Wednesday, 1/10/01, 1:22 PM
I am another who was from a Navy family and moved away at the end of the summer after junior year when my father got orders. Guess that is why I don't see myself on your roster??? Final year of high school in CT (Navy had my dad at Submarine Base in Groton), then college and medical school in New England.
Pretty much New England since - faculty at Harvard Med, 2nd marriage, three kids (Tufts U junior, Bryn Mawr sophomore, Lexington High sophomore), one stepdaughter (UVM grad, now working in high tech), two cats, two cars. I noticed that last update RE reunion was 01/26/00... anything more recent?
Harry Otaguro of one or two classes behind followed me to college - no contact in eons...
From:
Lexington, MA
E-mail:
dedrick@zeus.bwh.harvard.edu
5/13/02
Like many Radford folks, I did not graduate with the class, because the Navy sent my father to the Sub Base at Groton, Connecticut, just after the end of my junior year. I finished my last year of high school in Conn. obviously, then went to MIT (was in the same dormitory with Harry Otaguru, Radford 63 if memory serves me) and graduated with a bachelor's degree in aeronautical engineering in 1966, then went directly to medical school at Yale.
I married an MIT 1969 coed, who also entered Yale Med. After one year in the surgical residency program, I shifted to Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital for residency training in anesthesiology and my then wife transferred to and finished medical school at Harvard Med.
I spent two years of active duty in the Navy as an anesthesiologist, just after Vietnam, then went back to MGH as a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty. Stayed in the Reserves until after the Gulf War...
After several years, moved to Penn State Med School in Hershey, chocolate town, but my then wife hated it and we returned to Boston. I was invited to join what was then a new Harvard teaching hospital, the Brigham and Women's Hospital, a merger of three older institutions, and have now been running the residency training program in anesthesiology (one of the larger ones in the USA) for nearly twenty years, over three different department chairmen.
I am divorced and happily remarried. My "new" bride of a decade was actually the first woman I had asked to marry me, way back at the beginning of medical school. I thought she said "no" but she insists she only wanted time to think about it! In fact, she tells me we still don't communicate as well as we should.....
We had always later remained friends and found solace in each talking with each other as our respective marriages ended. She worked at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, MD, but eventually moved to Boston. We started dating and finally tied the knot.
She has a daughter who graduated from the University of Vermont and works in the computer industry. I have three of my own. The oldest dropped out of college to "find himself" in the Navy. After three years in subs (just like his grandfather), he decided he better finish college and earned himself a Navy ROTC scholarship to finish at Tufts University. My middle child is a junior at Bryn Mawr College and my youngest is a junior at Lexington (Mass) High. Only five more years of child support and college tuition bills!
No Yorkies in our immediate household now, although my wife had one when she was in Maryland AND my brother's mother-in-law has a cute little teacup Yorkie. Our current pets are two Maine Coon cats, as our condo does not allow dogs.... My wife and stepdaughter loved the pictures on your web site!
Dan
Daniel F. Dedrick, MD
Director of Residency Education
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia
Harvard Medical School
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
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