About the Author
I returned to my Southern New Jersey roots in late 2002 after a decades-long whirlwind career living in Asia and the Pacific…
Getting to know the Author…
A trilogy about the power of loyalty to a team, company, or partner, whether in New York, Australia, Hawaii, or Asia, is shown below. A frat brother’s telegram & a Camden Courier Post Sports headline highlight my boundless love of baseball - a consistent thread in the Power story, and how loyalty applied in my personal life.
My continuing association with heart surgery is shown on CTSNet.
‘04: Marriage to Robin and family reconnection. MOVE TO MEET THE AUTHOR
Robin’s passing after eleven years of marriage motivated me to finally begin writing the memoir. ADD LINK TO AC Press Article on BBBS. MOVE TO MEET THE AUTHOR
Other works and hobbies (Phillies and sports): Felix
Philanthropy
Team Loyalty: Sydney to Hawaii to Singapore …
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Phillies win World Series 1980!!!
While based in Sydney at the office of Bio-Spectrum, Shiley’s dealer, I was oblivious as to the outcome of Baseball’s 1980 World Series. My fraternity brother, “Bugga,” came to the rescue with this telegram. My shouts of joy were greeted with surprise and wonderment from the local Aussie staff: “What’s a World Series, mate” they quickly asked? I took the time to educate some of them on the game’s intricacies.
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Phillie's fan moves to Hawaii, 1984!
In June 1984, I resigned from a sales position in Belgium after 8 years with Shiley. Baseball was not so popular there. After relocating to Hawaii with my wife Jackie, I had access to all USA sports news. I even got to play softball with neighbors like in my youth. No more scores by Telegram or the IHT newspaper. Pictured climbing to the top of Haleakala on the island of Maui wearing my prized Phillie’s hat.
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New Jersey Sports Headline, 1993!
While attending a cardiac surgery meeting in San Francisco in 1993, I called my hometown newspaper in Camden, New Jersey to see about receiving updates on my beloved Phillies. Despite living on the other side of the planet in Singapore at the time, I wanted to closely follow them. After speaking to Bob Brookover, this headline broadcasted my intentions and caused my mom to notify every member of the family.
The Inside Story …
After the death of my wife, Dr. Robin Carter, in 2014, there remained no choice other than to follow Lord Tennyson and treasured words from his renowned work “Ulysses” found below. The message was clear: “How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As tho’ to breathe were life!” Having been a Big Brother myself in New York City in the late 1970’s, what little power I’d accrued over the years resided in helping local kids improve their lives. I proudly served as a member of the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Atlantic & Cape May Counties. Scroll to the bottom of this page and you will see how change was part of my modus operandi…
Ulysses
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
I am a part of all that I have met.
Yet all experience is an arch wherethro'
Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades
For ever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
A “gray spirit” reliving a great life with loyal friends and followers. The Power of loyalty is endless…
“The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.”
American Author - Zig Ziglar