Not only did Bob Aby gain a degree in mathematics from Carleton, he also met his wife, Anne Aby ’67, on a computer date night on campus. After graduation he attended medical school at the University of South Dakota and earned an MD from Tufts University School of Medicine. He did his internal medicine training at Grady Hospital and Emory University-affiliated hospitals in Atlanta. After two years in the U.S. Navy at Quantico, Virginia, he practiced for 33 years with the Worthington Medical Center, which became Worthington Specialty Clinics and eventually Avera Medical Group Worthington.
In addition to running marathons, Bob volunteered for several summers at the Indian Health Services Hospital on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, volunteered regularly at the Uptown Community Clinic in Minneapolis for the underinsured, and now volunteers at HealthFinders Collaborative in Rice and Steele counties for the underinsured and uninsured. He lives in Northfield.