Gary loved to play basketball from the first moment his hands touched a ball and he dribbled up and down his stairs. He always dreamed of playing point guard on the high school varsity team. Flustered by fights with the town bully, and conflicts with a coach who never gave him a fair shake, Gary transferred to Ashland High for his senior year. Ashland was a sleepy little farm community in Illinois, it was the place where he had been born. Gary wasn't treated like a new kid at all; he was a wayward friend who'd finally returned home. Everything began to click with his new coach and teammates. At a time for hot rods, tiny Nash Ramblers, and long black hearses, Elvis had the top hits on radio and the juke boxes. Magically, all the dreams for the purple and white Ashland Panthers basketball team began to come true. Point Guard is the story of how it happened way back in 1957.

Point Guard

Pearn, Victor

Biographies & Memoirs

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"Victor's poetry contains both strength and appealing imagery," Gwendolyn Brooks. A good choice for 20th-century American poetry collections," George M. Eberhart, Senior Editor American Libraries. "This is an important work by a major American poetic voice," Kirk Judd, Poetry Judge for "Writer's Digest." "As a young Captain in Vietnam, through my career as a Major General, I have experienced many scenes and feelings that are in Victor's poems," Donald R. Gardner, CEO, USMC University Foundation. "There is a long tradition of War poetry and now Victor Pearn's "Devil Dogs and Jarheads," belongs on the list. The same instinctive urge in these poems reminds me of the very best of Pearn's writing," Shelby Stevenson, Editor Pembroke Magazine. The poem "One Year of Grace," won a poetry contest at the University of Colorado, Boulder; it was originally published as the Prologue in their 1984 Yearbook. Garrison Keillor has read poems from "Devil Dogs and Jarheads" four times on "The Writer's Almanac."

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