Class Note 1989
Issue
Jul - Aug 2018
Wow, what a whirlwind trip we had just a week ago, hitting 15 colleges and universities throughout all of New England. We heard from a lot of ’89s, but didn’t have time to meet with most (even though I wanted to), as I had to honor my daughter’s trip to find the school that fits her best. Stay tuned as I continue on this journey.
Michael Herring is the new lacrosse coach at Blue Ridge in Virginia and has been busy since the fall working to change the way the team plays, both on offense and defense. “The way we do things is very different from how they’ve done them in the past, so it has been a challenge for the boys,” Michael says.
David Groff was named in-house legal counsel for the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls! Before this David was chief deputy for 10 years in the Klamath County district attorney’s office, and he is also an adjunct professor at Oregon Tech in the humanities and social sciences department.
My mom is an orthoptist, which is an eye muscle therapist who works with ophthalmologists. We have several ophthalmologists in our class, but wanted to start off with Kristin Casale and Tara Sweeney. Here’s what Kristin had to say: “Tara Sweeney and I were both premed at Dartmouth and did a summer working at my dad’s office in the Bronx. We were technicians, and the office staff gave us all the patients that no one else wanted to deal with. We didn’t know any better so we saw them all. Tara loved it, and I was kind of ‘meh’ on the whole idea of ophthalmology as a career. I was more into pediatrics or biology—or so I thought. Tara graduated a year ahead of me and went into ophtho. She told me I would be crazy not to go into it and inherit my dad’s practice. She loved it, and she still does. We are still holding out as a single-doctor practice. She and I each work a few days a week and are essentially one full-time doctor. We have two people who work for us, and it’s great. Anyway, I’m the social one, and Tara does all the surgery. She’s sticks to the eye pathology and gets them in and out. So we are a good team. I see the patients with dry eye and blepharitis who need to talk, and she fixes the people with cataracts and glaucoma. It works pretty well.”
I hope in a future article we’ll get to hear from Bonnie An Henderson, who was just named president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and is a clinical professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, as well as from Lisa Gamell and Francis Mah.
—Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com
Michael Herring is the new lacrosse coach at Blue Ridge in Virginia and has been busy since the fall working to change the way the team plays, both on offense and defense. “The way we do things is very different from how they’ve done them in the past, so it has been a challenge for the boys,” Michael says.
David Groff was named in-house legal counsel for the Oregon Institute of Technology in Klamath Falls! Before this David was chief deputy for 10 years in the Klamath County district attorney’s office, and he is also an adjunct professor at Oregon Tech in the humanities and social sciences department.
My mom is an orthoptist, which is an eye muscle therapist who works with ophthalmologists. We have several ophthalmologists in our class, but wanted to start off with Kristin Casale and Tara Sweeney. Here’s what Kristin had to say: “Tara Sweeney and I were both premed at Dartmouth and did a summer working at my dad’s office in the Bronx. We were technicians, and the office staff gave us all the patients that no one else wanted to deal with. We didn’t know any better so we saw them all. Tara loved it, and I was kind of ‘meh’ on the whole idea of ophthalmology as a career. I was more into pediatrics or biology—or so I thought. Tara graduated a year ahead of me and went into ophtho. She told me I would be crazy not to go into it and inherit my dad’s practice. She loved it, and she still does. We are still holding out as a single-doctor practice. She and I each work a few days a week and are essentially one full-time doctor. We have two people who work for us, and it’s great. Anyway, I’m the social one, and Tara does all the surgery. She’s sticks to the eye pathology and gets them in and out. So we are a good team. I see the patients with dry eye and blepharitis who need to talk, and she fixes the people with cataracts and glaucoma. It works pretty well.”
I hope in a future article we’ll get to hear from Bonnie An Henderson, who was just named president of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery and is a clinical professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, as well as from Lisa Gamell and Francis Mah.
—Ned Ward, 2104 Graham Ave., #B, Redondo Beach, CA 90278; ned@nedorama.com