When Nancy and Leon Robertson arrived at their new home in Bermuda Village in 2020, they came full circle. In the early 1960s, Nancy taught elementary school in Winston-Salem, and Leon was an Assistant Professor at Wake Forest University. When Leon obtained a fellowship for postdoctoral studies at Johns Hopkins  University, they moved to Baltimore, planning to return to Wake Forest after a year. Instead, he was offered a research position at Harvard University, and they headed to Boston. Leon’s career included a stint at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety in Washington and 20 years on the Yale University faculty. While in Winston-Salem, Nancy took library science courses at Winston-Salem State. She was a children’s librarian in Maryland and Massachusetts, and completed her career working to digitize the library catalog at Yale.

     Within a month of their arrival at Bermuda Village, social contact was reduced due to the coronavirus. Leon spent most of his time researching the internet for information about the virus and analyzing factors related to its spread. He published four peer-reviewed papers on the virus in scientific journals and authored a book, Roads to COVID-19 Containment and Spread. The second edition was published on Amazon in July 2025. He says, “Bermuda Village did a good job of containing the virus. No one died, in contrast to too many senior care facilities.”

      Leon is the author or coauthor of 18 books, including a novel (The HOA Murders), an autobiography (Hillbilly to Harvard to Yale), and four editions of a textbook, Injury Epidemiology. He served as a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Indian Health Service, and taught for many years in the Graduate Summer Session in Epidemiology, first at the University of Minnesota and later at the University of Michigan. He was on the National Research Council committee that wrote the report, Injury in America, which resulted in the Center for Injury Prevention at the CDC.

    Nancy and Leon endowed two professorships and two scholarship funds and contributed to other educational and research funds. They enjoy reading letters from people who have furthered their careers based on the start they gained from a professorship or scholarship. They are thrilled that one of the holders of a Robertson Career Development Professorship years ago was appointed Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in July 2025.

     The couple considers Bermuda Run a great location with almost everything they need close by. Each walks the hills around Bermuda Village for exercise, and Leon swims and enjoys golf with the Bermuda Village golf group at the Bermuda Run Country Club and other courses in the area. Nancy describes herself as not a water or golf person. She has learned the names of most of the dogs being walked when she greets their owners. She loves chatting with new friends here and, by phone, with those made elsewhere along the way.      

The Robertsons celebrate their 67th wedding anniversary this month.