Comments on: Blessed to be a Witness

By: wkk

wkk — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:36:19 +0000

Also a long time lurker. What an incredible experience. Thanks for sharing it…to have John Wooden shake my hand and say “thank you”… I’m in FC too. My toddler son may be attending your school in a few years!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:27:03 +0000

Thank you Gatinho, I’ll be sure to keep in touch in regards to some potential input from you througout the remainder of the season!

By: Gatinho

Gatinho — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:05:07 +0000

Foster City aka Pleasentville

By: Samy

Samy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:36:00 +0000

points^ expected.

By: Samy

Samy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:35:34 +0000

hahaha, ok can we talk about tonight’s game. TNT, ya know. Charles barkley and whatnot… “steve nash is amazing x 1000 times”

Kobe, point expected.

By: 81 Witness

81 Witness — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:13:30 +0000

Gatinho –

Where in Nor Cal are you at? I am in Suckramento.

By: Gatinho

Gatinho — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:46:23 +0000

I am a middle school admistrator and English teacher in Northern California.

My mother is the chairman of the board at Toberman. She befriended Joyce Sharman and James Worthy’s wife when they volunteered at another charity that she was working for and persuaded Joyce to join her at Toberman. Joyce is the woman responsible for wrangling all these folks for the fund raiser.

I’ll head over to your site and give you my contact information.

and thanks for the compliment…

By: Rico

Rico — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:14:20 +0000

Great article. Thanks for the post.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:36:29 +0000

Great great great great post. Truly a very good job. Gatinho, do you think you can leave us some more information about yourself and how you became involved in such an event? Can you give us some background? Also, is there contact information for you to do guest posts more often here as well as other website such as mine at http://www.laballtalk.com ???

Thanks again for the read, it truly inspires us all to be not only great at our profession and career but as people and as members of the society that we live in. Thank you

By: Craig W

Craig W — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 06:44:53 +0000

I went to Oregon State in the early ’60s – Mel Counts was our center – and we just couldn’t get by UCLA to get to the NCAA tourney (only one school made it from each conference). This was before Wooden had won any championships.

Well, by 1965 I had become a UCLA fan and remember the game where the freshmen (Lou Alcindor among them) beat the seniors – some of whom had won the NCAA championship the previous year.

I feel so blessed to have been able to follow all the UCLA championshp teams except 1993/4 and 1994/5.

John Wooden was a legend then and has just cemented his legacy since that time. When he retired, he said it was time, but I do remember he was quite at odds with the Athletic Director and couldn’t countenance some of the things going on. He has never mentioned any of this, but I do believe they contributed, but didn’t cause, his retirement.