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Dr. Jack Eck Jack Eck isn’t going anywhere, but Vail’s third full-time doctor — Tom Steinberg and Bill Holm were the first and second — is retiring from nearly 50 years of service in the community. Eck, 78, first came to Vail in 1971, fresh out of the U.S. Army, where he’d been a flight surgeon in both Vietnam and, later, in New Jersey. A small-town guy from Pennsylvania, Eck was ready for something more peaceful than the jungles of that war-torn Asian country. Thanks to some friends, he found his landing spot in Vail in 1971. He came to ski with friends in January of that year. At ...

Special to the Daily Sheika Gramshammer and her husband, Pepi, shared the Vail Valley Citizen of the Year honor in 1989. Special to the Daily For her dynamic and selfless contributions to the community, Sheika Gramshammer has been named the 2021 Vail Valley Citizen of the Year. The honor has been handed out since 1981 to deserving citizens who have provided broad support, vision, and leadership to the betterment of the community and its many nonprofit organizations. Gramshammer was a co-recipient of the award with her husband Pepi in 1989, the year that she and her husband helped play an inst...

I wanted to take a moment to both thank and join the Vail community to honor Dr. Jack Eck for all that he has done and for the legacy he has created for the Vail Valley Medical Center — now Vail Health. People like Jack and our early pioneers and leaders have created an amazing health care system that rivals that of any community worldwide. His work with Thelma and Gordon Britain in raising funds in the early days up to the creation of the Shaw Cancer Center and Jack’s Place and now the new hospital is both inspiring and humbling. Then and now, he and they set the bar and we all benefit f...