Rex Bickers

Born in 1953, my birthday is history's new #1 infamous date: 9/11.

My family moved to Floyds Knobs (IN) in July 1961. In my early childhood, my mother completed college (Eastern KY '55) and had already worked seven yrs teaching math/biology (including one yr that began when I was one wk old, and she was still IN college). My dad also finished college, worked a yr in a lab, then graduated from the Univ of Louisville Medical School, and completed his (one yr) internship. When he opened his medical practice in Floyds Knobs, he began a 38 yr career as the only doctor in our little town.

I graduated from Floyd Central HS ('70), went to Rice University, then IU (Bloomington), going on to complete degrees in chemistry, pharmacology (M.Sc.) and my M.D. degree in Indianapolis in '78. I entered pediatrics residency at the Univ. of Iowa (78-80), then fellowship in neonatology at the Univ California Davis in Sacramento. In 1982, I joined the Children's Hosp, Columbus OH, and I was an asst professor in pediatrics at the Ohio State Univ College of Medicine.

Married Marcia (from the "popcorn Gettelfingers" in Bradford, IN) in '76. We raised our 3 daughters, Lindsey (1980), Whitney (1982) and Kelsey (1984) in Westerville, OH and eventually moved back, in 2003, to Floyds Knobs. In 2004, Lindsey married Dan Bock, a fellow Univ of Rochester grad, and our #1 granddaughter, Hazel, was born in 2010.

I've had a fairly unconventional career, leaving the practice of medicine in '86 to start a company, specializing in database mgt and information services for nat'l and internat'l medical meetings. This was my primary career for 13 yrs, and I worked in the neonatal intensive care units of hosiptals across all of Ohio, to keep up my clinical skills. We closed our company in '99, and I have continued to work in hospitals, in Ohio and in seven other states, from Montana to Virginia. Since 2006, I have worked mostly at the Miami Valley Hosp (Dayton, OH), usually about 10 days/nights a month. I consider myself semi-retired.

I was treated for lymphoma in 2007; chances are that I am cured.

I founded the Floyd Central HS Alumni Assoc'n and I resigned from its Alumni Board in 2011.

I love languages, and my wife and I are avid travelers across all of Europe. I am competitive in games and puzzles of every sort, especially Scrabble and its anagram variant, CLABBERS.

And I love all things internet.