Gail Fine
Gail Fine (SED’68) of Peabody, Mass., writes that after a 51-year career as a dental hygienist (“less about six years as a stay-at-home mom to raise three children”) she retired in April 2017 from a private practice in Wakefield, Mass.. She spent the spring months working in her garden, taking chair yoga, learning Mahjongg, and participating in a candlepin bowling league. Retirement also gave her more time to devote to the Melanoma Education Foundation (MEF), which was founded in 1999, shortly after her oldest son, Daniel, died of the disease at age 26. MEF provides middle and high school health teachers with information on how to prevent skin cancer, specifically how to self-detect and prevent melanoma. “I am proud to announce that there are over 1,700 schools nationwide, with 300 in Massachusetts, using the skin check curriculum. Please check out www.skincheck.org for further information and to read Dan’s story.”
From the Fall 2017 issue.