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Occupation: Pediatrician
Passion: "Jack-of-all-trades"
Works in: Danbury
Lives in: Newtown
Jack Fong says, cheerfully, that he's a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to his off hours as chairman of Danbury Hospital's pediatrics department.
"I do a lot of photography, and had a darkroom and enlargers when I was in high school," he said, showing his age in this digital era. "I enjoy cooking," he said. "By the time I got married in 1968, I was already 27, so I love cooking." In fact, both Fong and his wife, Margaret, love to cook. Each year they host a home-cooked meal for eight people as part of an annual Day to Make a Difference fundraiser for Danbury Hospital's pediatrics department programs. "My wife cooks a traditional Chinese banquet meal; I'm the pastry chef," he said.
Proceeds from this year's fundraiser Saturday at Ridgefield's Silver Spring Country Club will go to the jack S.C. Fong, M.D., Pediatric Endowment, created last year to honor Fong, who is retiring Oct. 1. Well, not retiring, exactly. "I'm redirecting," he said. "I love pediatrics too much to give it up. And I'd probably drive my wife crazy."
Fong, 66, has been head of the pediatrics department since 1985, joining the hospital from McGill University in Montreal, where he was associate professor of pediatrics. After Oct. 1, "I'll be spending 60 percent of my time in the hospital as one of the members of the department, not the chief," he said "My wife and I would like...