Text Box: “If a student cannot equal or surpass his teacher, they have both failed.” -Roshi Philip Kapleau
 

 

 


 

 
 

 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Every boy wants to be a food microbiologist when he grows up.
 
 


Rutgers University is located on the banks of the Raritan River.  Perfect for walking or cycling, a thirty-five mile long groomed path runs between the river and the canal. 

 

 

 


Doc and his bike, before starting the 580 mile charity ride from

San Francisco to Los Angeles.

 

In 2007, Doc rides from Montreal to Portland Maine, and 440 miles across

the great state of Iowa.

 

Doc on his recumbent bike.

 

Favorite Food:

End cut of Prime Rib, Scallops

Favorite Musical:

Phantom of the Opera

Favorite Color:

Green

Favorite Flower:

Day lily

Number if bicycles:

5.5 (includes unicycle)

Favorite bicycle:

Cannondale R800

Favorite Author:

John Irving

Favorite Beer:

Sam Adams

Favorite Snack:

Ice cream, Chunky Monkey

Favorite Drink

Bourbon Manhattan

Favorite Soda

Stewarts Diet Root Beer

Favorite TV Show

The “X” Files, when Mulder reigned

Favorite Bacterium

Clostridium botulinum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                      

 

    When it’s too cold to cycle, Doc skis.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Montville’s daughter, formerly a microbiologist in the Schaffner lab at Rutgers,

then a virologist in the Turner lab at Yale (shown here collecting extremophiles

 from an acid spring in St. Lucia) and now a New York City school teacher. 

Her dad is very proud.    : -  )

 

 

Doc’s East Coast Cycling Odyssey from Montreal to Florida is only 340

miles from completion.

 

 

Dr. Montville, “on call,” getting the latest news from

the lab.

 

Doc has three children. They are the joy of his life.