Over the last five years David has advised components of the National Institutes of Health on IT strategy and data quality management while pursuing a Masters of Public Health in epidemiology at the University of Maryland. En route to the 2014 International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia, David stopped in Mongolia. He showed slides of urban and settlements. Buddhism has been an interest of David since 1983, and therefore he visited their Mongolian sights. He was also interested in the local food and sampled everything, In addition to his “culinary detour” he was interested in Mongolian history, nature, and humanity. He attended Rotary makeup meetings in Thailand and Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. Fred talked about his work for the last 15 years to create holistic medicine programs for our nation’s Wounded Warriors and Veterans. He worked with Walter Reed Medical Center to build a holistic nature retreat and in addition uses art, writing and poetry for therapy. Fred’s poems have appeared widely in national magazines, such as COMMONWEAL, THE JOURNAL of the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, THE PROGRESSIVE, and in Veterans’ publications such as Warrior Writers’ After Action Review. Fred Foote’s first book of poems was MEDIC AGAINST BOMB: A Doctor’s Poetry of War. He retired from the Navy after 29 years of active service.
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Tas is one of the North Bethesda Rotary Club Charter Members and one of its early Club Presidents. He talked about life in Macedonia under the Nazis and the Communists where he escaped death sentences twice and his Jewish friends didn’t. Because his father was a USA citizen, Tas was also a USA citizen at birth. He completed medical school in Greece and studied chemistry at Pittsburgh University and received a PHD in Bio physics. From 1954 to 1961 Tas served in the US Army at the Walter Reed Hospital Institute of Research, and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP). In 1965 he established the Tousimis Biodynamics Laboratories. Tas showed us one of his patents which read “Integrated Processing and Critical Point Drying Systems for Semiconductor and Mems Devices”.