Los Angeles Valley College Athletic Awards Banquet, June 30. I would love to go!!!

Date:   6/20/2007 5:25:52 PM ( 17 y ago)

3:09 PM
June 20, 07

There is a Hoot of an event
I would like to attend about 200 miles from here
on June 30.

IT is a Hall of Fame banquet put on the
Athletic Department of Los Angeles Valley College.

Oh My GOd!

Right out of High School,
I was really holding on to life by a thread.

The first month in college, I ended up in the hospital.
They were still at that point unable to give a name
to what they were calling a "Psychosomatic" condition.

It took numbers of years for the Dr.'s to give it a name...
Anglyosin Spondylitis...a form of arthritis.

If I had known of Dr. Jensen then, I am sure he oculd
have seen the unfoldment looking through Iridology.

In any case, by the end of my first year at LAVC,
a Junior College, I was on a roll.

I ran for Student Gov office.

I ran for Commissioner of Men's Athletics of all things.

I had a couple good experiences in High School with Male Coaches
who were the closest Role Models I found to a Solid Father Figure.
The coaches had a semblance of Sanity I could count on.

Dave Ridderhof, the Cross Country Coach in High School was my first
Role Model. What a jewel.

Then, in JC, I made friends with Ray Follosco, the Gymnastic Coach,
another Jewel of a man. I would write stories for our school paper.
I got to vicariously heal my self through participating in this way.

Then, at the end of the first year, I got to be this Commissioner
on the Student Council. I really needed that kind of experience
to take steps away from my physical ailments.

Lifting up the spirit and service is my Wonder Drug of choice!!!

What a ball I had in Student Government!

I got a paid job as well with the football team!!!!
I was the locker room attendant, plus I had this edge,
I was the Commissioner who sat in with the coaches.
I would help get funds from the Student Gov!!!
What a Hoot.

Plus, guess what?

The Commissioner was the head of the Rally Committee.
That meant...I got to help choose the Cheerleaders!!!!

At the end of the first year, the active commission
went into the Military. We were in Vietnam.

So my first job, before I was even in office, was to be
the M.C. at the Sport's Awards banquet!!!!

What a shot in the arm!!!

During the Fall, I would travel with the Football Team.

I got special duties...such as telling the team when it was
time to leave the locker room and cross the football field.

All this public goodness and service, was in the backdrop of
severe abandonment issues that I was not even in touch with.

My mom died with I was 12. My teen years were a wash with
trauma so deep that I started to cripple up physically.

Then the first year in College, I was on loans.
For part of that year, I did not even know where my father was.
He went off looking for my Step Mother.

I was left by him with a 52 Chevy I could not even drive.

God Bless, Jack Becker, my brother-in-law-who taught me how to drive
finally. I was driving eligally to go to PT.

So June 30 is the Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet. I believe
the first ever.

Gee, I would love to go to that.

That EG Mobile has been behaving well these few days.

Can I go?
May I please go....

What a Hoot!!!

I would love to be there.

Follow UP!!!

Tell Jon Simon Sager, my old friend...that would be a hoot
to have a reunion there.

 

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