Tragedy came to the local community when the body of Garden City Park resident Harsha Maddula was pulled from the waters of Lake Michigan. An exemplary student at New Hyde Park Memorial High School, the aspiring physician was entering his sophomore year at Northwestern University. He had in fact returned a week early to the campus to help incoming freshmen with their transition into campus life. According to something Harsha Maddula had written that was reprinted in the program from his memorial service, he sought to become a sophisticated man with “the mind of an engineer, ethics of a scientist, soul of a poet and skill of an academic.” Words cannot express the sorrow felt for the loss suffered by the Maddula family but we at the Illustrated News extend our heartfelt condolences to the family and friends of this exceptional young man.
– Dave Gil de Rubio
