Jeff Bert, psychology major and member of Chi Phi, attended Dartmouth Medical School and completed his medical education and internship at the University of Colorado. On joining the USPHS, Jeff was assigned to the Makah Indian reservation for his two years of service. Jeff and his wife took a horse to Neah Bay, Washington so he could reach his patients. In addition to the 2500 Makahs and their animals Jeff also cared for nearby Coast Guard and radar station staff. After residency in orthopedics at Mayo Clinic, Jeff settled in Coos Bay, Oregon, where he and his wife Diane live. They have six children, including Michael '91.
Peter Wright came to Dartmouth from St. Paul's School following his father, Myron Wright '37. He was on the freshman soccer team and joined the Glee Club for two years. Thereafter, premed courses fully occupied him. He transitioned to Dartmouth Medical School after his junior year. After Harvard Medical School he joined the USPHS and worked in the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases at NIH for three years. He's still working on prevention and treatment of infectious diseases in young children. He is now back at Dartmouth Medical School in the Pediatrics Department. He works for the World Health Organization eradicating polio and in Haiti 5-6 weeks a year. He and Penelope have three sons, Tim '89, Justin and Ben '98, and 4 grandchildren.
Larry Muroff was attracted to Dartmouth by its 3/2 plan for medical school. He was a Phi Gam and served on the undergraduate council. He received his M.D. from Harvard. After internship at Boston City Hospital, he joined the USPHS Bureau of Radiologic Health, where he did cancer research for two years and met his wife Carol. Larry did a radiology residency at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital and then joined the staff. He practiced radiology in Tampa for 20 years and taught at two medical schools in Florida. For the past 18 years he has been a consultant to hospitals and radiology practices. Larry has published widely, lectured extensively, and has been a leader in several national radiology and nuclear medicine societies. He and Carol have a son and a daughter.
Steve Sherman majored in chemistry and continued at Dartmouth and Harvard Medical School. After his internship in San Francisco and one year of internal medicine residency at Mary Hitchcock, he joined the USPHS assigned to the Epidemiology Intelligence Service division of the CDC. He spent a year in Alaska studying cold viruses among Eskimo children with the goal of vaccine development. His next assignment for USPHS was Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he was liaison to the state health department. During that time he went to Bangladesh to do a postwar nutritional epidemiological survey in coordination with the UN. Overwhelmed by the bureaucracy of government, he did a residency in radiology. He has retired from his Idaho-based practice to Arizona. He and Gale have two children, Alexander and Ashley and 3 grandchildren.
Watch for a new book by Tim Brooks that recounts the history of WDCR.