My Best Trip

Front line combat soldier in General Patton's Third Army WWII

Stanford University--worked 40 hours a week and carried full load

Invented flexible endoscope (fiber optics) 1952

Family practice 42 years in small town (Hollister) West Central California

Had 12 foreign students live in my home, go to school and become part of my life

Learned to fly. Joined Flying Doctors and made over 100 trips to Mexico over 30 years

Earthquake West Yellowstone, Montana 1985. Flew in set up an aide station and cared for the injured

Associate professor at Stanford Medical School and University of California at Davis, medical school

Martin Luther King. Marched for freedom at Selma 1965

Earthquake Mexico 1985. Set up and led rescue team to care for the injured

Returned with Rotary Club and Flying Doctors to help rebuild and totally re-equip hospital in Lazaro Cardenas, Mexico

China: went there just after Tienanmen Square

Returned to China several time to try to get Rotary Clubs accepted. Helped to bring equipment to large Chinese hospitals

Developed a new mechanical theory about gravity and cosmology