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!