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Article: Professor shares pain, loss; Daughter's death by drug overdose leads Northouse to warn students
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- February 25, 2008
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Waukesha -- It is a lecture Rich Northouse wishes he had given to
his daughter.
The mild-mannered math professor is planning to deliver an
emotional warning to students at the University of Wisconsin-
Waukesha next month about the dangers of drug abuse.
The admonition will come too late for his daughter, Nicole, who
died from an accidental overdose 15 months ago at age 35.
The agony of losing his daughter turned to anger for Northouse
when one of Nicole's friends told him at the funeral that his
daughter had been experimenting with drugs since childhood.
"I had no clue," Northouse said.
That was when the 69-year-old professor knew he had to take
action.
So he will address students -- and ...