-Coach Harry Groves, commenting on his day spent on the drink cart on the Elks Club Course with Amber.Saturday night was the night to celebrate Coach Groves' 80th birthday at the Awards dinner. The great cake was arranged by Nick K. The one-armed hockey player, Steve Balkey arranged for the drink cart escort for Coach. Turn out was excellent for the ribs and chicken dinner. Next year, the idiot officers will be organized and make sure to have even more grub available. We can return to Damon's if they fix their air-conditioning unit! I'll be reviewing the award winners at some point this week, but now I'm just trying to recover from the whirlwind of activity.
Friday night was a night to honor PSU great Greg Fredericks. I didn't let that out on the blog like I did for coach, as I realized Greg, unlike Coach, actually knows how to use the "intertubes". I didn't want to spoil the surprise of the great photo supplied from Terry Losch at Rapid Transit.
The photo is from a great collection of running photos at runmoremiles.com, run by a great friend of the group, Walt Chadwick. Copies of the 11 X 17" posters are available for just $12.95 and $3.00 shipping. I have a signed copy of each on the wall in my new treadmill room. There are many vintage pics from the "olden days" available (maybe I should say "golden days"?). I hope to try for some mid-eighties versions next year (hint, hint, PSU is 800 U).
thank you dave.
ReplyDeleteone of the great things for me is sharing the sport with others. i have great respect for harry and the great tradition at penn state. fate (?) has allowed me into your group for a brief time. i hope to bring some more pictures to you next year.
my thanks to all of you.
walt