Joe Restic Hometown: Lake Oswego, Oregon Position: President Monogram Earned: Football

Former Notre Dame football Academic All-American Joe Restic ('79) - now an orthodontist with his own practice in Wilsonville, Ore. - recently was named the Monogram Club's second vice-president and will serve a two-year term in that role until 2007. His two-term year as the Monogram Club's president will begin in June 2009, following two years as first vice-president.

Restic has served in two previous roles with the Monogram Club, first during the customary three-year term as a member of the board of directors (from 2000-03) before returning to the board as secretary from '04-'05.

Restic - son of legendary Harvard football coach Joe Restic, Sr. ('70-'93) - came to Notre Dame in the fall of 1975 from Milford, Mass., and was a four-year letterwinner as a punter and free safety. His 209 career punts rank second in Notre Dame history while he still holds the Irish record for punting average in a single game (51.6 yards), after booting five kicks for 258 yards vs. Air Force in '75.

Restic was a starting safety while helping Notre Dame win the 1977 national championship during his junior season and went on to graduate in '79 with a pre-professional science degree. He received his doctorate in dental medicine from the University of Pennsylvania in '85 and received certification from the orthodontic residency program at Oregon Health Sciences University in '88.

After working as a general dentist and an orthodontist in the Boston area during the late '80s, Restic founded his own orthodontist practice in Wilsonville, Ore.

Restic was a two-time GTE Academic All-American ('78, '79) and was a 1983 member of the Matthew Cryer Honor Society, recognizing the top 10 students at the University of Pennsylvania. In '79, he was one of 10 college football players nation-wide who received the Scholar-Athlete award from the National Football Foundation. He also received a prestigious NCAA postgraduate scholarship and was one of the recipients of the annual Byron Kanaley Award, which recognizes Notre Dame student-athletes who are exemplary as students and leaders.

While playing three seasons in the United States Football League ('83-'85), Restic also pursued his career in dentistry and orthodontics. His professional football career actually was related to his shift to the west coast, as he played in the USFL with the Breakers franchise that was based in Boston before moving to New Orleans and then Portland. Restic was attracted to the Oregon area and resumed his medical studies in that part of the country when the USFL folded in '85.

Restic and his wife Susan, who also is a dentist, are the parents of two children, daughter Brittany (9, as of June 2005) and son Eric (8).