19 Facts About Clarence Gamble

Clarence Gamble was an advocate of birth control and eugenics, and founded Pathfinder International.

In 1929 Gamble gave $5,000 to open a maternal health clinic in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Clarence Gamble wanted to create a memorial for his mother in Cincinnati.

Clarence Gamble became a member of Dickinson's Committee on Maternal Health and through it made his first “pathfinder” grant.

Clarence Gamble did some research in a lab at the University of Pennsylvania, and soon he and Sarah were actively supporting the League and the clinic with funding.

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Clarence Gamble sought a simpler method of contraception, one that did not require a costly doctor's visit as fitting a diaphragm did, and that was inexpensive and immediately available.

Clarence Gamble funded early research for the Southeastern Pennsylvania League's work to identify effective spermicidal jellies.

In 1938, Clarence Gamble left Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania and moved to the Boston, Massachusetts, area and funded eight field workers who at new community-supported birth control clinics in Montana, Tennessee, the East Coast, and the Midwest.

In 1949 Gamble offered Frank W Notestein, director of the Office of Population Research at Princeton and future president of the Population Council, a small sum to translate birth control pamphlets into Japanese.

In 1951, Clarence Gamble funded exploratory work in the Punjab state of India.

Clarence Gamble said that health workers could be trained to fit diaphragms, which would be using different standards of care for women in the developing world than for women in the developed world.

At the 1955 Tokyo IPPF conference, which Clarence Gamble had helped to organize in committee beginning in 1953, and to which he contributed $3,000, he was refused admittance to most of the conference sessions.

Clarence Gamble worked closely with and financially supported Dickinson's National Committee on Maternal Health until Dickinson's death in 1950, and gave both financial support and time to Margaret Sanger's Clinical Birth Control Research Bureau.

From 1954 through 1956, Clarence Gamble visited over a dozen countries on each four- or five-month trip.

Clarence Gamble provided anatomical models of the human pelvis, purchased film strips and movies, and supported their production.

Clarence Gamble advocated simple methods, allowing people to decide for themselves the number of children they wanted, and offered family planning methods that could be used without intensive medical supervision.

In 1957, at the suggestion of his attorney son-in-law, Lionel Epstein, husband of his oldest child, Sally, his philanthropic activity was incorporated into the new Pathfinder Fund, and Clarence Gamble was elected president by the board of directors on February 27,1957.

Clarence Gamble drew on his contacts there from the 1930s, when he had rescued Puerto Rico's birth control program.

Clarence Gamble's papers are kept at Harvard's Countway Library of Medicine.