CMA Celebrates 100th Anniversary At Next Year’s Grand Reunion ILITARY M A IA C B A M D U E L M O Y C • A • QUI SE VINC CIT N L I T V I N U IO BUGLE M T QUARTERLY N A I ASSOCI Volume 13, Number 2 Summer, 2003 where he went to school prior to attending Former Austin Peay Coach CMA. He remains an assistant principal at the town’s elementary school, he hasn’t yet decided when he’ll close the final door on Assistant Principal at 70 a life of influencing kids. Kelly’s first departure from Clarksville Lake Kelly, CMA Class took him to Oral Roberts where he coached of ‘52 has fond memories for three seasons and compiled a 30 and of taking the Austin Peay 24 record. Then spent four years at Clark Governors to three NCAA County High School in Winchester, KY., basketball appearances. and 2 seasons as an assistant to Joe B. Hall In 1987 the team was at Kentucky before a return to Clarksville ranked 14 in the nation where he replaced Howard Jackson, one of knocking the number three his former players who had coached Austin seed, Illinois, off before nar- Peay for two years. rowly losing to Providence Jackson beams when asked about who went on to the final Coach Kelly. Following a construction four. accident that broke both of Jackson’s legs, His victory over the Il- Kelly helped nurse him back to health in lini forced ESPN’s resident the Fall of ‘73. windbag, Dick Vitale, to Jackson now coaches girls golf and stand on his head—some- teaches wellness at Kenwood High School thing he promised to do in in Clarksville claiming there is no way he the highly unlikely event could ever repay Kelly for the positive Austin Peay pulled off an course he help plot in the young man’s upset. life. Instead he hopes to pass on the caring At a gym known as brand of generosity he learned from the The Red Barn, Kelly took CMA graduate. chances on players who While Kelly was with the Wildcats, he made a lot of coaches wary, further honed his obsession as a defensive molding them into a stifling Lake Kelly, Class of ‘52 specialist. defence that was allowed to In 1986-87, his Governors won the run free once it got the ball and helped cre- try. They said for years it had been hard OVC tournament and got all kinds of rec- ate some buzz about a school with a funny to explain where they went to school but ognition for their victory over Illinois and name whose favorite cheer was, “Lets Go now they were proud to say they went to their overtime loss to Providence, a team Peay!” Austin Peay. Things like that made those coached by Rick Pitino. Two seasons later It was absolutely fantastic,” related years extremely enjoyable.” the Governors lost a regular season tourna- Kelly. “It was a situation as a coach where For the past 10 years, Kelly has been ment game to a well-known freewheeling every day you woke up and wondered what living in the house where he grew up in Loyola-Marymount team on a last-second good things were going to happen. Flemingsburg, KY, surrounded by timber game winning shot. “The president of the school called property and farmland. “Rick Pitino said we were the best me in and told me how much the national He’ll turn 70 in October and just retired man-to-man defense he’d ever faced,” exposure did for the school. He showed after 8 seasons coaching the boys basket- Kelly said. “Paul Westhead (of Loyola- me letters from alumni all over the coun- ball team at Fleming County High School, continued on page 2 continued from page 1 Marty Klein, PG ‘57 Ray Daniels, Class of ‘54 Marymount) said ‘You were the only team Inducted in “Hall of Fame” Retires from Newspaper that made us set up at half-court.” CMA football and baseball standout Ray Daniels, Class of ‘54, retired as Still, after 5 seasons back in Clarks- Marty Klein, PG ‘57, is to be inducted into district manager in the Raleigh-Bartlett area ville, a drained Kelly decided he needed Pennsylvania’s Luzerne County Sports Hall for The Memphis Commercial Appeal, in a change. He took a job in marketing and of Fame in September. August of last year and is looking forward sales with a Lexington, KY, TV station. The John Louis Popple Chapter of the to his 50th and CMA’s 100th Anniversary “I realized at that point I was practically Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame covers Reunion next year. numb every day. I was burnt to that point six counties including Luzerne, from which In December fol- — I was giving so much energy to the kids athletes are selected. lowing retirement, Ray and the teams,” he said, “I thought it would Following his stint at CMA, Marty joined was the recipient of the be good for my health and my psychologi- the U.S. Marine Corp. piloting the Camp annual “contribution cal makeup to give it a rest for a while.” Lejeune varsity football team for three sea- to amateur football The rest lasted until 1991 when he sons. In his role of quarterback, Klein threw award” by The Liberty returned to Tennessee for the coaching job more than a few passes to All-American ends Bowl Football Asso- at Columbia High School in Columbia, TN. Jim Mora and R.G. Beagle. ciation in Memphis. He took the Lyons to two consecutive Class Marty rooted for Jim to get the job of The plaque was pre- AAA championship games. He liked the head coach at the University of Notre Dame sented at the Liberty years back when the selection came down Bowl Luncheon Dec. high school game but said there was a major Ray Daniels adjustment from college to high school. to Mora and Lou Holtz. 30th. and was due in “The kids just kind of thought ‘We’ll Mora, who played left end at Camp large part to his volunteer work with Shelby work a little bit and Coach will win us every Lejeune, had been a successful coach in Youth Sports, an organization dedicated to the in the United States Football League developing football, cheer leading and track game,’” he said. “It was a real problem, a leading the Philadelphia Stars and later the and field activities for youths 7 to 13. This serious problem. I had to convince guys, ‘I Baltimore Stars to two championships. Spring approximately 1,300 football players can teach you, but you’ve got to go out and Other memorable names on Klein’s and 600 cheerleaders participated. do it.’” Marine team included Penn States’ S.J. Daniels has been involved in Shelby Again feeling the pull of Flemingsburg, Valentine and E.H. Walsh along with Notre Youth Sports for the past 30 years, first as he went home, this time to work as an el- Dame’s J.H. Mugford and C.T. Connor. a coach, then member of the board, com- ementary school principal, and he was back A serious injury to Marty’s right hand missioner and finally president. Since 1978 on the court until recently. on Vieques Island, just off the coast of Ray has been chairman of the scholarship Three years colon cancer forced him to Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion ended committee. This year $8,000 in scholar- undergo surgery but he claims to feel great Klein’s football career. ships were awarded adding to the total of now. He now resides in South Wilkes-Barre, approximately $190,000 awarded since the One of Kelly’s three kids, Brian, is Pennsylvania. program’s inception. following in dad’s footsteps, coaching the They now co-own and manage diverse boy’s team at Centennial High in Frank- North Jackson Roommates firms involved in Real Estate developments, lin. Two coaches who worked under him Celebrate 50 Years in Business Import, Export and sales of animal damage at Austin Peay are now prominent head Clark Reed, Class of ‘46 and Barthell control equipment (Reed-Joseph Interna- coaches in major conferences — Leonard Joseph, Jr., Class of ‘45 shared a drink tional Co.). Hamilton at Florida State and Rick Stans- recently and reminisced about their days as Ever the paratrooper, Joseph com- bury at Mississippi State. roommates in North Jackson and subsequent memorated his 71st. birthday by making a In Clarksville, Kelly took chances on a events brought them together as business tandem parachute jump with the U.S. Army lot of kids who might have been considered partners since 1953. Parachute Team (The Golden Knights) and risks at larger schools, none more well- Following graduation from the Univer- in May received the Delta Business Journal’s known than “Fly” Williams, whose brilliant sity of Missouri, Clarke moved to Green- “Profiles in Leadership Award” along with play often came paired with emotional ville, MS to start what later became a grain a proclamation by Mississippi Gov. Ronnie outbursts. drying and storage sales, construction and Kelly once told a reporter his mom had Musgrove. manufacturing firm. He received an Air Reed has long been active in Republi- always taken in strays, and that predisposed Force R.O.T.C. Commission and was called him to give people a chance. can politics having served under Presidents up in 1953 during the Korean conflict. Nixon and Ford. “If a kid wanted to play basketball Barthell served in the U.S.