June 1, 1999 I graduated from the U of A in Fayetteville in 1973 after an ill-fated adventure at Hendrix my freshman year. I then attended the UAMS College of Medicine from 1973 receiving my M. D. Degree in 1977. I completed a post-graduate residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at University Hospital in Little Rock in 1981 the served in the Medical Corps of the United States Air Force from 1981 through 1985. I have been in private practice in Jacksonville, AR, Since my separation from the Air Force in 1985. I was fortunate enough to marry Bonnie Atterbury (class of 1970) in 1972 when long distance dating from Fayetteville to Conway became too dangerous (if it wasn’t for close calls on the Pig Trail, we might never have been scared into tying the knot!). She is now Bonnie J. Taylor, M. D., Professor of Pediatrics at UAMS College of Medicine and Arkansas Children’s Hospital where she is a Neonatologist and Director of ECMO (Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation) among other important and difficult to pronounce and spell duties. Since being in medical school at the same time was going so well, we decided to make Bonnies’ life miserable with pregnancy for here sophomore year, and Matt (David Matthew) was born in July, 1975. He was an honor graduate from North Pulaski High School in 1993, then attended and graduated from the U of A in Fayetteville in 1998 after successfully compressing four yeas of education into five years (the famous "Five Year Plan" I’ll bet many of you are now familiar with). He will finish an MBA in December, then who knows? He was in the Razorback Marching Band and Hog Wild Band for five years and now plays bass guitar and a little clarinet for the Red D Band, a New Orleans style club and dance band. Amy (Amy Catherine) stared life rather uniquely … that is, she was actually planned! She was born in November 1980, and is definitely her mother’s daughter. She has just finished high school, as Salutatorian and Nort5h Pulaski, and plans to attend (where else) the U of A in Fayetteville on a Chancellor’s Scholarship. Shi is not sure what course of study to purse, but she does know she wants to purse at least on year of it in Europe! We have lived our lives in Arkansas except for a brief tour of Arizona with the Air Force. Bonnie’s work involves quire a bit of travel, so she has gotten me to Canada and Great Britain (and that’s all have to say about that). I enjoy travel if it has an historical purpose, especially relating to the U. S. civil War, or if it ends as a s ski resort or hiking trailhead. I think my wife is the only famous person I’ve met. I am still on the local Boy Scout Troop committee, though not so active since Matt made Eagle Scout in 1993. We have been very busty with North Pulaski’s band boosters for what seems like forever. We have attended First United Methodist Church in North Little Rock since moving back to Arkansas from Arizona in 1983. Does anybody still remember when Mr. Haley took my truck keys because Harold Jones was too slow to jump in the back on the way to Tommy’s at lunch one day, and was running along holding on to the tailgate in the parking lot? Why didn’t he just get Harold some faster shoes? David R. Taylor |
