David Bisno grew up in University City, earned his B.A. from Harvard College and then returned to St. Louis for medical school and ophthalmology residency at Washington University. After two years in the Navy in Pensacola teaching ophthalmology to the flight surgeons headed for Viet Nam, David enjoyed 20 years of private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. After raising two children in Dixie, he changed his focus and headed north.

1992-94 David earned a Master’s Degree in the History of Science between Harvard and Dartmouth Colleges. He was the first to discover and tell the story of the intrigues of The Dartmouth Eye Institute, a group of vision scientists from Europe who fared little better in New England than they had under the Nazis in Breslau.

David is now actively engaged in adult education around the world. He enjoys engaging groups of “silver-haired-scholars” in provocative discussion groups on a myriad of subjects. While Dartmouth’s Institute for Lifelong Education in his base in the Upper Connecticut Valley, he travels frequently with his wife, Fay, to Santa Barbara and San Francisco, California, Melbourne, Australia and Cape Town, South Africa.

It has been for him a joy and pleasure to endow in honor of his father these memorial lectures.