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Monthly Archives: February 2015

My long-ago drop-in on a University of Iowa course — in billiards!

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER IOWA CITY, Iowa, Feb. 5, 2015 – I had a flashback the other night to April of 1983, when I learned that the University of Iowa was offering a course in “billiards.” So of course, I drove right over here to audit the class one evening back then, and wrote the following…

February 27, 2015 in Blast from the Past.

A great basketball story that changed many lives at Vanderbilt & beyond

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Jan. 13, 2015 – If you were a college student in the mid to late 1960s, especially in the South like I was at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, you had a front row seat to observe some of the biggest changes in American history. But if you had any heart at…

February 25, 2015 in Out in Greene County, Iowa.

Long-ago racial beating truly is a nightmare in Vanderbilt’s history

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER COOPER, Iowa, Jan. 14, 2015 – Late last spring, an ugly story that had been hiding for 45 years erupted in front of me, and I barely knew what to think. It involves a black basketball player beating up a white sportswriter in our student years back at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. I was…

February 23, 2015 in OFFENBLOGGER.

Baseball Hall of Famer Ernie Banks loved the donuts from our town

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, Jan. 30, 2015 —  When I heard that Chicago Cubs great Ernie Banks had died last week, I immediately thought of Randy Bunkers, co-owner with his wife Phyllis of the famous Bunkers Dunkers Bakery on the east side of the courthouse square in our county seat town of Jefferson. As…

February 22, 2015 in OFFENBLOGGER.

The ag-weather sage Elwynn Taylor must’ve seen his shadow here

By CHUCK OFFENBURGER JEFFERSON, Iowa, March 6, 2015 — Let’s see, how is it that the groundhog Punxsutawney Phil’s weather predictions work out there in Pennsylvania?  Isn’t it that if Phil comes out of his burrow on Groundhog Day and sees his shadow, there’ll be six more weeks of winter?  In Iowa, weather information is easier…

February 21, 2015 in OFFENBLOGGER.

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