OFF TOPIC: DR. HAROLD JESKE

[MrMustang1965]

Dr. Harold Jeske, a beloved professor from SMU and volunteer in the SMU Athletic Department, is in poor health and is currently hospitalized at the C.C. Young Retirement Center clinic. Please keep Dr. Jeske in your prayers. He's a Mustang of high-caliber!

[ponyte]

Thanks for the update MM1965. Jeskey was my father away from home while I was at SMU.

[PonyPride]

Sorry to hear about this. "Doc" is one of the nicest, most genuine people I've ever known. He has always treated everyone as if they are the most important person on earth, and his love for SMU and the Mustangs is as intense as anyone's. Since his retirement, he has volunteered in the athletic department, simply because he's happiest when he's around SMU and its athletic department. Doc is a tough man -- here's to a full recovery.

[SMUFan]

My thoughts are with Dr. Jeske and his family.
Get well soon!

[Corso]

Does anyone have an update on Dr. Jeske?
What a great man and a great Mustang.

[ponylb]

Dr Jeskey was my greatest inspirer while at SMU in the early 50s. Were it not for him, I would have never made it thru the rigors of pre-med while playing football on the hilltop, then thru Emory Medical School and onto a career in orthopedic surgery. Also, it led to 9 mission trips to Oaxaca, Mexico doing tough reconstruction surgery of club feet and a large variety of other reconstructions under less than ideal circumstances. Thus, I give all the credit to God and his agent Harold Jeskey. I also give God and Harold credit for guiding my son thru Pre Med and football on the hilltop. We were the second father son combo to play a lot of football and become physicians. 4 of my teammates are physicians and 4 of ponyte’s also became physicians. At last count, not a single UT varsity grad had graduated from Med School

[ponylb]

I have tired to clean up the previous post. My bad.

[jtstang]

That was a tough read.

[No Quarter]

I never had Dr. Jeskey for a class but it seems part of the tribal knowledge of kids growing up in Park Cities was, "that man on a bicycle near SMU teaches chemistry there." I knew his name years before I started at SMU. Years later, on trips to the SiD office to pick up a media guide, I'd see his name and thought that was pretty neat. Never heard anything bad about him. Hope the best for him.

[MrMustang1965]

Dr. Jeske is now out of the hospital and has returned to his residence at CC Young Retirement Center in Dallas. He appears to be doing better.

[Mexmustang]

My only comment is that someone so important to our program's student-athletes and leadership in developing young men is certainly not "Off Topic". Your posts are very much part of this forum, thank you.