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EHS Administrator Writes of Rekindling Friendships Born on College Athletic Fields

Doug Dickson, assistant head for student life at Episcopal, recently published an essay in U.S. Lacrosse Magazine describing the power of his friendships built while playing Middlebury College lacrosse, relationships now stretching into their fifth decade.

Dickson, a 1981 graduate of Middlebury, joined 44 other alumni from the Vermont college to play in a master’s tournament this summer at the prestigious Vail Shootout tournament in Colorado. The former Panthers played four games and acquitted themselves well, ending for many a long absence from a sport they loved. More important, the men relished the opportunity to spend time with each other and consider the meaning and significance of their lives.

Dickson wrote: “We had lived enough life to know the twists and turns, the highs and lows, the triumphs and defeats, and now we could enjoy the perspective that these life experiences have lent to all of us.”

The tournament, Dickson wrote, “allowed us to appreciate the journey of life, to pause our lives to be with others who are in a similar place in their journeys and to truly treasure the friendships, camaraderie and love we all shared openly for one beautiful four-day stretch in Colorado playing a game that has given us so much.”
 
 
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