John Wilhelm
As an immigrant I arrived in Europe after getting a B.S. at Tulane, followed by a Ph.D. at Duke and 2 years post-doctorate work in Houston. At the Universities in Geneva and Strasbourg I continued basic biological and viral research with some teaching before getting a "real" job in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Here I worked in a diagnostic laboratory partly in applied research and development of new test for some 12 years, meantime getting married to a native, Verena!
We moved to the region of Zurich and lived there another 12 years or so as I got into Quality Management in a small Swiss company producing medical diagnostic tests. As the company faltered I was requested to leave and spent the last 6 to 7 years of my working life in a famous ski resort: Davos. But I set up a Quality Management program in a research institute specializing in the repair of fractures using titanium plates and screws and the like. We are set up for our retirement years now back in St. Gallen, a nice size city of some 70K inhabitants with a good cultural offering (own theatre and dance company, orchestra, alternative theatre and music, etc.), excellent public transportation with all Switzerland and much of southern Germany, Paris, Milan and Salzburg all within a comfortable 6 hours! In 15 minutes we are in the middle of nature with Appenzeller cows (=cheese!!) and mountain vistas.

If you want to know me better, subscribe to my yearly letter!! Since my mother died in 2001 in Bartlesville I've returned only once, maybe the last time, and have intermittent contact only with Bob Kane, Dean Mandlebaum and Andy Faust. I'm sorry to see in our website that so many of our classmates haven't made it this long: we are enjoying quite good health and hope to enjoy many more years - but then we enjoy each day knowing that immortality is not for us!!