Of the 80+ of our classmates who are physicians, ten percent served in the military and ten percent served in the USPHS, including Stuart Brown, who did both. Stu was a member of the wrestling team, Alpha Theta and Sphinx. After medical school and internal medicine residency, Stu joined the Army and was assigned to Bangkok, an R&R destination for Vietnam combatants. Stu treated many cases of STD, in which he became expert. Post military Stu joined the CDC and USPHS, where he expanded his experience in public health and served assignments in Seattle, Geneva (on loan to the WHO) and Atlanta, where he ran the county HIV clinic and later became the Health Director for Georgia. He also worked with DOD on the destruction of chemical warfare agents. Stu and Charlotte have two sons and three grandsons.
Kevin O'Brien went to Tufts Medical School after his junior year. After internship he was assigned as Commanding Officer for the USPHS clinic in Portland, ME. He cared for active duty Coast Guard as well as many retired military. During this time, he was deployed on a Coast Guard cutter off the coast of Greenland, where he gave medical care to commercial seamen, as well as running the ship's amateur radio station. After military service Kevin did an ophthalmology residency in New York. He and Madeleine moved to Rhode Island and he opened a practice in Fall River, MA. They have three daughters and ten grandchildren. Kevin is still in practice, but no longer does major surgery.
Gene Levin left Hanover after three years for Jefferson Medical College. Having majored in philosophy at Dartmouth, he had to work a little harder at first to catch up with science major classmates. Enlisting in the USPHS after internship, he requested assignment to an Indian reservation, for the experience and to 'give back.' His good intentions were not unpunished, as he was assigned instead to Washington, DC, where he worked in federal employee health clinics and participated in a study of the cost benefit value of routine health screening tests. After residency Gene practiced orthopaedic surgery in Bucks County, PA, retiring last year. As a volunteer he worked to improve medical care for Native Americans in the Southwest. He and Ellen have a son, two daughters and three grandchildren.
Len Glass was active in the IDC and Palaeopitus at Dartmouth. After graduation from Tufts Medical School, he struggled to combine his interest in social causes with being a physician. Following internship, he got a Masters in Public Health at Harvard and joined the USPHS, advising Medicare in D.C. Those two years of bureaucracy led him back to clinical medicine, as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Through leadership positions at his teaching hospital and in professional organizations, he found the engagement he sought beyond his private practice, which he continues in Newton, MA. Len's been an avid organic gardener and youth soccer coach as well. He's been happily married to Peggy (Bennington '68) for 44 years. They have a daughter, two sons, and three grandchildren.