Martin Edwards
(Football, 1983)
This 2015
Danbury High Hall of Fame inductee was an outstanding football player
but was also the valedictorian for the class of 1983, Martin Edwards.
Marty was a two-year varsity starter for the football team, playing
every minute of every game at center and defensive tackle. An excellent
long snapper, Marty did not have a bad snap of any kind during two years
as a varsity starter. Aside from being All-FCIAC for the 1981 and 1982
seasons, Marty was also All-State for two years. During his senior year,
Marty was team captain and won both the Kiwanis Award and the Exchange
Club Youth of the Year Award. He was named to the All- Area teams at
both the Danbury News-Times and the Bridgeport Post. After his 1982
graduation from Danbury High, Marty continued his athletic and academic
career at Brown University. While at Brown University, Marty was a
three-year letterman and two-year starter at center. During his senior
year at Brown, Marty was named Academic All-American. He was pre-med,
maintaining a 3.78 GPA. He graduated from Brown University in 1987,
Magna Cum Laude. In 1991 he received his MD from Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine. He then specialized in Ophthalmology,
serving a residency at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins
Hospital. As a Clinical Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology at Scheie
Eye Institute, he taught residents at the University of Pennsylvania.
From 1995-1999 he was the Chief of Ophthalmology at Walson U.S. Air
Force Hospital in Fort Dix, New Jersey. In 1999, Marty returned to
Connecticut where he works in Farmington at Consulting Ophthalmologists,
P.C. where he specializes in cataract, refractive surgery, external
disease, and surgery of the anterior segment. He has always followed
his Father’s advice, “The only thing you share in common with everyone
else is time, and it’s what you do with time that counts”. The 2015
Danbury High School Hall of Fame inductee and class valedictorian is
still making good use of his time.