Ponderosa High School Alumni
Shingle Springs, California (CA)
Ben D'Ooge
Ponderosa High School
Class of 1973
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BEN'S PROFILE
| First Name | Ben |
| Last Name | D'ooge |
| Graduation Year | Class of 1973 |
| Gender | Male |
| City | N/A |
| State/Province | TN |
| Country | United States |
| Occupation | Retired Army Officer - Physician |
| Married | Yes |
| Favorite School Memory | Lots of them |
| About Me | After attending Ponderosa High School, I studied at theUniversity of California Davis over the next four years, and participated in the Army ROTC program . During the academic breaks, I bagged groceries at the Placerville Raley's store, worked for a rafting company on the Stanislaus River, and attended the Army's Airborne parachute training at Fort Benning. After getting a US Army officer commission in the Medical Service Corps, I went to Fort Ord as a medical platoon leader in a light infantry battalion while living on Monterey Bay. From there, I went to the military medical school, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), located near Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC, then did an Emergency Medicine residency at Fort Hood Texas. One of my highlight adventures then was spending the summer of 1980 training with the original space shuttle astronauts at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. While at Fort Hood, I met and married Judy Diebley, an Army nurse from Wisconsin, after which we spent the next five years traveling extensively throughout China and the rest of Asia while stationed in Korea, Texas, and Hawaii. Since the birth of our first son, Zachary (1990 at Hawaii), we have had two other sons, Wesley (born 1992 at Fort Campbell Kentucky) and Logan (born 1997 at Landstuhl Germany). We really enjoyed four years of living in Germany, skiing and hiking the Bavarian, Austrian, Swiss, and French Alps, and traveling extensively around Europe. I had a very interesting time practicing emergency "ER" medicine there, along with training medical units enroute to the Balkans, managing the medical center, and participating in high-profile events with CNN and other network cameras watching. I retired from the Army in 2001, and built a house on a lakeside lot in east Tennessee in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. I continue to practice emergency medicine at several rural hospitals in the east Tennessee region. When off duty, I like to hike, ski, ride my Harley Davidson Heritage Softail Classic motorcycle around the southern Appalachian mountains, and play Coldplay, John Lennon, JS Bach, Floyd Cramer, Pachelbel, and others on my 1872 Steinway ...(read more) |
Class of 1973 Alumni
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Class of 2000
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Class of 1991
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Class of 2003
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Class of 1993
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Recent Class of 1973 Reunions
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Class of 78 Class Reunion
Invited Classes: All Classes
Date: Sep 28, 2018
Description: Check out all details for events on our Facebook page "Pondo '78 and friends" 28th-Tour of High School, Dinner...(read more)
Class of 81 - 35th Reunion - ALL CLASS!
Invited Classes: All Classes
Date: Sep 24, 2016
Description: Casual event, dinner provided by North of the Border food truck (3 tacos, rice, beans, salad), live music from 7-10 prov...(read more)