Mystery Classmate 113

Congratulations to Pam Van Cara Collis, John Plack, Cheryl Mehalic, Kelly Mazon Sauer, Mary Bender Knight, Pam Pristas Dwyer, Lisa Smith, Michele Sherer Ancheta, Linda Wolff, Beth Chufo Nichols, Chad Calabria, Monica Keane Sauk, and Duke Johncour, all of whom correctly identified Damon Johncour (’84) as Mystery Classmate #113 (in the red visor) and are listed in the order that their responses were received.

In case you were wondering, Damon attended Geneva College after graduation and played football for one year. Over the next several years he attended a number of other schools including Waynesburg College and Harmarville Training Institute for orthotics and prosthetics. In 1988 Damon moved to Dayton, Ohio to take a position with Fidelity Orthotics and Prosthetics as a technician. He worked there for three years and decided it was time to move up the ladder.

Over the next year and a half Damon took full time classes at Sinclair Community College and worked waiting tables and bartending. He met his wife Cindy McManes, from Xenia, OH, and they were married in 1993. Damon moved to Dallas, Texas (the state where he was born) to finish school, and in 1995 earned his bachelor of science in Kinesiology, with a minor in Business and Public Relations at the University of Texas at Tyler. Two weeks after graduation Damon started classes at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago for the certificate program in Orthotics & Prosthetics. He completed his studies and a residency program specializing in Pediatrics in 1998.

Damon provided the following helpful definitions: Orthotics - The bracing of limb anomalies and correction of diseased and broken limbs. Halo application, scoliosis bracing correction, bracing for Cerebral Palsy, Mylo Mengioseal, CVA (strokes) etc. Prosthetics - The evaluation, measurements and fitting of artificial limbs, upper extremity and lower extremity, for geriatric, traumatic and pediatric patients. Damon and Cindy, with their first son Donald Payton, moved to Raleigh, NC. Damon worked for Professional Orthotics and Prosthetics from 1998 to 2002. Damon then started his own O&P practice in 2003, North Carolina Orthotics & Prosthetics. He now has two offices, in Raleigh and Henderson, NC.

Along the way Garrett Gregory (GG) was born in 2000. And on June 30, Damon and Cindy had their third child, Alania Paige. Damon still enjoys many hobbies, most of all golf. He currently holds a 3.2 handicap at Henderson Country Club. Damon also enjoys coaching his two sons in football and baseball and loves taking his boys golfing.

Several classmates shared fond memories of Damon.Both Linda Wolff and Chad Calabria remarked that it was nice to see Damon at the class reunion. Other classmates intimated that it would have been difficult to recognize Damon, had they not seen him a month ago at the reunion. Duke Johncour noted that “It looks to be the one they used to call ‘Mo-Mi’ -- or Damon Johncour - not a real tough one for me this week.”

Scott Silverman and Brian “S.D.” Stevenson guessed Dave “Wedge” Grejda. Keith Shipley guessed Mark Shanahan. Amy Petrina Tarantini guessed Sue Kostic.

Paula Recchio Joseph guessed Mike Cenna. Jerry Koutavas guessed Bruce Babich.

Donna Andreas Copley complained about the photo resolution and wrote, “Anyhow, the second from the left looks like a runner I used to know (he died a few years ago from a heart attack - yikes!), the guy on the right looks like a guy named Danny Smith that works at Dupont in Richmond, and the girl on the left kinda looks like Tricia Mielo - remember West Side Story?”