Article: Robert Wulff, 73; began Trinity Village, a colony for lepers in Southeast Asia.(NEWS)(Obituary)

1/3 Robert M. Wulff dedicated his life to helping people, especially Southeast Asians. In Thailand he was known as the "Great White Leper" because he was 6 feet 3 and had started leper colonies there.

His son, Dan Wulff of Lakeville, said he was not afraid to touch the lepers. "If I catch it, I catch it," he told his son. "These people need to be loved, too."

In the 1960s, Hubert Humphrey said that Bob Wulff helped inspire the Peace Corps concept. Wulff died Saturday of cancer in his home in Lakeville. He was 73.

His interest in Asia started when he served in Manchuria as a military liaison at the end of World War II. After receiving his ...

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