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Dr. Mike Gaylor Mike is a 1964 graduate of Ramapo and was an elite four-year letterman for the Raider Fencing team. Mike was honored as First-Team All League, County, and State for three consecutive seasons—1961 through 1964—and helped the Raiders to State and Tri-State Fencing Championships in 1963 and 1964. While a senior at Ramapo, Mike was the AFLA National Fencing Champion (Team Foil) and silver medalist in Team Sabre and finished tenth in the sabre at the World Championships in Budapest. After Ramapo, Mike was off to NYU (Class of 1968)—where he continued fencing—then to Rutgers for a graduate degree in Medical Science (Class of 1970), then the University of Pittsburgh (Class of 1972), for his Medical Doctor degree. Mike also holds a post-graduate degree in Psychiatry from Dartmouth Medical School and has been a Diplomate to the National Board of Medical Examiners (1975) and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (1979). While at NYU, Mike was an NCAA First-Team All-American (along with former Ramapo teammate and current Ramapo coach Paul Apostle) in 1967 and 1968 and was the NCAA National Fencing Champion (Foil) in 1967. Even after college, Mike’s passion for fencing and athletics never waned. He served as Varsity Fencing Coach at Dartmouth College in 1973 and 1974 (turning the program over to Dale Rodgers—Ramapo Class of 1966), and has been a Fencing Master for the American Academy of Arms as well as for Lycoming College. He has served as Medical Director of Sports Medicine for the US Biathlon Team (1986-1992), Chief Sports Psychologist for the USBA (1986-1992), served on the Lake Placid Sports Medicine Council, and was an Outward Bound instructor at Hurricane Island, Maine. After retiring from thirty years of academic medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and as a faculty member at Dartmouth College, Mike returned to his first love: swordcraft. He is currently teaching combat choreography, fencing, and ken-do at Lycoming College, where his courses are often over-subscribed, and he is a humble and beloved instructor. Mike and his wife Sue have two children, Thane (37) and Alex (21). Mike is still fencing and studying Japanese and Renaissance swordcraft and enjoys most any activity he can along the coast of Maine.
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