• One year at Pitt studying Chinese.

• Transferred to UC Berkeley, drove out west with Alan Saul, first of many 1970’s cross-country trips.

• Honored USA’s wonderful geography by majoring in Geography, and hitchhiking all around the country.

• After graduation, back to Pittsburgh to drive a Yellow Cab and save some money.

• Off to Taiwan to resume study of Chinese and to teach English.

• Back to Pittsburgh and cab driving.

• En route to second trip to Taiwan; stopped over for Linguistics Institute summer school at University of Hawaii.

Met future wife in Introduction to Linguistics class. Continued on to Taiwan for a stint.

• Realized I lacked a marketable skill; went to Duke U to study EEG technology.

• Back to Honolulu to work as EEG technologist at Queen’s Medical Center.

• Got married.

• Back to school for pre-med, medical school at U Hawaii.

•Back to Pittsburgh (Highland Park) for Pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

• To Atlanta to start work at CDC as epidemiologist.  Worked on US and global AIDS epidemic with focus on preventing AIDS in children

For next 20 years including 3-year stint in Bangkok; helped start PEPFAR from 2003.

• Retired from CDC in 2010; began working at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation in Washington.

• Married 32+ years; three great kids all over the place; one married.

• Lost Mom to cancer in 1985; Dad now 87 in Chicago and with ALS. Siblings all left Pittsburgh long ago.

• Still healthy and happy.

Will have to miss the reunion because of meetings in Africa. 

Have fun!