In Memory

Mike Merrill

Mike Merrill

Mike died in either 2010 or 2011 in Houston.  He had been sick for a long time. Mike and I didn't know each other until our senior year in high school but we became instant friends and I kept up with him more than anybody else after we graduated.  I came to love the guy. I really miss him.  Rick Selcer



 
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06/14/23 01:06 PM #1    

Richard Seifert

Mike and I were roommates at Baylor University duduring our junior year in the Howell Apartments.

Mike was pre-dental & he hardly ever studied. Mike had a photographic memory.

I was pre-med and I studied 18 hours per day !

Mike & I ended up at Texas Medical Center. Mike was in dental school & I was in medical school.

Mike told me I was going "to go blind" by studying so much. Mike introduced me to....let us say....a substance which was not legal.

I tried it one time & I thought I was going to die !

Mike became a very good orthodontist.

May he rest in peace.

SIC 'EM BEARS !
Rick

06/15/23 09:37 AM #2    

Dianna Adams (Ewen)

Richard, thanks for the memories...I lived down the street from Mike our senior year...my did we have fun. Such a crazy guy.  While his wrecked Camaro was being repaired he rode to school with me every day. One day he had a big bulging something in one of his books...a bottle of vodka.  Glad no one checked his locker. So many funny stories just like this. I visited him in Houston while in school there and the last time I talked with him he was living in Houston, was I a serious relationship with a nurse and had sold his practice. 


06/17/23 12:27 PM #3    

Richard Seifert

Dear Dianna: hello. Thank you so very much for your remembrance of Mike. Yes, Mike did have a problem with alcohol. This continued at Baylor. Mike was quite the "party animal". But Mike was naturally gifted with a very high IQ. He could party all weekend, study some before tests & he would make an A or a B in all his classes at Baylor. It made me so mad that I had to study all the time ! It is now no doubt to me that Mike did struggle with alcohol & other drugs. But he was SO SMART with his IQ....he was a very high functioning alcoholic. I have know other professionals....doctors, dentists & lawyers....just like Mike. Dianna, thank you for your remembrance of Mike. Very sincerely, Rick

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