Post by sader1970 on Oct 14, 2022 10:14:12 GMT -5
I just got unofficial word that my Classmate, Mark Doherty. D.M.D., passed away last Friday (10/7/2022) after a long, courageous battle with throat cancer.
Mark was a fighter, literally, having won the New England Golden Gloves title in 1969 in Lowell, MA. Mark was also a linebacker on the ill-fated 1969 football team that lost its battle against hepatitis that forced the cancellation of the season after only 2 games, losses to both Harvard and Dartmouth as virtually the entire team was ill and became apparent in the Dartmouth game that the season could not continue bringing the football careers to an unexpected end for members of the Class of 1970. In that second game, against Dartmouth, with players dropping on the field and running out of quarterbacks, Mark was pressed into service as QB though he was a linebacker.
Mark had a very successful career in dentistry and was noted for his mentorship of young people in the field.
While they used to archive past Holy Cross Magazines on-line, they no longer go back this far, but if you have old copies of the HC Magazine, Mark's stories (football) was in the fall, 2004 edition in "The Missing Season" story and again (boxing) in the winter, 2004 edition in "The Fight Club."
Mark was a fighter, literally, having won the New England Golden Gloves title in 1969 in Lowell, MA. Mark was also a linebacker on the ill-fated 1969 football team that lost its battle against hepatitis that forced the cancellation of the season after only 2 games, losses to both Harvard and Dartmouth as virtually the entire team was ill and became apparent in the Dartmouth game that the season could not continue bringing the football careers to an unexpected end for members of the Class of 1970. In that second game, against Dartmouth, with players dropping on the field and running out of quarterbacks, Mark was pressed into service as QB though he was a linebacker.
Mark had a very successful career in dentistry and was noted for his mentorship of young people in the field.
While they used to archive past Holy Cross Magazines on-line, they no longer go back this far, but if you have old copies of the HC Magazine, Mark's stories (football) was in the fall, 2004 edition in "The Missing Season" story and again (boxing) in the winter, 2004 edition in "The Fight Club."
