May 22, 2003
This is another "B" Line column, a periodic collection of news items of particular interest to members of the Baylor "B" Association. Contribute news about you or your teammates via e-mail to Lee Harrington (leenelaine@281.com), Dutch Schroeder (Dutch_Schroeder@baylor.edu), Reba Cooper (Reba_Cooper@baylor.edu) or Jack Loftis (Jack.Loftis@chron.com). The mailing address is Baylor "B" Association, P. O. Box 8120, Waco, TX 76714.
ANOTHER DUTCH TREAT - It's time once again to let Dutch Schroeder, the former Baylor baseball coach and executive vice president of the Baylor "B" Association, take The "B" Line reins and provide us with sports angles combed from news stories and features in recent Baylor-related publications. For instance, did you know that the cover on the spring issue of the Baylor Alumni Association magazine, The Baylor Line, and the cover of the university's gift-planning publication, To Light the Ways of Time, both featured former BU athletes? According to Dutch, Baylor's most reliable memory bank, David Hildebrand, who is pictured with his family on the cover of The Line, participated in track in the early 1960s and all three of his sons played club soccer at Baylor. Their dad also was their coach and took one of his teams to the National Club Sports finals . . . John and Martha Minton are featured on the front of Light the Ways. He played baseball in 1952 and Sara, the youngest of the Mintons' three daughters, was a four-year letterwinner on BU softball teams in the early 1980s. The Mintons, who live in Tyler, have made major monetary contributions to Baylor and are charter members of the Old Main Society, an organization composed of individuals and couples who have pledged deferred gifts to Baylor . . .
OTHER OLD MAINERS - Some of the newest members of the Old Main Society with "B" Association credentials include Mr. and Mrs. Norman Alsobrook (cross country and track), Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Chiles (golf), Mr. and Mrs. Joe Coleman (baseball), Mr. and Mrs. Ken Dunlap (track), Mr. and Mrs. Willie Froebel (football), Mr. and Mrs. John Phil Gilliam (baseball), Mr. and Mrs. James Griffin (football), Mr. and Mrs. Brad Harris (football), Mr. and Mrs. Paul Morrow (tennis), Mr. (football) and Mrs. (tennis) Jeff Reeter, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Rogers (tennis), Marvin Sapaugh (track), Mr. and Mrs. Stan Schlueter (basketball), Thornton Sterling (baseball), Mr. and Mrs. Jim Turner (basketball) and Art Whitmer (track) . . . Aundre Branch, who was a 1991-1995 basketball player for the Bears, is now a member of the Harlem Globetrotters. The touring team appeared at Ferrell Center earlier this year . . . Royce West, a 1958-1961 BU football player, is now retired and living in Tyler with his wife, Dr. Syntha Traughber West. Syntha was the Golden Wave Band head majorette when she and Royce were in school. In 2001 she was chosen Mrs. Texas Senior and represented the state in the Mrs. America Classic in Charleston, S.C. Syntha spent much of her life in elementary and secondary education and recently authored a book, College Preparatory Guide for Teenagers . . . Herbert "Spike" Harlan, who had a 1959-1962 football career at Baylor, is now teaching and coaching at Boswell High School near Fort Worth . . .
TALES OF TWO SALES - The Richard E. Sale who is mentioned in the "Down the Years" feature in the current Baylor Line is often confused with another Richard Sale, the 1959 graduate who played baseball at Baylor from 1956 through 1959. Richard E. is a 1957 BU graduate who is now a volunteer law enforcement chaplain residing in South Carolina. Two of his major missions included working at Ground Zero in New York City and at the explosion site of the federal building in Oklahoma City . . . The baseball playing Sale, a banker in Shreveport, is constantly being ribbed by his former teammates about what they say was his greatest contribution to BU athletics: Sending his daughter Kathryn to Baylor, where she was one of the best players on the Lady Bears tennis teams from 1989 through 1992. She now works for the Texas Tennis Association in Austin . . . Major Brad Oliver, an '80s baseball player, is a T37 Training Instructor at Randolph Field in San Antonio. Incidentally, he was one of the four pilots who flew their planes over Floyd Casey Stadium during last fall's Baylor-Oklahoma game . . . Late Breaking News: The 2003 James Ingram Memorial Golf Tournament starts at 1 p.m. today at the Quarry Golf Club in San Antonio. Proceeds go to Baylor athletics . . .
JACK LOFTIS
CHAIRMAN
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
