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Richard L. Reece, T’56, MD’60, has completed his tenth book, Innovation- Driven Care: 36 Key
Transformations, which he says he considers his
definitive work. He lives in Old Saybrook, Conn.,
with his wife Loretta, who is a former assachusetts
General Hospital nurse, and their French bulldog named Paris.

Diller B. Groff III, MD’61, DC, and his wife Katherine “Kay,” N’60, celebrated their 48th wedding anniversary this year. They have three grown children including Paul, T’88; Pamela; and Diller G.; and nine grandchildren. They live in Louisville, Ky.

Leslie C. Norins, MD’62, PhD, and his wife Rainey have semiretired from their medical publishing career. Rainey has just finished her two-year term as co-chair of the Naples Hospital Ball in Naples,
Fla., where they live.

James W. Ralph, MD’62, has been appointed as the Military Order of the Purple Heart National Surgeon and Department of Florida Surgeon for 2006- 2007. He is a retired U.S. Army Colonel with distinguished service in uniform as a medical officer that spanned 37 years—including 16 in active duty. He served two tours in Vietnam and one in Desert Storm. Ralph was a Special Forces paratrooper and flight surgeon. He has been awarded the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star (V for Valor), Purple Heart, 11 Air Medals, Army Commendation Medal (V for Valor), the Combat Medical Badge, and three Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry. He is the Vietnam War’s most decorated medical officer. The Military Order of the Purple Heart is a service organization for veterans and their families.

James J. Salz, MD’65, owner and president of Beverly Hills Eye Medical Group, Inc. in Los Angeles, and his wife Judith recently celebrated the wedding of their daughter Elisabeth. Pictured in photo from left are their son Mark, daughter Heather, son-in-law Kevin Gustorf, daughter Elisabeth, and son Jim.

Creighton B. Wright, Sr., T’61, MD’65, HS’65- ’66, MBA, DC, is chief of staff at Cincinnati VA Medical Center. He and his wife Carolyn have five grandchildren
and are active in their community.

B. Titus Allen, Jr., T’62, MD’66, retired in 2002 from the VA Medical Center in Salem, Va. He and his wife Thelma, MSN’79, recently moved from Roanoke, Va., back to Durham. They have two grown children— Ben, T’02, and Sara.

William W. Fox, T’62, MD’66, a neonatologist and professor of pediatrics at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and professor of pediatrics at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, says he fondly remembers many extracurricular activities while at Duke. He said he suffered humiliation at The Calaveras County
Frog Jumping Contest in Raleigh when his frog and the frogs of two classmates jumped a total of 18 inches, “because the Dexedrine we injected in them did
not enhance performance!” He and his wife Laurie have three older sons and an 11-year-old daughter and live in Philadelphia.

Walter E. Davis, MD’66, HS’67-’68, and his wife Jane have moved from Durham
to Boone, N.C., where Walter is helping to run Seby Jones Cancer Center. “I am not working as hard as I was,” he writes. “(I’m) getting to play a lot of golf.”

Earl A. Palmer, MD’66, has worked for 27 years at Oregon’s only medical School—Oregon Health and Science University. He is board certified in both pediatrics and ophthalmology and was principal investigator and chairman of an NIHsponsored multi-center study of retinopathy on prematurity for almost 20 years. In June he eliminated his research day and now has a four day work week with his clinical ophthalmology practice. He and his wife Carolyn, G’64, have three grown children and five grandchildren and live in Lake Oswego, Ore.

W. David Price, MD’66, a private practice ophthalmologist in Summerville, S.C., and his wife Jennifer have enjoyed running a bed and breakfast for the past eight years in their restored 1812 servant’s quarters. (www.pricehousecottage.com)

Gerald L. Brown, T’63, MD’67, HS’68-’72, recently was elected professor emeritus by the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia and subsequently retired on June 30. He had retired earlier from the U.S. Marine Corp., U.S. Navy, and U.S. Public Health Service of the NIH before going to UVA. Literal retirement, however, has little meaning to him, he says, as he now provides psychiatric services at a U.S. veteran’s community clinic in Harrisonburg, Va. He and his wife Sima and their three children John, Javaneh, and Taraneh, live in Free Union, Va.