Runner is inspired by trophy medal
Former track star Glenn Cunningham told guests at the Business School Day Banquet last night that he became a miller because he saw a gold medal in a trophy case and decided he wanted to win it.
"The card beicide it said "Class A mile," he said, "and I wanted the medal. If it had been for the 100-yard dash, I suppose I would have been a sprinter."
HE TOLD OF GOING to his first track meet to win the medal, and barely making the 70-pound weight qualification "with all my winter clothes."
He had never seen a pair of track shoes before, and was astonished at the "giant" next to him "wearing nails in his shoes," but he won the race.
GLENN CUNNINGHAM
He never got the medal. He could not stay to pick it up after the race, because he would have been late getting home. When he asked for it the next day at school, no one knew what had happened to it.
"I HAVE WON many medals and trophies since then," he said, "but none of them has meant as
Students involved
in two car accidents
Two non-injury traffic accidents occurred yesterday on campus.
A university owned pickup truck driven by Harold E. Blitch, RFD 2, Lawrence, was turning into J-Zone parking lot from Sunnyside Avenue when it was hit by a car coming out of the lot driven by Jay D. Lagree, Great Bend senior.
Damage to the pickup was estimated at $100 and to Lagree's car at $75.
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At 4:45 p.m. Larry E. Colburn,
Lawrence senior, was driving south on the drive behind the Chancellor's guest house when Susan K. Griffiths, Chanute graduate student, backed her car into his.
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Lu Surface, Pi Beta Phi,
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and green poor boy.
much to me as that little gold medal would have back in fourth grade.
Cunningham also described the satisfaction he finds in his work with children. He described providing homes for more than 8,000 boys and girls over a number of years as "passing on to the next generation" some of the help he received from many people he could not repay.
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