49-year Geisinger employee retires

Published: January 31, 2010

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Submitted Photo David Bowers, center, retiring after 49 years at Geisinger Medical Center, is congratulated by Duane Sargent, left, technical specialist, and Dr. Glenn Steele Jr., right, president and CEO of Geisinger Health System.

DANVILLE - David Bowers, an employee in Geisinger Medical Center's (GMC) Automated Testing Lab Plus (ATL Plus), is retiring after 49 years at GMC.

"Dave Bowers was an exemplary member of the Geisinger family for nearly five decades, and throughout his time at Geisinger Medical Center, he displayed exceptional technical abilities and dedication to quality work," said Skip Sharetts, supervisor of ATL Plus. "He was respected and admired by his co-workers during his time here, and to commit 49 years to one organization is a rare and inspiring feat."

In September 1961, Bowers started his career at GMC in the morgue. After 2 1/2 years, he transferred toGeisinger's Certified Lab Assistant Program. Upon completing the program, Bowers joined the Chemistry Department (now called ATL Plus).

Over the last 10 years, Bowers assumed a leadership role in the Automated Chemistry section of ATL Plus, both as a section leader and as a medical technologist II.

Although he is retiring, Bowers still hopes to work one day a week as a flex medical technologist.

Bowers, who was raised in Elysburg, has lived in Dutch Hill in the Bloomsburg area or the last 35 years.

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