David Taber:  

After high school, I entered Vanderbilt University as a premed student. After my father died in late 1971, I decided to try to enter medical school a year early, and attended IU medical school from 1973-77. While at IU, I married Carol Ann Hubbard (Harrison '71). After graduating from there, we moved to Birmingham, Alabama for my radiology internship and residency. In the late '70s, Birmingham still had a tarnished reputation from the civil rights years -- at least, a number of my medical school classmates thought something had gone very wrong when I "matched" there. We thoroughly enjoyed Birmingham and my residency-mates and other friends, and Carol Ann wanted to stay, but I had an offer for a job at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and took it. We lasted less than a year and a half in Houston. Except for my job, nothing seemed right. The last straw for Carol Ann was coming home one evening to discover that it had rained so hard that our garbage cans had washed down...Expand for more