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Zavie Newmark Class of
1967
After graduation, I left Miami for Chicago where I
attended the University of Chicago getting a BA in biology in 1971.
Chicago was very interesting in the late 1960's with the campus sit-in and the
student riots in Grant Park at the Democratic Convention. I was never very
radical but observed events with interest. It as a very crazy time. I was
awarded a good number in the first draft lottery and escaped
Vietnam. A few winters in the Midwest were enough so I returned to
Florida for Medical School at the University of Florida 1971-75. I came
west for my postgraduate training doing my internship and then residency at the
Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. I fell in love with the
Northwest have been here ever since. I finished my residency in
Otolaryngology (ear, nose and throat) in 1980. I met my wife Sarah
in Portland where she was teaching at Pacific University and we were married in
1981. I joined the Air Force for the grand tour of Europe. We spent
two and a half years in Weisbaden, Germany and had a great time. Our son
Gideon was born in 1983 just as we were finishing our tour. I came back to the
Northwest and joined a multi specialty Clinic in the south suburbs of Seattle
where I have practiced for the last 14 years. Our daughter Hannah was born
here in 1986. I have had only one extended vacation when I was given an
all expenses paid trip to lovely Saudi Arabia for Desert Storm courtesy of the
Reserves. It was an interesting although not altogether pleasant
experience. Needless to say, I am no longer in the Reserves. Our
clinic was purchased by a local hospital so I have been an employee for the last
4 years--also an interesting experience.
We live on Mercer Island, a bedroom community next to Seattle.
My wife Sarah is a professional volunteer. Gideon is 14 and working hard
to survive the teenage years. Hannah is 11 and slowly becoming a
teenager. I am fairly happy as a hospital employee but times are changing
in Medicine and I am keeping my options open. I am thinking about business
school in a few years if current trends in Medicine continue and I get tired of
night calls.
This is Sarah Newmark, Zavie's wife. I'm sending your email on
to Zavie at work, as he is a less compulsive e-mailer than I am, and I don't
like his piling up correspondence in my email list! He said he was going
to get his own address, but I think I'M going to have to do so!
We actually don't live in Miami-Zavie hasn't lived there since high
school. He went to U of Chicago, Gainesville for Medical School and did
specialty training (ENT) at the U or Oregon in Portland, where we met about 19
or so years ago. (I was teaching college English in a university west of
Portland.) We lived in Europe for the first couple of years of marriage
and have lived in Seattle since 1983. We have two kids, a son named Gideon
who is 16 and giving us gray hairs, and a daughter named Hannah who had her Bat
Mitzvah last weekend! Zavie's 50th bd is next Sunday, May 2nd-I expect
many of the '67 classmates are "celebrating" similar events this
year. (I'm a youngster of only 45! <g>)
Anyway, I'm forwarding your mail to Zavie with a note to him to
answer it! I expect he will if there's a patient lull!
Best wishes for a great 50th year!
I spoke to Zavie at dinner tonight about catching up on his
correspondence, and he indicated that he was planning to do so. We'll
see! We've all been a bit overwhelmed by Bat Mitzvah details of late.
Zavie is an otolaryngologist (ear, nose, and throat
specialist). I am something between a stay at home mom (hah!) and a
workaholic-I am currently a professional volunteer, working 40-60 hours/week for
free, readying myself to become the president of our 850 family synagogue in a
few weeks. I am also on the Executive Committee for Women of Reform
Judaism, an organization of 100,000 women in 13 countries. I am on WRJ's
Speakers' Bureau and travel all over the country doing leadership training and
conducting workshops on various topics-lately on Jewish women's
spirituality. I will be in NY in May and St. Louis in June and will
definitely look you up if I ever speak in S. Carolina. (My brother and
best friend live in Greensboro, NC, so I'd never say no to a "gig" in
the vicinity of their homes.)
Bio Update 4/30/1999
Friday, July 13, 2001 |
