Jay Keller, M.D.’40, has delivered 150 babies, performed surgeries for decades, traveled to China and France and Italy. He was a tour guide at Shelburne Museum until he was 100, but he also worked as a deckhand on the Ticonderoga steamboat, now a massive exhibit on the museum grounds, when it was still on the water. He plays bridge twice a week, although he doesn’t always win.
“You have to play with the cards you’re dealt,” he said. “If you don’t get any cards, you can’t win, but if you get the cards, you have to build them right and you have to play them right.”