June 2015 Track and Field Writers of President’s Message America Welcome to Gerlinger Hall We moved our annual Awards Breakfast to campus this year – the Old World (Founded June 7, 1973) charm of Gerlinger Hall, built in 1919 – and it was a hit. Fifty people were on PRESIDENT hand on Friday morning, June 12, for breakfast, presentations and two 15-foot Jack Pfeifer, 6129 N. pole vaulters. Lovely St., Portland, OR 97203. Office/home: 917- 579-5392. Email: [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT Doug Binder. Email: [email protected]. Contents Phone: 503-913-4191. TREASURER P. 1 President’s Message Tom Casacky, P.O. Box 4288, Napa, CA 94558. P. 2 TAFWA Awards Phone: 818-321-3234. P. 11 Bill Miller Passes Email: [email protected] P. 13 Merrell Noden Passes SECRETARY/ P. 15 IAAF World Youth Credentialing AWARDS CHAIR Don Kopriva, 5327 New- P. 16 Andrew Goodman port Drive, Lisle IL 60532. P. 21 Race Lotteries. Are They Legal? Home: 630-960-3049. Cell: 630-712-2710. P. 26 The Mystery of Tim Danielson Email: donkopriva777@ P. 30 Steve Prefontaine and the Tacoma Running Scene aol.com P. 33 Steve Sutton Remembers Bruce Jenner NEWSLETTER EDITOR P. 34 Minority Coaches Condemn Eligibility Changes Kim Spir, University of Portland, 5000 N. P. 36 David Oliver Fires His Coach Willamette Blvd., P. 39 Eugene Running Tours Portland, OR 97203. Work: 503-943-7314. P. 42 Pro Publica: Salazar and Drug Rules Email: kim.spir@gmail. P. 52 Mark Daly Becomes A Drug Cheat to Test the System com P. 57 Lauren Fleshman Questions Salazar’s Asthma FAST Drug Recommendations Dave Johnson. Email: [email protected] P. 61 Salazar and Prozac Phone: 215-898-6145. P. 63 Youth Runner Feature: Ella Donaghu WEBMASTER P. 64 Partial Fixtures List Michael McLaughlin. Email: supamac@comcast. net. Phone: 815-529- 8454. We were also fortunate enough to have three guest speakers – Kim McManus, vice president of the Oregon Track Club, filling in for the president, Erin Regali; Tom Heinonen, the retired head coach of the Oregon women’s team, and Vin Lananna, the president of TrackTown. Heinonen, on hand to impart the legacy of Gerlinger, took that opportunity not to regale us with stories of how the building was once used for women’s athletics but instead to point out something much more important. It was the set for a scene in the classic movie “Animal House,” much of which was filmed on the Oregon campus in 1978. It was, in fact, the sorority house where Frank learns that his “fiancée,” Fawn Leibowitz, has died in a kiln accident. Honest. Tom’s office can be seen in the back- ground, shuttered in pink curtains. Awards • USTFCCCA Tom Lewis, of the U.S. Track & Cross Country Coaches Association, presented that group’s annual media award to Jake Most, of the University of Kentucky. The USTFCCCA gra- ciously helps underwrite the cost of our Breakfast. • Bud Greenspan Memorial Award for Documentary Film First announced at our Winter get-together in New York in February, the plaque was presented in person to Sterling Noren, the director, who drove down from Seattle on his motorcycle to accept for his film “Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco,” the late ultramarathoner who was the basis of the bestselling book “Born to Run.” Noren showed a 3-minute clip and answered questions. • Pinkie Sober Award for Past Excellence in Track & Field Announcing Af- ter praising the namesake of the award for being his own inspiration, Bob Hersh, the initial recipient of this award, presented this year’s award to the late Jack O’Reilly, longtime announcer at the IC4A, the Heps and the Penn Relays. O’Reilly’s fellow Philadelphian, Dave Johnson, the director of the Penn Relays, accepted on behalf of O’Reilly and his family. • Scott Davis Award for Track & Field Announcing Won by Paul Swangard, the current home announcer at Hayward Field. Swangard praised Davis for being his mentor. Presented by Dave Johnson. • Adam Jacobs Award for Excellence in Track & Field Blogging To George Brose and Roy Mason for the history-based blog Onceuponatimeinthevest.com. Neither was on hand to ac- cept. The blog, Brose told me by phone, began in the ‘80s as snail mail, then went online five years ago. The title is a takeoff on the Clint Eastwood movie. It is a series of examinations of back issues of Track & Field News magazine, beginning in 1952, and readers’ responses to that. Brose, 72, used to live in Ohio, was a miler at Oklahoma U. and now lives in Courtenay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Ma- son, 76, lives in Ukiah, Calif. They are currently working on the T&FN issue of June 1965. “We figure if we make it to ’70,” Brose told me, “we’ll pack it in.” • Rich Clarkson Award for Excellence in Track & Field Photography Present- ed by Clarkson himself to Thomas Boyd, of The Oregonian. Boyd has also been a photographer for the Columbian (Vancouver, Wash.) and the Eugene Register-Guard. • Sam Skinner Award for Exemplary Cooperation with Track & Field Jour- nalists Presented to Lance Harter, head women’s coach at the University of Arkansas. Harter, a 1972 graduate of Texas Tech, previously coached at Smoky Hill HS in Denver and Cal Poly/SLO. • James O. Dunaway Memorial Award for Excellence in Track & Field Jour- nalism This award, previously named for the New York newspaperman Jesse Abramson, has been renamed for Jim Dunaway, who passed away earlier this year in Austin, Texas. Dunaway was a legend- ary reporter and newsman, mostly as a freelance for The New York Times, as well as a devoted sup- porter of TAFWA, serving several terms as president. The first winner of the resulting Dunaway Award is Steve Ritchie, a freelance himself for many years for the Statesman-Journal in nearby Salem. Ritchie TAFWA Newsletter - Page 2 - June 2015 also has his own website, steveritchieontrack.com, and has been the head track coach at Kennedy HS in Mt. Angel, Ore., for the past 18 years. He was Class 2A girls Coach of the Year in Oregon this season, as a matter of fact, so the Ritchie family awards display case is filling up. Ritchie, who lives in Silverton, is also president of the Benedictine Foundation, which benefits the Queen of Angels Monastery in Mt. Angel. Demi Payne (Stephen F. Austin) and Sandi Morris (Arkansas), first and second respectively in Thursday evening’s dramatic women’s pole vault, were on hand and graciously answered questions about their event and rivalry. Vin Lananna made a presentation on behalf of TrackTown and responded to questions about upcom- ing plans for the World Indoor in 2016 in Portland, the World Outdoor in 2021 in Eugene, and the anticipated overhaul of Hayward Field. He said that the target capacity for the World Outdoor meet is 30,000, less than half of which is to be permanent seating. Social Event Sunday morning, June 28 A social event for members only will be held on Sunday morning, June 28, the final day of the USATF Nationals, at the home of members Tom and Janet Heinonen in Eugene, starting at 9 AM. A light breakfast and beverages will be served. The address is 1012 E. 21st Ave., not far from Hayward Field, the intersection of 21st and Harris. FAST Annuals The 2015 edition is in our possession. Some were distributed in person at the NCAA meet, and the rest are being mailed as we speak. If you want an additional copy etc., additional copies will be available in Eugene during Nationals. For 2016, we are in preliminary negotiations to have the Annual ready for distribution by the end of February, in time for the US and World Indoor meets, both of which will be held in Portland next March. Stay tuned. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 3 - June 2015 Previous Page Left to right: Curtis An- derson, Sterling Noren and Jack Pfeifer, Lance Harter. Current Page Upper left: Robert and Weldon Johnson of Lets- run.com with Mark Cullen. Upper right: Rich Clark- son and Thomas Boyd. Middle left: Seig Lind- strom and Dave Johnson. Lower left: Sam Seems and Fred Bauer. Lower right: Bob Hersh, Keith Conning and Tom Casacky. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 4 - June 2015 Upper photo: Gerlinger Hall. Lower left: Mark Cullen and Lloyd Stephens. Lower right: Ed Fox. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 5 - June 2015 Upper left: Dave Johnson, Bob Hersh and the Pinkie Sober Award. Upper right: Cheryl Treworgy and Jake Most, Kentucky SID. Middle right: Vin Lananna. Lower left: Cheryl Treworgy, Steve Ritchie, Paul Merca. Lower right: Mike Jay. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 6 - June 2015 Upper left: Sandi Morris and Demi Payne, NCAA wom- en’s PV runner-up and winner. Upper right: Bob Hersh. Middle right: Sterling Noren, the director, who drove down from Seattle on his motorcycle to accept for his film “Run Free: The True Story of Caballo Blanco.” Lower left: Paul Swangard. Lower right: Tom Heinonen. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 7 - June 2015 TAFWA Newsletter - Page 8 - June 2015 Upper left: Keith Conning. Upper right: Frank Zarnowski. Lower left: Tom Lewis. Lower right: Jon Alquist and Art Morgan. TAFWA Newsletter - Page 9 - June 2015 Upper: Jeff Erickson, Stephen E. Austin. Lower left: Jon Hendershott, Steven Ritchie, Don Steffens. TAFWA Newsletter - Page - 10- June 2015 New Yorker Bill Miller dies at 91 Two New York Times veterans: Bill Miller, left, and Frank Litsky, right, at the 2014 Penn Relays. (Spir) Bill Miller, one of the lions of track journalism in New York City for the last 70 years, died of heart failure in Nyack, N.Y., on May 20.