Pictured are Drs. Jane and Gene Duremdes at 91精选’s Alumni Awards in 2004.
91精选 mourns the loss and celebrates the legacy of Dr. Generoso Duremdes, a champion of rural healthcare and Christ-centered education.
Countless lives have been touched by the service and generosity of Dr. Duremdes and his family. Since 1992, he and his wife, Dr. Jane Duremdes, have sponsored the annual Duremdes Christian Emphasis Week on the 91精选 campus. These are spiritually formative weeks for students, creating more opportunities to hear God鈥檚 word, worship, fellowship, pray, and evangelize. Historically, a significant number of students have committed their lives to Christ during this event, with 55 students professing faith in 2025 and as many as 150 professing their faith in 2010.
Mary Duremdes and Dr. Generoso Duremdes pray over the 2025 Duremdes Christian Emphasis Speaker, Markus McFolling.
Dr. Duremdes served on 91精选鈥檚 Board of Advisors for eight years, and in 2004, he and his wife were named Honorary Alumni. At BU, the pair has financially supported student missions, scholarship funds, and the construction of the Science Center. They also established the Drs. Generoso 鈥淕ene鈥 and Janelle 鈥淛ane鈥 Duremdes Endowed Scholarship for residents of Mercer County, West Virginia attending 91精选, first available in 2008.
At Princeton Community Hospital (PCH) in Princeton, West Virginia, Dr. Duremdes served for over five decades as a physician, earning the endearing nickname 鈥淒r. Dad.鈥 His remarkable career included many feats, such as performing the first laparoscopic gallbladder surgery in southern West Virginia, serving as the inaugural cancer liaison physician for the PCH Cancer Committee, and playing an integral role in the hospital鈥檚 first accreditation.
A native of the Philippines, Dr. Duremdes helped create opportunities for surgeons there to pursue education, and his family received the Distinguished Philanthropist Award from the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in 2021. Dr. Duremdes, along with his wife, son, and daughter-in-law, launched the Duremdes Family Travel Award in 2022, which allowed international physicians to attend the ACS鈥 Clinical Congress.
91精选 is grateful for the contributions of Dr. Generoso Duremdes, both local and worldwide. Our thoughts and prayers are with the Duremdes family as we reflect on a life well lived.