Hometown Clinton - Fall 2015

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Susan Marquez A Quiet Hero There are times in your life when you feel that having to learn something is useless—that you’ll never use it in real life. I felt that way sitting through Spanish class in high school, only to meet and marry a Venezuelan in college. So it was when Mary Lou Dill was sitting in a CPR instructor training class last fall. She had already had CPR training several years earlier when she worked offshore. But now, in her role as a public safety officer at Mississippi College, Dill was taking it again, and thinking that she would probably never need it. So in June, a perfect series of events put Dill in the right place at the right time for a six-year-old boy who was found at the bottom of a swimming pool at a vacation resort in Orlando. Just as she arrived at the pool, Dill saw a woman frantically running with the limp body of the boy in her arms. Without thinking, without hesitation, the training kicked in and Dill immediately put into practice what she’d learned. Compressions. Nothing. More compressions. Still nothing. On the third try, she began to see bubbles come from the boy’s nose. Turning him on his side, she compressed more, and water from the boy’s lungs rushed from his mouth. Dill spotted her husband, Chris, a lieutenant with the Clinton Police Department. He had rushed toward the commotion, never thinking that he’d find his wife working feverishly to resuscitate a child. Chris jumped in to assist her. “He was my calm in the storm.” Soon the boy’s eyelids began to flutter and she got a pulse. It was all chance that put Dill in that place at just that time. Dill had been in Canada, taking care of her ill father. Almost forgetting that she had booked a vacation to Orlando, she and her husband made the last-minute trip with friends. “The second day we were there, I went on down to the pool while everyone else was changing into their swimsuits. Just as I arrived, I heard the commotion and saw the woman running with the child.” Mary Lou recalls, “One moment he was swimming across the pool, and the next he was at the bottom. A woman had seen him and pulled him out. That’s where I stepped in. I don’t even remember doing it.” But what she does remember is the child’s lifeless body and his mother crying hysterically. “That’s an image that’s hard to forget. It was quite overwhelming.” Dill and her husband, Chris had been friends before she moved to Clinton in 2006. “He has been in law enforcement for over 22 years, and is well-known for helping people. He absolutely loves his job, so I thought I’d look into law enforcement, too.” Dill first worked at Hinds Community College in Raymond before being offered a full-time job at Mississippi College in 2008. “She’s a very pro-active and caring officer, one of the finest officers I’ve worked with in my 30-year career,” said Steven McCraney, Public Safety Director at Mississippi College. “She’s very personable, but reluctant to claim hero status for what she did. She and Chris are very special.” Today Dill is a strong advocate for CPR training. “There were 60 to 70 people at the pool that day and nobody reacted. That’s frightening. I can’t stress enough that the more training we all have, the better. You never know when you’ll be put in the position to save a life.” Dill stays in touch with the little boy and his family, who live in Memphis. She learned that he was a triplet, and he and his siblings had already faced several problems in their lives. “He just turned seven years old and is starting the first grade. He’s doing fine, and he’s got his whole life ahead of him. That makes me very happy.” 42 • Fall 2015
A perfect series of events put Mary Lou Dill in the right place at the right time for a six-year-old boy who was found at the bottom of a swimming pool at a resort in Orlando, Florida. Hometown Clinton • 43
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