Shame, Shame

     Two instances of Kornerman dementia in the last edition. True cases of "open mouth, insert foot" disease.
     The Kornerman has known TIM Croxen forever. We were both born as northsiders. Yet, last week, I listed him as Steve.
     Even worse than that was the inference that Albert Meier's feat in winning the Drake Relays 3200 was Boone High's ONLY all-time state record. Mike Harris jumped on that in a hurry. He wrote, "Clyde Hovick held the all-time Iowa record in the pole vault during the 1966 track season. In fact, it seems like he held it a number of times. He and another vaulter from Villisca (I believe) kept trading the record back and forth during that season. It was quite an achievement for Clyde.  He didn't just concentrate on the pole vault. He was also our best hurdler (both highs and lows) so he often had to leave the pole vault to go run the hurdles. Keep up the good work."
     Well, the Kornerman asked if I had forgotten or was overlooking an equal achievement and Mike quickly and correctly responded. Thanks for the correction Mike.
     This is sad......really......doubly sad and it makes me wonder about the Kornerman's current mental capacity.
     Here's why........I've told the story before in this column but will bore you one more time. In my very young career at the Boone News (must have been about 1966) I was about to embark on some new adventures, like taking athletic pictures. In those days, the cameras for such things were those big box-like affairs and they scared me to death. My good friend and mentor, Rollie Peterson, showed me what button to press and said, "you're not buying the film so take several shots with the hope that at least one will be adequate for print."
     I decided I might as well get started over at Goeppinger Field where a track meet was taking place. I quickly arrived at the pole vault area, aimed and fired several times. Luckily, one of those "fires"  was a beautiful shot of Clyde Hovick, for the first time in Iowa history becoming the first Iowa high schooler to ever clear, was it 14 or 15-feet.......14 I believe. To think I, a complete neophyte, would be the first ever to capture such a scene. Unbelieveable.........and again, how could I have not thought of that when doing that last Korner edition??
     That certainly does not detract from Albert's feat. So, we have two BHS athletes who have established all-time Iowa high school records. The old gray mare ain't what she used to be and neither is the Kornerman.
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     Boone Area Deaths:  Olen Davidson, 64, Perry, formerly of Boone. BHS-68. Iowa State University employee for a number of years. Boone survivor is a brother, Roger............Gerald Launderville, 65, Ogden. OHS-67. Worked at a gas station, Ogden theatre, Sandler Homes in Boone, Oscar Meyer and the Gateway Center in Ames. Boone area survivors include his wife, Evelyn of Ogden, daughter Michelle Banks of Ogden and brother Mike of Ogden.........Dale Lingren, 87, Ogden. Jordan grad. Area survivors include his wife, Maxine of Ogden, children Darrell, Elaine Wilson, Deanna Anderson, Donna Meeker and Alan all of Ogden, brothers Lee and Larry of Boone and LaVerne of Ogden and sister-in-law Betty Lingren of Ogden..............Ralph Haub, 87, rural Boone. Boone survivors include a son David of Boone and sister-in-law Genevieve Van Horn of rural Boone.
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