Former Montana State Director Keeps Everyone Updated on His Fight Against Brain Cancer
Most going through a tough time in their
lives would rather shut off the world around them and keep to themselves. But David Huff, one-time Montana state pupil trans- portation director, has done the opposite. He took to the Internet to keep everyone filled in on his battle against brain cancer. On March 8, Huff went to see a doctor
after noticing numbness in his right hand and trouble with his thought process while speaking at a conference in Portland. His doctor soon discovered a tumor in the up- per left hemisphere of his brain, which was quickly removed. A few days after surgery, he took to a newly created Web page to in- form his friends and family of his condition. “THANK YOU all for your encourage-
ment,” he wrote, soon explaining that the tumor was malignant and he would be starting an aggressive chemo regiment. Huff, the director of traffic safety edu-
cation at the Montana Office of Public Instruction, has almost 6,000 “friends” following his journal entries, including Maxine Mougeot, the current state direc- tor of student transportation. “David is a great human being with a very
tender and caring heart. His love for student transportation endured him to the trans- portation community not only in Montana but across the nation,” said Mougeot, who has also helped raise money along with her co-workers for David’s treatment. Mougeot and a group of her associates
at OPI made a quilt that was raffled after selling almost $2,000 worth of tickets. Te winner, a computer tech at OPI, donated it to Huff. Mougeot and her staff also put together two luncheons to raise money, giving them a grand total of about $5,555, which was sent to Huff along with the quilt. Huff, who moved on from student trans-
portation in the mid-1990s, was traveling between Montana and San Francisco to receive his treatments. To read more about his incredible journey and his fight, visit
www.caringbridge.org/visit/davidhuff. He constantly updates the site, leaving mes- sages “by my own two hands,” as he puts it.
www.stnonline.com 25 “David will always be a friend to transportation and even though it has been years
since he was the state director, there is still some yellow blood flowing through his veins. I am proud to call David my friend,” added Mougeot. ■
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