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“Aside from medicine, I have always had two loves: tennis and European travel,” says Dr. Jack F. Bowers ’55, a retired ophthalmologist and Harvard Medical School faculty member. After numerous trips to his favorite country, Italy, he decided to develop a product that could help others see and enjoy Italy as he did–by car. His business, Autotours, produces kits consisting of an audio cassette and a laminated booklet with tips and trip maps for touring a selected region of Italy.
Each Autotours kit leads the traveler on a two-week driving tour, complete with day trips to the countryside and visits to villages and historic sites ignored by typical tour groups. Recommendations are given for quaint Italian hotels and restaurants favored by the locals, plus suggestions for safely navigating the roadways.
With Autotours for three regions on the market and a fourth in production, Bowers sells the kits in New England bookstores and through his web site, www.autotours.net.
As for Bowers’ other love–tennis–he wrote a book about that too. In 1975, under the pen name Allegra Charles, he published How to Win at Ladies’ Doubles, which sold out its entire run of 20,000 copies. The pen name combines the names of his daughter, Allegra, and his son, Charles Bowers ’89.
Dr. Jack F. Bowers ’55