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The Kansas City Star article mentions "Mark Purdy, the estimable San Jose  
sportswriter".  Mr. Purdy, then known in his byline as "David Mark Purdy",  was 
also a quite "estimable" writer for THE DAILY NU back in the early '70's,  
along with Gene Sunshine (then the Sports Editor; now NU's VP of Finance) and  
David Israel, among others, including Yours Truly.  Even though I  was in the 
College of Arts and Sciences, I wrote for two years for the  DAILY, which was a 
lot of fun.  I had two exciting "beats"--Intramural  Football (which meant I 
got to arbitrarily do the "Rankings" of the teams,  which meant inevitably that 
certain frats or dorms were mad at  me) and also "Big Ten Basketball", 
although NU, of course, was at the bottom of  the conference, which only had 10 
teams in those days (PSU was not around to  join us in utter futility in hoops.).
 
Mark Purdy was always a really good guy to be around, not to mention a good  
sportwriter and columnist.  I think he was the Editor when he was a Senior,  
if memory serves.
 
Paul Levinson



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