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Barry Kritzberg: " Percy Armstrong and friends " ............. 1 " A glimpse (via Abells) of the Loring·MPMA link" ••••.••.•.• 7 " In pursuit of the William Randolph Hearst trophy " •..•... 9 Cover design: Barry Kritzberg " How to renovate science labs on a low budget and with very little time " ...................................................... 11 Julie Cuadros: " I proved my point ... " ............................ 12

" From cadet to the college football hall of fame " ....... 13 " The almost perfect season" ......................................... 15 Joe Ziemba, Jr: "The golden age of MPMA football" ..... 17 " The (almost complete) football record" ...................... 22 Brian Coller: "The last football campaign " .................... 24

Contributors: Barry Kritzberg is editor of the Academy Magazine.

Julie Cuadros [93] taught at MPA. Joe Ziemba Jr. , author of When Football was Football, is the son of Coach Ziemba.

Brian Coller [79] has many MPA connections, through his father, mother, and brothers.

Eric Gustavson [61] and Ed Rund [61] were the principal organizers of the class of 1961 reunion , and so got to write about it.

Sandy Williams works in the MPA development office.

Photo/ illustration credits:

" Wanted: nominations for the MPMAjMPA sports hall of fame" ................................................................... 26

Class reunions, west coast gathering ........................... 28 Eric Gustavson and Ed Rund: "Neither rain, nor heat can stop the fun" ................................................... 29 Barry Kritzberg: "What a difference a century makes••• " ......................................................................... 30 Sandy Williams: "Alumni briefs" .................................... 31

Annual giving, alumni dues, etc ..................................... 36

MPA archives: 2 , 4, 5, 6, 7,8,910, 14, 15, 16, 17, 24, 25, 26, 27 Richard Szkarlat: 11.

University of Alabama sports publicity department: 13, 14 Joe Ziemba, Jr.: 18, 19, 20.

Bob Eichinger: 28, 30, 31.

Grant Spooner, 29.

Rubin Frodin: 32.

Alice Coller: back cover.

The Academy Magazine is published by the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs.

All news items should be addressed to: Barry Kritzberg Academy Magazine 2153 W. 111th Street Chicago, IL 60643 bkritzberg@morganparkacademy.org Printed for Morgan Park Academy by PrintSource Plus 12128 S. Western Ave. Blue Island, IL 60406

Percy Armstrong (MPMA cadet 1879- 1882) and friends by Barry Kritzberg Percy W. Armstrong was diligent and persistent about collecting autographs. He did not stop until his leatherbound Paragon BARRY KRITZBERG Autograph Album had slightly more than one

hundred signatures, usually one per page, with hardly a single page left blank.

His mother, father, brothers and sister all signed it, as did Uncle Charles.

The vast majority of the autographs, however, were gathered from his teachers and classmates while Percy was a student at Morgan Park Military Academy from 1879 to 1882.

Percy wrote his own name in his autograph book three times. Perhaps it was vanity, or perhaps he was merely practicing his penmanship, or perhaps he was simply expressing the pride of ownership.

While not everyone who signed the book included a date, there are enough dated entries to allow us to see that Percy collected more than half of those signatures in 1880, about a quarter in 1881 and only a handful in 1882. The proud possession of 1880 became, like the Christmas toy one too soon tires of, something that Percy resorted to only occasionally.

Most of the 1880 Signatures were recorded in June, suggesting perhaps that the autograph book was a present for the successful completion of that year at MPMA. His father, John Armstrong, was one of a dozen or so who offered a testimonial about his satisfaction with

the school in the Annual Catalogue of the Morgan Park Military Academy for 1880-1881.

"At the close of another year's training of my son in your Academy," he wrote, "it gives me pleasure to express my approval of his excellent progress in study and deportment; and to reiterate my former testimony to the merit of your school as being, in my opinion, a home where boys receive the very best moral, intellectual and physical culture."

In his son's autograph book, John Armstrong quoted some inspirational lines from Charles Kingsley's" A Farewell" to put Percy on the right track: Do noble things, not dream them, all day long; And so make life, death, and that vast forever One grand sweet song.

(It was no doubt wise of John Armstrong to omit the preceding line, which cast the verse in a decidedly different light: "Be good sweet maid, and let who will be clever. ") Percy's sister, Jennie E., offered these (perhaps not original) words of wisdom: I ask not a life for you All radiant as others have done But that life may have just enough shadow To temper the glare of the sun

Percy's mo her, Mrs. W. R. Armstrong, and his brother, William, signed and dated Oune 23, 1880) their entries, indicating that they were in Arcola, Illinois (presumably home, since it was after the school term).

Another brother, John, did not get around to signing Percy's book until July.

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None of the other family members had any words of wisdom to offer Percy.

Uncle Charles (who seems to have added, as an afterthought, "corp."for corporal, apparently), of "Denver City, Colorado," recorded his visit to Percy with what might be regarded as military precision: "M.P.M.A. June 11th, 1880,8:15 P.M." And each letter of the place and time was carefully underscored three times.

Colorado had become the 38th state in 1876, and so staked a claim to being the "centennial state" and Denver City, once the territorial capitol, was riding the economic boom of gold, silver, and railroads. Its population, only 4,759 in 1870, would reach 106, 713 by 1890. Was Uncle Charles keeping the peace in Denver City, fighting Indians, or making money?

Edward Kirk Talcott - commandant, associate principal, and teacher of English and military tactics at MPMA - honored Percy by signing one of the early pages.

"A merry heart doeth good like medicine," Talcott wrote, quoting another source, and signing it with his full title: "Capt. & Cmdt. Morgan Park Cadets."

The 1880-81 MPMA catalogue offers some insight into the fitness of Talcott to head the academy.

A testimonial (August 21, 1876) from H. Clay Trumbull, of the Sunday School Times, states: "I am glad, for the sake of the boys, that you are to be in charge of a military school. I am sure that you will do a good work in their training, and do it in such a way that they will enjoy having it done for them. I learned to value and to love you in the days of active army service, before

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Charleston and Petersburg and Richmond. I knew you there as a gallant soldier and sincere Christian disciple, alike prompt and ready in the rifle-pit and prayer meeting. I have known you since in Sunday school work in New Jersey and Virginia. I am glad you have a new mission in Illinois. I wish there were many such men in our country. I believe that in the Morgan Park Academy you will, by God's blessing, bring more than one bright boy to your standard of thought and action."

T.V. Thompson, instructor in English studies, Greek and Latin languages, quoted a bit of wisdom about wisdom for Percy to ponder: "Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."

Another lofty sentiment, a verse quotation, was offered by Henry T. Wright, associate principal and instructor in mathematics, reading, and elocution, for Percy's benefit: The friends thou hast, and thus adoptive tried, Grapple to thy soul with hooks of steel; But do not dull thy palm, with entertainment Of each new hatched, unfledged comrade.

S.M. Etter, the Illinois superintendent of public instruction, regretted that Wright had abandoned public school work. Etter wished him success at MPMA, however, where his "excellent reputation as a successful instructor and the evidence of [his] scholarship" would assist the Academy in "taking high rank in its particular field."

The moral tone at MPMA was, then, lofty indeed, but not every moment was solemn.

Mrs. Henry T. Wright, who taught vocal and instrumental music and painting at the Academy, used the page opposite to her husband's entry to deflate his high seriousness.

"Percy," she wrote, "I am astonished at the great outburst from our next neighbor. But we must forgive him, as it would be very difficult [for him] to come down into the region of the little people, such as you and I and the 'baby' for instance. By the way: This baby of ours is a wonderful thing To its parents who rightfully its praises can sing.

Tis only a baby, no more & no less.

Nice thing in a family to love and caress.

Henry Wright graduated from Beloit College in 1866 and ranked, according to an 1876 testimonial provided by A.L. Chapin, president of the college, "among the first scholars in his class."

"His general scholarship was good," Chapin continued. "In mathematical studies he especially excelled. His attainments in that branch have been rarely equaled by any students of this college, and seldom surpassed in any college in our land. His natural abilities, his high attainments, his well-balanced judgement, good tact and high-toned moral character, combine to qualify for success in teaching."

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But then Percy I don't forget my boys, but shall gladly share the love, and wish them all the good that may come to them. Trusting that you may have a bountiful share ... " Percy must have been glad to have the likes of the charming Mrs. Henry T. Wright at MPMA. Perhaps Percy was present at the Wright's wedding ceremony, since it was the highlight - at least according to Chicago (Baptist) Standard for June 19, 1879 - of MPMA's closing exercises on June 12 of that year.

Prof. Wright, the Standard reported, married "Miss Emma Schofield, daughter of W. H. Schofield, Esq., of Burlington, Kan. Miss Schofield has had charge, during

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the last year, of the art department of the Ladies College, at Morgan Park, and the wedding occurred at the college building, where a large company was pleasantly entertained

by Dr. and Mrs. Thayer, the father of the bride joining them in making the occasion every way a delightful one to their guests. The marriage ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr. Heffron, of Washington Heights. The presents were abundant and rich. An innovation of which we learn in that connection will, we are sure, be popular with gentlemen. The bridegroom, as well as the bride, were generously remembered, if not in such a brilliant silver-service and other choice gifts as illuminated the college parlors, in other and highly serviceable ones, which will find permanent use in the rooms at the Academy. If this innovation were to prove a permanent one, some of us might almost wish to be bachelors again."

The florid, hyperbolic prose conveys enthusiasm, surely, but what presents the couple received is by no means clear.

The students who signed Percy's book sometimes expressed friendship, sometimes platitudes (which they apparently thought were the sort of ideas that should be recorded in an autograph book), a few wrote (or quoted) in Latin, and some recorded cryptic notions that hint at things that will probably never be known.

Some, likeJ. Calvin Johnson of Princeton, Illinois, set the high moral tone that was more typical of adults.

"In your friendships," Johnson wrote, "make choice of the best." Most, however, were content to record a sentiment that was probably borrowed from the commonplace books of the day.

"In the golden chain of friendship regard me as a link," James Stettaner wrote.

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There is a passage in Latin, a quote from Cicero, taken, no doubt, directly from a text book; there is a cryptic pseudo-Latin message for Percy, concealing perhaps some shared misdemeanor; and there is one passage where the penmanship is such that one can not tell whether it is Latin, Italian, or French.

The most interesting comments, however, were the hints by students that the military discipline had not altogether effaced all traces of adolescence.

Willie Clarke, of Geneseo, Illinois, signed his name with a fine, large flourish, but what he wrote in much smaller script in the upper corners is far more intriguing. "Broken windows," he wrote in the left, and "off limits" on the right. One wonders what those mischievous boys had been about.

Brainard Smith, of Springfield, Illinois, reminded Percy that "T.V.T. [English instructor Thompson] says to study Latin one hour." He then added a bit of verse that probably did not come out of a commonplace book:

Eddie Friedmann, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also used the upper corners for more intimate communication. "One day nearer home," he wrote, suggesting that in June home was on most of the boys' minds. In the upper right corner, he wrote "hold out your hand," alluding possibly to the standard punishment for some infraction.

Expressions recorded at the margins on other pages hint at equally dubious activities: "loss of blood ... furnace ... getting up before reveille ... tree and dogs ... bread and water... " Several referred to themselves as "prisoners" or "convicts," suggesting that students have always regarded schools in such light.

It was clear, too, from at least one entry, that the autograph book might have been circulated under the very noses of the diligent schoolmasters.

Arthur G. Bennett, of Ravenswood, Illinois, wrote that he would "pass it to Black next."

The two most tantalizing entries were made by women, however.

Antoinette Wright (a relation, perhaps, of Henry T. Wright?), who wrote "yours always" in Percy's book, must have wanted to see him again, for she gave not one, but two addresses where she might be found. Was it the beginning of a youthful romance?

How did young Percy come in contact with a woman with two Chicago addresses?

Bessie N. Harlow's entry was of the commonplace book variety ("I would that my signature could guarantee the fulfillment of my wish - Good health and prosperity to you"), but it is the time (December 12, 1904) and place (New Zealand) that are the puzzle here. Did Percy carry

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around that autograph book for a quarter of a century? Was it Percy's whim, or Bessie's joke?

Those questions, of course, can't be answered. But it is possible to provide a kind of happy ending to the story of Percy's Paragon Autograph Album.

Added to the autograph book, on a loose sheet of paper, was a note written by his wife (obviously much later): "Percy Armstrong won the gold scholarship medal in 1881 and was made sergeant."

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A glimpse (via Abells) of the Loring-MPMA link It is a thin file, covering just a few years of the Loring School, and exists in the MPMA/MPA archives, perhaps, only because Harry D. Abells was a board member of the girls' school on Longwood Drive.

The first item of note is a 1944 form letter soliciting contributions to payoff the school's mortgage.

The first two paragraphs provide some basic information about the school: "Loring School [it reads], a nonsectarian, non-profit institution, has been established for sixty-eight years.

The present outlook would indicate it will continue as many years more.

After a long period in the Kenwood District, the institution was moved to Beverly in 1935 and later purchased the beautiful buildings and grounds at 107th and Longwood."

"Although Loring [it continues] was an old institution of high accredited standing, it was not thoroughly introduced into this new community, and about two years ago found itself overburdened with the purchase of its new home. This condition was corrected through the efforts of an aggressive Board of Trustees and the cooperation of the principal, Miss Virginia Lee Miller. Since then, the school has continued to grow, so that the present enrollment fills the building to capacity and the outlook for 1944 and 1945 is such that added facilities may be necessary for a larger enrollment in the future. The community seems to be well aware of the necessity that our girls be given the opportunity of receiving a fine education at actual cost." (There are also two early drafts of this letter in the file.)

There is an earlier letter, from February 22, 1939, where Col. Abells

writes to Loring principal, Cecelia Russell, about some vandalism that occurred in the MPMA dining hall during one of the Loring-sponsored formal dances in the Academy's Alumni Hall.

The dance was held upstairs and the dining hall, therefore, was offlimits, but during the dance some of the youngsters ("and no doubt they were all boys," Abells adds) broke plates and a globe, demolished a chair, soiled and tore table cloths, scattered salt and pepper all over, and, in general, made a sorry mess of things. There was also a hole, about the size of a silver dollar, in the north wall of the trophy case.

Abells acknowledged that it was a painful duty to call these matters to Miss Russell's attention, but he hoped that she would find out the names of persons responsible for the damage from the young ladies who attended the dance. There is no further correspondence about the vandalism issue, however.

In January 1943 a new principal, Virginia Lee Miller, writes to Col. Abells to describe purchases (four maple chairs and two indirect lighting lamps) for the first floor lounge with two hundred dollars provided by the Loring Mothers Club.

An earlier letter (December 22, 1942) is clipped to it explaining that Loring, with the help of Arthur Decker, is going to publish a school bulletin. Some students had suggested names. Connie Barker and Nancy Reed proposed Loring's Life, Dawn Goodspeed offered Loring Chatter, Marian Davis suggested Life at Loring, and Joyce Hooper contributed Loring Laureate. Bonnie Kistner, however, ventured some twenty possibilities, including such options as Beverly

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Bullet, Loring Flash, Loring Greenlight, Hilltop News, Loring Commando, Loring Homefront, Loring Siren, Loring High Lights, and Loring Local Lines.

The typed minutes of the October 4, 1943 board meeting are in the file and they seem to represent the usual concerns of a school board. The matter of two teachers (Mr. Ivins, music, and Mrs. Guyel, dramatic arts) using the building after school hours (and, apparently, for non-school business) was settled by proposing that each pay a modest fee. There were routine matters, too, of getting trees trimmed, acquiring a water cooler, and moving a frigidaire, but a Miss Mullen was to be discouraged from taking a psychological survey of Loring students.

A letter (November 10, 1943) from Hugh Price (who was also on the Loring board of trustees) to Miss Miller offers suggestions from MPMA librarian Helen Taylor about books which might be added (or substituted)

Hugh Price, in 1943.

for a list of proposed acquisitions to the Loring library, including such standard reference works as the Oxford companions to American and English literature.

There are board minutes from May 9, 1944, but most decisions were postponed until the annual meeting later that year. Attached to it is an undated, unsigned note, probably submitted by Miss Miller. It suggests salaries ($150-to-$165 per month) for teachers for the 1944-45 school year, herself ($275 per month for ten months), and a tuition of $350. That figure is circled, however, and $300 is pencilled above it.

Virginia Lee Miller sought the assistance of Col. Abells in October 1944 to see if he might get Alderman Duffy to have the city make some renovations in a playground at 106th and Longwood. A brief note (apparently in Col. Abells hand) at the

bottom suggests that the alderman listened, but made "no promises."

Miss Miller also turned to Col. Abells in 1946, when he was superintendent emeritus of MPMA, to see if he might add his influence to those who had sought Illinois Governor Dwight H. Green to be the Loring commencement speaker that year.

A copy of a letter from Loring board president, Carroll L. Griffith, to the governor is included. Griffith pOinted out that "famous personalities such as Honorable Robert T. Lincoln, Gen. A.C. McClurg, Potter Palmer, George M. Pullman and Marshall Field" had been Loring board members. It would also be the 70th anniversary of the school.

All seventeen of those who would graduate on June 14,1946 would go on to college, Griffith noted. He included a list of the graduates and some of the colleges they would

attend, plus a list of the current board members.

Gov. Green sent his regrets, however, for he had already accepted a speaking engagement for that date.

In those summer months of June 1946 the venerable Col. Abells spent (according to an informal report sent to fellow Loring board member Walter Kistner) a part of his time in door-todoor solicitations for the Loring School. He then sent follow-up letters.

The final letter Gune 3, 1947) in the file, from Virginia Lee Miller to Harry D. Abells, seeks to clear up some apparent confusion about the North Central accreditation of Loring School. The Chicago office of the North Central Association claimed to have no record of the accreditation of the school. Miss Miller assured Col. Abells that she had a current letter of accreditation in hand. It seemed to be a bureaucratic mistake.

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In pu.suit 01= the Williatn Randolph Hea.st t.ophy same league with Robert Metsker [55], who led the team to the Hearst Trophy while winning the national individual title in 1954-55. Metsker later went on to be first rifle at the Citadel and an All-American.

The results were certified, posted to national headquarters, and then MPMA waited for the tallying of the scores from hundreds of schools. MPMA was allowed to enter three teams in the national competition and first, seventh and eleventh in the nation is surely no mean accomplishment.

The rifle team had fifteen or so matches per year, with a traveling squad of ten. Matches against public schools (or "civilian schools," as Pearson called them) were not very competitive, he recalled. "We set up shell-casings in the warm-ups and pinged them, always to the wide-eyed wonder of our opponents," he said with a smile.

Pearson also remembered that Col. Banta, the coach of the national championship rifle team, had a quality that was particularly useful at those noisy rifle matches: a booming voice which could be heard even above the reports of the rifles.

MPMA was not all rifles and shooting for Pearson Williams Jr., of course.

"I was most active," Pearson said. "I was in band, an executive senior officer, manager of the baseball team, played frosh-soph football, and was sports editor my senior year for the Academy News, although it was pretty discouraging to write about losing teams week after week. Wrestling, however, was an exception. Coach Gifford, who won Big Ten wrestling titles at Purdue, turned our wrestling program around in one year."

Pearson remembers that promotion lists were posted on the Jones Bowl cannon and he also recalls a resident tank that someone attempted to set afire one Halloween.

And, like many of the students from the military boarding school days, he can still give vivid little portraits of his instructors of more than forty years ago.

"Col. Mahon was a good physics instructor," Williams said, "but he was also a ham actor who brought a lot of imagination to class. Col. Welton, a marine, looked every bit of one, and was as tough as you'd expect. We called Col. Jordan 'the great white father.' He put in appearances at MPMA functions, but he didn't mix with the students."

"Capt. Wallace," he continued, with hardly a pause for breath, "was a terrific history teacher. He always had a book with him and if one saw him at a neighborhood restaurant, he would always be absorbed in a book."

He was a member of a team that finished seventh in the nation, but he was not awarded a varsity letter at MPMA. And no, it was not that he was a bench-warmer who didn't play enough to qualify for the monogram.

He was on the second team, it is true, but no member of the first team (which happened to Pearson Williams Jr. in 1958. win the William Randolph Hearst trophy, emblematic of the national title) was awarded a varsity letter either.

Pearson Williams Jr. [58] was a key member of the195758 MPMA nationally ranked rifle team, but he did not receive a varsity letter because, oddly enough, the military school did not recognize rifle competition as a bonafide athletic event (even though it had been an Olympic event since 1896). A third MPMA rifle team was ranked eleventh in the nation in 57-58.

The "M" club also excluded the rifle team, even after a parade was held to honor the national championship squad.

MPMA's rifle team had also won the national championship in 1954-55, after placing second in the nation in 194748 and 1952-53.

Rifle competition was usually "live" - head-to-head, as it were - but the national championship was decided by mail.

The team gathered to shoot, firing at a target fifty feet away. The bull's-eye in the target was about one-quarter inch in diameter and each competitor took twenty shots with a bolt-action Winchester 52. A bull's eye scored ten pOints and a perfect score, therefore, was 200.

Bob Kempen [60] won the NRA junior individual national championship in 1957-58 and the next year repeated with a perfect score on what was probably the last rifle team at the Academy. Kempen's feat put him in the

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We called Col. Mahon - behind his back, course 'Bloody George.' He once caught some cadets smoking and sent them to a closet with a simple order: 'Don't come out until you have smoked the entire pack!'"

Williams also recalled that Capt. Baer had taught his mother at Pullman Tech and once, when he saw her at an MPMA parade, addressed her by her maiden name.

There was also the inimitable Capt. Gray who, in a home-coming speech, told the boys about football in the good old days when hair was deliberately grown long because one didn't play with a helmet.

Williams also remembered Capt.

Gray's withering scorn for academic slackers: "You don't know, you don't care, and you don't give a damn. All you The Rifle Club, want to do is sit in the PX drinking soda-poppy."

There weren't many women around in those military days, of course, but Pearson does remember Marge, "the tough-talking gal in charge of the dining hall." And he remembers Ellen Merz, who taught remedial reading to lower school cadets in Blake Hall.

There were marching stories, of course: fire-crackers being tossed at the Sousa-phone as they marched in a Chinese New Year's Parade and one day, in 1956 or 1957, Pearson recalled, "the wind blew down the War Memorial while we were marching in Jones Bowl. Col. Banta called us to a halt, asked if anyone were hurt, and when he was told 'no,' we resumed marching."

Williams also fondly recalls receiving ten dollars from the Tribune for the onerous task of "modelling" the MPMA uniform with some attractive debutantes.

The annual hobo-hop was the only school dance when one wasn't allowed to wear a uniform. "Full-military dress was required for all the others," he said.

The cadets went bowling at alleys at 95th and Vincennes and it was there that Coach Ziemba acquired a distinctive reputation. Legend has it that the powerful Ziemba whipped one ball down the alley and sent a hapless pin-boy out on a

stretcher. Another pin-boy, a week later, saw Ziemba enter the bowling alley and announced: "I know about him; I quit."

The Cold War had an impact on MPMA too. When the Russians launched Sputnik (the first man-made satellite to successfully orbit the earth), in the fall of 1957, it seemed to cast gloom over students and faculty alike.

A little later in that school year, however, attention was diverted by an event much closer to home. When word leaked out about the impending demilitarization of MPMA, Williams was as surprised and upset as almost everyone else. "I had no sense of a declining enrollment," he said, "and it seemed that the board and administration largely stonewalled the whole affair."

"The military was still 1957-58. popular," Williams remembered. "Some of the locals once tried to burn down MPMA's refreshment stand, but there was nothing anti-military intended. It was a kids' prank. The image of the Academy in those days was that it was only for rich kids. Many thought that it was just a school for bad boys. But bad boys got kicked out."

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10"" budget and ""ith ve.y little tiftle Once Salute to Excellence 2000 had raised the money (almost $100,000) for complete renovation of MPA's science laboratories, the baton was passed to the science teachers (who designed the labs), and then to Richie Szkarlat and his ... building and grounds crew (who made the plans a reality).

It wasn't easy. Chemistry teacher Mark Linnerud, for one, was skeptical. He didn't see how so much could be accomplished in so little time on such a small budget. lilt seemed to me that they [Szkarlat and his crew] had an impossible task. It seemed to be the old story of trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but they did it somehow.

They proved me wrong, and it's wonderful. I can't think of a thing I would change."

Physics teacher Larry Brown echoed those sentiments. liOn a scale of one-to-ten," he said, "I'd give the maintenance crew an eleven."

The work couldn't begin, of course, until classes were finished at the end of May. The labs hadn't been touched since demilitarization, Richie Szkarlat estimated. What he found wasn't very pretty and, before he knew it, they had to rip out virtually everything and start from scratch.

A wall in Ann Brown's biology lab, for example, had to be stripped down to the brick, largely because of neglected tuck-pointing and bad gutters. Four-to-five dumpsters (an estimated 10 tons of debris) had to be filled before they could even begin the real work.

"We were frantic at the beginning," Richie said, "for we never knew what we were going to find. We looked like the

three stooges doing plumbing until we began to get a handle on things."

Every room, it seemed, presented its own peculiar problems. Nothing was straight, nothing was square. ''It was like trying to do a puzzle with some of the pieces missing," Szkarlat said. Everything, consequently, had to be customdesigned.

They re-did windows, replaced cracked glass, re-coated all the iron-framed casement windows; put in new plumbing, with copper pipes, installed new gas, new electrical wires. Some 7000 pounds of floor tiles were hauled, some up, some down, and then installed. A fume hood for the chemistry lab, weighing 350 pounds, fragile and bulky, had to be hauled up to the third floor. Table tops, 250 pounds and 96 inches long, also had to be hauled into place.

The task required, in short, both musclepower and finesse. Richie's crew - Peter Heldak, lozef, Bronislawa, and Ziggy Mikos, Stefan Nicklicki, Anna Sciesinska, Mike Skerniskis, Zofia Turza, and Wieslawa Wodziak - supplied both in timely abundance. "Their workmanship was superb," Larry Brown noted.

Science teacher Carol Bollacker is also delighted by the new middle and lower school lab. lilt was awkward, make-shift before," she said, "but now a science teacher can set-up the night before and, best-of-all, I don't have to bring all the equipment home each night.

There is a place in the lab to store it."

The labs were, for the most part, up-andrunning when school opened in September 2000. There were cuts and bruises and sore backs, but no major injuries.

"It was an amazing accomplishment," Szkarlat acknowledged, but then he wistfully added, "but ours is a never-ending story."

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I proved my point: I wouldn't do it again (I don't think) by Julie Cuadros [93J

Around mile 18, I started wondering why I was doing this.

What, exactly, did I have to prove?

With over 30,000 runners dashing, or more accuJULIE CUADROS rately, hobbling by, would anyone notice if I ducked out down a side-street? I looked up at the crowd to gain inspiration; luckily, they delivered.

My brother David [86], Rich Ugarte [86] and I ran in the LaSalle Banks Chicago Marathon in October 2000. It was David's fifth, my second and Rich's first marathon, so cumulatively we ran the gamut of experience.

We started the race together and paced ourselves slowly. We all know that those who start off with a bang usually end up crashing around mile 15.

We were smarter!

By mid-race, David was ready to sprint the last 13 miles, Rich was desperately searching for his family for some glimmer of motivation and I was wondering if knees could bend the other way when overworked.

We all finished the 26.2 mile course, some in more pain than others, but we finished.

My decision to run a marathon was just that, a decision. I never was a runner; in fact, I hated running throughout my non-existent high school athletic career and during lacrosse and rugby seasons at Carleton College, my alma-mater. However, a "runner's body" has always been something that intrigued me; I must admit that my decision to start running long-distance was purely out of a desire to trim down and explore the coveted world of hot pants. After David's third marathon, he urged me to train.

I logged onto the Chicago Marathon'S website (www.chicagomarathon.com) and

found a link to Hal Higdon's marathon training guide for novice runners. This guide takes you step-bystep through an 18-week training program. They will even send you daily e-mail run reminders, tips, and words of encouragement in the later weeks. My training started in June with short 3-4 mile runs during the week and 7-8 mile runs on the weekends. The program builds up slowly, in basically two-mile increments.

Another admission: the first time around was much more fun. Because the novelty of completing a marathon had worn off, training for the second one seemed harder. The first year, each time I completed a long run I was thrilled - every mile was a new notch in my belt. The second time, there were no records to break; I knew I could do it because I had done it before. The only goal, therefore, was to do it faster.

My goal to decrease my time was not achieved, however. The wall I hit at mile 18 was thankfully not because of lack of deSire; my heart was in it what I questioned was my sanity.

Would I risk killing my knees for this?

My heart won out.

The support of the screaming spectators and the knowledge that mileage was decreasing with each step urged me on. There is absolutely no

better feeling than staggering up Columbus Drive and seeing that finish line. My brother had instructed me to smile for the cameras upon crossing it; I remember smiling, but unfortunately the picture came out looking like a wince instead of a smile - I guess I should never try acting.

Eighteen weeks, two shin splints, countless blisters and several purple toe-nails later, I ran 26.2 miles in 4 hours and 49 minutes, a 4 minute increase over the previous year.

At the end of this one, I swore I wouldn't do it again - I had proved my pOint, I said. But now that the memories of sore muscles have worn off, I'm not so sure. The high of crossing that finish line (ok. .. and the hot pants) might win out. il

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Marathon II

Beth Joslyn, MPA assistant librarian and last season's track coach, completed her first marathon on October 7, 2001. She had never run that far before in her life, but she hit very close to her target time, finishing in four hours, sixteen minutes, 11 seconds.

She, too, felt that impulse to simply give it over at about mile eighteen, but she fought it off and pressed on to the finish line, some eight miles further on.

She ran track in high school, but her distance was the mile, not 26.2 miles.

Why, then, does someone decide to run a marathon?

In Beth's case, it was friends and that competitive edge.

She swam competitively at Augustana College and was looking for new challenges. "I like to do extreme things, to test myself," she said. And, with the encouragement of a friend who had run three marathons, she began training seriously in March. She followed a program designed by the Chicago Area Runners Assn. to lead one by gradual steps to the marathon distance.

The race, itself, was an exhilarating adventure, with people cheering and performing all along the route.

She found that runners were friendly, too, and when she stopped to use her inhaler (for asthma), several runners stopped to make sure that she was all right.

Would she do it again? "Right now, I can't even think about it," she said. She is not sure, but if there were a marathon in some exotic place next summer-Stockholm or Dublin-she might be tempted to do it again.

If another marathon isn't in her future, there might be another extreme challenge to take up: the running, biking, and swimming of the triathlon.

Beth, in addition to the marathon, also completed a half-marathon and half-triathlon as a "tune-up" for the marathon.

The triathlon seems only logical, doesn't it?

PPOIn MPMA c a det to the College Pootball Hall 01= Paine The Duke University football stadium was named in his Alabama's opponent in the 1926 Rose Bowl, the Pacific honor on September 30, 1967. He was the first person to Coast Conference champion University of Washington, was also undefeated. appear in the Rose Bowl as a player and as a coach. He took five teams, as a coach, to Pasadena (including one game Football in those days was largely a regional affair and which many have called the greatest Rose Bowl game ever).

Wade recognized the significance of the bowl invitation for He is in the College Football Hall of Fame. He appeared on Alabama. It would be the first national test for a team from the cover of Time on October 25, 1937. the deep south.

He had a distinguished military record during World "This is what a trip to the Rose Bowl means," Wade told War I and was, at age 53, a his players, "three weeks of hard lieutenant colonel in the work, and I want you to rememartillery in the European ber that! But remember this, too Theater in WWII. - southern football isn't recogHe is Wallace Wade, nized as being anywhere near on graduate of Morgan Park the same level with the east, Military Academy, class of midwest, and the pacific coast. So 1913. here's our chance!"

Wade's first trip to the The 1926 game, with 53,000 Rose Bowl, for the New Year's attending, was sold out (ticket Day 1916 game, was not prices ranged from $1.50 to $6), auspiciOUS. It snowed in and it was the first Rose Bowl Pasadena (the first time in game to be broadcast on radio. thirteen years) on December The announcer was Charlie 30 and a perSistent rain Paddock, Olympic sprint chamfollowed. The Rose Bowl pion and perhaps the first to be parade, despite the unseasoncalled the "world's fastest huable weather, was held as man." (Paddock would come to usual and marked the first MPMA later that year to address appearance of California the cadets. One wonders if Wade bathing beauties, decked out might have had something to do in black bathing suits with with it.) full length sleeves and The Washington Huskies, bloomers. bigger and considerably faster, Wallace Wade played were 2-1 favorites and humorist ~ I • right guard (as he did at Will Rogers quipped that Alabama MPMA), offense and defense, should be called a "Tuska-loser." on a Brown University team By half-time, as Washington that included five-foot-seven took a 12-0 lead, it looked as inch, 165-pound halfback though Rogers' remark was more Frederick "Fritz" Pollard Wallace Wade, in his Alabama coaching days. (Photo prophetic than witty. (from Chicago's Lane Techni- courtesy of Alabama sports publicity department.)

Wade made several half-time cal High School), the first adjustments. On defense, he black player named to Walter Camp's All-American team. moved heavier players to the end pOSitions to take advanBrown was pitted against undefeated Washington State. tage of the much lighter Washington ends. On offense, he The field was in such poor shape that Brown coach Edward moved speedy half-back Johnny Mack Brown to the flanker N. Robinson worried that one of his players might drown in position to spread the Husky defense and open up more a pile-up. Less than four thousand fans saw the dismal passing possibilities. contest in the mud, won by Washington State 14-0.

Alabama scored three times (two on long passes to When Wallace Wade returned to Pasadena, ten years Johnny Mack Brown, one a Rose Bowl record 63-yarder) in later, he was completing his third year as coach of Alabama. the opening seven minutes of the second half to take a 20-12 His team had compiled a 24-2-1 mark in those seasons and lead. Washington scored midway through the fourth quarter was 9-0-0 in 1925, outscoring opponents 277-7. to narrow the margin to 20-19, but neither team managed to

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score thereafter and Wallace Wade's Crimson Tide was the Stanford took an early 7-0 lead and doggedly held on. It upset winner. looked as though the game might end that way (some Johnny Mack Brown, people, in fact, were heading for selected as the most valuable the exits) when Alabama player in the game for Alablocked a punt and drove in bama, later became an assistant from the 14-yard-line for a coach under Wade. He didn't score. The conversion was good and game ended in a 7-7 tie. stay long, however. Hollywood Wade's Alabama team beckoned. He became an MGM returned to the Rose Bowl in star, playing opposite the likes 1931 to defeat Washington State of Mary Pickford, Joan 31-0. His last two appearances Crawford, and Greta Garbo. in the Rose Bowl, while he was His enduring film fame was, coaching at Duke, were defeats: however, as a cowboy in in 1939, his team lost to western after western.

Southern California, 7-3, when It was a game that many the Trojans scored in the final sportswriters have called the 41 seconds; in 1942, Oregon greatest of all the Rose Bowl State upset the Blue Devils 20contests and one of the best 16, in a game played in ten college football games of Durham, North Carolina all-time. Wallace Wade, later because of a World War II ban reflecting on his many years in on large crowds in California. football, called the 1926 Rose Wade died in Durham, Bowl game "the most exciting North Carolina October 7, 1986 and thrilling in my coaching at the age of 94. career."

His record at Alabama Wade's 1926 Alabama team (1923-1930) was 61-13-1 and at was also 9-0-0, extending its Duke (1931-1941 and 1946winning string to 20 games, 1951), 110-36-7. He was and earning a second consecu1\vo Alabama football coaching greats - Paul (Bear) elected to the College Football tive invitation to the Rose Bryant and Wallace Wade. (Photo courtesy of the Hall of Fame in 1955, where he Bowl. The Crimson Tide's Alabama sports publicity dept.) joined MPA alum Jesse Harper opponent at the 1927 game [02] and former MPA coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg. was legendary "Pop" Warner's undefeated, untied Stanford n Indians.

This photograph, taken from an MPMA catalogue, did not identify the players.

But could that be Wade in the first

row?

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1929: the a/lI1ost perfect season There was good reason for optimism as the MPMA Lightweight football team prepared for the 1929 season.

The 1928 Lights, after three fairly indifferent campaigns (winning a total of eleven, while losing nine and tying four), posted a 6-1-1 mark, which the Skirmisher did not hesitate to pronounce "the most successful lightweight season in the history of the school."

There were eight lettermen (Mancine, Monaco, and Peairs in the backfield; Burk and Mathews at ends; Wallace and Williams at the tackles; and Fisher at center) among the fiftytwo cadets who answered the first call for practice. The Academy News ventured the opinion that pre-season prospects for the Fighting Lights "seems brighter than ever before, bidding fair to even overshadow the success of last year's team."

The varsity (even though it lost to Loyola 13-6), however, was the frontpage story in the Academy News, while the Lights 23-0 season-opening win over Thornton only merited page three.

The Ponies (as the Lights were commonly called) took the opening kick-off and drove to the one footline, only to fumble the ball away. A second posseSSion was halted on downs at the Thornton two-yard-line.

One score was nullified by a clipping penalty, but the Ponies, marching mostly on the ground, built up a 14-0 half-time lead. Another touchdown the third of the game for "AI" Mancine (elected captain the afternoon before) - and a safety were added in the third quarter, building the margin to 23-0. There was no scoring in fourth quarter, as both sides substituted freely.

Four days later the Ponies downed Blue Island 12-0, in a game in which they did not allow a first down until the fourth quarter.

The Lightweights third game that week, against Froebel High School (Gary, Indiana), suggested that the

predictions of the Academy News were perhaps not amiss. The games was scoreless during the first half, although Froebel had penetrated, in the only scoring threat of the first half, to the MPMA IS-yard-line before surrendering the ball on downs.

Macine's SO-yard-interception

Coach Edward Bouma.

return in the third quarter was the game's first score. The Ponies added two forth-quarter rushing touchdowns for an 18-0 triumph.

Three shut-outs in a seven-day

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span: the season looked very promising, indeed.

The Lightweights fourth consecutive shut-out, a 13-0 win over Pullman High School's second-team Heavyweights, was highlighted by touchdown plunges by Mancine and Bill Kuss and an apparent rarity: a kicked pOint-after-touchdown. The game was perhaps even tougher than the score indicated, for seven of the Pullman linemen were, the Skirmisher reported, "knocked out and had to be removed from the game."

Al Mancine scored on a 4S-yardrun and set up another with a 40yard-scamper as the Ponies (relegated to page three, while the varsity, with a 2-1-1 record, was still page one news) defeated Bloom 14-0 on the first Dad's Day in the history of the school. The game was characterized as the toughest of the season.

It was not until October 30, when the Lights defeated the previously unbeaten Morton High School sophomores 22-0, that the Ponies merited page one coverage in the Academy News. The varsity was 3-1-1, but six straight shut-out wins were hard to ignore. Mancine, once again, paced the squad by passing for one touchdown, running 30 yards for another, and adding two pOints after on line-plunges.

The highlight for the fans, however, came in the fourth quarter with MPMA ahead 15-0. As the reporter for the Academy News describes it: "Towards the end of the game Pea irs, who had been playing a bangup game, received a poke in the eye and had to be taken out. Ashenden took his place [at left halfback]. On the very first play Ash ran wide around left end leaving everybody behind and running for what looked like a touchdown. Twenty-five yards from the goal-line the ball suddenly became heavy and he dropped it in an open field. It was recovered and two plays later he ran around right end for the last touchdown."

Fumbles can always be viewed but Mancine scored 29 points on four Lightweights easily won its final with amusement after the game is touchdowns and five extra-points. game, 48-0, even though the "Godwon, but in the November 2 game A game against Tilden was dess of Luck" seemed to be against against Harrison, fumbles, time, cancelled so that the public school them on points-after-touchdown tries. penalties, and a solid defense kept team could cheer on its varsity in a They missed eight of eight. Peairs MPMA from that perfect season. battle for the public league south scored one of the touchdowns, Snyder The "Fightscored on two long, ing Lights" beautiful open-field advanced to the runs, and Mancine put one-yard-line in the ball over the goal the second five times. quarter, only to Eighteen of the surrender on players were awarded downs. Harrison emblems and the team punted the ball finished with a record away, but MPMA of 8 wins, no losses, marched right and one tie. MPMA back down the scored 192 points and field again, only its opponents none. to be halted by The Academy News the whistle had it right: 1929 ending the first team was even better half. Two scoring than the 1928 team, Capt. Mancine starting on a plunge through the line. which had been called opportunities slipped away in the second half, once "the best in the history of the school." section title against Lindbloom. when a fumble gave the ball to A season in which any football The final lightweight game of Harrison inside their own ten-yardteam goes unbeaten and unscored season, against Kankakee, was played upon is rare indeed. The scoreless tie late in the season (November 23) and line, and then again when a penalty with Harrison, however, was the one put the Ponies out of field-goal range. there was not another Academy News The game ended 0-0. game the 1929 Lightweights did not until January. By then, it was the win. They had to settle, then, for The Ponies, after a week off, basketball season, and football was "second best" - the almost perfect returned to the home field and apparently forgotten. season. trounced Onarga 42-0 on a muddy The 1930 Skirmisher, however, reported that Coach Edward Bouma's field. Snyder scored two touchdowns,

The "almost perfect" 1929 MPMA Lightweight football team.

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frfPA (oott,IJ The golden age of MPMA Football

by Joe Ziemba Jr.

outstanding records last year," the Daily News said, "there is a heavy search for talent going on at Morgan Park Military Academy this year in order to fill gaping holes left by graduation last spring. And that's just what head grid tutor Captain Joe Ziemba and his assistant, Gene Rodie, are concentrating on at the academy."

Yet, rebuilding never seemed to be a problem in those days for the Academy. Despite having only about 300 students in the school, the Warriors traditionally stomped any and all challengers in the area, from Joliet Catholic to St. Charles to Lockport to the best the Chicago Public League had to offer.

If there ever was a story of the little engine that could ... this was it!

Today, of course, such competition would be impossible (even if the Academy had a football team). The Warriors would be buried in Class 1A (smallest schools), while Lockport and St. Charles would probably represent the Class 8A (largest) schools. In truth, a school from Class 1A would never even be allowed to playa school with Class 8A credentials, and even the mere thought that the smaller school might be competitive would be laughable.

But a half-century ago, these size mismatches would occur and the Warriors likely would win ... and win again.

Nothing like this had occurred before - or since - in the competitive ranks of the Illinois high school football ranks.

Coach Joe Ziemba actively scouted for premier opponents and quickly gained a solid measure of respect among Chicago area prep coaches.

Ziemba joined the MPMA staff in 1943 following an AllAmerican career at St. Benedict's College in Atchison, Kansas and a stint as the coach of Rockhurst College in Kansas. He quickly became enamored with the tradition and discipline at MPMA, and found that he could be innovative both on the field and in the classroom.

He was also a much sought-after pro football prospect.

The first NFL coach to join the chase for the imposing tight end, who came from from the Hegewisch neighborhood on Chicago's far south side, was none other than George Halas of the Chicago Bears.

In late 1938, he wrote the athlete to champion the cause of his Bears: "From what I hear of your ability, you would fit into our club very nicely ... and would like to know if you would be interested in playing football for the Chicago Bears next Fall?"

The only problem with the letter from Halas was that he was a year early. The "giant" end from St. Benedict's in

Coach Ziemba: the man in uniform.

"Warriors Lacking in Grid Talent," the Chicago Daily News headline proclaimed over fifty years ago, on September 20,1950.

The story underneath the headline predicted a decline in fortune for the 1950 Morgan Park Military Academy football team.

It wasn't unusual for the Warriors to be featured in the sports pages of the major Chicago dailies, but it was unusual for the team to be mentioned in such a pessimistic context.

After all, the tiny school from the south side had earned a big reputation as one of the most successful - and consistent - football programs in the Midwest. Back in 1950, the Warriors had few players (and no starters) returning from a spectacular 7-1 season the year before.

"Like many of the Chicago land prep teams that created

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1?1PA~ Atchison, Kansas had earned All-American honors as a junior.

He was named to the first team All-American squad by Collier'S magazine, which labeled him as an "outstanding pass receiver. His defensive play has been exceptional. Best in the West!" The Football News, in its article on "SO Years of All-Americans," grouped him with luminaries such as Tom Harmon and Red Grange: "Joe Ziemba is known for his crashing blocks and crushing tackles. Snagging touchdown passes when they are really needed is his specialty!"

During his tenure with St. Benedict's, the club was a powerful presence in the West, once compiling a 15 game winning streak that was ultimately snapped in a tight 6-0 loss to Creighton University. He was captain of both the football and basketball teams in college and enjoyed one of his finest games on the hard court when he was the leading scorer in a tight game with Wichita State. In all, he won four letters in football and three in basketball.

By the end of 1939, the letters from the pros increased.

Everyone wanted a shot at the 6-4, 235 pound receiver that one Wichita paper described as "the Polish lad from Chicago who is all bone and two feet thick ... one of the toughest ends to skirt we've ever seen."

Coach E. C. "Gus" Henderson, of the Detroit Lions, for example, wrote to Ziemba: "You have been recommended to us by several coaches and we are definitely interested in signing you with the Detroit Lions. No doubt you will be hearing from other National League coaches, but we hope you will not sign up with any club until we have been able to contact you personally ... " Eventually, Ziemba was drafted by the Chicago (now Arizona) Cardinals of the NFL and signed with the club for a princely sum of $110 per game. The Cardinals were pleased to have him, the 1940 edition of Who's Who in the Major Leagues: Football noted, listing him on the Cardinals' roster and predicting that the 6-4 "all-around" athlete would be vying for a starting end position with the team.

Hall of Fame Coach Jimmy Conzelman of the Cardinals wrote to his players in July of 1940 to remind them to report to pre-season practice on Friday, August 9: "It is vital that everyone be on hand promptly. With the opening game scheduled at Pittsburgh for September 8, you can readily see we won't have much time to install a new system and get an offense in operation."

In a postscript (that explains only too well the difference between today's glamorous game and those rugged early years), Conzelman noted: "Bring your pads and shoes along."

The location of that pre-season Cardinals camp?

None other than Morgan Park Military Academy. The school hosted the NFL team for its camps in 1938, 1940, and 1941.

Conzelman ran rugged twice-a-day practice sessions under the hot August sun on the MPMA fields and the

players stayed in the school's dorms. However, Conzelman didn't need to worry about his players sneaking off in the middle of the night to enjoy the Morgan Park nightlife or to stroll down 111 th Street to the infamous Swank Roller Rink.

Fullback Motts Tonelli, from Notre Dame, remembered: "With all of those practices, we were too tired each day to think of anything but sleep!"

The Chicago press covered the local pro football scene extensively in those days with both the Bears and the Cardinals receiving significant coverage in the newspapers.

The Chicago Herald placed the Cardinals on the front of its sports page with large photos of Ziemba, Conzelman, Tonelli, former Pittsburgh great Marshall Goldberg and others under the headline: "Cardinals Prepare for 1940 Championship."

Lanky end Billy Dewell, who eventually became team captain of the 1947 NFL champion Cardinals, recalled meeting Ziemba: "He was a big, solid guy who could really block. We could have used him."

Major George Mahon (right) greets new assistant MPMA football coach Joe Ziemba at the start of the 1943 season. Ziemba became head coach in 1946 and promptly reeled off a 27-4-2 record in his first four years.

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1?fPA~ broken ankle; Chuck Fidler, junior left half, is hospitalized Unfortunately, a trick knee lingered from an injury by an appendectomy. But the Warriors go right on Ziemba endured during his collegiate days and the Cardinals winning ... And if you think that combination, coached by sent him to Little Company of Mary Hospital on 95th Street Capt. Joe Ziemba, former Mt. Carmel and Chicago Cardinal for surgery. While contemplating the imminent surgical star, isn't tough, think this over - the Warriors whipped St. procedure he decided to check himself out of the hospital Charles and Crete in games played on consecutive days." (and out of his promising pro career) and decided to pursue another occupational path.

Ziemba found plenty of leadership for his troops in "I thought about the surgery and then decided to give quarterback Ted Heitschmidt, who frequently paired up with sure-handed receiver Tom Tiernan to provide the opposition up the game and find a coaching job," he once said. "Besides, at that time, you could make more money coaching with plenty to fear through the air. On the ground, halfback Ken Nelson stepped in for Fidler to pace the rushers. Meanthan you could playing professional football!"

And so, with a few stops here and there, Ziemba came to while the line was fortified by tackles Len Baldassari (230) MPMA. Successful football teams had always been the and Butch McGuire (180); guards Rufe Wasick (190) and Dan Tuffs (175); center Dave Daisley (180) and end Harry Pratt trademark of the school, highlighted by fearsome squads (200) . that never shied from taking on the most stalwart oppo............ nents.

This shining season had The Academy's 1907 squad followed another fairly good year was an early example of these in 1946 (Ziemba's first as head superlative teams when it coach) when the Warriors finished with a 9-0 record and dispatched much larger schools outscored its opponents by a such as Crete and Lockport, on whopping 350-0! Those their way to a 7-1-1 final mark. accomplishments earned the Seven of those games finished in club the laurels as "Champions shutouts (including a tough of the Midwest." scoreless tie with Argo) as MPMA Other laudable finishes out-scored the opposition 206were in 1925 with another 13. Over those two spectacular undefeated team and in 1939, years, the Warriors notched a 14when MPMA concluded its 1-2 slate and topped the scoring schedule with a spotless 9-0 derby over its opponents by a record. nasty count of 356-26 - allowAfter several near misses, ing only four opposing touchthe 1947 squad under Ziemba's downs in two years! tutelage was also undefeated, The golden age of MPMA wrapping up a 7-0-1 campaign football didn't stop there ... with only a lonely 7-7 tie with In 1948, despite impressive Lockport marring the nearwins over Joliet Catholic and perfect slate. That remarkable Lockport, the Warriors "slipped" group also stressed its excepto 6-2. While the team feasted The Chicago Cardinals club of the NFL held its pretional defensive capabilities by season training camp at MPMA in 1938, 1940, and on other private school competinotching six shutouts on the 1941. Hall of Fame Coach Jimmy Conze/man (left) tion from the likes of Roosevelt way to out-scoring its oppomet with his players at the start of the 1940 camp Military Academy, Howe Military (from left): Motts Tonelli, Tony Blazine, Joe Ziemba, nents 150-13. On one unique Academy and Onarga Military weekend, the Warriors defeated Willie Phillips, and Ed Norris. (Photo originally apAcademy, the colors of the larger St. Charles 13-0 and Crete 33-0 peared in Chicago Herald on August 9, 1940.) suburban public schools seemed in back-to-back games. to bring out the best in the Academy players.

The 1947 squad was a special one that persevered By 1949, the private military schools had largely despite numerous injuries. The Daily News, on November 24, disappeared from the schedule with only brave Howe M.A. observed: "No matter what happens at Morgan Park Military venturing on to the Warriors aggreSSive schedule. One local Academy, the football Warriors just keep rolling along and newspaper (probably the Herald) noted the student populait's going to take a real upset to stop them short of their goal tion differential facing the Warriors: "The Cadets have added of an undefeated season. Pete Pratt, senior left end and team four 'big schools' to their schedule this year. There are 260 captain, is through for the year with a dislocated shoulder; high school boys in MPMA. Tuley has nearly 10 times that Allan Carlson, senior fullback, has been sidelined with a many students. The other three new Warrior opponents

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1?1PA~ (South Shore, Blue Island, Niles) are well over 1,000."

In all, 45 students were ready for the football season and it proved to be a successful one. Among the victims in that satisfying 1949 season were South Shore (20-7), Joliet Catholic (19-7), Chicago Roosevelt (43-6), Chicago Tuley (25-7), Pullman Tech (38-0) and Blue Island (now Eisenhower, 7-6). The only blemish on the record was a 2012 defeat by Niles. Among the 1949 team leaders were quarterback Bob Kaak (a deadly passer), end George Michale, Cal Bouma, defensive back Frank Burd, fullback Martin Mehan (just 155 pounds), halfback Gino Cantele, and linemen Don Neri, Pete Cappas, John Buechner, John Leventis, Dick Serventi, Jack Lucido, Lee Flores, and tackle/ captain Russ Beckman.

The metropolitan media didn't fail to notice the blossoming success at the south side school. "Morgan Park's Habit: Winning," shouted one headline in the Chicago Tribune, while another stated: "Coach Ziemba Furnishes Healthy Tradition."

Calvin Bouma was the MVP for MPMA during the 7-1 1949 season. He averaged a spectacular 7.2 yards per carry in Ziemba's ground attack and rushed for a total of 637 yards and six touchdowns despite suffering a broken nose early in the season. He played many minutes on defense as well. He remembers his old coach as being" a big man. He was tough and expected you to produce, but he had a good sense of humor and was a great kidder. But you did a lot of laps if you goofed up!"

The Warriors excelled during Bouma's time on the varsity and he traced most of that success to the coach: "He took a bunch of ordinary players and made them into a heck of a team. We always played much bigger schools and did manage to win most of our games. Football was the biggest thing that I remember from my days at the school."

"One of Ziemba's innovations was a pre-season training camp. Ironically, the NFL Cardinals stayed in town for preseason workouts while the mighty MPMA high school

Warriors headed north to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin for their training camp. "Yes, one season we went to Lake Geneva to train, which was unheard of for high schools," said Bouma.

"We stayed in a nice hotel and everybody on the team wanted to cut loose and have a good time, but the coach and the dads really sat on us. It was pretty much all business."

Following the 1949 season, the team was honored at the annual gala football dinner on campus. Athletic Director Major Mahon was among the speakers as were Capt.

Gumbrell. Lt. Col. DeGrand pre, and Capt. Marshall. Capt.

Ziemba presented the varsity emblems. The featured speaker was Marshall Goldberg, the revered two-time All-American at Pittsburgh and an All-Pro with the Cardinals (one of only four players to have his number retired in the team's 102 year history). Now 83 and living in Chicago, Goldberg still remembers his visit to MPMA in 1949. "The reason I remember it is that I was living on the north side at the time and I took the bus all the way down Western Avenue to attend the banquet. Usually when you attend one of these events at a high school, the kids are flying around and having a good time. However, at Morgan Park, I remember the obvious discipline, pride, and correct behavior of the students. It was obviously a credit to both the school and coach Ziemba."

Another honor for Ziemba came the next year. The Annual Kiwanis Sports Program dinner, on September 28, 1950 at the Hotel Sherman included perhaps the most incredible collection of sports-related speakers ever gathered for such a banquet in the history of Chicago.

Over there, that graceful middle-aged gentleman was none other than Red Grange, "Mr. Football himself," as the dinner program proclaimed.

"Mr. Baseball" was there as well, the respected, but notorious Rogers Hornsby.

Could that be Jesse Owens? Yes, the incredible Olympic champion, the man "who made Hitler like it in the Olympic Games in Berlin." Look around, they were all there: Grange,

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1?fPA~ duty so the wife and children of the coach were unceremoniously "volunteered" to help prepare the equipment for the upcoming season.

Cleaning helmets, re-fitting cleats, washing uniforms and repairing those new-fangled face masks were all part of the job in the mid 50s. Once in awhile, funds were found to purchase a few new helmets, an extinguisher-like water can, or some fresh shoulder pads (which were always reserved for the incoming seniors). After the equipment was checked and prepared, it was off to Abells Field on the north side of 111 th Street to prepare the concession stand. This odd, irregular building was believed to have been built sometime before the Battle of the Alamo and it did seem to have an unusual tilt to it.

No one wanted to be the first into that dusty, dark chamber when it was initially opened each summer.

Rumors abounded that spiders the size of Buicks were eagerly awaiting to devour the first child that entered each year, but that apparently had no influence on my older sister's decision to push me in as soon as the first crack of light swirled into the building. (It probably seemed like divine justice when, later that year, she reached into one of the deserted cannons on campus and discovered a rather unhappy family of hungry, yellow bumblebees.

Such was life on the MPMA campus in those days.

We lived on the first floor of the hulking two-story house directly across from the football field on 111 th Street.

The second floor was always reserved for another "coaching" faculty family, including the Marshalls, the Giffords, the Earles, and the Bloomers during our tenure.

There was nothing quite as spectacular as chasing after the military parades in the autumn or clamoring over forgotten military caps tossed gleefully into the air following the spring graduation ceremony in the Bowl.

With two gyms, a challenging cinder running track, and numerous pieces of abandoned military equipment, there was no better place to grow up. The days were always sunny ...

The 1950 season did prove to be challenging for the Warriors. After an impressive 25-19 win over South Shore in the opener, the bigger schools on the schedule (Niles, Argo, Joliet Catholic and Blue Island) began to avenge some of their past embarrassments and stung the Warriors.

Culver Military Academy returned to the schedule in the only game that really mattered, and the two military schools battled to a 12-12 tie as the Warriors finished 3-4-1. Ziemba continued to schedule (and defeat) primarily public schools for the next few years - Oak Lawn, Reavis, Rich Township, Hammond (IN), Gary (IN) Clark, Bremen, and Carl Sandburg. His head coaching career concluded when he became the MPMA Athletic Director in the mid-1950s. Then, when the school began to divest its military stature and deemphasize football, he left his beloved MPMA to conclude his teaching career at Blue Island Eisenhower.

Hornsby, Owens, boxer Tony Zale, golfer Chick Evans, and a young man in a nicely tailored military uniform.

The uniform was out of place, but the young man was not. He was invited to participate in this lavish event because he, too, had reached the pinnacle of success in his own athletic endeavor. The program simply listed him as: "Captain Joe Ziemba, football coach, Morgan Park Military Academy."

Grange, Hornsby and Owens came over and shook his hand for he (as they) was recognized as the best in his particular business. And as the numerous luminaries passed by to extend their best wishes, the young man in the uniform - the proud uniform - was gracious and humble.

His business was football, high school football ... Morgan Park Military Academy football.

And he was the best ...

And so, as the Daily News previewed the 1950 season, it duly noted the impressive recent success of Morgan Park Military Academy: "Coach Ziemba is starting his fifth season at the helm of Warrior grid destinies and his record displays an imposing array of victories over the past four years. His teams have won 27 contests while dropping but four and tying two. Last year's record was one of Ziemba's most brilliant as his eleven copped seven wins against one defeat.

"There's no way we can get around it," commented Ziemba, "we'll have to work hard and develop the material available."

Football season at the Academy actually began in July (as I can personally attest). It was always the hottest, grittiest, most humid month of the year in Morgan Park. The sun would feast on the campus on l1lth Street and the lack of air-conditioning only served to emphasize the unrelenting heat. While the football season didn't actually begin that early for the players, it certainly did for the head coach, who often didn't know if there would be an assistant that year until right before the beginning of practice.

Still, there was work to be done in that silent locker room hidden carefully behind the forlorn MPMA gymnasium. The south door in the locker room led directly outside to the football practice fields and it was here each July that the coach was truly happy - even if his family failed to embrace that same warm, fuzzy feeling! For it was the coach's family (along with any local cadet that could be recruited) who were in charge of preparing the equipment for the upcoming football season.

The heavy layer of humidity seemed to heighten as box after box of MPMA football equipment was lowered down from storage each summer. The stale cardboard boxes contained everything from cleats to shoulder pads, while aging footballs and helmets inhabited tired canvas bags. All of this grungy stuff, still untouched after the previous season ended in early November, needed to be examined, inventoried, cleaned, and documented. There were no flexible MPMA employees available for this dismal, albeit necessary,

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frlPA~ During the recent reunion of the MPMA classes from the late 40s and early 50s, there were plenty of stories shared about the old football coach, but this time in a classroom context.

"One time, I was out of line a little and he simply took me and hung me on a coat rack," laughed a former cadet of smallish stature.

"It's true," added Bouma. "He was so, so big and strong, he would literally pick you up and look you in the eye if you did something wrong and once he took a small guy and hung him on a coat hook!"

Disciplinary methods were different 50 years ago, especially at a private military school where discipline was expected by the parents. "Everything was so focused," noted Bouma, "that it was total immersion. There was nothing else but school. In Captain Ziemba's class, you had to pay attention, otherwise you had an eraser coming your way!"

But there were some advantages to being the star

football player in Captain Ziemba's class. According to Bouma: "In Civics class, he'd look at me, flip me a dime, and I'd run over to the Swank Roller Rink and get his newspaper!"

After he left the Academy, Ziemba continued in coaching for a few years at Blue Island before deciding to "retire."

Things just weren't the same as at the Academy.

He played his last game in March of 1973 when a sudden stroke swept him away at the too young age of 54.

He never spoke much - if at all - about his stellar playing and spectacular coaching achievements.

To me he was simply a father, a guy who taught me how to ride a bike, throw a curveball, and punt a football. He was always there for us, just as he was for the hundreds of Cadets who passed his way.

There was no better father ...

And MPMA was the perfect place for both sides of this gentle giant to shine ...

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The (almost) complete MPAIMPMA football record, 1890-1978 These records were compiled by Peggy Gatsinos [2000J, largely from yearbooks, and occasionally supplemented by other sources. If any alums can help fill in the gaps or correct the record, please send documents to Barry Krltzberg at NlPA.-ed.J

Year 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918

Record

Coach

? ? ?

Standing/Comments

[team existed) beat LFA 14-12

1-0-0 [inc)

?

1-1-0 [inc) 1-0-0 [inc) 1-1-0 [inc) 0-1-0 [inc] 1-0-0 [inc] 1-0-0 [inc] 6-O-G [inc) 2-0-0 [inc) 1-1-3 [inc)

lost 8-6 to UC 2nd team beat austin hs 16-6 lost to UC varsity 30-0; beat 2nd team 6-0 lost lewis Inst 6-5 12 game sked/chgo eve post, 4 Oct 99) beat st. vincent college 11-5/interacademic champs Lister champions; undefeated; only five points allowed champs (lost uc freshmen 4-6, and Benton Harbor)

?

9-2-0

?

9-G-O 7-1-0 6-1-0 5-0-1 3-3-G

Western Prep Champions p: 379- op: 19 Stagg, Oberg Stagg, Anderson Stagg, Anderson Anderson

Illinois Champions Western Champions

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3-2-1

Anderson

5-4-0

Herendeen, Stephenson

3-2-0 6-2-0

Stewart Stewart

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Year 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978

Record 7-3-0 5-1路0 2-1-2 3-3-2 ? ?

6-0-0 5-1-1 2-1-3 4-3-1 5-4-1 5-3-0 3-2-2 2-6-0 8-3-0 2-4-0 5-1-3 ?

5-2-2 9-0-0 1-6-0 3-6-0 3-6-0 3-3-0 4-4-0 4-4-0 7-1-1 ?

6-2-0 7-1-0 3-1-4 1-7-0 3-2-4 4-2-3 4-5-0

l-a-o

3-5-0 ?

5-3-0 2-1-3 4-4-0 3-4-0 ?

5-3-0 5-1-2 5-3-0 8-1-0 4-4-0 5-3-0 3-1路3 6-1-0 8-0-0 6-1-0 6-0-0 ?

6-0-1 4-4-0 ?

0-3-0

Coach Anderson Fleming Fleming Fleming

Standing/Comments

Fleming Fleming Fleming Fleming Fleming Fleming Fleming Fleming Woodworth Woodworth1935 Grisby

Midwest Prep Conference 2nd

3-6-0 Grisby

Mahon, Bollman Mahon, Bollman Mahon, Bollman Mahon, Bollman Bugbee Mahon, Marberry Mahon, Ziemba Mahon, Ziemba, Marshall

Midwest Prep School Champions

North Central Conference Champions

Mahon, Ziemba Mahon, Ziemba Ziemba, Rodie Ziemba, Rodie Ziemba, Rodie Ziemba, Dickinson ..

Ziemba, Dickinson Boya, Gifford Bloomer, Gifford Ziemba, Kraineck Draper Draper, Sundt, Snelling Bryant, Pescosolido lewis, Bryant, Bryan, Rylander Lewis, Cressey, Cahill Bryan, Lewis, Cressey Quinn, Cressy Jones, Cahill, O'Connor Jones, O'Connor, Cahill O'Connor, Jones Jones, Cleary Cleary, Jones Jones, Cleary Jones, Saathoff, Dasko Jones, Dasko Jones, Saathoff Dasko, Saathoff Miller, Dasko Mille!, Dasko

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2nd Private School League Independent School League Champions

Independent School League Champions ISL champions 2nd,ISL ISL Co-champs

The last Football calnpaign by Brian Coller [79]

Football in the 60s at MPA was fairly traditional, even as so many of my football heroes wear. it made the transition from boarding to day school.

When I entered high school in 1975, I was on the froshThere were bonfires on the night before games, there soph team and we practiced with the varsity. Our schedule consisted of only five games. I didn't think about it at the were huge homecoming parades, and team members were proud to wear their letter sweaters. time, but now I realize that that frosh-soph season really It wasn't the hoopla, however, that hooked me on foreshadowed the end of football at MPA. It was the last sports. It was my father. frosh-soph team at MPA. He believed that, as a teacher and administrator, it was As a military and boarding school, of course, it had been important to support student expected that students particiactivities. That meant that our pate in extra-curricular activities.

The Academy's initial shift, in whole family attended all athletic events. We even went the late 50s, from an all-male to the away games because my student body to co-ed certainly mom drove the bus for the reduced the number of particicheerleaders. pants in sports like football. The Participating in sports was numbers were still very high, a natural consequence of however, when I entered high growing up on the MPA school.

Over the next several years, campus. There were many however, there was a decline in faculty children who were active in Academy athletics and the popularity of football. That it was natural for all of us, from was being mirrored throughout an early age, to rush out after the ISL, as schools were dropping dinner in Alumni Hall to play football programs in favor of soccer. ISL schools had to the sport of the season.

When my brothers entered contend with increases in high school, I became a gym football liability costs, and rat. I always attended their escalating football expenses in practices and, at times, I would general, in a period of what even participate in some of the seemed to be declining enrollnon-contact drills. I remember, ments. for example, racing with Ricky Football at MPA, however, continued to be successful, Shopiro and the lineman.

At every varsity football despite the decline in numbers. game, there was always a pickThe 1975 team, for example, had up game going on simultaonly twenty-nine players, but neously on the side-lines. The after opening with a 0-0 tie with key players in those pick-up Walther Lutheran, the Warriors games were usually the decisively defeated its next six younger siblings of the team Warren Jones and Tedd Saathoff. opponents. Nearly every starter members. The pick-up players managed to watch the "real was voted all-conference. Perhaps Coach Jones saw that end game" only during their timeouts and halftimes. of football at MPA was near, for he retired from coaching Certainly the most memorable season, from that sideafter that season.

Tedd Saathoff coached the team in 1976, but the line perspective of mine, was 1971. It was, very likely, Coach Warren Jones' best team, and perhaps one of best Academy number of players was barely over twenty. We were 4-4 teams ever. The Warriors (8-0-0) averaged fifty points per overall, but still managed to be co-champions of the ISL. We game, outscoring its opponents 402-6, and easily won the had seven players on the all-conference team. In 1977, we Independent School League (lSL) title. finished in second place.

As George Turk and I trained throughout the next I remember, in particular, when Bruce Barker and Bob Montgomery exchanged uniform numbers for a game. summer, I think we realized that our senior year would not The first organized football I played was on the middle only be the last football campaign for us, but for MPA as school team. I can't say that I remember much about the well. This was all-but confirmed at the preseason camp when practices or the games, but I do recall that it was a proud we saw that our 1978 schedule consisted of only three moment to be wearing the same MPA colors that I had seen games.

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There was a new coach, Tim Miller, who had played at Northern Illinois University, and he managed to rekindle some of the excitement for football at MPA. It didn't last long, however. We began the season with only seventeen players and injuries and illness reduced the numbers even further. I remember we were only able to scrimmage the left side of the offense against the right side of the defense because there weren't enough players to fill all the positions. This also severely hindered our tackling drills, for we ever fearful of losing more players.

Still, we had the optimism of youth and I remember that George Turk and I, after scouting our first opponent, Glenwood, felt very good about our chances.

Glenwood, however, thoroughly beat us, both physically on the playing field and the scoreboard.

The second game, against Lake Forest Academy, was a gallant effort on the part of the Warriors, and we just narrowly missed a victory.

The final game was homecoming, against North Shore.

The crowd at this game was the largest that I ever played before in my career at MPA. Alumni and parents from decades past showed up for that final football homecoming.

Again, for the third time, we lost.

The sale highlight for the Warriors that afternoon was made by freshman Jonathan Turk. He caught a pass over the middle, and there was a roar from the crowd that echoed the past greatness on 112th Street.

As Jonathan ran down the sideline, the spectators excitedly raced on the field and watched MPA's football history cross its final goal line.

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Brian Coller spots a receiller oller the middle and lets it fly.

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Wanted: Nominations for the The creation of halls of fame seems to be as American as apple pie and if Alexis de Tocqueville had lived long enough to see their proliferation he would surely have noted the twentieth century phenomena in Democracy in America.

There are halls of fame (professional and amateur, on national, state, and local levels) for baseball, football,

basketball, golf, track & field, boxing, wrestling, swimming, ice hockey, and also for country music, rock'n'roll, cowboys, police, aviators, circus performers, and magicians.

It is time for Morgan Park Academy to catch up to the parade and create its own MPMA/MPA Sports Hall of Fame. It should honor those, living and deceased, whose accomplish-

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ments in various sports are benchmarks of excellence. It should honor athletes and coaches whose moments of glory in those fleeting high school careers are truly memorable and it should also honor those who, like Jesse Harper or Wallace Wade, achieved distinction on college, olympic, or professional playing fields.

MPMAIMPA Sports Hall of Fame The MPMA/MPA Sports Hall of Fame should be patterned, perhaps, after Cooperstown and offer much more to visitors than a few plaques on the wall and induction ceremonies might become a part of home-coming festivities .

The first step is to create an MPMA/MPA Sports Hall of Fame Selection Committee. It will be their task to establish, in conjunction with the headmaster, the criteria for induction, develop by-laws, and select

the recipients for the honor from among those nominated.

If you would like to serve on the selection committee or if you would like to recommend someone for the committee, please notify Headmaster ] . William Adams.

Nominations for the MPMA/MPA Sports Hall of Fame will be accepted from any member of the Loring/ MPMA/MPA community. Those, too, should be submitted to the headmaster.

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Alumni News Annual 1945-1955 Class Reunion at Moody's Pub

John Kahoun [51] opened up his finest outdoor patio for his good friends on July 16, 2001. Each year, Mr. Kahoun, owner of Moody's Pub on the north side of Chicago, hosts a reunion for members of the MPMA classes of 1945 through 1955 at his restaurant. Guests are treated to the best burgers in town and non-stop refreshments throughout the evening.

This year was no exception, as the weather cooperated with a cool evening breeze and a crowd of alumni and their wives came armed with healthy appetites and great stories from their military days. Barry Kritzberg attended and paid close attention to the tales in his neverending quest for additional material for the Academy archives.

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20th Reunion for Class of 1981 The class of 1981 held its 20th reunion at Morgan Park Academy on Saturday, June 9, 2001. Following on the heels of graduation ceremonies, held earlier in the day, nearly forty graduates and guests traveled from as

far away as Los Angeles and London to reunite and reminisce with classmates. Planners also invited the classes of 1980 and 1982 to join the festivities A reception was followed by dinner, which was served up in the dining hall. Barry Kritzberg, MPA teacher and archivist, delivered an entertaining and, of course, educational keynote presentation comparing the content of yearbook signings from the 1880s and 1980s. Headmaster Bill Adams also held court with a question and answer session about the Academy, past and present.

As midnight approached and the on-campus party closed down, most in attendance were still in celebrating moods. Reliable sources say that the party was still hopping when the streetlights went off on Sunday morning.

Our gratitude goes out to Mike Flanagan and Ralph Steinbarth for their efforts to help plan the event and recruit fellow graduates. Thanks to all who attended, and for helping make the event a big success.

West Coast Alumni Gathering A festive West Coast alumni gathering, featuring dinner and wine tasting, was held in San Francisco on July 28,2001. This first-time event in the Bay area was held at MoMo's Restaurant, on the beautifully redeveloped South of Market waterfront, just across the street from the new Pacific Bell Baseball Park.

A small but enthusiastic group of over twenty people included graduates from the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Guests enjoyed an evening of fine dining and were treated to a presentation of wine and food pairing by a representative from Byron Winery.

The event was quite well received.

One military alum noted that in his fifty-plus years in California, he had never met a graduate from the nonmilitary Academy. He and many others voiced their interest in attending more events such as this . Plans are already in the works for future gatherings.

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Alumni Calendar of Events November 23,2001 Young Alumni/ae Post-Thanksgiving Gathering December 29,2001 Annual Alumni Basketball Game

Bill Adams, Hal [521 and Mary Helen Boex, Stan Eigelbemer [541, and George Major, Sr. [541 at the West Coast alumni gathering.

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Neither rain, nor heat... can stop the fun

by Eric Gustavson [61]and Edward Rund [61]

The day-long celebration of the 40th reunion of the 1961 MPA/Loring classes was to be launched from Navy Pieris North Terminal on Saturday morning, July 21, 2001 with a cruise along the shore of Lake Michigan and up the Chicago River.

The group assembled on the dock, sweltering in temperatures in excess of 90 degrees, and became a little uneasy as the time for their departure came and went ... ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes late.

The ship's crew then reported that there would be no cruise that day: the engines wouldn't start.

being made to reconstruct the school's past.

The fellows of MPA and the ladies of Loring (many with spouses or Significant others) then danced to music provided by disc-jockey Sue Ellen Spooner. She got people up and dancing by playing Lost in the Fifties Tonight and There's No Getting Over Me. Her husband Grant Spooner (who attended the Academy) was gracious enough to be the photographer for the evening.

The Chicago-area Academy/Loring women, who provided favorite desserts for the occasion, deserve all of our thanks, as do those who hosted out-of-town guests.

The weekend concluded with a small, but spirited brunch at Butch McGuire's Pub on Sunday. Randy Winski, who didn't attend Saturday's festivities because of another reunion, joined the group at Butch's and sends his best to all of those classmates he did not see.

The roll of classmates, however, is still incomplete, for we have lost touch with Walter W. Anderson, Chad Ballard,

Front row: Fred Hall, Ron Pearce, Rod Holmberg, John Burnham, Bill Springer, John Destefano, Don Blitz.

Back row: Paul Djikas, Manfred Kekstadt, Eric Gustavson, John Gervasi, Ed Rund, John Stack, Bruce Burmesiter, Bob Lloyd, Steve Erickson [62], Rich Aitchison.

The MPA/Loring crew responded swiftly and decisively: they would adjourn to the air-conditioned comfort of a restaurant at the end of Navy Pier and celebrate anyway.

In the afternoon, as the group headed for a "welcome back" reception on the Academy campus, they had to overcome another minor obstacle: a torrential rain storm (the worst of the season, to that point) . The 61-ers were undaunted, however, and simply continued to have a good time.

At the evening event, a dinner-dance at Silver Lake Country Club (Orland Park, Illinois), class president Ed Rund offered a few words of welcome and Eric Gustavson offered a toast and briefly memorialized deceased classmates Richard Seaton, Melanie Bunde, Jim Davis (college auto aCCident) and Ensign John V. Coghill (Viet Nam, May 1967).

There was much discussion, too, of those tumultuous days that saw this group begin its school days as uniformed cadets and concluded with their graduation in civilian garb.

Academy headmaster J. William Adams provided an overview of present day MPA and Bob Eichinger, director of institutional advancement, described the efforts that are

L to R Carole O'Connell, Judith Stark, Carol Maier Burnham, Virginia McEnchern Payne, Janice Erickson, Kathy McEachern Baker, Linda Evans Mille He, Donna Farmer Abishi.

John W. Cobb, David H. Doolittle, Michael Dotson, Roger Griffin, James M. Hess, Ronald L. Jensen, Akanat (Noy) Karnchanachari, Harold Siegel and Robert Sippel. If anyone knows the whereabouts of any of these classmates, please advise the Academy.

One last point: the Academy is most interested in acquiring MPMA/MPA/Loring memorabilia - uniforms, school newspapers, yearbooks, etc. - and if you have such please contact Academy archivist Barry Kritzberg. These items will help in writing the history of the school and may be displayed one day in an Academy museum.

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What a difference a century makes ... perhaps: a talk to the classes of 1980, 81 and 82 (June 2001) by Barry Kritzberg

When yearbooks would be distributed in my MPA English classes, I would wait for that moment in class when everyone would be busily writing away.

Then, as I took out my red pen with a menacing flourish, I would announce: "Please put all yearbooks on the front desk so I can correct the grammar and spelling of those who have written in yours ... " I was kidding, of course, but the joke never failed to provoke looks of horror on the writers' faces.

Some even guiltily closed the book in which they were writing.

But now, my first impulse, on reading through the personal messages in several Compendiums, vintage 1980 to 1982, was to send them, post-haste, to my son.

You are no doubt wondering, "Why my son?"

He is, you see, an FBI agent - and FBI, for those who are too paralyzed with fear to remember, does stand for Federal Bureau of Investigation - and I thought even today he might be interested in the subversive activities so innocently chronicled in your graduation yearbooks.

On second thought, however, pangs of MPA loyalty tugged at my heart, and I decided not to send the 1980s Compendium to my son's California FBI office.

I do think it only fair to inform you, however, that the building is surrounded ... so please keep your seats until I'm finished.

And besides, the bell hasn't rung.

So, what did I learn by reading what you wrote in those yearbooks?

Plenty.

I sent page sixty-five of the 1981 Compendium, for example, to a local graphologist.

The blank looks I see on your faces can't really conceal your guilt. Page sixty-five, for those of you who can't recall, was the one with the class picture and the signatures.

The Signatures: the report was mind-boggling, staggering.

But it is, perhaps, too early in the evening to start getting so personal. So, just relax, and I'll tell you what I found in reading what you wrote in your yearbooks by comparing it with what I found in an autograph book, kept by a Morgan Park Military Academy student just about one hundred years before you graduated.

Percy Armstrong (for that was his name) collected a little more than one hundred autographs in his leather-bound autograph book during the years 1879-1892.

The autograph book was small, perhaps about a third the size of the modern yearbook, and that perhaps explains

Barry Kritzberg, to show his class solidarity, dons one of the infamous beanies freshmen were once - once only - required to wear.

why most of the entries were so sh ort.

Each signer, it seems, was too polite to take up more than a single page.

In the 1980s, h owever, there was no decency at all.

Some people just wrote and wrote and wrote, starting on the

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The 1980s writers didn't come up the level of clarity inside front cover, continuing on the back cover, and finishing up somewhere in the blank spaces of the advertisproduced by the penmanship of Percy's contemporaries, but what they wrote was, on the whole, readable. ing pages.

The most astonishing thing to me about these lengthy And no one in the classes of 1980-82, I'm happy to epistles is, however, the authors themselves. The very report, wrote as awkwardly as some of Percy's less-skilled classmates. people who wrote so glowingly, lyrically and extravagantly There was a certain politeness, a certain reticence, in in someone else's Compendium were often the very people that I couldn't get to write three coherent sentence on an inPercy's autograph book and it was clear that some (perhaps class essay on, say, Macbeth. many) subjects were clearly considered off-limits.

Another obvious difference: all of Percy's correspondents It was not so in the 1980s, however. There were subjects wrote in standard-issue black India ink, but the 1980s easily and openly broached that might have made Percy and responses offered a color extravaganza that went beyond the his classmates blush. standard eight in a small box of crayons.

Some would say that the words written in the 1980s Percy dutifully .......

Compendiums got all of his were a sign of teachers to sign his progression autograph book, but toward a new our 1980s students ease and didn't acquire very freedom of many "good luck in expression. college" from Others, howfaculty members. ever, might Not even I was pOint to the asked to sign those very same that I looked at. words as a sure Fancy that! sign of modern Perhaps I was decadence. on some governOne thing I ment list of am fairly sure subversives and of, however: no perhaps the mere matter how presence of my different name would have externally Percy been enough to and his classAmong those present at the gathering were (top row): Kellin Ashby, Robert have the owner of mates might Goes, Clarence Simmons, Ralph Steinbarth, Ted Karkazis, Vernon Larson, the book conseem from Mike Flanagan, Anthony Mackellicius, Martha Kleinhans, and Larry White; demned. those of 1980s, (seated) Lisa Michet, Joni Springs Duncan, Sharon Koskey Brashears, Dana That dreaded they were 1984 was not too far Bogle Otanez, Lisa Kirk Bourke, Dawne Rogers Dallis, and Charlene Stepney. probably more away, after all. like brothers and sisters under the skin than not.

The 1980s collectors of autographs also seemed to lack One of Percy Armstrong's 1881 classmates, H.W. Dakin, Percy's persistence. Percy got nearly everyone - classmates, signed the autograph book, for example, as "a convict of 80 teachers, administrators, students, relatives - to sign his and 81." book, but our 1980s representatives seemed to tire before A 1981 Compendium correspondent alluded to his the home stretch: not even half of the senior class signed. sojourn at MPA as "six years of hell."

And penmanship. It was obviously emphasized in the Students will be students, it seems, teachers will be nineteenth century, and it paid off handsomely in about teachers, and schools will be schools. ninety per cent of the cases with round, firm, clearly recogThat is all, I think, that needs to be said. nizable letters and words. n - 31 -

Alumni Briefs by Sandy Williams

Reuben Frodin [29] writes: "I read with interest the May [2001] issue of the Academy Magazine particularly the historical material. The reference to 'Gamman, the six foot, eight and one-half inch, 226 pound right guard' in liThe past is a foreign rt"\"nj-nr' MPA in the first

George Gamman in 1929.

decade of the twentieth century" is my uncle, George Harvey Gamman [08], who was born in Claremont, California in 1887 and died in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1937.

And about "The Captain Gray file' - I was the editor of the 1928 Skirmisher, the first year that title was used. Hugh Price and I changed it from Maroon and White, the colors of the University of Chicago athletic gear! I wrote the dedication to Captain Gray; and I still have vivid memories of him as a teacher. I had him for four years, and was excused from first-year college math. I'm quite sure he still wore his 1919 uniform in the years 1925-

29, and there was always a bit of chalk dust on it. He sat in a well-used swivel chair behind a desk in Blake Hall, with a blackboard behind him, and with a piece of chalk in hand - handy. Above the blackboard was a framed picture of unknown provenance. The picture tilted forward, leaving an opening at the top, but not at the bottom. On suitable occasions he would toss the chalk with a bit of an arc upwards so that it would lodge behind the picture. A suitable occasion might be asking a student if he had read, say, page 64.

'I looked it over,' the student would say.

'You mean you overlooked it,' Gray would respond.

Incidentally, the frame around the picture of Capt.

Gray in the article was part of the artwork for the 1928 Skirmisher by Allen M. Weary, an artist who did architectural renderings for my father. I still have the original of the 'frame' somewhere.

William Rainey Harper was once on the faculty of the Baptist Theological Union, right across from Blake Hall. He went from there to Yale, where he was professor of Hebrew when chosen to be the president of the University of Chicago. From day one he had an amazingly complete vision of what he wanted the university to be, including the network

of 'feeder' institutions, including junior colleges.

I'm sure that the original Baptist seminary and what land it had came cheap.

I'm curious about where the funds for East and West Halls came from. And I'm sure the university's interest in its Academy came to an end because of lack of money. Harper was a fabulous money-raiser for his time; his ideas were big, too, and usually right on the mark. Some fifty years ago I wrote a history of the college for the University of Chicago, published in The Idea and Practice of General Education. It was re-issued in paperback in 1990-91 for the centennial.

My first room in East Hall was next to the three rooms occupied by Col. Haydn Jones and his wife.

Colonels Abells and Jones were fine men and ran a very good school.

Unlike Barry Mumford, I had the least number of demerits in 1925-26 and earned a good conduct medal.

I have rambled, as I knew I would."

Lewis G. Groeb e [30] moved into a nursing home after the death of his wife, Ruth, in April 2001.

William B. Hugill [35] writes: liMy wife passed away three years ago. I moved to the desert, full and happy on the 6th fairway at the Springs Country Club. Have a nice

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relationship with a dear friend in Cote D' Azur in France and we exchange visits three times a year.

Would welcome my peers - have extra clubs bring money."

Roy Schoenbrod [35] writes: "First and foremost, allow me to say what an excellent issue of the Academy Magazine [May 2001] just published! It was a joy to read of our school's history and most especially to read about my favorite teacher, Captain Gray.

The story about the night-blooming Cereus caught my eye(s)! Captain Gray and I got reacquainted when I got out of the army after World War II. I remember that early in our marriage I urged my wife to attend some reunion held around 1949 or 1950.

After that I drove out fairly often and usually had the pleasure of driving Cap up north, to Northwestern, where one of his daughters worked.

On one of those occasions, around 1960, when Barbara, my wife, accompanied me, Cap gave her a stick, said to have been part of his nightblooming Cereus. It was about six inches long and looked like a dead-stick.

My wife and I laughed (what in hell do we do with this stick?), but she stuck it in some dirt in a pot and put it on our kitchen windowsill.

It bloomed! It grew a flower! We were amazed. I can't remember how long it took, but it bloomed!

The story included about me was flattering; I truly wish we could read about my several classmates as well. Esler died in a training plane he flew: Geneser died in WW II; Dempsey died in aerial action in WW II; Miles died in Korea, I think; Hume died in action; most of the others are gone.

Anyone reading this, please write!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! It was great to read about the olden 'olden days' and to remember the good times."

Robert D. McClenathan [38], retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of captain, reports: "One of the reasons I attended MPMA was the result of attending the 1933 Boy Scout Jamboree in Goddolo, Hungary. At that time Hitler did not get involved with the Boy Scouts, and he certainly did not send a delegation to the event.

While traveling through Europe, especially Germany, I saw a lot of things happening. One observation I made was that passenger trains were side tracked and freight trains were given the right of way. The freight they were carrying were tanks, trucks, cannons, and weapons of war. This gave me an insight into what was happening in Germany and helped me to decide to return to Chicago and check into MPMA. My oldest sister, Helen, was dating a boy from MPMA and I liked him. So soon I was enrolled and started

manager for Agilent and they were recently transferred from the Netherlands. "Bunny and I will then see the wonders of China," he writes, "including a cruise on the Yangtze, Beijing, Xian, Wukan, etc. Last fall we went to Egypt, but had to cancel the Holy Land because of the fighting."

attending MPMA. Both my sisters married boys from MPMA. So MPMA became a family affair. Bill White [38], who married my youngest sister Elma, and I ended up in the Army in the 9th Division together.

Since we were at MPMA we didn't have to go through the draft board, but were sent orders when we came of age. I ended up at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, where I met and married my wife.

This chain of events came about because I had attended MPMA. My days at MPMA included studying hard, playing trumpet in the band, playing football and participating in all the extra-curricular events that occur in school. I also recall Captain Mahon, who coached football, and still remember things he taught me (as well as many of the things other teachers taught me there. The MPMA dances are still in my memories. They were a big deal in our life at MPMA, and girls were on campus only for the dances. It was, remember, an all boys military school during my time. Today, I know, it is coed, but it still breaks my heart. Guess I am from the old school.

Times they are a changing.

I hope for the best. I still keep in touch through the Academy Magazine. I also correspond with another graduate through letters and calls. My oldest sister and her husband keep me posted on other alumni from MPMA."

Richard R. Price [44] moved from Portland, Oregon in 1997 to Newark, Ohio, where both of his children live. The nearby Welsh Hills is where the Price homestead began in 1823. "I visited Jack Frank [44] in 1997 and he and wife, Pat, visited us here," he writes. "He's an old friend going back to Hyde Park H.S. Jack did most of the work organizing the XIII Fraternity at MPMA, which we founded in 1943. I have fond memories of MPMA, where my father attended, as did his five sons. My grandfather taught there before going to University of Chicago.

Best wishes to all and especially emblem club members."

Calvin Johnson [46] gives an annual grant to the Francis Gray Fund through the Martha G. Moore Foundation. (The Francis Gray Scholarship Fund was established in 1996 by the Class of 1946 on the occasion of their 50th reunion.)

M. L. Tew [48] reports trips to Canada for hunting and fishing, a golfing trip to Florida with Lou Kole[48], and is going to Mexico and Europe for sight seeing and Alaska for fishing. "It is a great life," he says, "and I always

William M. Hutchins [42] was on the road again in mid March 2001, to Shanghai this time, where one of his daughters lives.

Her husband is a plan

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enjoy seeing other classmates."

John S. Novak [50] recently saw classmates Don Zarobsky and Sam Bullaro. He divides his time between his Chicago office (where he is chairman of Sokol & Company, 5315 Dansher Road, Countryside, IL 60525) and his home in the Northwoods. "All are welcome to stop if up north (P.O. Box 12, Pickerel, WI 54465/fone: 715-484-8983)," he writes.

George A. Mahon [54] won the $500 prize at the Salute 2001 raffle.

Charles Blackmore [56] reports that he has retired"for the last time, to the hills of Tennessee."

Eric M. Gustavson [61] visited Sweden during the summer of 2001, meeting many of his extended family in the Ostersund area for the first time. "It was a beautiful experience, "he writes, "meeting family that I never knew about until recent years."

[In the photograph below, Eric is shown, with his second cousin Ruth, at the Tannforsen Falls (West of Are).]

Dolores (Miller) Pekrul [61] in a letter to the 40th class reunion committee, said: "Thank you for your wonderful effort in organizing a combined reunion for our two schools. It was thrilling, and touching, that you would take the time to locate me - even by contacting the university I graduated from in 1965.

Unfortunately, I was unable to attend, as I was in southern France, on vacation with my husband, Bob. Our marriage, now of 36 years, started the week after I graduated from college. A major part of any reunion will be Icatching Upl with each other, and where our lives have taken us. So here's a brief snapshot of my life so far: 1965 - Valparaiso University - BA English/ Spanish, 1965-68 English Teacher at Fenton High School, Bensenville, Illinois, 1970 - Moved to California and have lived here since then. My husband and I have two terrific children (a daughter who taught autistic students for Los Angeles Unified, and a son, who is applying to medical school). Our two grandchildren keep us busy! At present, I am an elementary school principal at White Oak School in Simi Valley, CA. The school of over 600 students is a diverse population representing current trends in our state. During the past 24 years in the Simi Valley schools, I have been a special education teacher, high school director of activities and high school counselor, and a school principal. It has been rewarding and positive!

When I think of Loring

many memories flood my mind. Teachers, principals, classmates and friends are treasured parts of my life. I hope that a reunion recorder will send all of us a newsletter or summary of our classmates lives and thoughts. Thank you for remembering me!"

Kathryn McEachern Baker [62]

is a realtor (married, with no children), living in Woodland Hills, California.

James A. Fitch [73] writes: "Son Jay (19) is in his second year at Embry Riddle in Daytona Beach.

He is an instrument rated commercial pilot and took first place in his event in collegiate flight team championship for southeastern United States. Son Brian (17) is a h.s. senior, headed to Bethel College in St. Paul, and trying to decide between theology and music. Daughter Amy (13) is in 7th grade, taking voice and piano, and into performing arts. Son Alex (10) is in 4th grade and is all about sports. Wife Nancy's trip to Israel was cancelled because of the violence there. I am depressed because Navy beat Army, but added the instrument rating to my private pilot license this

year which has been both useful and fun."

Vernon Larson [81] writes: "After 8 years in Bowling Green, Kentucky, my wife, Christine, children, Erik (15), Evelyn (12), and Zoe (8), and I recently moved to Roscoe, Illinois. I was previously working for Fruit of the Loom, as Director of International Business Development. Now, I have taken the position of Global Account Manager with Newell International, a division of NewellRubbermaid. I travel often for work. At home, we're very active, particularly with youth soccer believe it or not. I'm looking forward to our twentieth reunion, thanks Mike, and would be happy to hear from all of you."

BertramJ. Hoddinott [83] spent summer 2001 in Ontario, Canada at his parent's fishing camp near Calabogie! [http://www.cononto.com] Nikhil R. Rangaraj [89] married to Jodi Lyn Prins, of Grand Rapids, MI, in Chicago on January 20, 2001. In attendance were Michael Gersack [89] and his wife Suzy.

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Julie Cuadros [93] writes "My sisters were making fun of the time that I wrote to the Academy Magazine and lupdated' their lives; they said it was such a Imom thing to do'- not necessarily my mom, but a mom in general. Anyway, since much has changed, I'm updating again .. Jor several people because they are too lazy to update themselves. If anyone wants to reach them, they can email me (sarcocuad@aol.com) and I will play middleman.

I hope they are not upset for this divulgence of information. The picture below is from New Year's 2001 at Millenium Steakhouse, downtown Chicago. Several members of the class of 1986 were in town to celebrate Paula Cuadros [87] marriage to Erin Roche. Members of the class of 1986 at the party included David Cuadros, Scott King, Ted Paris, his wife Joelle and baby Amanda, Manu Kacker, his wife Mini, Rich Ugarte and his wife Julie.

Also in attendance at the festivities were Dr. and Mrs. Luis and Alicia Ugarte, Dr. and Mrs. George and Marlene Mesleh, Dr. and Mrs. Hugo and Linda Cuadros, Dr.

Susana Ugarte [91], Dr. Rachel Cuadros [90], her husband Glenn Steigbigel, Mike Mesleh [00], Susie Mesleh [95], Julie Cuadros [93], and Kareem Daniel [92]. Present at the wedding were Julie Horka-Ruiz [87], her husband AI, Stacy Wood-Supar [87], her husband Zach and daughter Giselle.

Spanish or English class that I would ever minor in a foreign language ... I still can't spell in English though. I have one more year of undergrad and then I will be continuing to grad school."

Daniel W.Jarvis [97] is still studying mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. However, he spent his last year studying at Kyushu University in Japan. He is going to be graduating with a minor in Technical Japanese. "Who would have thought," he writes, after not doing all that spectacularly in either

Matthew M. Klarich [97] is attending Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, and is majoring in industrial technology.

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Kai Wilson [99]

successfully completed and "thoroughly enjoyed" her second year at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. "I have not chosen a major yet, but my interests are currently in anthropology and political science." Her summer plans included attending classes and traveling in Taiwan.

TAPS Saul Epton [28], September 7, 2001, in Chicago. He was 91.

He practiced law until he was 88, but it was his tenure as judge of what was then called Boys Court that earned him an enduring reputation.

His methods were sometimes unorthodox, but perhaps all the more effective for that very reason. He occasionally ordered accused boys to take the bench and sentence other defendants and he did not hesitate to insist that the parents of those convicted give money to boys clubs.

Epton, in an interview with Paul Galloway in the Tribune [March IS, 1999], said he was once "a bad kid" himself. He had belonged to a gang and many of his friends had faced charges in juvenile courts.

Perhaps it was to take him out of that tough neighborhood that his parents sent him to Morgan Park Military Academy in 1925.

He played baseball, lightweight football, and was on the rifle team at MPMA, but he was also an accomplished debater.

The 1928 Skirmisher reported that he was the first editor of the Academy News lito get the paper out on campus an hour after every football game with every play in type."

He was an MPA board member from 1960 to 1966 and was elected to MPA's Hall of Fame in 1997.

Epton was a close friend of George Ryan and administered the oath of office to him when be became governor in 1999.

He also was campaign manager for his brother, Bernard Epton [38], in his unsuccessful 1983 run for mayor against Harold Washington.

What seemed to give Epton the most satisfaction, however, was his work with youngsters in trouble. He established boys clubs, teen centers, and a residence hall for teens in trouble with the law.

"It was the first halfway house in the city," Epton said. "I sent eight boys there instead of sending them to jail and rather than becoming jail birds, they became successes."

James Hobson, a decorated Viet Nam veteran and now a Chicago Park District parks supervisor, remembers Epton very well. He appeared in Epton's court 47 times in the 1960s and was often sentenced to jail, but when he turned his life around, Epton helped persuade the military that his criminal record should not stand in the way of his enlistment.

"He didn't want these kids to have a permanent record," Mitchell Prosk [92], his grandson, said, "SO he would often sentence kids to probation. His big thing was that everyone is entitled to one mistake."

He is also survived by a daughter, Nancy Prosk, a sister, Elaine Bobins, a brother, Jerry, and another grandson, Richard [90].

Thomas B. Gist [34], September I, 2000.

Robert D. Blew [43], July 21, 2001. retired from American Steel Foundaries in 1989, after 33 years as project manager in the test laboratory. He was a graduate of the Illinois I~stitute of Technology. He was a second lieutenant in World War II and served in the Battle of the Bulge and other campaIgns. He was also a SO-year member of American Legion Post 365, and was active with Boy Scouts of America in Matteson and Collinsville, Illinois. Surviving are his wife, Louise (whom he married in 1947); three sons, Robert, William, and Bruce; two daughters, Susan and Barbara; and nine grandchildren.

William Lindmark [43], August 18, 2001.

G. L. Scott [44], March 4, 2001.

Richard S. Dabbert [47], March 10, 2001.

Elmer J. Barkstrom [48], February 22,2001.

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Alumni Dues Ralph E. Schram [33] Julian I. Barish [34] A. Richard Ayers [36] William C. Boehm [37] Edward V. Cerny [37] Russell C. Craig [37] Charles F. Bacon [38] Robert J. Keefer [39] Arthur J. Kralovec [39] George L. Lamparter [39] Price O. Reinert [39] Arthur C. Teichner [39] C. Robert Tully [39] Robert B. Woolson [39] Richard L. Duchossois [40] H. I. Martin [40] Charles Pagels [40] Charles R. Carner [41] Edward A. Kelly [41] Donald M. Badziong [42] Philip C. Freund [42] George Froemke [42] Charles W. Getz [42] Ralph W. Gilbert [42] William M. Hutchins [42] William T. Kettering [42] Frank A. Major [42] John E. Schulze [42] James E. Smith [42] Robert D. Blew [43] Robert A. Crombie [43] Joseph Grassi [43] William W. Keefer [43] Richard S. Phillips [43] Asa M. Bacon [44] Walter H. Page [44] John N. Pohlers [44] Richard R. Price [44] Jerome A. Thrall [44] Robert A. Whitfield [44] Richard L. Berliner [45] Fleming W. Flott [45] J. Robert Gilbert [45] Jerome S. Levin [45] Ralph D. Schiller [45] Gene R. Simonson [45] Theodore D. Vlahos [45J

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George A. Mahon [54] Antonio Santillan [54] Peter W. Voss [54] Mark C. Klein [55] George J. Pappas [55] Arthur J. Canfield [56] Harry Klein [56] George G. Krivsky [56] Jerry D. Bowden [57] John C. Mateer [57] Joanne (Wiegel) Meier [57] JuliusJ. Zschau [57] Virginia (Miletic) Ferrell [58] Edward P. Haney [58] Kenneth R. Mack [58] Pearson F. Williams [58] Dabney (Woodley) Hoon [59] Charles A. Junkunc [59] EugeneJ. Katz [59] Grant H. DeNormandie [60] Michael D. McClure [60] Janet Wiegel-Elmore [60] Bruce E. Burmeister [61] Robert W. Guilford [61] L. David Manford [61] JamesJ. Mitchell [61] Virginia (McEachern) Payne [61] Ron Pearce [61] Edward A. Rund [61] William Springer [61] John M. Stack [61] Steven E. Erickson [62] Kathryn McEachern Baker [62] Charlotte (Welton) Singer [62] Madonna (Farmer) Abdishi [63] Robin Goss [63] Richard E. Jennings [63] Kenneth Mortenson [63] Joel Tornabeni [63] Dorothy (Weisend) Giese [64] Kingston W. Heath [64] Allen DeNormandie [65] Robert D. Erickson [65] Margie A. Nicholson [65] John H. Nordstrom [65] Judith (Hennan) Orzechowski [65] John A. Wass [65]

Henry P. Welton [65] LeonJ. Witkowski [65] Sara Dauer Walker [66] Keith W. Johnson [66] Janet (Andelman) Roversi [66] Theodore R. Carlson [67] Ruth (Dreyfuss) Crane [67] Dana Green [67] David M. Honor [67] Jerome M. Levit [67] Henry B. Palmer [67] David R. Rosi [67] Thomas Theodore [67] Robert F. Weisberg [67] Warren E. Zander [67] Robert A. Crandall [68] Janet (Wolk) Muzatko [68] Guy D. Rohe [68] Robert Rosi [68] James T. Slama [68] Janet (Olsen) Goldberg [69] Sue (Vlasis) Hale [69] John E. Horn [69] Gus L. Kumis [69] Mike Rogers [69] Sue (Tuthill) Schiess [69] Robert C. Crist [70] Steven L. Delaveris [70] Joan Driscoll [70] Julie (Coffeen) Rudawsky [70] Jeff R. Unger [70] Carol (Evans) Foster [71] Ellen (Weiss) Rissman [71] Lauri M. Salovaara [71] William B. Semmer [71] James G. Tuthill [71] Marilyn Meunier [72] Robert Montgomery [72] Cristina R. Nelson [72] Susanne (Gnilka) Panovich [72] Timothy N. Troy [72] James A. Fitch [73] Bruce C. Hamper [73] Elizabeth Hartmann [73] Barbara D. Hoffman [73] Kermit O. Kelly [73] Don W. Norton [73] Deborah (Fuhlbrugge) Wagner [73] Mary A. Hunter [74] Nancy (Montgomery) Runyon [74] John L. Daniels [75] Eileen (Strenk) Hofstetter [76] Emily (Wilton) Kobilca [76] Helen (Arslan) Smoker [76]

Linda M. Weinfield [76] Paula (Wognum) Corbin [77] Kimberly K. Duffek [77] Diane (Wagner) Nippoldt [77] Allison (Reitz) Smith [77] Elizabeth L. White [77] David Wilkinson [77] David A. Jones [78] Sidonie A. Lee [78] Patricia Martinez [78] Claudia (Pridjian) Nazarian [78] Ellen (Fahrer) Nedzel [78] Diane Panos [78] Verneta J. Simon [78] Thomas Strenk [78] Ronald D. Drynan [79] Gregory A. Dumanian [79] Debbie Jacques [79] Diane L. Kumarich [79] Tisa Morris [79] Karen Butler-Cook [80] Brian T. Bye [80] Gerald Gately [80] Alicia Martinez-Spencer [80] Karen (Schulenberg) Meersman [80] Michelle M. Murphy [80] Pamela Panos-Volk [80] Dawne (Rogers) Davis [81] F. Morgan Gasior [81] Martha-Marie Kleinhans [81] Vernon Larson [81] Mary B. OToole [81] Ralph E. Steinbarth [81] Alan D. Boyd [82] Paul Chronis [82] Frank Correll [82] Ronald Herbst [82] Bruce C. Rolfe [82] Kim (Kole) Sappenfield [82] Carrie A. Swearingen [82] Mary (Vallortigara) Andersen [83] Bertram J. Hoddinott [83] Timothy M. Murnane [83] Steve Petso [83] James c. Correll [84] Natalie Gamet [84] Claire Concannon [85] Kina C. Gray-Cliette [85] Robert K. Triantis [85] Tara (Brigham) Allen [86] Adrienne C. Alton-Gust [86] James Butler [86] Hope Concannon [86] Armen Hovanessian [86]

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Jennifer Kraft [86] Jonathan L. Salmons[86] Andrew Akers [87] Rajiv Goel [87] Aerica C. Love [88] Marc Sokol [88] Lisa D. Daniel [89] Wendy Heilman [89] Nikhil R. Rangaraj [89] Amy (Danielewicz) McCombs [90] Frances A. Pukala [90] Gregory B. Coleman [91] Catherine (Covert) Fox [91] Barbara Hennelly [91] MichaelJ. Kartsounis [91] Angela Rosiak [91] Jodi (Kapjon) Gaertner [93] Gretta Heintz [93] Pedro Martinez [93] Laura DeHaan [94] Jabari DeRon [94] Elizabeth M. Hendel [94] Jennifer Matz [94] Daniela (Ford) Silaides [94] Joseph Bertoletti [95] Timnetra Burruss [95] Mark Dinos [95] Shara Harris [95] Tiffany (Lis) Insalaco [95] Kimberly Reed [95] Todd Schorle [96] Kruti Trivedi [96] Jude I. Abbasi [97] Conrad C. Heisner [97] Daniel W. Jarvis [97] Matthew M. Klarich [97] Danielle R. Mondschean [97] Samantha C. Chears [98] Demetrios J. Douros [98] Jonathan D. Freeman [98] Paul Maandig [98] Michael Rose [98] Stacey Dugan [99] Bennett Kalafut [99] Anup Patel [99] Ellen Tatro-Mendoza [99] Steffanie Triller [99] Kai Wilson [99] Claire Doherty [00] Jason Freeman [00] Peggy Gatsinos [00] Lauren Green [00] Andrew Kalafut [00] Ellen Rasmussen [00]

Salute to Excellence Gold Society - (52,500.00 + ) Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Bielinski Dr. and Mrs. Wilfred Boarden Dr. and Mrs. Hugo Cuadros Dr. and Mrs. H. G. Frank Mr. Steven and Mrs. Sara [71] Grassi Dr. and Mrs. Richard Green Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Kenny Mr. and Mrs. William Mastro Dr. and Mrs. George Mesleh Mr. and Mrs. Richard o. Nichols Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Pruim, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Salerno Ms. Linda Wolgamott Silver Society - (51,000.00 + ) Dr. and Mrs. Ismail Abbasi Mr. and Mrs. J. William Adams Mr. and Mrs. David K. Barclay Mr. and Mrs. William H. Collins Mrs. Heidi Dods Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Doherty Mr. and Mrs. George Eck, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. John Fitzpatrick Ms. Margaret Fitzpatrick Mr. Jeffrey Gilbert and Ms. Malinda Steele Dr. Jayant Ginde and Dr. Sunita Ginde Mr. and Mrs. Richard Guminski Dr. and Mrs. Antoun Koht Mr. and Mrs. Minas E. Litos MPA Mothers' Club Dr. and Mrs. Daniel]. O'Reilly Dr. and Mrs. Richard O'Young Dr. Hareth Raddawi and Dr. Ada I. Arias Mr. and Mrs. James G. Richmond Mr. and Mrs. Carl Riggenbach Mr. Asif A. Sayeed and Dr. Shaheen A. Sayeed Mr. and Mrs. James F. Seward Mr. and Mrs. Bryan M. Spencer Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Taft Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Thomas Dr. Samir Y. Wassef and Dr. Wafaa G. Hanna

Mr. and Mrs. Marc Wells Mr. Mark [79] and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel

Bronze Society - (5500.00 + ) Dr. and Mrs. Anil Agarwal Mrs. Margaret Allison COL Allen [47] and Mrs. Ursula Andreasen USMC(Ret.) Mr. and Mrs. Ronald J. Ariana Dr. Subash Arora and Dr. Anita Arora Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Black Mr. James c. Bremer and Ms. Margaret O'Brien-Bremer Ms. Cicely Bryar Mr. Colin M. Bryar Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bryar Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Catania Mr. and Mrs. Ted D. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. John M. Craven Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Daley Dr. Michael Davenport and Mrs. Loretta Hopkins-Davenport Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Dryjanski Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eichinger Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Fuller Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fuller George Washington Savings Mr. and Mrs. David P. Gulley Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Hart Mr. David Hibbs and Dr. Maria Hibbs Dr. John T. Keane and Dr. Shirley A. Maides-Keane Mr. James Kowalsky and Dr. Vicki Williams Dr. Rachel Lindsey Mr. and Mrs. Mark Linnerud Marina Cartage, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Marmo Mat Leasing, Inc. Midwest Anesthesiologists, Ltd. Mr. and Mrs. John A. Mikulski Mr. and Mrs. James Morgan MPA Fathers' Club Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Neill

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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Olivieri Mr. William Parks and Mrs. Deborah Hubbard-Parks Mr. Richard B. Patrick and Dr. Nanette James-Patri Mr. and Mrs. Carl N. Pettigrew Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Sheppard Ms. Susan Shimmin [66] Mr. Michael Skerniskis and Ms. Pam Orda Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Story Mr. and Mrs. John E. Stratta Ms. Barbara Thomas Mrs. Brenda Thomas-Asaju Mr. and Mrs. John Tubutis Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Vasquez Mr. and Mrs. James Ware Mr. and Mrs. Robert Winter Mr. and Mrs. James E. Woods, Sr. Mr. and Ms. Robert Zaniolo

Gala Club - (5100.00 + ) Alderman Ginger Rugai Youth Fund Ms. Lynn Alleruzzo and Ms. Charlene Crotty Alliance Realty Mrs. Harriet Arnold Ms. Consuelo Arteaga Ms. Laura Arteaga Dr. and Mrs. Andre Artis Astoria Wire Products, Inc. Dr. Surendra B. Avula and Dr. Sunitha R. Avula Mr. A. Richard [36] and Mrs. Helen Ayers Mr. and Mrs. Mahmoud Badawi Mr. Daniel Baltierra Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah J. Barry Dr. Terrence Bartolini and Dr. Carol Braun Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Bertoletti Beverly Area Planning Association Beverly Chiropratic Clinic Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bollacker, Jr. Bonding & Insurance Specialist Agency, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Larry G. Brown

Mr. Shaun [91] and Mrs. Kim Broyls Dr. George Bryar and Ms. Nancy Reilly Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Burnett Mr. and Mrs. James L. Callihan Cardiovascular Surgeons, Ltd. Mr. and Mrs. Antony Carter Casino Tours & Charters, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Sanjiv Chadha Mr. and Mrs. Michael Chapan Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Chappell Dr. Brian O'Leary and Dr. Elaine Cheng Chesterfield Federal Savings & Loan Assodation Chicago United Industries, Ltd. Clarence Davids & Company Mr. and Mrs. PatrickJ. Clark Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Clott Dr. Benjamin Coglianese Mr. Robert A. Cook Dr. Bruce C. Corwin and Ms. Erika Riffert Mrs. Carol P. Coston [75] Ms. Julie Cuadros [93] Mr. and Mrs. James Daly Mr. and Mrs. Fred P. Danielewicz Desmond & Ahern, P.e.

Mr. and Mrs. Jean-Raymond Desruisseaux, Sr. Mr. David Bonnan and Mrs. Jean Doyle [79] Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Driscoll Dr. e. Elise Duffy Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Dugan Dr. Gregory [79] and Mrs. Randa Dumanian Mr. and Mrs. George Eck, Sr. Mr. and Mrs. David Edison Mr. and Mrs. Eugene C. Edwards Mr. and Mrs. John Eichinger El Jardin Mexican Restaurant Dr. and Mrs. William J. Ennis Mr. and Mrs. John Enright Mr. and Mrs. Mark D. Erzen Mr. and Mrs. Antoine Everett,Sr. Evergreen Racquet & Fitness Fairplay Dr. Don R. Fishman and Dr. Elizabeth J. Allen Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Flewellen Florida Plastics International, Inc. Mr. Jerome V. Frazel and Mrs. Nancy H. Wilder

Frederick Brothers Corp.

Mrs. Ruth Fuss Ms. Joan Gallagher Mr. Matthew Gallagher Mr. John Gavin Ms. Brooke Gintert [99] Mr. and Mrs. Donald Grover Mr. Eric T. Bell and Mrs. Sherry Grutzius H. Turner and Company, Inc. H.C.1. Transporation Technologies, Inc. Ms. Lucile Hargett Clifford Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Harmening Harris Bank of Morgan Park Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heldak Ms. Patrida Hibbs Mr. Robert E. Nolan and Mrs. Daryce Hoff-Nolan Mr. and Mrs. Leonard K. Hoyles Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Hughes Independent Schools Assoc. of the Central States Ms. Cassandra Jackson Mrs. Celeste R. James Mr. and Mrs. Robin P. Jesk John Sheehy & Sons Funeral Home Johnson, Jones, Snelling, Gilbert & Davis Mr. and Mrs. David A. Jones Mr. and Mrs. Garland Jones Dr. and Mrs. John A. Kalapurakal Ms. Felida Kasa Mr. Tom Kaseneske Mr. and Mrs. Robert Keelan Mr. Kermit [73] and Mrs. Rose Ann Kelly Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kominiarek Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Kosinski Mr. and Mrs. Barry Kritzberg Mr. George G. Krivsky [56] Dr. and Mrs. Ajit N. Kumar Mr. William T. Kwan [49] Mr. Larry Larkin and Dr. Robin Snead-Larkin Dr. Richard M. Lewis Little Company of Mary Hospital Mr. Greg Lochow Mr. and Mrs. Charles Long Mr. Thomas Malcolm Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Maloney Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Marmo Dr. and Mrs. Danilo Martinez Mr. and Mrs. Timothy McAtee

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Mr. Michael [60] and Mrs. Brenda McClure Ms. Frances McGreal McNellis and Company Midwest Surgical Group, S.C. Mr. Ziggy Mikos Mrs. Kari Misulonas [82] Morgan Park Auto Service Ms. Tisa Morris [79] Mr. and Mrs. William Morrison Mortenson Roofing Company, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Niko Mourgelas MPA Board of Trustees MPA Development Office MPA Faculty/Staff MPA Maintenance MPA/MPMA Alumni Assodation Mr. Swifty Cleaners Mr. Tom Mullins Old Kent Bank Mr. and Mrs. Mario Ortiz Panamericana Auto Parts & Repair Ms. Diane Panos [78] Mrs. Carolee Patejdl Dr. Peter Perrotta and Dr. Sharon Kraus Mr. and Mrs. Albert Petkus Dr. Audrius V. Plioplys and Dr. Sigita Plioplys Mr. and Mrs. Charles Powell Prudential Biros Real Estate Mr. and Mrs. Prince A. Qualls Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Quinn R.W. Collins Company, Inc. Rae Products & Chemicals, Corp.

Mr. and Mrs. Terrence Raser Mr. and Mrs. Rodd Rasmussen Dr. and Mrs. Antanas G. Razma Mr. and Mrs. Norris Reed Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Reidy Dr. and Mrs. Gerardo Reyes Mr. Robert E. Rolfe [52] Roosevelt University Mr. Robert [68] and Mrs. Mary Rosi Russell Ingram Photography Mr. and Mrs. James R. Ryan Mr. Lauri M. Salovaara [71] Salute Committee Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Sarabia Mr. and Mrs. Michael Schlomas Ms. Anna Sdesinska Mr. Angelo Shabazz and Dr. Constance D. Shabazz Siding-I, Inc. - Windows-I, Inc.

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Sipich Dr. Leon A. Slota and Dr. Susan J. Lambert Dr. Catherine Slota-Varma South Suburban Hospital Steuber Florist Mr. and Mrs. Jason Stone Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sullivan Mr. and Mrs. Richard Szkarlat Mr. Anthony Taylor and Ms. Lisa D. Gushiniere Mr. and Mrs. James Taylor Mr. Allan Teske Mr. M. L. Tew [48] The Provo Group Mrs. Winnie Theodore Ms. Angenette Thomas Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Thompson Mr. Jerome [44] and Mrs. Lynn Thrall Mr. Leo Titus Top-Notch Beef Burgers Mr. and Mrs. John Torrez Ms. Jean Tourville TR Communications, Inc. Trinity Hospital Mr. Julius Tucker and Mrs. Jennifer Holt-Tucker Ms. Zofia Turza Dr. and Mrs. Venkata Uppuluri Mr. Abe Vasquez Mr. and Mrs. RobertJ. Volkmann Mrs. Lyna M. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Williams Mr. Gary F. Wilson and Mrs. Linda Cobbs-Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Wladyslaw Wodziak Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wolgamott Mr. and Mrs. George R. Yaksic Mr. and Mrs. Ted Zidek

Friends - (under $99 ) Mr. and Mrs. Donald Akers Mr. Charles [38] and Mrs. Dorothy Bacon Mr. Donald M. Badziong [42] Mr. Stanley Balzekas, Jr. [43] Baskin Robbins Mr. Robert D. Blew [43] COL William [37] and Mrs. Reva Boehm USA (Ret) Mr. Harold [52] and Mrs. Mary Helen Boex

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Mr. William V. Gaps [52] Mr. Russell R. Gardner [47] Mr. F. Morgan Gasior [81] Mr. Gerald Gately [80] George Poulos & Associates, Photographers Dr. Charles [42] and Mrs. Vicki Getz Ms. Dorothy Giese [64] Mr. J. Robert [45] and Mrs. Marilyn Gilbert Mrs. Virginia F. Glenn [SO] Dr. Rajiv Goel [87] Mr. Felix and Mrs. Janet [69] (Olsen) Goldberg Mr. Joseph Grassi [43] Dr. Kina C. Gray-Cliette [85] Ms. Lauren Green [00] Mr. Edward P. Haney [58] Mr. Robert E. Hartman [54] Ms. Elizabeth Hartmann [73] Hillside Chatham Florist Mr. Bertram J. Hoddinott III [83] Mr. David M. Honor [67] and Dr. Elyse Schneiderman Mr. John E. Horn [69] and Ms. H. Elizabeth Kelley Mr. William M. Hutchins [42] J & G Builders Mr. Keith W. Johnson [66] Mr. David [78] and Mrs. Socorro Jones, Jr. Mr. Charles [59] and Mrs. Karen Junkunc Mr. John [51] and Mrs. Katheleen Kahoun COL RobertJ. Keefer USA(Ret.) [39] Mr. William [43] and Mrs. Gayle Keefer Mr. William [42] and Mrs. Anna Kettering Mr. Frederick [46] and Mrs. Beverly Jane Kitch Dr. John [51] and Mrs. Betsy Kitch, Jr. Mr. John Kitchen Mr. Harry [56] and Mrs. Lonita Klein Mr. Mark [55] and Mrs. Carole Klein Mr. Frederick [49] and Mrs. Arlene Koberna Ms. Emily Kobilca [76]

Mr. Edward C. Kole [53] Mr. Louis [48] and Mrs. Virginia [49] (Hess) Kole Mrs. Marylu Kowalsky Ms. Jennifer Kraft [86] Mr. Arthur [39] and Mrs. Dolores Kralovec Mr. Donald F. Kreger [47] Mr. Gus L. Kumis [69] and Mrs. Tonie Perryman Mr. and Mrs. Douglas T. Lazo Mr. Jerome [45] and Mrs. Elaine Levin Mr. William [49] and Mrs. May Liptak Mr. Patrick [53] and Mrs. Gloria Lonergan Mr. Kenneth [58] and Mrs. Barbara Lee Mack MacMurray College Mr. George A. Mahon Jr. [42] Mr. Frank [42] and Mrs. Betty Major Mrs. Annie Malone Mr. John [57] and Mrs. Nancy Mateer Mr. Robert E. McGuire [48] Mr. James [50] and Mrs. Marty Meck Mrs. Joanne (Wiegel) Meier [57] Mr. and Mrs. Jozef Mikos Mr. Robert Montgomery [72] Mrs. Estelle Moss Mr. Timothy M. Murnane [83] Ms. Michelle M. Murphy [80] Mr. Kenneth [47] and Mrs. Ellen Nash Mr. Levon and Mrs. Claudia [78] (Pridjian) Nazarian Mr. Stanley Nichols [48] Noral Jewelers Mr. John H. Nordstrom [65] Mr. John S. Novak [50] Mr. Lawrence [48] and Mrs. Sheila Novak Mr. Marc E. Odier and Mrs. Marilyn E. Hanzal Ortigara Musicville Palos Sports Ms. Pamela Panos-Volk [80] Mr. David and Mrs Susanne [72] (Gnilka) Panovich Mr. George J. Pappas, Jr. [55]

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Ursula Hair Design Dr. and Mrs. Reza Varjavand Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Vega Victory Gardens Theater Ms. Cheryl L. Vittori Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Volkmann Ms. Jean Waterman Mr. and Mrs. William Watson Mr. Stephen Wheeler and Ms. Mettesebia Eshetu White Fence Farm Mr. Mark [79] and Mrs. Jeri Wiegel Mr. and Mrs. Donald K. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Robert Winter Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wolgamott Words & Pictures Ms. Linda Wolgamott World Wrestling Federation Mr. and Mrs. George R. Yaksic Mr. and Mrs. Douglas J. Yeskis Zanies Comedy Club

Scholarship Funds Ross Beatty Fund Andrew Bitta Fund Davis Boyd Fund Donald E. Coller Fund Crist Fund Robert & Barbara Crist Foundation Patricia Grassi Fund Francis S. Gray Fund The Martha Moore Foundation Heilman Family Fund Claudette LeRose Fund Claire Concannon [85] Henry Kennedy Fund

Phyllis Montgomery Fund Jerome A. Thrall Fund Mr. and Mrs. Michael Mazza Mr. A. Jay Thrall Mr. J. Christopher Thrall Mr. and Mrs. J. Jeffrey Thrall Mr. and Mrs. ]. Randall Thrall Mr. Richard Weinberger and Ms. Nancy B. Thrall Dr. Raymond White Fund Mrs. Elizabeth White George E. Wiegel Fund War Memorial Fund Martin Wolf Fund

Sybil Wilkes: la.-ge .. than lit:e Alice Coller was driving south on Vincennes Avenue and, while stopped at a traffic light at 119th Street, saw a familiar face - a face a good deal larger than life.

The familiar face was that of Sybil Wilkes [78] and it was a good deal larger than life because it was gracing one of those outdoor advertising signs, about twenty feet long and ten feet high .

The ad was for the immensely popular nationally syndicated Tom Joyner radio show, where Sybil has been a regular for several years.

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