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If so, send you story
to alumni@marshall.edu and
we will include them Stories must include being spotted by someone else with a Marshall connection!
Thomas A. Damron ('55) of Plano, Texas. I was shopping at Sam's Club on Coit Road in Dallas and had just left the store, pushing a cart to my car. I was wearing my MU t-Shirt because it was nearing 105 degrees that afternoon. I heard someone yelling, and running footsteps coming toward me. I was having a hard time understanding what the person was yelling as it was in a heavy accent.
That area was near a shopping center that had experienced several armed muggings of shoppers as they were loading packages into their cars. One was so severe that the shoppers spent four months in the hospital recovering from head wounds. I sped up my cart to the point where I was jogging behind it to get to the car first. I stopped and moved to the front of the cart where I could then see the individual. He was waving and pointing at my MU shirt. He stopped and was saying, again in his heavy accent, "Huntington? Huntington?"
I nodded yes, and he started pointing to himself and saying, "I am a Marshall grad. I graduated in June. I have a scholarship to the University of North Texas for graduate studies. I'm so glad to see another MU grad." He had a smile a mile wide as he said it. We shook hands and he told me he was from Africa and was working at Sam's for the summer. He was studying water control so that he could go back to Africa and help develop fresh water distribution systems. A scary moment turned into a pleasant reunion with a rare meeting of MU Alum in Texas.
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