Class of 1970 Commemorative Biographical Book

C A R L W. L I N D Q U I S T

Address: P.O. Box 23, Chaplin, CT 06235 Email: clind01@gmail.com ● Phone: H: 860-455-9914 ● C: 860-208-7861

Museum of Natural History, and supportive HUD housing for low income and physically compromised elderly. Our lust for travel has been ongoing. Multiple times I have crossed the Atlantic and portions of the Pacific crewing on square-rigged sailing ships, an international activity that is both exhausting and liberating. I have also had the good fortune to hike and to X-C ski in some of the world’s pristine areas. Closer to home, my interest in painting has recently drawn me to watercolors; my tennis game is always a happy challenge; biking has replaced running; and small boat sailing and kayaking occupy much of my summer months in Maine. While I have missed the clinical facet of medicine and the camaraderie of my fellow medical professionals, retirement has been a stimulating stage in life for me. I expect to continue to enjoy all that life has to offer. Octogenarians can have fun. Happy 50th to you all.

Alma mater: Yale, 1961

Postgraduate Training/Certification: Internship: Shands Teaching Hospital, University of Florida Ophthalmology Residency: University of Pennsylvania, 1971-74 Professional and Volunteer Awards and Recognition: Fellow, American Academy of Ophthalmology, American College of Surgeons Chief of the Medical Staff, Windham Hospital Board of Directors, Windham Hospital Connecticut Society of Eye Physicians, and HSA of Eastern CT

Current Employment: Retired, Windham Eye Group Spouse or Partner’s Name: Julie Lindquist

Name(s) of Children and Grandchildren: David and Stephen; grandchildren: Eva, Axel, Nicholas, Madeline Narrative: It was the fall of 1968. Baltimore was still smoking from the Martin Luther King riots, and the general ambiance was that of a siege mentality. Julie and I were coming from bucolic Hanover, New Hampshire, where I had spent the first two years of medical school at Dartmouth. The contrast of the two environments could not have been greater. The Dartmouth-Hopkins combo was perfect for me, but the one downside was that there were many in our Class of 1970 whom I knew only minimally. Aside from that, my Hopkins experience was superb, opening doors and opportunities that evolved into a rich professional life. Subsequently, what began as a solo practice in ophthalmology developed into an intensively active group in northeastern Connecticut, a relatively rural but culturally and academically stimulating region due to the presence of two universities. Three decades later, retirement has led to an expansion of my roles on non-profits boards that has included the formation of a regional community foundation, a small business economic development program, our town’s historic district commission, land conservation and stewardship, the CT State

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