FOUNDING MEMBER
Last Updated 03/2024

LAKE GEORGE, NY

I along with Barry Weiss and David Eizenman came to Queens College from Martin Van Buren High School. The three of us were among the founding members of HOB. Following graduation, I attended SUNY Downstate, interned at DC General Hospital, and finished a radiology residency at Vanderbilt University.

Before my residency, I spent two years at McDillAir Force Base as a flight surgeon attached to an F4 fighter squadron. For 20 years, I was part of a successful private Radiology practicein Albany, New York. I flunked an early retirement at age 55 and spent six months working at the Indian health service hospital in Gallup New Mexico. I then joined the faculty at Albany Medical College and served as radiology residency Director for the last 20 years of my career. For the last 10 years of my stay in Albany, Ann and I lived in Lake George.

Because of the wonders of modern technology, I could work remotely much of the time. I enjoyed sailing, hiking and kayaking during the warm weather and downhill skiing and snowshoeing when there was snow.

Ann and I married six days before medical school graduation. We have three wonderful daughters and five spectacular grandchildren.

April, our oldest lives in Mill Valley, California and has two children Zevan a graduate of the University of Wisconsin who is now living in Minneapolis and Summer who is about to graduate from Chapman University in Orange, California. We are now living in Harrington Park, New Jersey in a senior development.

Our middle, daughter, Jill, and youngest daughter, Penny were instrumental in our moving back to the north east from Florida. Being here in New Jersey we are close to three of our grandchildren Eli, a sophomore, pre-med student at NYU, Leah a high school, junior, and Alivia a high school freshman.

Unfortunately, I developed macular degeneration and neither one of us can drive. I am no longer an avid traveler and substitute my real life travel experiences with revisiting many of the places we had seen with travel videos. I stay active swimming I 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile three times a week at the local JCC. Fortunately, I can still read using my iPad and I’m enjoying viewing college courses on YouTube.

Clearly, growing old is not for the weak!

FOUNDING MEMBER
Last Updated 02/2024

Hurley, NY

I retired in 2004, after 41 years with IBM, where I was technical lead and co-architect for four major IBM systems, technical staff to the Chairman of IBM and senior IBM executives (as part of IBM's Corporate Technical Strategy Development team), and member of the IBM Academy of Technology. You all probably now use one of my inventions which is a feature of almost all laptop computers and if you use remote help, where a technician takes over your computer remotely, that is something that an IBM team I was part of conceived and developed.

In retirement, my wife Eileen and I are still, but less, active with traveling, working out, and volunteering. In the past we volunteered for things like Medicare counseling, running a Senior monthly program (Eileen), a motorman for a trolley museum (me), treasurer and instructor for Kingston Senior Computer Learning Center (me), and Financial Secretary for a Congregation (me). I am now Secretary for a cemetery corporation—so I have the inside track on which plot I get when I plotz (Yiddish for ‘fall down dead’).

But times changed due to Covid. The Congregation went out of business, the Learning Center lost customers and instructors because of Covid restrictions and deaths, and ceased operations in 2022.

We still do Medicare counseling. I am trying to interest the government and the postal service in adopting one of my patents—but that seems a lost cause. Maybe I’ll stop trying this year. I’m assisting a Professor in Computer Science in writing up some stuff my brother did. It turns out my brother is the ‘father’ of the modern computer keyboard we all use (who knew?). The France-based global web site for which I was technical consultant, looks to be dying because of EU privacy and data collection rules.

Our daughter, Ann, moved to Poughkeepsie, NY (pictures and referrals are still available upon request). Todd, our son, is Professor at University of Paris Cité (formerly called University of Paris 5), specializing in creativity. He splits his time between Paris, Lamorle, and Cintre, France when he isn’t traveling. It turns out that while I was aging, my three French/American grandchildren were also aging (this phenomenon continues to beat the alternative)—Allan, a grandson, Allan (now age 27) and grand-daughters Elsa (now age 24) and Sara (now age 21). Allan (marketing) and Elsa (big data) are in PhD programs in France and Sara is studying in Montreal.

No animals were harmed in producing this update. AI was not used in whole or part either. In fact, all two letter combinations were avoided in this production except for the combined use of ‘m’ and ‘e’.