2022 - 50th I seemed to have skipped out a bit in high school, including the day the yearbook pictures were taken, so here is a substitute picture from around that time, along with another after 5 decades were layered on. Brief history: Residences since 1972: Berkeley, Taipei, Durham, Honolulu, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Bangkok, Washington, Beijing, Okinawa Career milestones: HS grad? College grad?Taxi driver? EEG Tech? MD? Epidemiologist? Grandpa Family: Married, 3 children, 5 grandchildren Current status: I Retired in August 2021 after working 31 years for CDC and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, including my final 3 years posted in China with CDC. Now in retirement, we split our time between US and Okinawa. My focus is on grandparenting, keeping active, and validating the ethereum blockchain. 2012 - 40th • 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! |