MARTIN A. GOLDMAN, M.D., Class of 1958

After finishing at NYU Med I trained in Internal Medicine for two years at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. I then went into the USAF and served as a Flight Surgeon in Korea. I then returned to Boston to complete my Internal Medicine training at Beth Israel Hospital. The two years was punctuated by a recall into Active military duty for the Cuban missile crisis. After completing training I went into a General Internal Medicine practice in Burlington Mass which eventually grew to seven physicians. I practiced for 36 years and was very active in administering the practice . I was also active in the Hospital community and served in many positions including President of the Medical Staff About ten years prior to retirement in 2003 I became active in the Senior HMO programs around Boston and helped to develop and train physicians in providing care to seniors in a capitated managed care environment. The last five years of practice I worked for Partners Health Care system ( Mass General and Brigham and Woman’s Hospitals) consulting with their primary care groups of physicians in how to deliver higher quality lower cost care.

Since retiring I have returned to my undergraduate interest in Economics and have led courses in Economics at the Senior Learning institutes at Harvard, Brandeis and the University of Arizona. I also have taken an eclectic mix of courses at these institutes Over the years my main recreational hobby has been bicycling. I usually take one or two long bicycle trips a year. When I was younger I would go self-contained and carry my own baggage on the bike. I now rely on tour guides for this.

My wife Dorothy and I have been together twenty years. She retired from a career as a clinical Social Worker in 2004.We recently bought a winter home in Tucson and enjoy winters there as well the adventure of discovering a new community and meeting new friends. Seymour Sabesin, we discovered, lives less than a mile from us. We return to Bedford Ma annually after wintering in Tucson.

I had four boys with Zina Goldman. Two boys are lawyers, one a TV program film editor and the fourth has a position as a marketing/stats programmer. Two daughters-in-law are clinical neuropsychiatrists,a third is Ph.D. pharmacologist and the fourth an administrator in a non profit organization We have six grandchildren and a seventh on the way. Unfortunately the children are scattered around the country and although we manage to see each one individually a couple of times a year. We manage to get the whole family (sons, daughters in law,grandchildren) all together once every two years or so, so much for mobility in American life.

I am grateful to Al and Gerry for organizing the reunion and nudging us all to attend. I mourn those of our classmates who have passed on and cannot attend. Ours was a blessed generation.