April 2017 - Phil's Focus

April 5, 2017

A Memorable Basketball Season 51 Years Ago Comes Back to Life in a Dusty Scrapbook

As the high school version of March Madness ended last weekend with the state basketball tournament, I came across a dusty scrapbook chronicling the Duluth East High School l965-66 season—51 years ago, more than a half century. Newspaper clippings were falling out, and I had to re-tape them in order to reconstruct that memorable experience.

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April 3, 2017

State Higher Education Leader Richard C. Hawk Developed Programs and Policies to Ensure Access to and Choice of Education Opportunities

Scanning the Minneapolis Star Tribune obituaries in early March, I came across one for Richard C. Hawk who passed away at age 83 of a heart attack in Leawood, Kansas. The obit summarized Dick’s many accomplishments in business, higher education, and music. But perhaps his most significant achievements were the development of Minnesota’s programs to provide access to and choice of higher education opportunities. His legacy is important and impressive, but his passing appears mostly unnoticed in Minnesota.

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