Our Heroes--past and present

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  • Phantom Stranger
    Phantom Stranger

    Robert Heinlein

    Gandhi

    Ernie Pyle, WWII correspondent

    Teddy Roosevelt (many flaws but fascinating guy)

    Ani diFranco

    many of my friends

  • jayhawk1
    jayhawk1

    Allen, "Phog" (Forrest C.)

    Basketball

    b. Nov. 18, 1885, Jamesport, MO
    d. Sept. 16, 1974

    The first true basketball coach, Allen learned the sport at the University of Kansas, where James Naismith was coach. Naismith, who had invented basketball in 1891, felt that the sport was too spontaneous to be coached. "Well," Allen replied, "you can coach them to pass at angles and run in curves."

    In his senior year, 1908-09, Allen coached the team. He also coached at two nearby schools, Baker University and Haskell Indian Institute. Kansas was 25-3 that season, Baker 22-2, and Haskell 27-5 for a combined record of 74 wins and 10 losses.

    Allen went on to the Kansas College of Osteopathy. Although he never set up practice, he did treat a number of well-known athletes. He coached at Warrensburg Teachers College (now Central Missouri State) from 1912-13 through 1918-19 and at Kansas from 1919-20 through 1955-56, compiling an overall record of 770 wins and 223 losses.

    Kansas won the 1952 NCAA tournament; the 1923 and 1924 teams were chosen national champions by the Helms Athletic Foundation. Under Allen, Kansas won or shared thirty championships in the Missouri Valley, Big Seven, and Big Eight Conferences. Among his pupils were Adolph Rupp, Dutch Lonborg, and John Bunn, all members of the Basketball Hall of Fame.

    Allen was a founder of the National Association of Basketball Coaches in 1927 and served as its first president. He led the drive to have basketball made an Olympic sport in 1936 and he was also instrumental in having the NCAA tournament established in 1939. The University of Kansas's 17,500-seat arena, Allen Field House, is named for him.

  • jayhawk1
    jayhawk1

    "I'm a Jayhawk..." Wilt Chamberlain

  • jayhawk1
    jayhawk1

    Wearing his old KU letter jacket, NBA great Wilt Chamberlain shook hands all around after his Kansas jersey was retired in a halftime ceremony at Allen Fieldhouse Saturday. Chamberlain then provided commentary for the second half and signed autographs for fans after the game.

  • tinkerbell82
    tinkerbell82

    two that i can think of off the top of my head - HD Thoreau and the honors US history teacher i had in my junior year of high school, Mr. Holcomb. two of the best instructors i've ever learned from. :)

  • Badger
    Badger

    *Ahem*

    Miss tinkerbell? Turn to page 367 in your book and tell me why I'm not your favorite history teacher.

  • tinkerbell82
    tinkerbell82

    D'OH! and badger is my personal hero, too. i KNEW i was forgetting someone!!

    if i do extra credit, will you forgive me, badge? ;)

  • Swan
    Swan

    My Husband, George 'Jim' Fisher,

    and then, in alphabetical order:

    • Abraham Lincoln
    • Alan Turing
    • Albert Einstein
    • Anne Frank
    • Bruce Baker
    • Carl Sagan
    • Chief Joseph
    • Ellen DeGeneres
    • Gandhi
    • Greensboro Five
    • Harriet Tubman
    • Helen Keller
    • Jim Lovell
    • Jimmy Carter
    • Judy Shepard
    • Stephen Hawking
    • Stonewall Rioters
    • Thomas Jefferson
  • oldcrowwoman
    oldcrowwoman

    Jackie Fendler Who cared!!

    Old Crow

  • AlanF
    AlanF

    With respect to science:

    Isaac Newton
    Albert Einstein
    Gottfried Leibnitz
    Carl Gauss
    Augustin-Louis Cauchy
    Louis Agassiz
    Milutin Milankovitch
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Charles Darwin
    Stephen Jay Gould
    Carl Sagan

    With respect to making known the truth about Jehovah?s Witnesses:

    James Penton
    Carl Olof Jonsson
    Raymond Franz
    Barbara Anderson
    William Bowen

    AlanF

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