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Dick Macpherson Proudly Honors Dick MacPherson as its Man of the Year-2003 October 23,2003 The Lantana Randolph, MA Benefiting: Juvenile Diabetes Clinics at the Joslin Centers Boston, MA Syracuse, NY The Gridiron Club: "Keepers of the Flame" ounded in 1932, the Gridiron Club Fpromotes football at all levels and nurtures the ideals of citizenship, sports- manship, leadership, and athletic and aca- demic achievement. The club is responsi- ble for several of the oldest nationally rec- ognized and most tradition-rich honors in American sport, including the Bulger Lowe Award (1939), the Swede Nelson Award (1946), and the Walter Brown Award (1953). For more information, visit: www.gridclubofgreaterboston.com 2003-2004 Officers: Tom Burke, President; Ken Eldridge, First Vice President; George Crotty, Second Vice President; Dave O'Brien, Third Vice President; Dick Lawrence, Secretary; Paul Costello, Treasurer; Ned Cully, Historian. Special thanks: Ralph Leonard, Leslie and Patricia Plumb, John White, Tamie Kidess- Lucey, Dino Luccarelli, Tim Horgan, Pete Moore, Peter Colton, Gene DeFilippo, Jim Davis, Rich Krezwick, Bob Pickett, Kitty Pasqua, Jim Saccomano, Andre Tippett, Steve Young, Gail Charow, Sterling Tanner, Blake Bednarz, Stu Lisson, Paul Klaczak, Pat Sullivan, Len Tyler, Mike Hodges, Ron Obringer. Springfield College Salutes Our Alumnus, Dick MacPherson '58 By his character and accomplishments, Dick MacPherson exemplifies the Springfield College philosophy of Humanics -- dedication of the spirit, mind and body for leadership in service to others. Congratulations to Dick, Gridiron Club of Greater Boston 2003 Man of the Year, from the students) faculty, staff and alumni of his alma mater. Dick MacPherson - Recognized for "a storied coaching career marked by dedication to excellence, fairness, and integrity. " Doc/or oj Science, Honoris Causa, Maine Maritime Academy 1992 Congratulations from your friends at MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY 2 Joslin Research is at the forefront of discovery aimed at preventing and curing diabetes. The Joslin Clinic, our nationwide network of Affiliated Programs, and the hundreds of educational programs we offer each year for clinicians, I» Joslin Diabetes Center researchers and patients uniquely position us to develop, implement and share innovations that immeasurably improve the lives of people with diabetes. With a global epidemic on our doorstep, there has never been a more critical time for Joslin and its partners to apply their wealth of talent and breadth of services to conquering diabetes. 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Helping comprehensive diabetes care them grow to enjoy full, healthy to children and adolescents lives is inherent in Joslin Diabetes with type 1 and type 2 diabetes Center s mission and among our mellitus. highest priorities. Joslin benefits from the generosity of donors in advancing our mission. We thank Dick MacPherson for supporting Joslin and helping children and adolescents with diabetes. Copyright '2003 by Joslin Diabetes Center, Inc. All rights reserved 11 The Four's RES TAU RAN T S Two Great Locations Boston • Quincy SERVING GREAT FOOD AND DRINK FOR 25 YEARS SERVING LUNCH DAILY AND DINNER UNTIL MIDNIGHT FUNCTIONS OF ALL SIZES WELCOME Boston Quincy 166 Canal Street 15 Cottage Ave. Boston, MA 02114 Quincy, MA 02169 Across from the Fleet Center Across from the Quincy Courthouse 617-720-4455 617-471-4447 617-720-5626 Fax 617-773-8670 Fax www.thefours.com 12 A Long Overdue Accolade by Tim Horgan ne day, back in But even this doesn't define Dick MacPherson. the 1970's when Anybody who knows him for five minutes will O Dick MacPherson understand that he loves (1) his family (2) football was the head football coach (3) Old Town, Maine where he was born into a large at the University of and colorful family and still resides part of the year Massachusetts, he drove the and (4) people in general. Not always in this order. 100 or so miles from Anyone who knows Mac for 10 minutes will prob- Amherst to downtown ably have seen him commit at least one act of kind- Boston to attend a college ness. When it came to football Coach Mac could be football writers' luncheon, as hard and relentless as a Maine winter. "Your goal after which he drove back to in football is to win," he points out. "And winning the UNlass campus to direct is hard. If it wasn't hard, there'd be a lot more win- a football practice, after which he drove back to ners." Boston for a Gridiron Club meeting, after which he drove back to Amherst by the light of the silvery In civilian life, however, Dick MacPherson is a moon. teddy bear, a friendly, funny, generous man who is also a winner as testified by his vast number of "We should have given him our Man of the Year friends and admirers. Award then and there," quipped Jack Daly, the Gridiron Club's past president and resident wit. Sometimes, the two MacPhersons collide. The high water mark of Mac's career came in 1991 Better late than never, of course, and besides, when he was named head Coach Mac probably would have refused to accept coach of the New England it then on the grounds he was only doing his duty. Patriots, who are regarded in Perseverance and responsibility are two of Mac's Old Town ME as the Old Town favorite topics when he gives his motivational Team. He resigned in 1992. speeches throughout the country and remain two of The reason, according to John his many virtues. Ottaviani, a longtime friend "It's easy to join a club or a team or a cause," he and sports columnist for the says. "But then you have to follow through. Too Haverhill Eagle Tribune, many people are inclined to let somebody else do "When the Patriots told him it. When you commit to something, whatever it is, to fire his offensive coordina- you have to persevere." tor in order to save his own job, I knew Mac was through. He was too loyal a This explains why Coach Mac lasted so long in a profession that devours its young. It also explains guy to allow someone else to be a scapegoat." why his teams won more than they lost. As a head Coach Mac could have gotten the Gridiron Club's coach, Mac was 45-27-1 during his seven seasons at Man of the Year Award then, too. Ulvlass; 66-46-1 at Syracuse University, including an Tim Horgan (Tufts '49) is past president of the undefeated season (11-0) in 1987 that gave the Gridiron. Club (1980-81) and founder of the Tufts Orangemen a berth in the Sugar Bowl where they Jumbo Club. He was a sports writer and columnist tied Auburn, 16-16 and made Mac both the for the Boston Herald from 1950 until retiring in American Football Coaches Association and the 1991. He began a long career in radio and television Football Writers Association of America Coach of with Don Gillis' The Voice of Sports show on WHDH the Year. radio in the '60s. Tim received a Legacy Award from the New England Sports Museum at the Fleet Center in June. He resides in Venice, FL. 3 A Hard Working Kid from a Big Old Town Family by Tom Burke ill Summers Jr. moved up from assistant to Bhead coach of the Old Town Maine high school football team in 1949, the year after Dick MacPherson graduated. "A good football player, as I remember him, but I didn't really get to know him until much later when our paths crossed again when I was a football official." Reunion of Springfield's Undefeated Eleven Much later, as it turned Town but he never had much time for fishing in out, was after MacPherson northern Maine's myriad streams, or for hunting in had spent two years at the woods. He was too busy working at the local Maine Maritime Academy, First National store, washing dishes at a restaurant, four years with the Air or laboring in one of the paper mills. With twelve Force during the Korean kids in the MacPherson family, everyone had to do War, four years at his share. Springfield College, and had embarked on his Maine Maritime and a Roundabout Route to career in coaching. Springfield Summers became a foot- High School Yearbook Photo ball official, and more than MacPherson graduated from Old Town High in once he worked games with Mac on the sideline, 1948. He spoke at graduation on the "class will, " either as a head coach or an assistant. that is, what he and his classmates bequeathed to the school's future students. MacPherson enrolled "One time he came up to me at a game and said, at Maine Maritime Academy in Castine. It was a 'what do you think the people in Old Town would good educational opportunity that came with a uni- think if they saw us here today?'" recalled form allowance and a stipend, but pretty soon Mac Summers.
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