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“The Barn,” as many called the Montana State University Fieldhouse, dominated the south end of the Bozeman college’s campus. It had opened 11 years earlier with the distinction of being the largest clear span wooden structure in the world. Constructed as much to host college rodeos as basketball, the fieldhouse sported a dirt floor over which a parquet floor was…
Sharing memories with “the master”
Norm Clarke gave me my first break in journalism when he hired me, at age 17, as a weekend sports clerk at the Billings Gazette. All these years later, as a famed columnist for the Las Vegas Journal-Review, Norm doesn’t hesitate to make time for me and others who’ve been part of his life over the years. Here, we pose…
Watch “Norm Clarke MSU Billings commencement part 3” on YouTube
Norm Clarke MSU Billings commencement part 3: http://youtu.be/AKWCqmWjrzA
Watch “Norm Clarke MSU Billings commencement part 2” on YouTube
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Watch “Norm Clarke – MSU Billings commencement part 1” on YouTube
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Girls Class B championship
Sitting next to Jerry Bygren at the MSU Brick Breeden Arena. Malta leading Fairfield, which entered the title game with a 103-game winning streak. Upset and history in the making– again? Didn’t happen. Fairfield topped Malta, 60-55, on a double-overtime thriller to repeat as girls Class B champion and run its Montana-record winning streak to 104 games.
More research
I’m heading to Bigfork on Sunday to interview Dorothy Peterson, widow of Laurel coach Don Peterson, and Jerry Bygren, a starter on the 1968-69 Locomotives team. Hoping for good roads and good conversation.
Broken Promises-Chapter 2
Broken Promises, Bold Dreams Dennis Gaub ©2013 Dennis Gaub CHAPTER 2 May 16, 1914, 7 a.m. Liverpool “Friedrich!” Anna Weiss called out to her husband. She raised her voice to speak above the steady pounding of the engines of the SS Teutonic. She and the rest of her extended family were settling into their four-berth, steerage class rooms in the…
Broken Promises-Chapter 1
Broken Promises, Bold Dreams Dennis Gaub ©2013 Dennis Gaub CHAPTER 1 (This will describe the journey from the Gluckstal colony (in south Russia, modern-day Moldovia, and northwest of Odessa) to Liverpool. I have not been able to find enough details of how actual journeys occurred in 1914 upon which I’ll pattern my story. Will continue to research this.)