Well, maybe if you called him something more than Mark some people could add to the story. Huh? What's with all the secrecy? --Ediger
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:41 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > I just learned a few minutes ago, that a former member of GHG has just > been released from the hospital, after falling off a roof on May 22nd. He > claims to have broken 5 bones including his back. > > I will just call him Mark for the time -being. > > Mark joined GHG around 1991 and came to most of the meetings for about 3 > years. > > He has been a police officer for about 24 years, most of that with the > Houston Police Dept. > > I can not tell you much about him. Susan Herpin took him to the Guads, > but they never spoke of it again. > > He claimed to have scuba dived in some Florida caves in 1990, but had > never done any dry caving. > > He came across as a Gomer Pyle or, Barney Fife, and to the best of my > knowledge never made it on to any of the other trips going on. I was not > living in Houston at the time he was most active in GHG. > > I can say he kept a yellow Texas bat-sticker on his old Toyota 4x4, for 15 > years, so for that reason, I always considered him a caver. > > Our paths have crossed several times a year in the duties of our job, > since then, and we accidentally had lunch about a year ago. At that time, > he said he had done some caving with non-caver friends in the Guard back in > the 1990's. He said he wanted to teach his kids about caving. > > I know for a fact he sincerely wanted to go caving when he was at GHG. > Also, I think he had a hobby with ham radios. Had he had Facebook, and > email, and rexting back in 1993, he would have most likely hooked up with > some cavers. > > I do not know anybody that remembers him. > > David Locklear > >
