My
most memorable moment as a University of Chicago athlete
"Basketball furnished me with many good teammate
role models. I particularly remember Billy Lester and Dick Rowland
whom I admired both on and off the court, and of course coach Joe
Stampf. Yet I loved every minute of it- especially traveling around
the Midwest with my teammates to play colleges such as Ripon, Knox,
Grinnell, and Hanover. I was very proud to become a member of the
Order of the C in my last year of competition."
Memories
of being a student-athlete I would like to share
"I did not see myself as a "student-athlete",
but as a student who happened to play varsity basketball. I was
grateful to the University for bringing me there on an academic
scholarship from an inner-city Chicago public school. Yet, in subtle
ways basketball did furnish me with confidence that hard work would
enable me to improve and compete. I never had the chance to play
high school basketball, but I found that eventually I could compete
with players who in some cases had been all-state high school players."
What
I am doing today, and how I got there
"I have been a college history teacher for 39
years now. History was easy for me, since I had a talent for it.
Basketball was very hard since I had relatively little talent for
it and was really a mediocre player who never scored more than 11
points in a single game." |
