Chip Gamble
After graduating from ISS, I received a Mechanical Engineering degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1962. Almost immediately I joined the Navy and went into the Civil Engineering Corp. My first duty assignment was with a Construction Battalion (Seabees) deploying mostly to Cuba and Puerto Rico. After about two years in the Seabees I went to Viet Nam in early 1965. I was assigned to work with the Army Advisory Teams all over the country.
I left the Navy in 1966 and entered Harvard Business School. I received an MBA in 1968 and went to work in the Medical Device industry. My first job was with Baxter International in Chicago. After eight (harsh, cold winters) years I took a job in (warm, sunny) Clearwater, Florida with Concept, Inc,, a small medical device manufacturing company. Three years later in 1979 I moved to United Medical, a division of Pfizer. United developed and manufactured products in the wound care and ostomy markets. After Pfizer sold the company in 1988, I moved to Halkey-Roberts Corporation, a division of Atrion, as President. Halkey developed and manufactured components for medical devices and marine and aviation safety products. I retired in 2003.
While in Chicago I married Gail Foote whom I had met in Boston. Gail, after her graduation from
Simmons College taught school
in Los Angeles so we carried on
a long distance relationship until
we got married in 1970. We
have one daughter, Sarah. She
graduated from the University of
Florida and then received her
Masters Degree in Architecture
from the University of Texas in
2005. Sarah is a practicing
Architect in Austin, Texas.
Since leaving the business world I have been spending my time playing tennis, volunteering and traveling. As long as my body holds together I hope to keep playing several times a week and on the "Super Senior" circuit on the west coast of Florida. As a volunteer, I primarily work with two retirement communities, two organizations that serve developmentally disabled individuals, and also serve on the City of Dunedin's Board of Finance. Gail is also an active volunteer in the community but her primary focus is on developing her creative skills in pastels. We spend the summers in Chautauqua, NY to escape Florida's heat and humidity.
Gail and Sarah