[NU Sports] Teamwork

[AJWDBW at aol.com]

Occasionally, a story rises from the monolithic body of college athletics  
that transcends the normal garbage of Institutional cheating, greedy  coaches, 
and pampered athletes that we are all too accustomed to reading. Such  is the 
one that Coach Roy has pointed out today regarding the cancerous child in  
Poughkeepsie, New York that the women's lacrosse team has befriended. In my  mind, 
these actions are a greater tribute to Coach Amonte Hiller  and her charges, 
and is more meaningful, then all of the victories they  have, or ever will, 
record. We, as alumni, can despair over our less then  sterling athletic 
achievements over the years, but it is the compassion,  warmheartedness, and 
thoughtfulness exhibited by these young ladies that is  the bedrock of this 
institution and the characteristic whereby others  will remember Northwestern University 
long after who won and who  lost.
 
I do not know what the retirement plan is for Northwestern but I hope that  
Coach Amonte Hiller will stay long enough to qualify.
 
Within the next month I will travel to Evanston to observe  the fiftieth 
anniversary of my class of 1955. This will be my first visit  to Northwestern in 
fifty years and I am looking forward to rubbing shoulders  with some of those 
magnificent students.
 
Don Williams C55