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”.

Dr. Steve Silverberg lives three fourths of the year in the northern most part of Japan’s main island where it gets 3&1/2 meters of snow per year. This year the snow started a month earlier than normal and therefore there will be more snow this winter. The population of Japan is 130 million and their language is easy to speak but difficult to write. Restaurants specialize by type of food. There is a zero drink and drive law with a stiff penalty. If you drink, a taxi comes with a second driver to drive your car home for $18. Hot springs (104 degrees F) are popular and you must wash first. Mixed F/M bathing is dying out (shucks!). Medicare and dental care for 2 seniors is $1,000 per year.