Dawg Gone
By AJ MAZZOLINI
East Oregonian
HERMISTON — Parked behind a desk in his office on the second floor of Hermiston High School last week, Curt Berger spent the afternoon hours grading papers from his computer-aided drafting class. Light music and pen scratching filled the audible space.
The empty weight room just down the stairs and the equally vacant padded wrestling room around the corner were silent. With the Hermiston wrestling season wrapped up the weekend before, none of this was out of the ordinary for Berger for the first school days in March.
But when fall comes again, his hands will remain grading rather than grappling for the first time in decades.