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Freeman: Basketball Was His Life All About Alumnae Following His Death on Feb­ Longest String of Victories 4 ST. JOHN'S UNIVERSITY ALUMNI NEWS, MAY/JUNE 1974 Freeman: Basketball Was His Life All About Alumnae Following his death on Feb­ longest string of victories. ) ruary 13, James Ambrose (Buck) After leaving St. John's, Freeman '27C was given public Freeman coached briefly at by Thea Graves Pellman '57CBA tribute and prayer in basketball Scranton University. Several arenas in South Carolina, New years later, he became assistant A Little Revelry at the Terrace . A York City, upstate New York, coach to Frank McGuire '36C, capacity crowd of SJU alumni, faculty and New Jersey and other places. It one of his former players, when old friends jammed the Terrace on the Park was most fitting that Freeman McGuire was named head coach on Apr. 6 at the annual University Ball .... was so honored by friends and at the University of North Charlie Helmken '53C of the American Alumni Council made a special trip up from coaches and players and fans be­ Carolina. Washington just to show off his Toulous Latrec beard .... While we're being hirsute, cause he· was a man who devoted From that time until last year, Bill Parry '52UC, '55L opted for less on the chin and more on the head, ala The Great his entire life-time to the game he Freeman served as McGuire's as­ Gatsby . ... Rowers and more flowers on the ladies' gowns was the style-trend ofthe loved and the people involved in sistant at North Carolina, with the evening. Eleanor Livoti of the St. John's Auxiliary and the Ball Committee looked it. Philadelphia Warriors in the stunning in her floral ensemble . .. It was blue checks for Sr. Claire Devine '60G, '68LS, and basic black for all the good Vincentian fathers .... "Long-time-no-see" At St. John's, the name of NBA, and, more recently, at the to Frank Peropat '49C, '71Ph.D •... Marge Ward, wife of Coach BiD Ward of " Buck" Freeman will always University of South Carolina. the St. John's Athletic Department, accessorized her outfit with a plaster cast on her hold a special place. He coached The two St. John's men, one-time fractured foot . .. One of the raffle prizes went home with Vince Taggart of the the Redmen for only nine seasons coach and one-time player, de­ Development Office. Hmmm . The raffle proceeds were excellent, thanks to Coach Freeman '27C -from 1927 through 1936-but veloped a father-son relationship, Charlie Mollo '39P and his hardworking raffle committee which included our own his spectacular success in those books because of longer careers. sharing joys and sadnesses over Notre Dame girl, Gerry Duggan .... A rose-and-white print gown was the choice of years boomed St. John's into na­ It was Freeman who coached the years. Dolores Standerwyck Toolan '50UC, seen dancing with husband, Tom Toolan tional prominence as a basketball St. John's famous "Wonder McGuire described Freeman '50UC .... Col. Abraham Robinson '38L, '70Hon, Mario Cuomo '53C, '56L, and Bill Gillard '32L, St. John's director of libraries emeritus, said their hellos to power that the Redmen have Five'' of Max Posnack, George as "a coach's coach" and "the everyone . ... Irene Murphy '48UC (of naturally-curly hair fame) and her party, maintained over the years. first big-time basketball coach in "Mac" K insbrunner, Matty Be­ including Mary Ann and Bob Smith '52C, Pat and Gene Carey 'SlC, Doris and Freeman's teams at St. John's govich, Allie Schuckman and New York.'' Experts have called Xavier Aufiero '49C, and the aforementioned Charlie Helmken wound up the won 179 games and lost only 32, ''Rip'' Gerson, one of the game's Freeman one of the game's most evening in style back in Little Neck . .... One good party deserves another, reasoned an astounding percentage of. 849, most famous teams. This team astute masters. Marie Smith '55NEd, '65GNEd. That's why it was still going strong at her place on the highest in the history of the posted a 24-1 record in 1929-30, Freeman was all of that. He Sunday afternoon . .. college game. This puts him in and then came back the next sea­ was more. He was a patient Al-o-o-o-ha! ... Evidently Hawaii was the place to be this season for St. John's the company of John Wooden, son to roll up a 21-1 record. At teacher. He was a friend and alumni. Terry Apicella '53ND led a group tour of alumni malihinis (that's native for Adolph Rupp, Clair Bee, Joe one stretch over the two seasons, helper to many. He also was a tourist) on the official St. John's Alumni Federation tour in February, and the Univer­ sity hosted a little cocktail party in W aikiki for the travelers and the alumni kamaainas Lapchick and many other great St. John's won 24 in a row! This proud and loyal St. John's man (that's native for native) .... A lawyer with the Navy Department in Honolulu, Tom who accomplished much. coaches who are in the record mark still stands as St. John's Nolan '49UC, '54L invited everyone to his home in Hawaii Kai, just under Koko Head. In the Islands for the past three years, Tom and his family have just been transferred to San Diego .... A kamaaina (I hope you were paying attention), Lillian Miccio, wife of Dr. Joseph Miccio '38CBA introduced the group to TheBus which Alumni Coaches Move into Winners' Circle takes you on a nine-hour trip around the Island of Oahu for only a quarter. How's that for a bargain? Dr. Miccio is a former executive of the Curtis-Wright Corp. who met and married Mrs. Miccio in Waikiki 17 years ago. She tells us that he promised to bring her back to her homeland within ten years, and kept his promise seven years ago. He is now a professor of business at the University of Hawaii, and the Miccios will be traveling to Taiwan this summer where Dr. Miccio will chair a seminar in industrial engineering at the University of Taiwan. In the true Aloha spirit, they would like future St. John's travelers to contact them at their home in W aikiki . We heard so many good things about the Islands, we decided to see them for ourselves this spring .... Elizabeth Taylor, 50-ft. waves and the PeUmans all hit Oahu on the same day . They covered the arrival of the first two in the papers, but didn't mention our names .... Contacted Father Ed Turner '59Ed who is with St. John's pari-sh in Mililani Town, just below the pineapple and sugar fields. Father Ed came to Hawaii as a high school teacher, returned to California for his seminary training, and was ordained for the Diocese of H<;:molulu in 1966 . On the windward side of the Island, across the big Pali, in Kailua is Mildred Scheffner '54LS and her family .... The Rowes, Maurice '44CBA and Mary '44CBA are both with the U.S. Army audit agency in Honolulu . .. Staying with us at the Kuilima Hotel on Kahuku Pt. near the Bonzai Pipeline (Surfers' Paradise), and working on their tennis game were Rita and Tak Ozsan '71G. A native of Turkey, Tak was a member of the math faculty at St. John's for several years and is now with Canon USA .... Summing it all up- the Gus Alfieri Lou Carnesecca AI McGuire Kevin Loughery people of Hawaii are the friendliest ever; the pineapples will give you canker sores if you stuff yourself with them or drink too many Mai Tais, Chi- Chis or Tropical Itches; St. John's alumni who have the the National Association of Basket­ feated Lutheran High's team in the the weather and scenery are glorious; and the water is crystal clear. What more could demanding, ulcer-producing job of ball Coaches. It was the first time final of the Top Eight tournament, you ask for? . coaching basketball - and there's that McGuire has received the honor. 63-61, to lay claim to Number One Here and There .... St. John's law student Anne Manetta '73C is engaged to Ed quite a contingent of former Redman Another McGuire- Frank '36C ranking in New York State. Lecci '71CBA, now completing his final year at Hofstra University Law School .... It was a spring wedding for Joan Hayes '71GEd, a teacher at St. Patrick's School in players whose lives are influenced by -enjoyed another successful season Another Redman product, Coach Glen Cove, and her fiance, Jim Dwyer .. Thanks to Mickey Rutner '41UC, the bounce of the ball and the sound in his tenth campaign at the helm of Jack Curran '52C, posted another former St. John's baseball great, we have rediscovered alumna Diana Fine Rosenthal of the buzzer- will remember long the South Carolina team. His successful season as his Archbishop '41 UC, now a grandmother in S.yosset, N.Y. and marking her 24th year as a teacher in and well the just-completed 1973-74 Gamecocks were also nationally Molloy High School squad captured the Long Island schools .... On a leave of absence from Central Islip H.S., Fran season. It was "a very good year" ranked throughout the season and the New York City CHSAA title. Abbruscato '62Ed is teaching in a junior college in Houston, Tex., but misses the New for many of them. earned a bid to the NCAA tourna­ Under Curran and Carnesecca, his York life ... Eileen O'Reilly Bianchi '66UC is busy raising two-year-old twins, Closest to home, Coach Lou Car­ ment for the fourth year in succes­ predecessor, Molloy has been a per­ Lauren and Glen while husband Don '66UC is teaching math and coaching basketball nesecca 'SOC guided the Red men to sion.
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