International Man of Mystery

My father was 52 years old when I was born. I knew him as a big fish in a small pond, the Medical Director and Superintendent of a tuberculosis sanitorium.

He had a quiet life and worked 9-to-5 hours except when there was a rare after hours emergency. They never went out at night, happy to be with one another and the children.



He said very little about his life before he and my mother got married. It turn out that he was well known and highly respected. He had an active public life and was and had given lectures all over the world. He had been Clinical Director of the U.S. Public Health Service and had developed the technology that made large scale screening for tuberculosis possible.



One idea that was often repeated in our house was that they held the Duke and Duchess of Windsor as their role models. That he had given up everything for the woman he loved.

And they lived happily ever after.