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recalls. “I loved the competition the most because it exhilarated me.”

Daniella Dimitrov grew up surrounded by family members who were athletes.

Her mother, who is from Russia, was a professional ice dancer. Her father, a native Bulgarian, played soccer. Her brother Georgio was also a phenomenal soccer player who went on to play professionally.

Dimitrov seemed to have a natural athletic ability as well. That became evident one day when she was 7 years old and her father’s friend, whose daughter played tennis, suggested Dimitrov pick up a racquet and start a volley. She immediately took to the sport. As a 7-year-old kid, she didn’t overthink the sport or the conditioning behind it. Instead, she just played. The following summer, however, when she was 8, she began playing tennis every day, engaging in practices and drills to improve her game. That’s when the wheels started moving and her drive turned razor sharp.

Dimitrov, now 20, spent her first 10 years of life in Louisville before moving to Spain in 2012 with her father so that she could train one-on-one with a coach from Barcelona Tennis Academy. When they first arrived in Spain, she assumed they were just visiting for the summer, but her father later explained that the plan was to stay and train indefinitely. As time went on, she got homesick yet felt equally at home in Spain.

“Day in and day out for three months I practiced hard, and I remember it being so difficult because of the heat, but something in me really loved that feeling,” Dimitrov

“It was exciting,” she says. “I really did love Spain and the tennis environment there.

In my opinion, it was the best place in the world to grow up. Now it has become one of my favorite places in the world.”

Through the years she has continued to hone and perfect her talent, and like any elite athlete she has endured her peaks and her pits as it pertains to tennis, training and the turmoil of life. COVID-19 officially hit Europe in March of 2020. Dimitrov was in Spain at the time, and everything went on full lockdown for five weeks. Even though tennis is a sport that enables players to 6 / MIDDLETOWN MAGAZINE / MAY 2022 / TownePost.com

remain socially distanced, tight restrictions prevented Dimitrov from playing, and travel was highly difficult.

“It’s hard to stay persistent when it seems like there’s nothing to look forward to,” Dimitrov says. “When you’re not in top shape and when you don’t feel your strokes for a long period of time, that’s tough.”

Then in May of 2020, just as restrictions were easing up a bit, Dimitrov sustained her first major injury and was out for three months with a stress fracture in the top of her femur. She later suffered a pre-stress fracture in her lower back. Both injuries resulted in incorrect technical movements on the court.

To try to keep injuries at bay, she has found that recovery is key.

“When your body is already strong enough to be training four to five hours per day, you don’t worry too much about the load that’s being put on you but rather how you recoup from it,” says Dimitrov, noting that properly warming up, stretching after every training session, weekly massages and extra

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“Moving out of the country together at such a young age formed a strong bond between us,” Dimitrov says. “I’d do anything for him.”

high ceiling. She’s a great fit for our program and has a very bright future at Baylor.”

“I wish I could give her the world with how she has helped me all these years,” Dimitrov says. “She’s my biggest supporter and has the biggest heart of anyone I’ve ever met.”

“I’m very excited about the future to come,” she says. “It’s going to be a new chapter, and moving back to America will be interesting to say the least.”

Dimitrov, who in her free time enjoys meditating, writing, reading and She has equally warm fuzzy feelings about her grandmother, who has played an integral skateboarding, is eager to embrace this new opportunity. role in her life.

Dimitrov hopes to rank in the Women’s Tennis Association top 500 by the end of Next on the horizon is a move back to the United States, as Dimitrov has signed to play 2022. Her primary long-term goal in tennis is to be in the top 10 in the world. As for her at Baylor University until 2026. daily life goals, she’d like to work at making the best use of her time and focus on living Head Coach Joey Scrivano was quoted in in the present moment. a baylorbears.com press release as saying, “We are very excited to have Daniella join “I’d like to not be in my head, but to rather the Baylor family. She is a determined and look around me and appreciate life since it mature young lady. Dani is an exceptional moves so fast,” she says. athlete. She is committed to the process, a strong-minded competitor and has a very

“ I’M VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE FUTURE TO COME. IT’S GOING TO BE A NEW CHAPTER, AND MOVING BACK TO AMERICA WILL BE INTERESTING TO SAY THE LEAST.” — DANIELLA DIMITROV

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GIVING THANKS DURING NATIONAL NURSES MONTH member of your health-care team.

Two area residents who have dedicated years of service to nursing are Chris and Tracie Burchett, both employees at Uof L Health.

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May is known for being the time when we honor our moms on Mother’s Day, or don wide-brimmed hats to celebrate the Kentucky Derby.

May is also National Nurses Month.

Take a moment and you will realize that you’ve had many encounters with nurses throughout your life.

They are there when you’re born into this world. They are in the operating room closely assisting the surgeon. They are on the front lines in the emergency room.

Many utilize their years of knowledge to educate students who are entering into the field of nursing.

This is the month to recognize these hardworking individuals who dedicate hours to care for their patients. They are a crucial

Chris’s mom was a nurse for 45 years and his dad was a respiratory therapist for 30 years. When Chris left high school, he says that he had no desire to enter the medical field. “I remember making comments like, ‘What my mom does is gross,’” he says.

That all changed when Chris was in his mid-20s. He’d been laid off from his job as a bank manager, and it was his mother who encouraged him to set his sights on a career in medicine.

“She said, ‘You should become a nurse because you’ll always have a job,’” he says.

Chris received his associate’s degree in nursing in 2008 from Galen College of Nursing, and his master’s degree in nursing in 2011 from the University of Phoenix. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in business from Sullivan University.

Chris began his career as a bedside nurse taking care of medical-surgical patients. He then transitioned into the float pool, which allowed him to work in a variety of different units in the hospital. After graduating with his master’s degree, Chris began working in hospital management positions. He’s been in leadership roles ever since.

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and then I developed what’s called our transfer center and staffing office,” he says.

“Next I was promoted to director over those departments. For the last three to four years I was in charge of bed placement for the downtown Uof L and Jewish hospitals, and staffing for both hospitals, which, during the pandemic, became even more challenging. I recently transitioned over to be the system director of employee health. I’ve been dealing firsthand with the coronavirus and how it’s impacted our hospitals the last four months.”

Chris says there are many facets to being a nurse.

“They do more than take your vitals and give you a bath,” he says. “Nurses are the ones who stay with you the entire time you’re in the hospital. If you were to look in on our intensive care units right now, those nurses are managing your day-to-day care. Patients may have multiple lines, drips, drains. When you walk into the room, there are computers and monitors hooked up to you, and that nurse knows everything that’s happening in that room.”

Chris is very candid about how COVID-19 has affected his hospital staff.

“It’s tough knowing there’s already a nursing shortage in our country, and dealing with staffing day to day - patients aren’t going to go away,” he says. “We saw our volume increase substantially with the number of COVID patients. When you see your own staff starting to get [COVID], you know you have to figure out a way to take care of

patients. That meant an increased workload on our nursing staff. You want patients to get the best care possible, and when you have to take in higher ratios, you see the stress of the staff. But you’re always going to do what you can to take care of your patients.”

Chris says what hit nurses hard at the beginning of the pandemic was that hospitals weren’t allowing visitors into

patients’ rooms.

They saw a lot of COVID deaths.”

“Patients were dying alone,” he says. “Nurses had a really hard time with that because they were the only one in that room when the patient passed away. Families could FaceTime their loved ones before they passed, but still not being physically able to touch someone as they’re passing away - the nurses had to deal with that over and over.

Tracie’s path towards nursing was a bit different.

She knew from the time she was a teenager that she wanted to go into the field of medicine.

“I actually ended up needing major abdominal surgery when I was 14 due to a

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“It finally came to light that I needed to have it fixed. I’d always been interested in medical things and always wanted to be a doctor, but after being in the hospital I began to realize that the nurses really are the ones who are with you all the time.”

oncology patients, and sometimes I’d go to specialty units like endoscopy or the cancer center,” she says. “Basically you have to be very flexible if someone calls in sick or goes on vacation.”

Tracie says she enjoyed working in the oncology department.

Tracie holds a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Saint Louis University, and she “The atmosphere is a little bit different and is currently working on her master’s degree the patients are so strong and hopeful, and appreciative about their care,” she says. “You in nursing. feel really good about caring for them and helping them get through this hard time.”

Tracie began her career working in the trauma unit at Saint Louis University After working in the float pool Tracie went Hospital in Missouri, where she stayed to the emergency department, where she for three years. That is where she met stayed for five years.

Chris. The Burchetts moved to Louisville in 2012, returning Chris to his childhood “I went there in 2016 and I was at University roots. Tracie then made the transition to Hospital so I was back with my trauma University of Louisville Hospital. Besides patients, and eventually was the charge spending time in the trauma unit, Tracie nurse for my shift for two years,” she says. also worked in the float pool.

“Just last May I started a new position in our

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trauma institute doing trauma education,” she continues. “In that role I teach new nurses, I help facilitate the trauma education of all the physicians in the hospital, and I continue to educate the nurses who are there. I also go out into the community and educate EMS and other hospitals about trauma care and how to take care of patients before they come to us.”

One person who is extremely grateful for hard-working, dedicated nurses is Shannon Lynn, M.D., a primary-care doctor with University of Louisville Physicians specializing in internal medicine. Lynn has been a practicing physician for 19 years.

“A wonderful, caring nurse is absolutely priceless to patient care,” Lynn says. “It is the most important part of hospital care.

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When asked how the community can show support for nurses and medical personnel, Tracie recommends simply walking up and saying thanks.

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The voice is an awe-inspiring thing, with the ability to make so many sounds, both harmonious and decisive. It can lead a song by way of yelling in a heavy-metal band or creating harmony a cappella.

It’s the simplicity of a cappella that entices the ear to barbershop vocal harmony. And while it may sound simplistic, the effort for a successful barbershop-style sound is as complex as the history behind the groups.

The Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) started as a fellowship group in 1938. It was started as a way to reignite a passion for men harmonizing together, not only musically, but also in a physical gathering. O.C. Cash and Rupert Hall met with a group of men in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on the Roof Garden on top of the Tulsa Club, where the entire group would sing together, then break off into multiple quartets.

The movement soon made it to Louisville in 1946, where the Louisville chapter, under the leadership of Fritz Dryborough, a local Louisville businessman, was chartered with 33 men. The group grew to more than 300 men in the early 1950s, entertained with annual shows, and existed primarily for singing and fellowship.

By the late 1950s the numbers had declined. In 1957 Jim Miller, who was to become a Thoroughbred legend, led a group of 25 men who wanted to do more than socialize. They wanted to focus on the craft of barbershop singing with the purpose of becoming a competitive chorus. They took their name, The Thoroughbreds, from a quartet that had disbanded, and the group destined to change the direction of the Society was on its way. According to the official website, barbershop singing is “a style of unaccompanied vocal music characterized by consonant four-part chords for every melody note in a primarily homorhythmic (the same word sounds

at the same time) texture.”

The Thoroughbreds joined the BHS and competed in what is known as the Cardinal District, which has chorus members in Kentucky and Indiana.

A HISTORY OF EXCELLENCE After the Thoroughbreds won their first Cardinal District title in 1958, a string of successes soon followed. Their first appearance in the International Convention was in 1959, when they finished eighth. They finished sixth in 1960, second in 1961, and in 1962 won the society’s International.

“That began a system of excellence that would set the standard for the Barbershop Society for the next 20 years,” says Troy Lovett, historian and longtime member of The Thoroughbreds.

Indeed, The Thoroughbreds showed that the Louisville area was full of talent. Rules of the international competition state that the winner must sit out for two years before competing again. The dominance and influence of The Thoroughbreds for the years 1961 through 1992 is remarkable. During that span of more than 30 years the group won seven gold medals, seven silver and three bronze.

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In 1978 the Louisville chapter hit a rare exacta when the chorus (The Thoroughbreds) and quartet (Bluegrass Student Union) won gold at the International Convention in Cincinnati. Other Louisville quartets followed, with the Interstate Rivals winning in 1987, the Second Edition in 1989 and Forefront in 2016.

There has been much success though the years, but relatively little recognition in the Louisville area. However, a new relationship with the University of Louisville music department’s archives will help establish a place for The Thoroughbreds and its championship quartets as an integral part of Louisville’s music scene and history.

“It’s been said we’re the best-kept secret in Louisville,” Lovett says.

“We’ve been right here since 1946.”

The group has sung for the prestigious national Medal of Honor convention, Derby events, presidential events, sports events, and many other civic and military functions. In addition, the group has presented an annual show for the community for more than 75 years.

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“You might be surprised as to how popular barbershop and a cappella singing is today,” Lovett says. “While it may not be in the mainstream of the public thought, it is not a secret society, but one embraced by thousands of men worldwide.”

Nationwide, there are chapters with 150 or more singing members, and, thanks to the

popularity of some groups like Straight No Chaser and Pentatonix, there is an ongoing attempt to interest and involve the younger generation.

As with most society groups, the Louisville chapter has seen a gradual decline in membership and participation through the last two decades. Jeff Harper, vice president of fundraising for the Louisville chapter, says the blame is not only on the pandemic (though

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“We have so many things that grab our attention these days,” Harper says.

“Technology has changed the direction of young people’s social lives.”

While the Barbershop Harmony Society is traditionally a male-only society, there has been talk of opening the society to all genders.

“There are women-only chorus chapters as well, but they’re struggling like we are,” Harper says. “A lot of barbershop groups are moving towards allowing women to join, much like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts have opened up their gender requirements.”

The Thoroughbreds have sung in such venues as the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans, the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, the Honda Center in Anaheim, and the Bridgestone Arena

in Nashville, as well as local arenas and venues. Their mission is to continue to share their passion for song and camaraderie.

The membership age range goes from early 20s to the oldest member who is 88.

Doug Harrington, a member of the awardwinning Second Edition quartet as well as a championship director in Sweden and the United Kingdom, joined the Louisville Chapter when he was 10 years old.

“The Thoroughbreds are well-traveled and well-known across the country,” Lovett says.

“We have been a part of the Louisville scene not only as entertainment, but in a cultural way for the past 60 to 70 years. That’s something worth keeping around.”

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Recently the group installed a new air filtration system in Jim Miller Hall that includes ultraviolet light to kill bacteria and viruses. This improved the health of the air within the old church and enabled the group to continue renting out the facility for weddings, gatherings and other events.

Rehearsals are scheduled for every Monday evening at 7 p.m. and are open to the public.

Anyone interested in visiting or joining should contact the group via their website or social media pages.

Should you be interested in visiting The The COVID pandemic has been detrimental Thoroughbreds, you can stop by Jim Miller Hall, located at 10609 Watterson Trail, or to social groups, especially singing groups visit thethoroughbreds.org. like The Thoroughbreds. However, the group is one of few in the country that does

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right connections, he does admit that he went through some rough spots when it came to performing.

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and spiritual transition and transformation for me,” he says. “I moved across country and kind of started over.”

Pickens stayed on the east coast for several years but says he began feeling burned out, and wanted to do something else besides music. His need for a change in life took him 3,000 miles away to San Diego.

Pickens says he has had parallel careers the entire time he has performed professionally.

“I realized that performing alone wasn’t really enough to fulfill or sustain me,” he says. “I had a different muse. I got to the point where I had been performing so much and I’d been so immersed in it, I didn’t love playing the piano anymore.”

Pickens stopped playing professionally for a couple of years, and began exploring other ways to make a living as well as other ways to express himself.

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While in San Diego he continued on with that career path, plus he was doing organization and development with company leaders who wanted to create training programs.

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and performed and taught in Southern California for a time, then moved to the south where he taught music improvisation at the University of North Florida. He moved to Kentucky in the late 1990s to help care for his aging aunt as well as his mother.

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Pickens does various performances these days, and is very grateful to organizations who have asked him to perform such as the Louisville Orchestra, but he explains that he is semi-retired from professional performing.

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If you were anywhere near Waggener High School on September 9, 2017, you would have smelled 200 barbecue sandwiches sizzling and steaming on Mission BBQ’s portable grill. You would have heard music and laughter, and speakers giving talks about a bygone era. In other words, it was an all-American pregame party on a cool fall evening. The Wildcats were gearing up to do battle against Eastern’s Eagles. And “battle” is only too apt a word for this night’s football game.

This particular weekend memorialized the 16-year anniversary of 9/11. It was also the long-awaited dedication night for Waggener’s newly erected Vietnam memorial that stands proudly between the south field goal and the track. Despite the party atmosphere and the pregame battle cries, this night proved to be one of the most emotional for the entire community, for amongst the crowd were 45 Waggener graduates who were veterans of various wars throughout the decades.

Staff members of Waggener dug out a set of retired football jerseys. Each of those 45 veterans had their names stitched to the backs of those jerseys, so the boys proudly played the first half of the game bearing the name of a veteran. One senior took this sentiment so seriously that even though he broke his collarbone in the first quarter, he refused to be taken off the field to get immediate help. He hung in there for the

remaining minutes until halftime when he, along with his teammates, walked onto the field with their respective veteran, pulled off their jersey, and handed it to the serviceman in exchange for a service coin from whatever service branch the veteran had served in.

One of the speakers that night was John Wells, a 1966 Waggener High graduate and Vietnam vet. Not one for public speaking, he did share a few words. Not only is this soft-spoken man an inductee in the Waggener Alumni Association Hall of Fame, but he is also the main caretaker of the monument. Amongst other duties, he maintains the electrical components and lighting, polishes the three 800-pound marble pillars, makes sure the fence isn’t bent or dented from wayward footballs, and scrubs footmarks off the benches left by stretching athletes.

“Probably the best conversations I have about the memorial take place during the summer, when I’m out just mowing the grass on the football field,” says Jamie Dumstorf, athletic director.

He isn’t on campus much these days due to COVID, but he’ll stop by a couple times per week to mow the grass, and he’ll regularly see different wreaths and flowers, many from Wells’ old classmates and friends.

The memorial has proven to be a real place of solitude for many people - men and women - from that generation. He’ll see somebody pull up in the parking lot, total strangers to Waggener, sometimes in uniform, sometimes not. Through their 34 / MIDDLETOWN MAGAZINE / MAY 2022 / TownePost.com

various networks and communications through fellow veterans, they heard about the Waggener High memorial.

“I’ve had folks from California,” Dumstorf says. “I’ll walk off my lawnmower and strike up a conversation. We know that it’s noted nationally. I couldn’t have predicted that.”

A man named Billy Pfeister, whose brother died, brings popcorn frequently and lays it down in front of the memorial, because his brother Bobby was a popcorn fanatic. When Dumstorf sees a ziplock bag of popcorn out there, he knows that Billy’s been out there thinking about his brother, who he’s built his entire life around. So much so, that Billy has refused being inducted into the hall of fame until his brother can also be included with him. A true band of brothers.

The idea for the memorial came around 2015, and Dumstorf was an integral part of that process. In 2012 a primary project for St. Matthews was renovating the track at Waggener High. Dumstorf, along with Wells and another friend, Chris Johnson, made a deal that as soon as they got the track done, they’d direct the construction of the monument. Dumstorf wasted no time in raising money, and it took five years to finalize the track, which was dedicated in the summer of 2017, just a couple of months prior to the memorial dedication.

One would think there would be mountains of hurdles and roadblocks standing in the way of getting such an ambitious project underway. It took approximately $300,000

to finish off the track alone. Once that was complete, the next step was to tear up the nice new rubber surface with a Bobcat.

“Whenever you do some sort of facilities modification in [Jefferson County Public Schools], you’ve got to submit paperwork to the board for approval, so we had to have the district engineer come out and do a quick survey of the land and give us the green light, and then file that paperwork and get that approved by the board,” Dumstorf says.

No one really threw up any red flags because it seemed everyone was behind the project. There were some specifics to iron out, because according to Dumstorf, anything erected on the property becomes property of not the school, nor of an alumni association, but of Jefferson County Public Schools ( JCPS). The memorial is actually owned by JCPS, which is where the legalities came in with the Kentucky Veterans Affairs board. That didn’t turn out so bad, because they ended up giving

It was these eight graduates from Waggener, who served and died, who made Dumstorf and Wells realize that their sacrifice demanded remembrance.

some money to do all the extra work on the outside of the track to add to the walk-up.

In the end it was all about just putting up a memorial. The logistics, legwork and money behind that memorial were hefty, but not compared to the efforts and tears the memorial represents.

Wells tells the story about one of the boys whose name is engraved for eternity on that memorial. He talks about Robert Stagier Pfeister, or Bobby - the popcorn fanatic. Bobby’s twin brother Billy is good friends with Wells. They, along with Bobby, graduated from Waggener in 1966.

According to Wells, you couldn’t tell Bobby and Billy apart. Wells recalls Bobby’s casualty date without hesitation - 53 years ago on January 10. His face goes to a different place as he tells of the horrors his friend encountered.

There were, of course, other donators, especially within the Alumni Association, but most of them preferred to remain anonymous.

But why here? Why at a high school? Why at Waggener High School? If you go to the second floor of the school’s main building, you’ll find the library. Tucked away in an obscure corner is a little Vietnam war memorial dedicated to seven graduates who fought and died in Vietnam. Aside from not being in a very noticeable location, there’s something else wrong with it - it’s missing one veteran named Danny Edward Driskill, and he’s included in the monument outside, stretching out like an embrace from the track.

“They were both in the army, they were both gunners on Hueys and they got overrun one night, and he took one in the head,” Wells says. “Billy had to actually play dead. He had been shot in the leg, he got shrapnel from a grenade. He had to play dead. One

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Vietcong was after him at the time and he literally, after he was shot, lay down in the bottom of the foxhole I think, and acted like he was dead. He said the Vietcong came up and poked him with his gun and didn’t…I mean, this is kind of…this is a…”

That’s all that needed to be said. Wells’ own experiences in Da Nang, in South Vietnam, as a combat corpsman were flooding through him.

“I can’t talk about it,” he says. “It just really upsets me.”

Cash, Wells’ beautiful black Labrador service dog, laying at his feet, suddenly becomes excitable, and puts his front paws on his lap, possibly to comfort him.

“At ease, Cash,” Wells says, wiping his tears.

“At ease.”

But what about the students? Does the memorial pique interest among them? Does

it inspire questions or deeper reflection?

Dumstorf doesn’t think it ignites gratitude as much as he’d have liked, but it has prompted a lot of conversations in the classrooms, which he regrets not witnessing as much since he’s usually out on the field.

However, he has heard from other teachers that the kids will ask about the significance of the memorial out by the football field.

and attendees on that special night on the Waggener football field - stomachs full of good American food, eyes swelling with tears, hearts with pride.

Look for Georgehead’s brick on the walkway leading up to the memorial if you ever decide to stop by. Give a little prayer of thanks for the men and women who served, and who are still serving today. Don’t be “Then for some of my student-athletes who alarmed if someone with a friendly face hops down off his lawnmower to strike up are out there training, that’s where a lot a conversation with you and asks how you of coaching conversations have come up,” Dumstorf says. “I’ve had John come into the heard about the marble pillars. Rest your locker room and speak to the football team.” feet and chat with him for a while. War may tear families and lovers apart, but if we let One of the speakers on that dedication night it, it can bring strangers together and forge in September of 2017 was Kit Georgehead. friendships that last a lifetime.

He was one of the oldest graduates, in the Then, when you get home, call your parents, class of 1960. Georgehead wasn’t all-state, hug your spouse, tickle your kids, and throw but he was all-region. He went on to serve some popcorn in the microwave in honor of in Vietnam. He was in the Battle of Khe good ol’ Bobby.

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