Evelyn K. Oremland, Ph.D., founded the first college-based Child Life Program on the West Coast. A pioneer in child life, in her twenty years at Mills College, Oakland, California, she developed a graduate curriculum to create the child life profession. Through her tireless activities in the international organization, Association for the Care of Children's Health (ACCH), and her co-chairing the Educational Committee of the Child Life Council, she helped establish standards for the child life specialist certification. Around the world, her teaching, research, and writing have helped protect the emotional development of sick children. She is best remembered as a devoted and beloved teacher. Graduates from her program now occupy many senior administrative positions in child life in the United States and in Europe.