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Prior days' news: By date | Search This week's print issue Back issues: By date | Search April 19, 2007Michael S. Pohle Jr.Michael Pohle’s teammates on Virginia Tech’s lacrosse squad will remember him for the long hours he spent in the weight room. His friends in West Ambler Johnston Hall will remember him for the devotion he showed his fiancée, Marcy Crevonis, who lived in that dormitory. But even students who barely knew Mr. Pohle, 23, will recall his easy humor. “I’ll always remember him as the class clown,” wrote Tejasvi Kommula on a memorial page in Facebook. They shared a molecular-biology course last semester. “He always had something funny to say.”  Carrie Goforth, who met Mr. Pohle nearly five years ago, when both students were new to the campus, added that he never missed a chance to tease her about her Southern accent. Mr. Pohle’s familiar laugh — which sprang forth often — was infectious, say his friends. But he was serious about his scholarship. He was just weeks away from earning a degree in Virginia Tech’s grueling five-year biochemistry program. And he was a passionate, hard-working athlete: At New Jersey’s Hunterdon Central Regional High School, he lettered in both lacrosse and football. Former teammates flocked to the Facebook memorial site to pay tribute to his leadership and athleticism. “I can still remember freshman year of high school,” wrote Tim Harris, a Hunterdon Central alumnus, on Mr. Pohle’s page. “I joined the lacrosse team and knew nobody. You were the first person to introduce yourself and make me feel at home.” With graduation looming, Mr. Pohle had already set up a series of job interviews. He was intent on staying near Blacksburg, so he could be close to Ms. Crevonis, a first-year student at Virginia Tech. They met at a party last fall and had been nearly inseparable ever since. —Brock Read Posted on Thursday April 19, 2007 | Permalink |Comments |
This tragedy has touched all of us in some way… My heart goes out to the Pohle family as a member of the business community in Raritan Township we are trying to figure out a way to keep Michaels memory alive.
— Evelyn Shallo Apr 24, 09:14 PM #