The story of softball-playing Jim Falco ’77 interviewing for a law clerk position and getting hired on the spot (because the D.A.’s team, of which Robert Schirn ’63 was the pitcher, needed an outfielder), brings to mind a former roommate.
That roommate was interviewing for medical school at Dartmouth, and the interviewer casually questioned the assembled candidates.
As the story was related to me, the various candidates responded with alternating tales of (in exaggeration) either being Nobel Prize winners or having discovered cancer cures. The interviewer then addressed said roommate, and asked, “Tell me something about you that I don’t know.”
That roommate replied, “I play rugby.” The eyes of the interviewer went full dilation, and he immediately leaned in, with “What position?!” “Loosehead prop” was the reply and the rest is history.
Apparently the interviewer was the faculty mentor of the school’s rugby team, and they needed a player for that pivotal position.
That roommate was former flight surgeon Capt. Jeff Georgia ’78, USN (Ret.), M.D. (I gapped a year.) Last we spoke, his intention is a circumnavigation of the globe by sail on his custom-outfitted Pacific Seacraft 34. Fair seas and smooth sailing, brother!
The story of softball-playing Jim Falco ’77 interviewing for a law clerk position and getting hired on the spot (because the D.A.’s team, of which Robert Schirn ’63 was the pitcher, needed an outfielder), brings to mind a former roommate.
That roommate was interviewing for medical school at Dartmouth, and the interviewer casually questioned the assembled candidates.
As the story was related to me, the various candidates responded with alternating tales of (in exaggeration) either being Nobel Prize winners or having discovered cancer cures. The interviewer then addressed said roommate, and asked, “Tell me something about you that I don’t know.”
That roommate replied, “I play rugby.” The eyes of the interviewer went full dilation, and he immediately leaned in, with “What position?!” “Loosehead prop” was the reply and the rest is history.
Apparently the interviewer was the faculty mentor of the school’s rugby team, and they needed a player for that pivotal position.
That roommate was former flight surgeon Capt. Jeff Georgia ’78, USN (Ret.), M.D. (I gapped a year.) Last we spoke, his intention is a circumnavigation of the globe by sail on his custom-outfitted Pacific Seacraft 34. Fair seas and smooth sailing, brother!