GALVESTON, Texas - Silsbee and Southeast Texas civic leader Charline Dauphin has been appointed to the Development Board of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. The board’s members act as UTMB’s ambassadors and assist in outreach efforts to patients, alumni and other supporters. The volunteer organization also helps create fund-raising strategies to advance the academic health science center’s mission.
Dr. David L. Callender, UTMB president, said he looks forward to working with Mrs. Dauphin as the university plans for future growth after Hurricane Ike caused major damage to the Galveston campus last September. “I appreciate the valuable insight Mrs. Dauphin will provide as we plan an ambitious future for UTMB,” Callender said. “She has an outstanding reputation as a person who never rests in improving her community. I’m so pleased that she has accepted our invitation to help us expand our abilities to meet the health care needs of citizens throughout our state and nation.”
Dauphin and her husband, the late Sidney “Chief” Dauphin, are the founders of Texas Home Health Inc., a home health care business with more than 30 locations and 10,000 employees. She has supported numerous community health programs, including the Sidney “Chief” Dauphin Educational Outreach initiative that each year educates thousands of Southeast Texas residents regarding the importance of early detection to beat breast and prostate cancer.
Dauphin, who is also a member of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Board of Visitors, has given to various projects at the cancer center, including a smoking cessation and prevention program. She has been a major supporter of the Christus Stehlin Foundation for Cancer Research in Houston. Dauphin contributed to the Charline and Sidney “Chief” Dauphin Cancer Screening and Prevention Center at Beaumont’s Memorial Hermann Baptist Hospital, which offers patients access to genetic counseling and screening.
Dauphin supports IEA-Inspire, Encourage Achieve/Ben’s Kids and Texas A&M University-Commerce. She has contributed as well to the Silsbee Independent School District, funding the “Chief” Dauphin Athletic Field House in memory of her husband, who died in 2000 and had served as the Silsbee High School football coach for nine years.
UTMB was established in 1891 as The University of Texas Medical Department and has grown from one building, 23 students and 13 faculty members to a modern health science center. The 84-acre campus includes four schools, three institutes for advanced study, a major medical library, a network of hospitals and clinics that provide a full range of primary and specialized
medical care and numerous research facilities. UTMB is a component of The University of Texas System.