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MW Visit to Los Angeles Oct 1-5, 2026, for medical school reunion on 10/3, Class of '86, UCLA
Of our class of about 170, about 17 showed up, and it was great to see everyone.
Top row from L, Laurie Publicover, Eda van Dyk, Lenora Wu, Ted Funahashi, Kevin Williams, Jon Fujita, George Louie, Alec Koo, Grace (prev Bill) Firtch, Mike Sakamoto, Kim Pitts-Davis. Lower row, Shirah Vollmer, Reed Oxman, Mary Asano, Roy Benedetti, John Chuck, me, Alan Synn, Waldo Joseph. We apparently are an excitable bunch. :)
(editor's note, most of the pics below were sent to me by others)
I hardly recognized Waldo Joseph as back in the day he had very thick glasses.
Thank you, LASIK!
Below with Eda, retired and traveling the world, Lisa Orloff, ENT surgeon at Stanford, Laurie Publicover, retired, and me, still somehow looking for something to do.
Alec Koo, still in his urology practice in Torrance, with his wife
Eda with Shirah Vollmer, still working as psychiatrist in Westwood.
Kim Pitts-Davis, still working as pediatrician in San Jose.
Reed Oxman, retired ER doc, with husband John.
The day after the reunion, I had a chance to visit more with Eda and we walked along the Palos Verdes Peninsula enjoying the ocean view and could even see Catalina Island in the distance.
And though he didn't attend, I had a chance to meet up a few days before with another classmate, Armando Arroyo, now IVF specialist, whom I found is also living in Syracuse!!
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