New Miss America says God gives her a purpose
Associated Press - 1/18/2011 10:25:00 AM
LAS VEGAS - The newly-crowned Miss America, 17-year-old Teresa Scanlan, is a mostly home-schooled Christian who pointed heavenward when she was announced as the winner Saturday night.
According to the new Miss America, she wasn't the only Christian contestant in this year's pageant. "We know why we're here and what we're doing," said Scanlan, "and we have a passion for it because we know it's what God wants us to do. And so every person that I meet I know God has a reason why I'm meeting them. I just want to embrace that as much as I can this year."
Scanlan told reporters that she and other Christian contestants had been at peace waiting for the judges' decision, confident that it was ultimately in God's hands. "We knew that whatever happened is His plan," she shared. "And so whether I won or not, I just knew that the right person would be in the right place. So I guess I'm in the right place -- and now I'm just so excited to see what He has in store."
She says she and many of her fellow contestants are purpose-driven Christians. "Many of the girls who made it very high [in the competition] had a strong faith because that shows...the substance and purpose behind what we're doing -- and that's why we're driven."
The former Miss Nebraska said she believes her faith was an advantage in the competition, since she didn't have to think through and sort out her convictions beforehand. Scanlan said, "That's the whole purpose behind who I am. I'm defined by what God has created me to be."
After her year as Miss America, Scanlan plans to attend Patrick Henry College -- a Christian school in Virginia -- where she'll study government and work toward a career in law or politics.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Thanks Dr. Hovermale! More Bryanbty and James at UK
The movie is The Junction boys Ralph. It is about Bryant's interim job at TX ?.
Dr. Hovermale was a runner on UK track teams in the fifties after the Bear and Pat James.
Wannamaker became an All Pro destroyer.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Hovermale
To: 'Sam Kegley'
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:09
Subject: RE: 20110117 AM KSR
Hi Sam,
What is this movie? I remember Pat James well. He and Wannamaker were Bryant’s guards. Many stories were told about them. I recall one in which James was chasing a back for a loss. The back was dodging to and fro until James called, “You better let me tackle you. Wannamaker is right behind me and you sure don’t want him to tackle you”. The back gave up! They were gone when we reorganized the “K” Club so I never got to know them.
Regards,
Ralph
Dr. Hovermale was a runner on UK track teams in the fifties after the Bear and Pat James.
Wannamaker became an All Pro destroyer.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Ralph Hovermale
To: 'Sam Kegley'
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:09
Subject: RE: 20110117 AM KSR
Hi Sam,
What is this movie? I remember Pat James well. He and Wannamaker were Bryant’s guards. Many stories were told about them. I recall one in which James was chasing a back for a loss. The back was dodging to and fro until James called, “You better let me tackle you. Wannamaker is right behind me and you sure don’t want him to tackle you”. The back gave up! They were gone when we reorganized the “K” Club so I never got to know them.
Regards,
Ralph
More Portsmouth basketball and Cincinnati sports
Thanks Doug Brooke!
I am tutoring at CSCC this quarter on Mondays and Thursdays from 12 to 4. That will cut out my LAD meetings, but I miss seeing you and all of the great Denison people. We all have seen upsets such as the Middies losing to Columbus North in the Ohio State A semi-finals. North lost to a Cleveland team the next and final game. Heartbreak Highway in tournament time.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Brooke
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:26
Subject: Remembering Jerry Lucas--reply from Doug
Hi Sam:
I enjoy your reminisces about PHS, KY, and other sports topics. Being in the Western Hills HS (Cincinnati) class of 1955 I recall some of the names mentioned and of course Jerry Lucas.
When it was mentioned PHS lost to Cin. Hughes in 1955, I wondered why. Hadn't Robin Freeman left for OSU by then? I played bb for Western Hills (not particularily well) as 6th or 7th man and sort of recall Hughes was not that good in 1955. I recall a black player for Hughes named Blackstone who gave me an intentional elbow in the ribs and I told him if he did it again I'd knock his head off. He didn't.
I recall Curt Gentry, but am not sure in which sport. Did he play anything in College?
I have a minor association with UK. My uncle by marriage--Harold Wetzel started the UK School of Social Work and was it's chairman for many years. I used to visit them as a child (and later as an adult). They lived on Sycamore--down the street from the Henry Clay home.
We watched the Big 10 Icon Jerry Lucas program yesterday and enjoyed it. He came to Ohio State when I was a Junior and was quite a player--even better than I remembered. How many points would he have scored if he wasn't just as happy passing off to someone else? His rebounding was incredible also. I may recall a few more memories later.
Thursday is our Lads Luncheon. Come and bring Jeanie if you can.
Doug
I am tutoring at CSCC this quarter on Mondays and Thursdays from 12 to 4. That will cut out my LAD meetings, but I miss seeing you and all of the great Denison people. We all have seen upsets such as the Middies losing to Columbus North in the Ohio State A semi-finals. North lost to a Cleveland team the next and final game. Heartbreak Highway in tournament time.
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: Doug Brooke
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 10:26
Subject: Remembering Jerry Lucas--reply from Doug
Hi Sam:
I enjoy your reminisces about PHS, KY, and other sports topics. Being in the Western Hills HS (Cincinnati) class of 1955 I recall some of the names mentioned and of course Jerry Lucas.
When it was mentioned PHS lost to Cin. Hughes in 1955, I wondered why. Hadn't Robin Freeman left for OSU by then? I played bb for Western Hills (not particularily well) as 6th or 7th man and sort of recall Hughes was not that good in 1955. I recall a black player for Hughes named Blackstone who gave me an intentional elbow in the ribs and I told him if he did it again I'd knock his head off. He didn't.
I recall Curt Gentry, but am not sure in which sport. Did he play anything in College?
I have a minor association with UK. My uncle by marriage--Harold Wetzel started the UK School of Social Work and was it's chairman for many years. I used to visit them as a child (and later as an adult). They lived on Sycamore--down the street from the Henry Clay home.
We watched the Big 10 Icon Jerry Lucas program yesterday and enjoyed it. He came to Ohio State when I was a Junior and was quite a player--even better than I remembered. How many points would he have scored if he wasn't just as happy passing off to someone else? His rebounding was incredible also. I may recall a few more memories later.
Thursday is our Lads Luncheon. Come and bring Jeanie if you can.
Doug
Jerry Lucas PHS memories of the Middies
Thanks Blaine Bierley!
You and Jack H Plymale are excellent PHS athletic archivists. Jim fout, Doc Yeagle, and Jack H Plymale let me share the seat that Paul Walker normally shared with them, courtesy of Jim Fout, Ex PHS QB (43-45?) and OSU FB player. They played fb for Paul Walker at Portsmouth and remained close with Coach Walker throughout his remaining years.
Coach shared with his named PHS friends above that he also had parental pressures. A lady pestered him that her son could provide the same leadership as Jerry L, used in his place in the Middie offense. Coach yielded in the semi-final game with Columbus North coached by Frank Truitt, a friend of ours. The angry lady was proven quite wrong as the Middies lost that semi-final game.
Coach regretted his mistake but he didn't make many in coaching.
----- Original Message -----
From: Blaine Bierley
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 06:23
Subject: Remembering Jerry Lucas
“Jerry Lucas”
In my senior year at Portsmouth High School (1954-1955) the
Trojans had an outstanding basketball team. During the regular season
we won 15 games and lost only 3. Our tournament record ended at 5 and 1
when we lost to Cincinnati Hughes. Overall, Coach George Heller’s
miraculous “Six Shooters” posted a fine record of 20 wins and
4 losses.
One of the things that made that 54-55 season great was that the Trojans made a clean sweep of Ohio’s perennial cage powers. We defeated Middletown, Hamilton, and Springfield each twice--both in Grant Gym and on their home floors.
In the seventh game of the season the Trojans beat Middletown 81 to 60 at Middletown. Billy Clifford was the Trojan’s high scorer with 28 points with Curt Gentry close behind with 24 points. In the twelfth game of the season, at U.S. Grant gymnasium, PHS beat the Middies 56 to 41. This time Curt Gentry led the Trojans with 18 points and Milt Parker was close on his heels with 14 points.
I’m sure that you recall all the names of those “Six Shooters”:
senior Curt Gentry, senior Milton Parker, senior Billy Clifford, junior Jerry
Higgins, junior Don “Duck” Frazier, and junior Bruce Johnson. Coach Heller
was assisted that season by Charles Lorentz and Richard Hopkins, Jr.
Also, I wouldn’t want to fail to mention our two fine senior basketball managers: Kenny Amick and Charlie McKelvey.
However, the next year a young sophomore from Middletown by the name of Jerry Lucas burst upon the Ohio basketball scene and everything changed. The Trojan 1955-1956 basketball season was still a good one. The Trojans went 16 and 7. But, they lost to Middletown three times that season, and it was all Jerry Lucas’ fault! In fact, PHS couldn’t defeat Middletown for as long as Jerry Lucas was on the team. We lost to the Middies twice during the 1956-1957 season and twice again during the 1957-1958 season. Unfortunately, the Trojans stood 0-7 against Middletown during the Lucas reign. It was not unusual for Lucas to score 30 to 40 points in games against Portsmouth--as he did with most other rivals.
Lucas was a six foot-eight inch phenomenon from a working class family (his father was a pressman in a paper mill and his mother worked on an assembly line in a box factory) who only lost one game in the three years that he played varsity basketball for Middletown.
Lucas became the most dominating high school basketball player that the State of Ohio had seen to that point in time.
Fifty years ago (1956) Lucas, a sophomore, led Middletown to the big school (Class A) championship by scoring 97 points in the Middies’ two state-tournament games in Cleveland.
In the semi-final game undefeated Middletown faced undefeated Cleveland East Tech. Middletown won easily, 99 to 78, and Lucas scored 53 points, a state tournament record.
In the final game undefeated Middletown played Canton McKinley for the state crown. Again, Middletown easily topped Canton McKinley, 91 to 69, with Lucas scoring 44 points while holding his counterpoint to a single point.
Middletown repeated as state champions the next year (1957) and extended its winning streak to 76 games before losing to Columbus North in the state semi-finals in 1958. The Middies’ streak remains the longest in Ohio boys basketball history. Lucas twice earned Ohio Player of the Year and Parade magazine’s All-American honor. He scored a state record of 2,466 points in his varsity career.
Middletown, a booming town in the 1950s (much like Portsmouth) always embraced its Middies. It is said that managers would have to shut down factories on basketball Friday nights because the workers would not show up for work, electing either to go to the games or stay home and listen to them on the radio.
Lucas would go on to win a national NCAA title at The Ohio State University, an Olympic gold medal in the 1960 games at Rome, and an NBA championship with the New York Knicks . He became the first player to win championships at all four levels (high school, college, Olympic, and professional).
After Lucas graduated, Middletown’s basketball program began a long decline, as did the city itself when the steel industry began to crumble. But for three years beginning some fifty years ago, Middletown was the center of the Ohio high school basketball universe--thanks to Jerry Lucas.
You and Jack H Plymale are excellent PHS athletic archivists. Jim fout, Doc Yeagle, and Jack H Plymale let me share the seat that Paul Walker normally shared with them, courtesy of Jim Fout, Ex PHS QB (43-45?) and OSU FB player. They played fb for Paul Walker at Portsmouth and remained close with Coach Walker throughout his remaining years.
Coach shared with his named PHS friends above that he also had parental pressures. A lady pestered him that her son could provide the same leadership as Jerry L, used in his place in the Middie offense. Coach yielded in the semi-final game with Columbus North coached by Frank Truitt, a friend of ours. The angry lady was proven quite wrong as the Middies lost that semi-final game.
Coach regretted his mistake but he didn't make many in coaching.
----- Original Message -----
From: Blaine Bierley
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 06:23
Subject: Remembering Jerry Lucas
“Jerry Lucas”
In my senior year at Portsmouth High School (1954-1955) the
Trojans had an outstanding basketball team. During the regular season
we won 15 games and lost only 3. Our tournament record ended at 5 and 1
when we lost to Cincinnati Hughes. Overall, Coach George Heller’s
miraculous “Six Shooters” posted a fine record of 20 wins and
4 losses.
One of the things that made that 54-55 season great was that the Trojans made a clean sweep of Ohio’s perennial cage powers. We defeated Middletown, Hamilton, and Springfield each twice--both in Grant Gym and on their home floors.
In the seventh game of the season the Trojans beat Middletown 81 to 60 at Middletown. Billy Clifford was the Trojan’s high scorer with 28 points with Curt Gentry close behind with 24 points. In the twelfth game of the season, at U.S. Grant gymnasium, PHS beat the Middies 56 to 41. This time Curt Gentry led the Trojans with 18 points and Milt Parker was close on his heels with 14 points.
I’m sure that you recall all the names of those “Six Shooters”:
senior Curt Gentry, senior Milton Parker, senior Billy Clifford, junior Jerry
Higgins, junior Don “Duck” Frazier, and junior Bruce Johnson. Coach Heller
was assisted that season by Charles Lorentz and Richard Hopkins, Jr.
Also, I wouldn’t want to fail to mention our two fine senior basketball managers: Kenny Amick and Charlie McKelvey.
However, the next year a young sophomore from Middletown by the name of Jerry Lucas burst upon the Ohio basketball scene and everything changed. The Trojan 1955-1956 basketball season was still a good one. The Trojans went 16 and 7. But, they lost to Middletown three times that season, and it was all Jerry Lucas’ fault! In fact, PHS couldn’t defeat Middletown for as long as Jerry Lucas was on the team. We lost to the Middies twice during the 1956-1957 season and twice again during the 1957-1958 season. Unfortunately, the Trojans stood 0-7 against Middletown during the Lucas reign. It was not unusual for Lucas to score 30 to 40 points in games against Portsmouth--as he did with most other rivals.
Lucas was a six foot-eight inch phenomenon from a working class family (his father was a pressman in a paper mill and his mother worked on an assembly line in a box factory) who only lost one game in the three years that he played varsity basketball for Middletown.
Lucas became the most dominating high school basketball player that the State of Ohio had seen to that point in time.
Fifty years ago (1956) Lucas, a sophomore, led Middletown to the big school (Class A) championship by scoring 97 points in the Middies’ two state-tournament games in Cleveland.
In the semi-final game undefeated Middletown faced undefeated Cleveland East Tech. Middletown won easily, 99 to 78, and Lucas scored 53 points, a state tournament record.
In the final game undefeated Middletown played Canton McKinley for the state crown. Again, Middletown easily topped Canton McKinley, 91 to 69, with Lucas scoring 44 points while holding his counterpoint to a single point.
Middletown repeated as state champions the next year (1957) and extended its winning streak to 76 games before losing to Columbus North in the state semi-finals in 1958. The Middies’ streak remains the longest in Ohio boys basketball history. Lucas twice earned Ohio Player of the Year and Parade magazine’s All-American honor. He scored a state record of 2,466 points in his varsity career.
Middletown, a booming town in the 1950s (much like Portsmouth) always embraced its Middies. It is said that managers would have to shut down factories on basketball Friday nights because the workers would not show up for work, electing either to go to the games or stay home and listen to them on the radio.
Lucas would go on to win a national NCAA title at The Ohio State University, an Olympic gold medal in the 1960 games at Rome, and an NBA championship with the New York Knicks . He became the first player to win championships at all four levels (high school, college, Olympic, and professional).
After Lucas graduated, Middletown’s basketball program began a long decline, as did the city itself when the steel industry began to crumble. But for three years beginning some fifty years ago, Middletown was the center of the Ohio high school basketball universe--thanks to Jerry Lucas.
Re- Paul Walker and Jerry Lucas- Jack H Plymale
Portsmouthites special:
Jeanie and I had a joyous weekend in Lexington, Jack. I am strictly amazed at our love for one another. She is a good, as well as, a beautiful lady!
Sam, one of my favorite jokes is about a couple celebrating their golden anniversary. The groom was telling his best buddy about the plans. Same town,same hotel,even the same room. His wife had even stolen a menu from the restaurant and the hotel assured them that they would have the same meal. Everything exactly the same. He tells his buddy,the next time they meet His buddy says are you sure there was no difference. The groom admitted that there was one small difference. His buddy,"uhuh. I thought there might be,what was it.?????????????????? The groom,"THIS TIME I WENT IN THE BATHROOM AND CRIED.",,,,,,,,,,,, It tells a lot better than it reads, Sam. You see the punch line early. Jack P,
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Jack P.
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Jack P.
sam,Glad you mentioned Jerry Lucas. We kidded Walker for years about going to Kentucky with a job offer for Jerry Lucas's dad at Armco in Middletown and we were just half way kidding. I forget the win streak record numbers he had. almost all when Lucas was there. I remember ( rightly or wrongly)they won 76 in a row. Lost one then won 29 in a row.He to
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Sam Kegley <skegley@columbus.rr.com> wrote:
I believe it could be, Jack. If the roads converge to bring on UK and OSU, I willl want to see Matta go down, down, down, even though I am an Ohio boy.Jerry Lucas was a sophomore with a bunch of others when they went to Lexington to play the Cats. I was a huge Lucas fan and saw him break Chamberlain's HS career scoring record in Portsmouth. I played outdoor and YMCA pick up games with fellow Kentucky students and I had to go back down there during Christmas break to witness the OSU-UK game. OSU led by 15 at the half and I was looking for my UK bkb friends at halftime. I am glad I did not find them then, because Taylor foolheartedly turned his thouroughbreds loose on the Wildcats. Coach Rupp's poorly matched squad came back in the second half and sent the Buckeyes back to Columbus with a loss. We met agaion in LUVL in the NCAA's and OSU won before they went on to win the NCAA ion 1960. With another coach, OSU could have had three NCAA's in a row, but lost to a better coach with and undermatched team, Ed Jucker at Cincinnati.SamKat----- Original Message -----From: Jack PlymaleTo: Sam KegleySent: Monday, January 17, 2011 15:22Subject: Kentucky--------------------------------------------------------------------------------LSUSam I hope your marraige celebration was more exciting than the basketball game.Could it possibly be that the best college basketball team in the nation is right there in your hometown------------------------------------------- Nnnnnnnnnnnaaaaaaaawwwwwwwww.
Jack P.
Notes from classy Portsmouth's Elder statespeople
Dick Klitch and I are meeting at First Watch in Worthington at 9:30 this morning. Any who wish to join us certainly may. I talked with Alice, Smokey's wife, and she thought Smokey could better make it when the cold weather breaks.
Sam
From: Jack Plymale
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 21:17
Subject: Re: Sarah's note:
Sam, I've seen that moviec. Thanks just the same. One testimony to the kind of Athlete and person Pat James of New Boston was, and the kind of athlete, is his history with the Bear. Played for him at U of Ken. and was a line coach for him as long as he was in the business. Pat probably is dead. I worked with him at the N & W freight station while we both were still in High school. He was a very close friend of Keith Gaspich(M.D.) and I think lived with the Gaspich family to finish his last year at NB, after his family moved out of town. Keith was a great player at New Boston also in 1944. He and Keith were half their backfield; althoug, typically the bear made a college guard of Pat
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Sam Kegleyforwarded this note from Sarah DuPuy Rapp:
cleaning up my old e mails and found this...I have a movie of
Bear called the Junktion boys.. all about
bear's coaching..if you can't find it I am trying to copy it on DVD and if successfull will get you a copy
of course that will be when I return home in March
Sam
From: Jack Plymale
To: Sam Kegley
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 21:17
Subject: Re: Sarah's note:
Sam, I've seen that moviec. Thanks just the same. One testimony to the kind of Athlete and person Pat James of New Boston was, and the kind of athlete, is his history with the Bear. Played for him at U of Ken. and was a line coach for him as long as he was in the business. Pat probably is dead. I worked with him at the N & W freight station while we both were still in High school. He was a very close friend of Keith Gaspich(M.D.) and I think lived with the Gaspich family to finish his last year at NB, after his family moved out of town. Keith was a great player at New Boston also in 1944. He and Keith were half their backfield; althoug, typically the bear made a college guard of Pat
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Sam Kegley
cleaning up my old e mails and found this...I have a movie of
Bear called the Junktion boys.. all about
bear's coaching..if you can't find it I am trying to copy it on DVD and if successfull will get you a copy
of course that will be when I return home in March
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