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 you understand [...]
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 St. [...]
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 the city was [...]
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 left [...]
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 the [...]
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 tried [...]
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 coach [...]
Friday, June 4th, 2010, “Searching Outside Of The Family For Similar Values” Part VI, Crane High School, Coach Brown, Aunt Betty, my conflicts continue!
Junior year, I made the varsity team. Ernest was getting lots of playing time off the bench. This was Coach Brown’s first year as varsity coach and I never played during that [...]
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010, “Searching Outside Of The Family For Similar Values”, Crane High School, Aunt Betty and my conflicts continue!
Ernest and I made the junior varsity team as freshmen at Crane High School. That same year “Heavy” was a senior and one of our local legends. Heavy’s original position was guard but he was [...]
Friday, May 28th, 2010, “Searching Outside Of The Family For Similar Values” Part IV, Ernest Leaks, “Heavy”, Crane High School and the coaches, my conflicts continue!
What high school should we attend? Crane High School was our only consideration. That’s where all of the “ballers” went so we followed.
Some of my middle school teachers wanted me [...]
