I remember a guy named Terry, I think, that was a cop and came to meetings but didn't seem to cave. That was in the late 90's though.
Sheryl "You can't always get what you want but if you try sometime, you find you get what you need" Rolling Stones > On Jun 26, 2014, at 10:22 AM, Gill Edigar <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >
