Sanford Clinic Women's Health

Robert “Bob” George Women's Health Educational Endowment

Dr. Bob George left a legacy of mentoring, and educating colleagues, partners, medical students and staff. To honor his passion for teaching, we have established an endowment to bring respected speakers and researchers in the field of Women's Health Care to Sioux Falls.

Dr. George's partners and former partners are fully funding the endowment, but recognize that other colleagues, friends and patients may also desire to contribute. One of Dr. George's current partners, Dr. Ashley Briggs, has designed a bracelet to celebrate Dr. George's life and to recognize contributions to the fund. We are suggesting a sixty-dollar donatio n for the bracelet. The dragonfly near the clasp of the bracelet reflects an excerpt from Albert Einstein's “The World as I see It”. The closing lines read...

“This is my faith, that the creator of the water bug that gets transformed into a dragonfly, or the caterpillar that comes a butterfly, can be trusted to make human beings into heavenly beings, creatures of time and space into creatures of eternity.”

If you would like to contribute to the Robert “Bob” George Women's Health Educational Endowment, please contact us at SVC OB-GYN, Ltd. 605-328-7700.

Full Story

There's an old story about a colony of water bugs that I have found quite helpful in dealing with this whole matter of resurrection, and the change from a creature fit for earth to one that may live in heaven. Down below the surface of a quiet little pond, so the story goes, lived several little water bugs, but every once in a while one of their number, clinging to the stem of a water lily, would climb up out of sight and never return. His friends didn't know where he went or what ever became of him. One day one of the leaders called all the water bugs together and said, “The next one of us who climbs up the lily stalk must promise to come back and tell us where he went and what happened when he disappeared.” They all agreed that this was a very good idea.

It so happened that not long after, the very bug who made the suggestion found himself climbing up the stalk, and the others seeing him go, reminded him of their agreement. But when he broke through to the surface of the water and found himself on a lily pad above, he didn't feel like his old self any longer. Looking at himself, he couldn't believe what he saw. In place of his old body he had one with four silver wings and a long tail. The warm sun had dried the moisture from his body and he yielded to an impulse to use these wings. Swooping and dipping in great curves, he flew through the air, exhilarated in the new atmosphere. He was no longer a water bug; he had become a dragonfly; but still, he was the same individual, only a new form.

Then he remembered his friends in the pond below, and his promise to bring them word of what had happened. But striking the surface of the water, he found that he could no longer dip beneath it. He could never return to his friends, but then he noticed, one of his friends was coming to him, and then another and another. And the dragonfly winged off happily into his wonderful new world of sun and air, confident that they would be joining him in due time.

This story serves to illustrate the new life that awaits us beyond the portals of death. We will be the same beings, yet somehow different. We will be alive, but in dimensions beyond our present comprehension.

This is my faith, that the creator of the water bug that gets transformed into a dragonfly, or the caterpillar that comes a butterfly, can be trusted to make human beings into heavenly beings, creatures of time and space into creatures of eternity.

From "The World As I See It", pg. 237 by Albert Einstein.