Morse Reservoir Community Newsletter

MAY 2014

UNLOCKING STRAWTOWN KOTEEWI PARK’S HISTORY AND FUTURE

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Unlocking Strawtown Koteewi Park’s history and future

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MAY WRITERS & CONTRIBUTORS Krista Shields / Nathan Lamb / Diane Harringtton / Neil Lucus / Peggy Georgi / Ray Compton / Krista Shields / Roselyn Demaree

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Eiler should know about the need for plenty of family space as Green Vista Landscaping is a family-owned and operated company. Started by his step-father in 1981, Eiler’s wife, son and father work along side he and his partner and cousin T.J. Houghtalen, whose brother and brother-in-law also work at the company. When it comes to work, it’s a family affair.

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According to Eiler, the current trend in outdoor living space is seatwalls and firepits added to paver patios. Green Vista Landscaping actually specializes in pavers.

They do anywhere from 5-15 jobs a week in the spring depending on the size. “It’s nice having a place to entertain guests outside,” Eiler said. “Firepits add to the length of time you can use the space, and seat walls add more seating area for the bigger get togethers.”

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ADDITIONAL EXCITEMENT TO START THE 2014 BOATING SEASON, THE MORSE LAKE POKER RUN With Memorial Day right around the corner, many area residents and those living on Morse Lake are excited about putting their boats in the water and forgetting about the long, cold winter. For those who have participated in the Morse Lake Poker Run, there’s additional excitement to start the 2014 boating season!

The Eighth Annual Morse Lake Poker Run will be held on June 7. This fun-inthe-sun event benefits the Lights Over Morse Lake fireworks display to celebrate Independence Day. The Poker Run starts and ends at Wolfies Waterfront Grill on Morse. Participants purchase “poker hand” registration cards at check-in, then head off for a great day on the lake. “We’ve had over

300 participants, with boats that are up to capacity, just having the time of their lives,” said Derrick Niemann, MLPR committee member. “As a family event, anyone who loves the lake life will enjoy the MLPR!”

better way to get the lake season started than to come out and support the Morse Lake Poker Run on June 7!

As the single largest fundraiser for Lights Over Morse Lake, the Morse Lake Poker There are seven card stops on the lake where Run is a fun and significant way to help keep you can pick up playing cards to complete the tradition of Lights Over Morse Lake your poker hand. When you check back booming! in at Wolfies, your cards are unveiled to make your best poker hand. With the best For more information and registration 10 hands winning terrific prizes from local forms, check out ightsovermorselake.com/ sponsors, you’re sure to have a shot at some boat-poker-run.html. And of course, look great prizes. The check-in party at Wolfies for us on Facebook and Twitter! is a great time for participants to enjoy time For volunteer and sponsorship opportunities, together and learn who the big winners please contact Derrick Niemann at are, and have a chance to win some of the dn@eyelvl.com or 317-590-3783. dozens of prizes in the raffle. There’s no 6 / MORSE / MAY 2014 / atMorse.com

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HOCHSTEDLER TAKES BEST OF SHOW AT HEIGHTS’ RUBE GOLDBERG COMPETITION Writer / Peggy Georgi, Hamilton Heights School Corporation

Hawkins Hochstedler, an eighth grader from Hamilton Heights Middle School, won Best of Show for the 2014 Rube Goldberg contest., Hochstedler, who titled his machine “Fore!,” used 18 steps to pour cereal into a bowl, and as a bonus, also added milk.

Other winners for this year’s event included Kaleb Rulon (1st place), Kylie Rose, Jenna McGrew and Chance Jozsa (tie for 2nd place) and Stewart Hulen, Madilyn Hasler and Ana Collar (tie for 3rd place).

Honorable mention went to several other teams with outstanding projects.

“It is a challenging project that engages students with amazing results of creativity in terms of the items they utilize to perform a complex objective, continued Reed. “The caliber of projects submitted for this year’s Rube Goldberg Machine Design contest this year was fantastic.”

High school physics class students like Melanie Magdun, Sydney Gruntler and Lukas Sipe who themselves, participated in the contest when they were in eighth grade, served as judges. They worked in pairs to evaluate each project based on a specific set of criteria to determine the top place finishers. “There were some pretty cool projects this year,” said Sydney Gruntler. “Every single project was different.”

The annual competition, now in its 14th year, is a rite of passage for Heights’ eighthgrade students. Students work together in teams to design the most complex method of performing a simple task. This year’s assignment involved developing a process to put cereal into a bowl using at least 12 steps. The contest is conducted each spring and pays homage to the late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, whose drawings displayed whimsical machines with complex mechanisms to perform simple tasks.

“It was interesting to judge the project “This year, there were 102 machines that we had to create submitted and many creative themes when we were in ranging from the supernatural, zombies, eighth grade,” added sports, movies and a little bit of everything Melanie Magdun. else in between,” said Terry Reed, Middle School Science Teacher and project Lukas Sipe said it coordinator for this eighth grade specialty was great to come contest. The brainchild of Reed and retired back four years Hamilton Heights Science Teacher, Janet later to see the hard Weber, the Rube Goldberg Machine work and creativity Contest has evolved into one of the best this eighth grade activities to promote teamwork, problem class put into their solving and creative thought among Heights projects this year.

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Terry Reed, 8th grade science teacher, talks with Lily McCormick, who just demoed her “Breakfast of Champions” machine. She incorporated lights and music in her 14-step project.

Eighth-grade students Noah Souder and Troy Bergeson used 13 steps for “The Zombie Feeder” to pour cereal into a bowl. The inspiration for their theme came from the fact that teenagers often seem like zombies in the morning until they wake up.

Hamilton Heights’ seniors Lukas Sipe, Sydney Gruntler and Melanie Magdun were among the Hamilton Heights High School physics class students who enjoyed the opportunity to judge this year’s contest. They said they recall participation in this project as being a valuable learning experience when they were in eighth grade.

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Local Aims for Cadillac of Pizza Cutting Writer / Nathan Lamb

In the world of pizza cutting implements, local entrepreneur Tom Faludy has a new product he’s billing as a cut above the rest.

It’s called the Big Ass Pizza Cutter, and Faludy said it’s about kicking pizza parties up a notch.

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“Pizza is not really a solitary food,” he said. “It’s a shared food, so there’s a social context to it, and within that social context, this thing becomes a focal point and catalyst for conversation, fun and sharing.”

summer camp and said it’s been a favorite ever since. One of Faludy’s favorite recipes is a Hungarian style pie (see recipe) that he calls the Goulash Pizza.

Crafted stateside from stainless steel, the cutter sports a 22-inch tang-style blade, weighing in at roughly 2 pounds. It also features hickory handles and optional engraving on the blade.

“Goulash kind of confers a Hungarian connotation,” he said.

“Everybody who has tasted it has loved it.”

Having worked much of the past year to develop the idea, Faludy said the idea was to combine the industrial-style cutters from pizzerias with an “Old World” customized feel. He said it’s also designed for easy storage alongside baking pans.

The tool evolved through 11 different prototypes, refining functionally, looks and performance, before Faludy launched a website to market the cutter in early February. He’s optimistic it’ll become a popular gift for guys who already have everything.

“I think guys are pretty hard to buy for,” he said. “They already have a shirt and tie and most of the things people think to get for them; I thought this would be a great gift.”

Faludy, 67, has lived near Geist Reservoir for roughly 18 months, since retiring from an executive position with Berkshire Hathaway.

He remains active as a business consultant, saying he still works on the board of directors for three domestic companies and one in Australia.

That business background includes manufacturing, and Faludy said that played a role in the development of the pizza cutter.

Specifically, he said this project was also about finding a way to bring manufacturing back to Indiana.

“This is a genuine American-made product with 100 percent American-made components, made by Americans in Middlebury, Ind.,” he said. “I think it reflects a mark of craftsmanship.”

Originally from Hungary, Faludy came to the United States as a refugee at age 10. He discovered pizza four years later at a YMCA

Faludy said the current plan is to market the cutter exclusively through the website, saying that fits with the customized business model. Looking ahead, he anticipates launching a new line of industrial-sized “Big Ass” barbecue implements this spring.

Asked about the name for his line of products, Faludy said the idea was to be irreverent and amusing.

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SEASONAL BREW REVIEW - with Hans & Joe In the past five years, we’ve seen an explosion of craft beer in the state of Indiana. Although iconic brands such as Budweiser have lost market share to “upstarts” such as 3 Floyds, Sun King and Upland (the three largest producers of craft beer in Indiana), about 95 percent of beer sold in the state is not made in Indiana. Nevertheless, the amount and quality of Indiana beer is at an all-time high, and the growth rate shows no sign of abatement. In this month’s article, instead of looking as specific seasonal brews, we’ll take a closer look at a few local breweries that are doing a particularly fine job of brewing beer.

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3 FLOYDS

3 Floyds is the largest and best-known brewery in Indiana. In fact, and with no hyperbole, 3 Floyds is world-famous when it comes to craft beer. The brewery is noted for its use of hops. Sometimes I feel as though I could identify 3 Floyds beer based on smell alone, such is the brewery’s mastery of hops. Dreadnaught, which is a Double IPA, has been consistently rated as one of the finest of its kind for many years, and the recent addition of Zombie Dust has only solidified 3 Floyds’ position atop the pantheon of producers of hoppy beers. For any beer drinkers who think that wheat beers are a waste of time, Gumballhead is an explosion of hop flavor with relatively little bitterness.

Most of 3 Floyds’ production comes in the form of Alpha King, Robert the Bruce and Gumballhead, but it is the Dark Lord Russian Imperial Stout that puts this brewery on the world map. The beer is only available for purchase in bottles one day out of the year, and you have to go to the brewery to buy it. These days you even have to buy a ticket ahead of time to enter the property on Dark Lord Day (April 26 this year), as it has come to be known. I have been to this event in years past when it was much smaller—say between 500 and 1,500 people. These days, attendance can reach well over 5,000.

SUN KING

Although Sun King brewed its first batch of beer in 2009, the brewery has enjoyed a meteoric rise and is now the second largest brewer in the state behind 3 Floyds (which has been around since 1996). Along with its production of great beer, Sun King’s success can be equally attributed to its use of social media. Sun King causes the average Joe (the kind of person who never cared much about beer as long as it was cold) to start considering not only where a beer is made but also its level of quality.

Sun King’s Sunlight Cream Ale is sure to satisfy the beer drinker who is looking for a BMC-like flavor profile but different, and the Osiris Pale Ale will quench the thirst of hopheads. Along with the aforementioned beers, Sun King’s year-round offerings include Wee Mac Scottish Ale and an IPA that changes with the seasons. The brewery produces many other beers on a rotating basis. One of the finest and best known of these is Grapefruit Jungle, a massive IPA that will be released sometime in the mid- to late summer.

BIER BREWERY

Bier Brewery first opened in November 2010. Unlike a few other recently opened Indiana breweries, the consistency of Bier Brewery’s products hasn’t wavered since day one, and while the quality has always been high, it is still getting better with every batch. Bier is one of the state’s smallest breweries, but every ounce of beer made is turned over within approximately two weeks. This high turnover ensures that if you are drinking beer from Bier, generally speaking, you are drinking some of the freshest beer available anywhere.

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Not every Bier product is available all of the time. Instead, beers are released on a somewhat seasonal and sometimes arbitrary basis. It’s kind of like a restaurant with a menu that changes every day. And whereas many breweries are best known for a handful of particular beers, Bier makes such a wide variety of extremely high-quality beers that it is difficult to focus on any two or three in particular as head and shoulders above the rest. However, if I could have only three of Bier’s offerings, I would suggest DFG Imperial IPA; Dred Brown, which is a Brown Porter; and any Saison currently available.

BLOOMINGTON BREWING CO.

BBC, or Bloomington Brewing Co., is known to some as “the other Bloomington brewery” and is unknown to many, but BBC is a favorite of mine. The Ruby Bloom Amber Ale is a smooth and malty amber ale with no hop bitterness. The Rooftop IPA is a perfectly balanced IPA, and BBC’s periodic releases of single hop pale ales are truly not to be missed! As a bartender who sees the dates on the kegs here at Patrick’s Kitchen, I can say that BBC (along with Bier Brewery and Sun King) is consistently some of the freshest draft beer around.

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This article is too short to allow for a comprehens ive description of every grea t beer in Indiana, but it is representative of my favo rite breweries. As someone wh o has seen the inside of a fe w breweries and deals with purchasing and serving th e product, I think that thes e breweries will be around for a while and will continue to improve the quality of th eir products. If you find your se in a place that serves an lf y of the products I have discu ssed chances are there are ot , hers that you should try, too.

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UPLAND

Upland has been one of my favorite breweries for seven or eight years now. I’m one of those craft beer drinkers who eschews most wheat beers, but Upland Wheat Ale is one of the few for which I would willingly pay. It is refreshing, great with seafood and shellfish in particular, and often served with an orange (I strongly advise against this, by the way).

Upland has really differentiated itself from every other brewery in the state with its sour program. That’s right, I’m talking about sour beer. The brewery makes several fruited Lambics as well as a Flanders Red Ale called Gilgamesh, all of which must be reserved online via a lottery system.

These sours are released on a rotating but somewhat regular basis, and it is these sour beers that have put Upland in the national spotlight of craft beer. The brewery recently launched a session IPA called Campside, which is perfect for those hopheads seeking to avoid the sometimes-crushing alcohol content of most IPAs. Consumer warning: Although approximately 99.9 percent of all beer should be consumed while fresh, it is particularly important to drink a beer like Campside IPA as soon as possible—within a month-and-a-half of its bottling date. And hooray for Upland for putting bottling dates on its products!

TAXMAN BREWING CO.

Everyone hold on to your wallets: The Taxman Brewing Co. has come to Bargersville! Taxman focuses on Belgian styles, but I’m sure that there will be a bit of meandering from the plan. The brewery offers five beers in its everyday lineup and will produce other beers as time and space allow. Both the Standard, which is a Belgian blonde ale, and the Exemption, which is a Belgian Triple, are great beers, and I look forward to tasting the Qualified, which is a Belgian Quadrupel. The Taxman tasting room and restaurant will open in July.

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Andrea & Ashley Johnson, husband/ wife duo & owners of the Blue Mile, worked with local brewery Flat 12 Bierwerks to co-brand a pale ale beer crafted just for runners.

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t’s not unusual to assume runners are health nuts — and that beer would be the last thing on their postrun go-to list. Indeed, the folks at Flat12 Bierwerks, a craft beer company on North Dorman Street, were a bit perplexed when they were approached about creating a cobranded beer for runners.

But it all makes perfect sense to Ashley Johnson and his wife, Andrea, who are both big craft-beer lovers as well as owners of the BlueMile specialty running stores in Carmel, Fishers, Broad Ripple and other locations in Indiana and Kentucky.

The Johnsons approached Flat12 about coming up with a beer geared toward runners “that people who exercise would like to drink after they run,” Ashley said.

“They said, ‘Why would anyone want that?’ [and I said], ‘Well, they’re drinking something, aren’t they?’.…That was when it all started.”

“When we first moved here in 2000, there wasn’t a lot of craft beer in Indianapolis,” said Andrea, who is thrilled that craft beers have gradually taken hold in the area. “We have this BlueMile [running] series in the summertime, and we started coming to Flat12 [afterward]. Runners and walkers and fitness enthusiasts tend to be very active, outgoing and like to try new things. .. . . So they were joining us at the different breweries, and we thought that we should have a beer for Blue Mile.

“We started pestering the Flat12 people about it, and they finally agreed. It kind of blossomed from hanging out at Flat12,” she said.

Once the folks at Flat12 were on board, it was just a matter of coming up with the right beer, which has been dubbed Brew Mile. “It’s an accessible, light, easy-drinking beer,” said Flat12 sales representative Derreck Ramsey of the extra-pale ale. It “drinks clean and has a finishing hop kick.”

And the beer’s look meshes nicely with Blue Mile.

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then they’ll all go out together,” he said. His goal is to get Brew Mile into all the pubs and restaurants these runners already head to.

“They’ve got a sleek truck. They’ve got cool stores where everything feels like it’s very well thought out,” said Flat12’s vice president of marketing, Bob Weaver. Flat12 has been in the area for three years, and the owners were happy to connect with an established business like Blue Mile.

“Even people that aren’t runners [will like it]. It’s a great beer,” Ramsey said.

Once the team came up with the name for the beer and the idea for Bob Weaver, VP of Marketing for Flat 12 Bierwerks, led the taste the label, they started thinking testing with runners to find just the right taste. Watch a video interview about what the bottle would look like. about the new beer at TownePost.com.

“Then we started doing some canning with our Half Cycle IPA, and that’s when we started thinking about runners and the scenarios about where they’re enjoying their beer — whether it’s the finishers’ tent or on vacation or on the beach somewhere or just home. Maybe a can would be preferable?”

Weaver said. “So we started going in that direction. That actually provided a really cool look and feel that fell in line with the

way Blue Mile does things. This can feels nice and trim and just put together. It felt like it fit a lot better [than a bottle].”

Ramsey is excited about Brew Mile’s potential, given the great sense of community that’s built into running.

“Typically, you’ll get a bunch of people that will meet up on the weekends and go for a run, do impromptu 2- or 3-mile runs, and

“It took a while for us to get there, but when we got there, it was like, That’s it!” Weaver said, punctuating his comment with a clap.

Brew Mile, “the official beer of the finishers’ tent,” is available on draft right now and will be available in cans this summer. Ask for it around town, or check it out at Flat12 Bierwerk’s taproom at 414 N. Dorman St. Thursdays through Sundays.

For more information, call Flat12 at 317635-BEER. Learn more about BlueMile at BlueMile.com.

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BOBBY “SLICK” LEONARD OUR HOOSIER HALL OF FAMER Perhaps the best description of Bobby “Slick” Leonard comes from someone who has evaluated the accomplishments of many Indiana basketball heroes and legends during his long career as a Hoosier State wordsmith.

Bill Benner, north of 60, has tangled with Bob Knight’s personality, described Reggie Miller’s exploits and now works with Larry Bird’s Pacers. But when asked how to best describe Leonard and the long-running basketball

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episode that has played in Terre Haute, Bloomington and Indianapolis/Carmel for 75 years of his 82 years, perhaps Benner sums it best in seven words. “He is the personification of Indiana basketball,” Benner said.

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And it is hard to resist Benner’s declaration.

Indeed, our state has hosted many basketball celebrities since we fell in love with the game. But, mostly, our fabled characters have come and gone through this crossroads of America: Miller, for instance, grew up in California and has returned to the West Coast. John Wooden was born in Martinsville and schooled in West Lafayette but reached greatness in Los Angeles. Oscar Robertson, born in Tennessee, starred in Cincinnati. Even Bird of French Lick and Indiana State fame became a national name as a Boston Celtic. Thus, can anyone argue that Leonard—born in Terre Haute, educated in Bloomington, and a resident, coach and broadcaster in Indianapolis/ Carmel for almost five decades—is not the biggest Hoosier basketballer of them all? This full-blooded Hoosier seemingly epitomizes all of us in Indiana.

So when Leonard ventures to Springfield, Mass., in August to join the storied Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, there will be more Hoosiers on board for the ceremony than his wife and basketball partner, Nancy, his family and Pacers executives. There will also be hundreds, thousands or maybe millions of us in spirit when one of ours accepts the next sainthood into the sport he cherishes.

We will all be vicariously living the experience that Pacer executives enjoyed this winter when his finalist status for the hall of fame was announced.

Recently, the Leonards sat in the living room of their Carmel home to take part in another of the countless interviews reviewing the chapters of their careers.

Some questions were old. Some inquiries might have been new. Whatever was asked, both amazed us with their ability to recall the highest of accomplishments and the smallest of trivia points related to being full-time Hoosiers.

The Slick from Terre Haute Okay, this saying is not as romantic as Zeke from Cabin Creek ( Jerry West) or the Hick from French Lick (Bird), but the nickname of Slick has been heard for a long time in Indiana and other basketball outposts. So,

who invented Slick? It was not Dick Vitale or Digger Phelps. Instead, Slick was born during a bus trip the Los Angeles Lakers made through West Virginia for preseason games. Leonard was involved in a heated Hollywood Gin match with Coach George Mikan at the front of the bus. “I blitzed him,” Leonard recalled, “and one of the players said that I was too slick. It stuck.”

Leonard’s love for cards-and winning for money-are part of his basketball folklore.

was scorned by the NBA…until Leonard led a charge to insert the “home run” into the league in 1979.

The first “BOOM BABY”

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It would be easy to theorize that the “BOOM BABY” blurted by Leonard for a Pacer 3-point basket was invented to label 3-pointers scored by Miller during his 18year career with Indiana. After all, Leonard announced almost all of Miller’s games, and the 1987 draft pick drained 2,560 3-pointers.

But that was not the case. “BOOM BABY” was hatched when Leonard was coaching the Pacers in the seventh game of the semi-finals of the 1975 American Basketball Association (ABA) playoffs. Denver held a 2-point lead with seconds left, and the Pacers got the ball to George McGinnis in the low post for a potential tying basket. But McGinnis kicked the ball out to a wide-open Billy Keller in the far corner. Game, set, Boom Baby. “Billy drilled it, and I shouted “BOOM BABY,” Leonard recalled.

It is doubtful that Leonard and Auerbach ever exchanged Valentine’s Day cards.

The rivalry between the two spilled over into the media and on-court. Even Nancy Leonard—who claims she and Auerbach had a respectful relationship—once challenged Auerbach when the Celtics came to Market Square Arena for the Pacers’ first NBA game in 1976. Nancy, in charge of game entertainment and activities, was visited by a referee during the game. The official said Auerbach was upset about the volume of the music and demanded that it be turned down. Nancy had a rulebook in her purse, showed it to the official and noted there was no rule on the loudness of music.

After the official showed the rulebook to Auerbach, the Celtic coach slammed the book on the floor. Eventually, the Celtics rallied from double digits and won in overtime. “We were beating their butts,” Leonard said. “If not for [ John] Havlicek, we would have won.”

And the biggest “BOOM BABY”?

“It was at the Miracle in Madison Square Garden,” Leonard said. “Reggie scored eight points in 13 seconds. One, he was right in front of Spike Lee, and he backed up for a 3-pointer. He nailed. I have never seen anything like it.” Today, Miller’s company is called Boom Baby Productions.

How about that red, white & blue basketball Along with having teams called the Anaheim Amigos, Minnesota Muskies and Pittsburgh Condors, the ABA was also known for using a red, white and blue basketball. Founders of the league thought the basketball was a sign of patriotism. It took Leonard time to accept the colorful basketball. “I was an old NBA player,” he said. “We didn’t have that kind of stuff.” Leonard also had to adjust to the 3-point shot. It, too, was an ABA rule and

“I told them that the fans in Boston and New York are no different than the fans in San Antonio, Denver and Indianapolis,” Leonard said. “Our fans loved it, and so will theirs.” There was only one dissenting vote in accepting the 3-point shot. It came from a longtime Leonard rival, Red Auerbach.

Champions vs. champions But while Leonard grudgingly concedes that Boston won that match, he is not ready to surrender that the Celtics of Larry Bird, Robert Parrish and Kevin McHale in the 1980s were better than his ABA championship teams in the 1970s, featuring Roger Brown, Mel Daniels and George McGinnis. “That frontline of ours could have competed with anybody,” the coach said. “Larry couldn’t have handled Roger, and there is no way Kevin could have guarded George. Plus, Mel would have been a big problem for Parrish.”

Those disagreements with the officials During his coaching days, Leonard won

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529 games for the Pacers. And he guided the blue and gold to three NBA championships. But he was also known for some incredible outbursts when it came to referees, ball racks, timekeepers and others who stood in the way of his pursuit of success.

Let’s review some of those moments: • The Ball Rack. Before Bob Knight fired a chair across the floor at an Indiana game in Bloomington, Leonard became upset with referee Ed Rush in a game at the State Fairgrounds Coliseum and tossed a full ball rack at Rush. Balls were flying everywhere, and Leonard earned three technical fouls. He also reported to the ABA office in New York the next day.

• Th e Mormon Punt. Leonard remembers the passive following there was in Salt Lake City, a new franchise, when the Stars arrived. But it wasn’t quiet for long after Leonard turned the Salt Place into bedlam one night.

After disagreeing with an official’s call, Leonard discovered the basketball at the free throw line and proceeded to imitate Pat MacAfee in punting the ball into the 50th row of the arena. From then on, Leonard recalls that the enthusiasm at Utah home games was high.

• Th e Slow Timekeeper. There was no need to rile up the fans in San Antonio, but Leonard did one time. During an ABA playoff game, the game was tied, and San Antonio had the ball and a chance to win the game.

All broke loose when Leonard accused the timekeeper of having a slow trigger on starting the play clock. He grabbed the timekeeper, squared off with the San Antonio coach and was set to battle the city of San Antonio and the state of Texas.

• Th e Stolen Whistle. This time it was longtime official Wally Rooney who received Leonard’s wrath. After disagreeing with Rooney on a call, the Pacer coach grabbed Rooney’s whistle and took it with him. “You have to be a little bit nuts to coach,” he admitted.

The Best-Ever Team Almost 300 different players have worn the Pacer colors, and the roster has gone A to Z as in Abernethy to Zeno. So, if Bobby Leonard were to name his all-time Pacer starting lineup, whom would he select? “I’d have to have Reggie,” he assessed. “Got to have Reggie.” His next three players were selected in rapidfive: the trio of Mel Daniels, Roger Brown and George McGinnis. And the point guard? It came down to Mark Jackson and Freddie Lewis, another ABA legend. He paused and reflected. “Give me Freddie,” Leonard stated. “He was the ultimate floor leader.” As for a sixth man? “I’d bring Paul [George] off the bench as my sixth man,” he noted. “He has a chance to be one of the best.”

Hall of famer And how did Leonard feel upon learning he was being named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame? “The first thing I thought was what we [family, friends and fans] had all been through,” he said. “It is a great honor for everyone who has been with us on this journey.”

Read the full story on TownePost.com.

The number of dates that Leonard had during his four years at Terre Haute Gerstmeyer. Coach Howard Sharpe had three rules for his players: No smoking, no drinking, no girls. Thus, no dating. During his sophomore year, a girl asked Leonard’s mother if Bobby could attend a school dance with her. Mrs. Leonard agreed, but when the girl came to pickup Bobby, he hid under his bed and no one found him.

End of date. “I didn’t know how to dance,” Leonard recalled. “I played basketball.”

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That’s how many seconds were left in the 1953 NCAA championship game between Indiana and Kansas. The scored was tied and Leonard was fouled on a layup attempt. The guilty Jayhawk was Dean Smith, who later became a coaching legend at North Carolina. Leonard missed his first attempt and Kansas coach Phog Allen called time out.

“He was trying to freeze me out,” remembered Leonard. But after the time out, Leonard hit the second shot and the Hoosiers won the national championship.

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As in $13,000 with the Zephers in his last season (1962-63). It was Leonard’s highest salary as an NBA starter. That came out to $158 per game. This year, Roy Hibbert will earn $14.3 million as the starting center for the Pacers. That comes out to $174,183 per game.

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The number of years that Bobby coached the Pacers.

The number of years that Nancy officially was called the “assistant general manager” of the Pacers. However, previously to becoming a paid employee in 1976, she served numerous roles for the franchise, including creating the Pacemates (an extension of the Pacesetter hosts program), serving as a “mom” to the players and once driving Dancing Harry to a playoff game in Louisville. When attending NBA meetings, she was frequently the only woman in the room.

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The total regular season wins the Pacers and Leonard had during their first ABA championship season (1969-70). They had a winning percentage of .702.

The final number of season tickets sold by the franchise for the 1977-78 season. Over 2,000 season tickets were sold during a two-day telethon on July 3-4. Nancy Leonard and her staff spearheaded the drive that saved the franchise and produced a season ticket total that still ranks as one of the highest in the history of the franchise.

“Something like this can only have happened in Indiana,” Slick Leonard told the media after he and Nancy tearfully proclaimed success on live television.

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The total number of coaching victories that Leonard achieved with the Pacers. The number hangs from a banner at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

The number of years that Nancy Root of South Bend and Bob Leonard of Terre Haute will have been married on June 15, 1954. The couple met in school at Bloomington. Their wedding was one day after their graduation ceremony from Indiana.

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The Leonards convinced a developer to sell them two lots in a new Carmel neighborhood in 1969. The price was $8,100 per lot. Forty-five years later they still reside in the same five-bedroom home where a cabin once stood.

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Okay, did you really think this basketball couple would have one, two or three children? They had to have a starting five and they did. All five of the Leonard children attended Carmel High School and the four boys (Bob, Tom, Bill and Tim) played a variety of sports.

“We never pushed them into sports,” said Bobby.

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The number of electric-shock jolts given to Bobby when he suffered a near fatal heart attack in New York in 2011. Medics usually stop after two jolts. A Pacer trainer ordered them to keep trying.

They did. Both Bobby and Nancy are now 82.

Ray Compton is a former journalist and longtime sports marketing person.

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Leonard was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame on the 14th day of February, 2014. It was Valentine’s Day.

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UNLOCKING STRAWTOWN KOTEEWI PARK’S HISTORY AND FUTURE Writer / Krista Shields Photographer / Brian Brosmer

Though Strawtown Koteewi Park is nearing its 15-year anniversary as a county park, much of the tourist attraction is still an unlocked mystery. Purchased from Daniel Taylor in 1999, the park has been a hotbed of archeological finds. The 750-acre site, which features 142 archeologically significant sites, is constantly evolving — much like it did with its first inhabitants, which date back to the Paleo-Indian time period.

The oldest artifact found on site is 10,500 years old and dates back to when mammoths and mastodons roamed the property. (When organic matter is burnt, it becomes carbonized, which allows it to be “carbon-dated” with the C14 method to determine its age.) The history of human occupation dates back to 1,000 B.C. and included a palisaded enclosure that can still be identified in aerial photographs.

“The pH of the soil is good for bone preservation,” said Cathy Carson, an archeology interpreter at the park.

In fact, the park’s Taylor Center exhibits all kinds of bones found on site, including the bear and elk that roamed the area and were eaten by occupants. Some of Indiana’s most significant archaeological finds are on display at the center, which includes a classroom, a lab for use by on-site archaeologists and a curation room. One display features 700-year-old kernels of corn.

The Taylor Center of Natural History — which debuted in 2004 and now is getting a facelift — is open Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m. It’s considered the centerpiece of the park’s interpretive and educational efforts.

“We are still learning about the park and what it means to our community, American Indians and to the scientific community,” Park Superintendent Amanda Smith said. “Discovery continues.”

“Amanda has been redoing a lot of the displays,” Carson said. “They show living archeology through time — how the Native Americans lived, crops they grew, substances that have been found.”

The park, just outside of Cicero off S.R. 37, will host the Indiana Archeological Counsel this September for a seminar on archeological remains. The park also plays host to the Indiana Archeology Month every fall, when more than 4,000 students tour the grounds.

One of those displays shows an illustration similar to the Strawtown enclosure site, which housed an entire Native American village on the deck overlooking the park. A replica of the village is underway, including a kiosk of information and a model of one of the houses.

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Since the park was established, archaeological students from Ball State University, IPFW, Indiana University and Indiana State University have been contributing their time to the collection and curation of artifacts found in the park.

“This started at the very beginning, as we immediately opened the park up for researchers and scientists from several (areas of) expertise, including ecological researchers and archaeologists,” Smith said.

A large-scale excavation block model showcasing the levels of soil findings through the ages is underway, with artifacts embedded into the concrete structure. According to Early People of Indiana, “When a feature is encountered, it is mapped, measured and photographed, no matter where in the level of it is discovered.” The structure shows the profiles of the soil and stratigraphy of the site.

If park visitors are looking for entertainment, Koteewi Park also is working on many new recreational features. An archery range will be finished this fall. According to the Indiana Business Journal, the range will include 100 shooting stations, including a 3-D shooting

trial, thanks to grant from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources that covered nearly three-quarters of the $715,000 cost.

The park also includes a canoe launch on the White River for boating and fishing. In addition, an 18.25-acre lake is being created with a beach. A sledding hill is planned for the park grounds, too.

“In my opinion, the size and vastness is the best feature,” said Smith, who has been with the parks department for 16 years. “It is possible to really get away in this park. It is the best kept secret in Hamilton County.”

Six miles of nature trails for hiking or cycling and equestrian trails for riding follow along the White River and the park’s wetlands and prairies. According to Carson, one of the greatest spectacles in spring and summer is the native prairie garden, which includes more than 20 flower species in 100 acres.

For more information about Strawtown Koteewi Park and its features and events, call 317-774-2574.

UPCOMING PROGRAMS STRAWTOWN ENCLOSURE — NATIVE AMERICAN VILLAGE TOURS The park’s interpretive staff will be conducting tours of the Strawtown Enclosure, a Native American village that was inhabited more than 700 years ago. Learn about the Native Americans who built and used the enclosure, and see some of the artifacts recovered by archaeologists. Tours will begin inside the Taylor Center of Natural History and include a short stroll to the village site.

Date: Sundays, May 4, 11, 18 and 25 Time: 2–3:00 p.m.

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THREE SISTERS’ GARDENING AND MORE Cynthia Deardorff is coming back to share her knowledge and years of experience with Native American foods. Come spend an afternoon, or just drop by for a few minutes, and learn about gardening, gathering, processing and cooking American Indian foods via interactive demonstrations.

Deardorff will have her seeds available for purchase for you to create your own Three Sisters’ garden.

Date: Sat., May 10 Time: 1–4 pm Ages: best for adults, but all are welcome

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HHSC NEW SUPERINTENDENT DR. DEREK ARROWOOD Writer / Roselyn Demaree

Derek Arrowood is a listener. You have to believe some interesting conversations are in his future.

As superintendent of Hamilton Heights Schools since Jan. 1, Arrowood plans to meet with every certified staff member. First up? HHHS science teacher Mary Schwartz.

Oh to be a fly on that wall.

Schwartz taught Arrowood, a 1986 Heights graduate, when he was in eighth grade.

Supervising people who were in charge of you in the not-so-distant past could be intimidating. But it doesn’t seem to faze Arrowood, who points out how his teachers from yesterday shape his todays.

“When I was in high school, I wanted to be Mr. Cook,” said Arrowood. He can’t drop the “mister” when he speaks of the friend he succeeds as head of the school district.

“He was my role model then. He’s my role model now.”

Arrowood was often in Cook’s office — but not for discipline. Arrowood was student body president in his senior year.

Cook “was an outstanding high school principal,” said Arrowood, who was principal at three elementary schools in Tippecanoe and Fayette counties before becoming superintendent of Sheridan Community Schools in 2006. “He was the kind of principal you wanted to see for good stuff, not bad.”

“We’re not talking numbers on test scores,” he says. “We can drill down to the individual student.”

Arrowood’s first month as superintendent was a baptism by snow. Repeated cancellations and delayed openings could have made it difficult to find his stride.

Students are among those he’s listening to for that perspective.

He wants his legacy as superintendent to be a record of student-centered decisions made by everyone in the schools that give kids what they need to be successful.

Just before this interview, Arrowood had lunch with two fourth-graders. Specific insights remained confidential, but he did say they shared what was great about the elementary school and what could be done better.

As he interacts with administrative office staff, however, it’s as though Arrowood has been there for years. The repartee with receptionist Patty Brockett mimics longtime friends chatting. She shares advice when He credits his father with the best advice he asked and offers experience as a veteran ever received. Joe Arrowood, most recently director of Noblesville Main Street and a employee and Heights resident. leader of the Noblesville Boys & Girls Club With a student population hovering around during Derek’s childhood, always told him, “Do it right the first time.”

2,200, Arrowood thinks Hamilton Heights has the best of both worlds. “We’re big This isn’t the first time Derek Arrowood has enough to offer all the resources of large had the opportunity to make a difference [school] corporations, but small enough in Hamilton Heights. But by listening and to offer individualized learning.” When leading the way he’s been led, he certainly the faculty and administration look at makes you believe he’s going to do it right. standardized test scores, for instance, they can identify the very students that need the most help. atMorse.com / MAY 2014 / MORSE / 31

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