Mark Dodd:
CLASS OF 1970
Del Mar High SchoolClass of 1970
San jose, CA
Babylon High SchoolClass of 1970
Babylon, NY
Babylon Memorial Elementary SchoolClass of 1964
Babylon, NY
Mark's Story
'Classmates BHS, DelMar, etc'--I live back here on Long Island now going on 18 years now after being gone from NY since 1967.
Hope all is well with all of you. I am back east in my native NY where I have been looking after my remaining parent, my mother, 83, in eastern Long Island. She passed away in late January of '07.
Speaking about myself, I survived an 8 year marriage followed by divorce/ no kids, and I taught and coached in a number of private prep schools in North Texas. In 1991 I returned to L. A. and became involved in politics after working at LAX once more in the airfreight biz.
Not long after I arrived back in New York in 2002, I also returned to the world of politics by managing the campaign for candidate for Suffolk County Legislator, Jay Schneiderman,[from Montauk to Moriches, AKA, the South Fork, resulting in an upset win over a five-term incumbent.
Before coming back to NY, I worked for California State Assemblyman Nao Takasugi...Expand for more
. I also functioned in various campaign and consulting/leadership roles that included serving as a Deputy Campaign Manager for business leader, Steve Soboroff and his 2001 Soboroff for Mayor campaign in Los Angeles and as his Advance Director and personal campaign staff assistant. In addition, under Assemblyman Takasugi, who was once a local groceryman/small businessman in Oxnard, CA.
I was his district director and local media liaison. (See Tom Brokaw's book, The Greatest Generation; Nao Takasugi is one of 50 Americans profiled in the NBC News anchor's best-selling volume). You have a copy in your library right? A must read!
Recently retired. From 17 year stint in a full-time staff at the YMCA East Hampton. [ A few 'Babylonian' connections there too.]
I do some public affairs/security work as a sideline when I can as well.
When you have a chance, catch me up on you...
ALL THE BEST,
Mark aka 'Doddman'
Mark F. Dodd, UCLA '77
631-276-7925 cell
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