JERRY WEST, ALL-TIME BASKETBALL GREAT, HAS DIED AT 86             This news struck me because West has always been a symbol of basketball, not only because that’s his image on the NBA logo, but because I grew up with basketball and he was almost always in the center of it, one way or another. He…

WARRIORVILLE WAYBACK WHEN             I came to Westmont College in Santa Barbara CA, in the Fall of 1952 as a relatively recently newborn Christian and something of a high school athlete. After four years I graduated and went on to graduate schools studying to become a college teacher. I taught for 65 years and am…