Greetings everyone!

It is great to read these bios and "catch up" after 40 years. Strong work to all of you who are putting all of this together!

I left Mt Lebanon for college at Franklin and Marshall in 1972 and spent the next 3 years studying my U know what off. Then arrived at University of Pittsburgh Medical School where I graduated in 1979. Our classmate Scott Tyson was also in my class. I married my college girlfriend soon after graduation, then moved south to West Virginia University, where I began a 5 year Orthopedic residency. Kind of a cross between VISTA and pledging a fraternity for 5 years straight, staying up all night long working on a zany cast of characters from the mountains of West Virginia. Great people and a great time. I spent the next year in Louisville doing a Hand and upper extremity reconstruction fellowship. It was a great experience, learning from some of the best plastic and orthopedic surgeons in the world. But also up all night every 4th night working. Awesome experience. I still stay in touch with my fellow fellows from all over the world every year at our annual meeting.

Moved to Charlotte North Carolina in 1985, having been recruited to do Hand and upper extremity reconstruction and teach in the residency program. I had never even heard of Charlotte before the move, but it seemed like a nice place. Warm. Close to the beach and mountains. Our private orthopedic surgery group has grown from the 14 in 1985 to 110 docs today. I am still doing hand and upper extremity surgery, taking hand trauma call at a level 1 trauma center (still crazy after all these years!), and teaching the residents.

I'm still married to the same college girl after 33 years, and we have 3 great kids - 2 boys 28 and 27, and a girl 24. Daughter still lives in Charlotte. It's been a fabulous place to live for the past 27 years. We have a house at the beach where we are spending more time, and travel for medical meetings as well as vacation, mostly skiing, snorkeling, and hiking. I still swim 3 days a week, am back running and cycling some (not to the extent that Paul Josephson is, however!!). I drift in and out of the local triathlon circuit and have done a couple of half marathons.

Looking forward to the reunion and seeing everyone.