Tuesday, June 29th, The Call From Coach Feely, My Grandfather’s Love. Around the end of June I got a call from Coach Feely from the College of St. Thomas informing me Heavy and I were accepted. I was so excited and told Aunt Ida and Aunt Betty immediately. Aunt Ida said, “Little Henry now do [...]
June 25th, 2010, Melvin “Heavy” Freeman, My Grandfather’s Love, Preparing To Leave Chicago. Arriving back in Chicago, the first thing I did was complete all the enrollment forms and mail them back to Coach Feely. I contacted Heavy and told him about my trip to Minnesota, being with Coach Vaughn and visiting the College of [...]
Today in Basic Life Skills the youth had an open discussion about last day of school. One young man said, “I did it. I graduated from high school! I’m so thankful cause I didn’t see myself finishing. I was a very troubled teen. I was always in the streets doing wrong. I didn’t even think [...]
What a great talk, with an ongoing recession and college graduates moving back with their parents, this is more important than ever.
June 22nd, May 1975, St. Paul, MN, “E-Thang” and I arrive in Minneapolis. I asked E-Thang, “Hey man, you still interested in coming with me to check out the school in Minnesota?” “Yeah Nag, let’s check it out!” Coach Vaughn picked us up at the Greyhound bus station in downtown Minneapolis. Coach mentioned how cleaned [...]
Friday, June 18thth, 2010, Basketball season over, Coach White’s Disappointment, Coach Vaughn’s Assistance and Minnesota Bound! Coach Vaughn resigned from Crane and moved his family to Minneapolis, MN. Coach White had made promises of helping us get into colleges. But after basketball season ended he moved on with other things in his life. We were [...]
June 15th, 2010, “Searching Outside Of The Family For Similar Values” Part XIV, My Senior year at Crane High School, Coach Vaughn, My Conflicts Resolving! Ernest and Walt had become great friends off the court as well. My family and I were living in K-Town. Ernest was still living in our old community. I took [...]
Friday, June 11th, 2010. “Searching Outside The Family For Similar Values, Part VIII, My Senior Year at Crane High School, Late Night Talks with Aunt Betty, Coach Vaughn and My Conflicts Resolving” Aunt Betty and I continued to have our late night talks. We would sit and listen to R&B songs on the radio. She [...]
Quality is a term that is not mentioned enough in our everyday conversations but does it need to be? I personally believe that quality is expected, especially coming from a consumer’s point of view. According to Goetsch & Davis (2010), quality has many definitions but there are enough similarities that exist among the definitions that [...]
Tuesday, June 8th 2010, “Searching Outside The Family For Similar Values, Part VII, My Senior Year at Crane High School, Coach White, Aunt Betty, Coach Vaughn and Conflicts Coming To An End!” Senior year, Coach Vaughn took over the varsity team. In those days only a certified teacher could be the coach. He was our [...]
