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Throughout this success Nadkarni maintained his interest in House sports, becoming the College's coordinator of intramural athletics and head referee for the intramural program. Floyd Wilson, director of intramural athletics, calls Nadkarni "a very, very outstanding young man [who] has a great ability to get along with other people." Wilson estimates that this year Nadkarni refereed 400-to-500 basketball games, and more than 1000 during his career...
...Nadkarni plans to attend medical school after Harvard, but he has put these plans on hold because of his impending marriage. Nadkarni was accepted by Columbia's top-flight medical school, but he and his fiancee decided against it because of the unsafe neighborhood...
...three weeks Nadkarni will wed Jean Blake, his high school sweetheart, who attended college in Maryland. Nadkarni says that that five of his freshman roommates had "hometown honeys," but he and Jean are one of the few couples who survived. They saw each other about once a month and during the summers. He admits that restraints of the long-distance romance tempered his optimism, but smiles while adding, "we put each other in our place...
...People here wear their tuxes more than anyone else in the world," says Jean of Harvard. The newlyweds plan to live in either Pennsylvania or Maryland, while Nadkarni attends a nearby medical school...
...Nadkarni says he often ponders the commitment needed to become a doctor, but he adds that "even if I won a million bucks in the Megabucks lottery. I would still go to medical school. I feel that you're making a big contribution to society being a doctor...