. Coady received the honor of Distinguished Emeritus Pediatrician from Bryn Mawr Hospital in 1999.
Dr. Coady excelled in her career at a time when few women held leadership roles in medicine. She was the first woman to intern at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and became the first woman to head any major medical department at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Among her many professional honors and affiliations, Dr. Coady was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha-National Honor Medical Society, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, served as secretary and on the Board of Directors of The Philadelphia Pediatric Society, and served as both vice president and president of The Philadelphia Club of Medical Women. She was an associate member of the Department of Pediatrics at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic/Childrens' Hospital of Philadelphia. For eight years she was the attending pediatrician to Presbyterian Children's Village. And for nearly 20 years, Dr. Coady served as physician and consultant to The Shipley School. From 1989 to 1999, Dr. Coady served on the committee to evaluate the adverse consequences of the pertussis and rubella vaccine at the Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Coady was in private practice from 1967 until she retired in 1999. She had a loyal following of patients who loved her not only for her excellence in pediatrics, but for her common-sense approach and gentle demeanor, always making time for every patient. Many former patients chose Dr. Coady to care for their own children. She carried a doctor's bag in her car and was known to make house calls. She was an avid gardener and Phillies fan, and never a day passed without her finishing the crossword puzzle.
She is survived by her two daughters, Lia Calhoun Reinholt of Villanova, and Julia Luz Calhoun of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and her four grandchildren. She is also survived by two sisters, Carolyn C. Lea of Berwyn, and Antonia C. Quinn of Bradenton, Fla., and by her brother, Leo Dean Coady Jr. of Tampa, Fla. She was predeceased by her sister, the late Felice C. Moran.
Relatives and friends are invited to a Memorial Mass at 10:30 a.m. on April 24 at Our Mother of Good Counsel Church, 31 Pennswood Road, Bryn Mawr. Interment will be private.
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