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2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL
C OMMUNICATORS P HOTO E SSAY AWARD
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Second Coming
Bill Snyder
Returns To
Coach Wildcats
KSU Sports Information
Bill Snyder, the architect of the
“greatest turnaround in the history
of college football” during his previous tenure at Kansas State, has
been named the Wildcats’ 34th
head football coach, Athletics
Director Bob Krause announced
Monday.
Snyder retired in November of
2005 after 17 ultra-successful seasons as the head coach at Kansas
State and now returns to lead the
Wildcat program once again.
“One of the most important factors in identifying the right person
to take over this football program
was to find an individual who has
been a successful head coach and
best understands the culture and
tradition of Kansas State,” Krause
said. “No one understands that
more than Coach Snyder, and we
are excited to be announcing him
as our head coach today.”
Named the 32nd head football
coach at Kansas State on Nov. 30,
1988, Snyder amassed a 136-68-1
(.666) record with the Wildcats,
including a 75-53-1 (.585) mark in
Big 8/12 games. His 136 victories
are more than triple the man in
second place on K-State’s all-time
coaching victories list (Mike
Ahearn, 39 wins).
But to fully understand the turnaround ushered in by Snyder at
Kansas State one must only consider that the Wildcats were in the
midst of an 0-26-1 run when he
was hired. It also took K-State 51
seasons (1938-1988) to total just
130 wins, while the 12 head
coaches prior to Snyder's arrival in
Manhattan combined to win just
116 games from 1945-1988.
Snyder led Kansas State to 11
straight bowl berths between the
1993 and 2003 seasons, making
K-State one of only seven programs in the nation to appear in
the postseason every year during
that stretch. During that span,
Snyder’s Wildcats won nearly 80
percent of their games, chalking
up 109 victories - a staggering
average of nearly 10 wins per season - and making Kansas State the
nation’s second-winningest program over that period.
And Snyder continued to break
new ground with the Wildcats.
Kansas State’s 35-7 victory over
top-ranked Oklahoma in the 2003
Big 12 Championship game lifted
K-State to its first conference
championship since Waldorf’s
1934 squad and secured the
school’s first BCS bowl berth in
the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
With an 11-4 record in 2003,
Kansas State was the only team in
the country to win 11 games in six
of the previous seven years and
just the second program in the history of college football to win 11
games six times in a seven-year
stretch.
Snyder’s unprecedented success
in 17 years at Kansas State did not
go unnoticed. He was named the
National Coach of the Year on
three occasions (1991, 1994 and
1998). He has been a finalist for
the
prestigious
Bear
Bryant/FWAA National Coach of
the Year Award in 1993 and 1995
before winning in 1998; a finalist
for the Football News National
Coach of the Year Award in 1995
and 1998; and a finalist for the
Kodak/AFCA National Coach of
the Year Award in 1993 and 1998.
In 1993, he joined legendary
Nebraska head coach Bob
Devaney as the only head coaches
in Big Eight history to be named
Associated Press Big Eight Coach
of the Year three times in a fouryear period (1990, 1991 and
1993). The Houston Chronicle
named him the 1996 Big 12 Coach
of the Year, while he earned 1997
KSU President Jon Wefald(L) and Athletic Director Bob Krause (R) watch newly appointed football
coach Bill Snyder talk to the press on Monday.
and 1998 Big 12 Coach of the Year
honors from the Kansas City Star.
Snyder also was the 1998 Big 12
Coach of the Year by the AP and by
a vote of league coaches before earning the league coaches’ support
again in 2002. The 2003 season
brought more honors, including Big
12 Coach of the Year accolades from
the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and
ESPN.com.
Since the inception of the Big 12
Conference, Snyder’s Wildcats truly
became a dominant force in the
league, ranking in the top three in
overall Big 12 wins. Kansas State
also won more Big 12 road games
than any team in the league and
advanced to the conference championship game three times.
Those facts alone demonstrate the
continuing evolution of a power in
the Big 12 Conference and with it
the recognition that Snyder is truly
one of the finest coaches in college
football today.
The list of accomplishments
Snyder has amassed in his 17 years
is as endless as the time most people
thought it would take for the
Wildcats to be a consistent threat in
the Big Eight, and now, Big 12
Conference.
Like so many in recent history, the
2003 campaign was a dramatically
successful one for Kansas State,
which ended the regular season with
seven straight wins, a fourth Big 12
North Division title, its first Big 12
Conference championship and yet
another top-20 finish.
But the 2003 season was not without its bumps in the road as the
Wildcats overcame their share of
adversity to produce perhaps the
greatest season in school history.
Ranked as high as No. 6 nationally
in the early going, a key injury to
quarterback Ell Roberson precipitated a three-game slide that threatened
to wipe out a promising season.
The three losses all but erased KState from the national consciousness, as the Wildcats slipped out of
the both polls for the first time since
the second game of the 2002 season.
But Snyder was not about to allow
the year to spiral out of control. He
constantly reminded his players that
they still controlled their own destiny, and if they could just go 1-0
each week the season would take
care of itself and the team would
ultimately achieve its goals.
And like everything Snyder seems
to touch, this strategy too worked, as
the Wildcats rode their 1-0 mantra
week after week all the way to a
berth in the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl.
Along the way, five different
Wildcats were lauded for their
efforts with All-America honors,
including K-State’s first Associated
Press first team All-American running back, Darren Sproles, who finished fifth in voting for the Heisman
Trophy, was the Doak Walker Award
runner-up and finished third on the
AP’s Player of the Year ballot.
But Sproles was the lone player
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A SSOCIATION A DVERTISING AWARD
Dorsett Receives
KU Nursing Award
Manhattan High School nurse
Tamara Dorsett was chosen as a
2008 recipient of a Nursing: The
Heart of Healthcare Award from the
University of Kansas School of
Nursing. This is the 18th year for the
Nursing: The Heart of Healthcare
awards program. The award recognizes the outstanding professional
work of more than 6,500 registered
nurses from across the state of
Kansas. This year, 183 nurses were
nominated for the award and 10
were selected as award recipients.
Mrs. Dorsett has a B.S. in
Elementary Education and a B.S. in
Nursing, both from Wichita State
University. She has been employed
with USD 383 for 21 years and has
been a school nurse at Lee, Marlatt,
Ogden and Bluemont Elementary
Schools and is currently the school
nurse at Manhattan High School.
“As a dedicated nurse, she treats
the whole person,” states Barb
Crooks, a MHS colleague who nominated Dorsett for the award.
“Tamara is a ‘mother’ to kids who
Tamara Dorsett
need one. The students in this building know they have a safe place to
go in Tamara’s office. She makes a
positive impact on the lives of these
children. She is the heart of our
school.”
MHS To Compete In Quest
New Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder
with star power that returned for the
2004 campaign. And though the little tank produced yet another recordbreaking season capped by his thirdstraight selection to an All-Big 12
team, the lack of experience was one
reason K-State struggled through a
4-7 rebuilding campaign.
The 2002 season was one of the
best in Kansas State history, witnessed by the Wildcats’ five-victory
turnaround from the previous year’s
6-6 team to a win in the Pacific Life
Holiday Bowl and an 11-2 overall
record.
In addition, the 2002 Wildcats set
or tied 45 school records, including
tying the mark for wins in a season.
Snyder’s Wildcats finished the
season with six consecutive victories, including the biggest wins in
the history of the series in each of a
three-week span against Kansas,
Iowa State and Nebraska.
The Wildcats’ dominant play
down the stretch of the 2002 season
earned Snyder the recognition of his
peers as the Big 12 Conference
Coach of the Year.
In 2001, Snyder directed one of
the best in-season turnarounds in
school history. Despite losing four
straight in the middle of the year and
facing the fourth-toughest schedule
in the nation, the Wildcats recovered
to win four of their last five games to
end the regular season with a 6-5
record and a berth in the Insight.com
Bowl.
Despite the record, the quality of
players produced by the Snyder-led
coaching staff continued to attract
national attention from those who
best know the game.
Six Kansas State players were
selected in the 2002 NFL Draft, the
most of any team in the Big 12
Conference, with only six schools in
the country having more players
picked in the draft.
The Wildcats started the 2000 season ranked in the Top 10 for just the
second time in school history and
made a four-week run into the Top 5
that saw K-State climb as high as
No. 2 in the nation. K-State won the
Big 12 North Division for the second
time in three years and earned at
least a share of the title for the
third consecutive season. K-State
had six players named first team
All-Big 12 by the league’s coaches, and PK Jamie Rheem, DT
Mario Fatafehi and WR Quincy
Morgan earned All-America honors.
The 1999 season saw the
Wildcats climb from No. 20 in
the preseason poll to finish at No.
6, after starting the season with
nine straight victories, and win
11 games for the third straight
year. K-State tied Nebraska for
the Wildcats’ second consecutive
Big
12
North
Division
Championship. All this came in
what many thought would be a
rebuilding season. K-State led
the conference in first team allconference picks with seven.
In 1998, Snyder led K-State to
its second straight 11-win season
and a No. 4 ranking in the final
regular season polls. In
November, K-State occupied a
No. 1 ranking in a national poll
for the first time in school history. The Wildcats won the Big 12
Conference North Division and
advanced to a bowl game for the
sixth year in a row. K-State won
its first 11 games of the season
and ran its winning streak to a
school-record 20 games before
falling to Texas A&M in the Big
12 Championship game.
Quarterback Michael Bishop
became the first Wildcat to be a
finalist for the Heisman Trophy,
and a total of six K-Staters
earned All-America honors.
Snyder earned National Coach
of the Year honors from the
Walter Camp Foundation, the
Bobby Dodd Coach of the Year
Foundation, the Associated
Press, the Paul "Bear" Bryant
Award and the Schutt Sports
Group.
In 1997, Snyder led the
Wildcats to their first 11-win season in school history, a No. 7
final ranking and the first 10-win
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Manhattan High School students
will participate in the 2008-09 Quest
academic competition Dec. 6 at
Washburn University. The contest
allows teams of high school students
from across Kansas to compete
against one another in answering
questions on topics such as art, literature, history, math and science.
Teams earning the top 16 scores
advance to the finals and return to
Topeka several times for taping sessions. The televised Quest competition will air on KTWU from
February through May 2009, when
the championship team will be
named.
The contest is co-sponsored by
KTWU-PBS station and Washburn
University. The Kansas National
Education Association and Quest
Resource Corporation are partial
underwriters of Quest tapings.
Manhattan team members are:
Andy Blattner, junior, son of Kay
Blattner
Daniel Park, sophomore, son of
Sunghan and Jugeun Park
Emily Parsons, senior, daughter of
Tim and Patricia Parsons
Trevor Steiner, sophomore, son of
Victor and Denise Steiner
Tina Wu, senior, daughter of
Xiaorong and Shuping Wu
Billy Yang, senior, son of
Xiaoqing and Zhihua Yang
The coach is Ted Dawdy.
Manhattan Community
Foundation Receives Money
The Kansas Children’s Cabinet
has announced that the Greater
Manhattan Community Foundation
will be awarded $400,000 in 2009 to
assist families with child care needs.
The funds will come from tobacco
settlement dollars in the State’s first
Early Childhood Block Grant.
The Foundation submitted their
proposal in cooperation with Raising
Riley, Smart Start, the Riley CountyManhattan Health Department, Head
Start, and Infant Toddler Services.
$11.1 million was available and the
State received 36 applications totaling $35 million in applications. The
Riley County project was one of 14
awardees.
Child care has reached levels of
crisis concern in our community for
families, child care centers and
providers, and for employers.
Environmental and economic pressures are making child care more
expensive than many working families can afford. This grant will partner with the community’s existing
Smart Start grant to extend assistance to parents who work or live in
Riley County or Manhattan and utilize child care in that same area. Up
to one-third of the cost of child care
will be paid for by the grant for families who qualify. In order to qualify,
parents must work or be in school
full time and have income at or
below 200% of the federal poverty
guidelines. These guidelines are set
each July by the federal government;
currently 200% of poverty annual
income for a family of four is $
42,400.
The
Greater
Manhattan
Community Foundation is building
an endowed fund to help finance this
project into perpetuity. So far, the
Foundation has received donations
for this growing fund from Steel and
Pipe Supply and Capitol Federal and
has committed their own funds as
well. Currently, the fund has approximately $65,000 and the Foundation
to raise $1 million within five years.
The Early Childhood Block Grant
will allow the project to begin without waiting for the completion of
fundraising.
In addition to helping parents with
the affordability of child care, the
project will also complement existing community programs and efforts
aimed at improving quality of child
care, assuring that developmental
delays are identified in young children, and provide parent education
related to child care quality.
Applications for parents will be
available online at www.raisingriley.com or at the Family and Child
Resource Center at 2101 Claflin,
beginning Monday, January 5th. In
order to offer these child care scholarships, child care centers and
providers must participate in Smart
Start.
“This grant will not answer all our
community child care needs, but it
will be a huge help for families
struggling to pay for child care,” said
Lee Taylor, President of the Greater
Manhattan Community Foundation,
“We are happy to be able to provide
this good news to the community.”
For information about contributing to the Childcare Endowment at
the Community Foundation, please
visit the Foundation’s website at
www.manhattancf.org or call the
office at (785) 587-8995.
Country Christmas
The Deep Creek Needlecraft Club will
sponsor a “Country Christmas” Fri, Dec
5 from 4-7 pm and Sat Dec 6 from 9 am
- 1 pm. at the Deep Creek Schoolhouse.
Featured will be gift baskets (filled or fill
your own), club cookbooks, homemade
candies, jellies, baked goods, handicraft
items, misc. Christmas Goodies.
The Deep Creek Schoolhouse is located on Deep Creek Rd. (911, 5 mi.S.off
177 or 4 mi. N. off I-70) Exit 316.
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MANHATTAN FREE PRESS - THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2008
Obituaries
Phyllis Watson
Phyllis (Miller) Watson, age 67,
died Thursday November 20, 2008 at
her residence in Manhattan, Kansas.
She was born on August 9, 1941 in
Bloomington, Indiana the daughter
of William F. & Hazel Jean
(Underwood) Miller. She was a
Quality Control Supervisor for MCT
for many years.
Phyllis was an avid reader, an
amazing cook and an advocate and
Violet Sedlacek
Violet
M.
Sedlacek,
93,
Manhattan, KS passed away Friday,
November 21, 2008 in the
Meadowlark Hills/Collins House,
Manhattan.
She was born January 23, 1915 at
Frankfort, KS, the daughter of Ike
Ellsworth Dover and Ida Irene
Schlegel Dover. She attended the
local schools and was a 1932 graduate of the Cleburne High School.
She was a homemaker and also
employed by the Singer Company
and Weisner’s Sew Unique in
Manhattan for 25 years.
On December 1, 1932 in
Lillian Post
Lillian M. Post, 93, Manhattan, KS
passed away Saturday, November 8,
2008 of natural causes at the
Stoneybrook
Retirement
Community, Manhattan.
She was born December 25, 1914
the daughter of August Leadtka and
Anna B. Chatham Leadtka. She
grew up in the farm community of
Rock Creek, KS, north of Topeka
and graduated from Rock Creek
Hannelore Michaelis
Hannelore B. Michaelis, 70,
Manhattan, KS passed away
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 in
her home.
She was born April 7, 1938 at
Pommern, Germany, the daughter of
Ernest Schulz and Irmgard Pappe
Schulz. She grew up in Hannover,
Germany, attended the local schools,
and briefly studied art at the university.
Karen Mall
Karen J. Mall, 45, Manhattan, KS
passed away Tuesday, November 18,
2008 at the K.U. Medical Center,
Kansas City, KS.
She was born July 24, 1963 at
Liberal, KS, the daughter of Erwin L.
Brewer and Lila J. (Oblander)
Douglas Koppes
Douglas J. Koppes, age 63, of
Springfield,
Missouri,
died
November 18, 2008, at his residence
in Springfield.
He was born on April 7, 1945, in
Waterville, Kansas, the son of Ralph
J. and Mary L. (Nelson) Koppes.
Mr. Koppes lived in Waterville
until his family moved to Manhattan
in 1955. He was a 1963 graduate of
Msgr. Luckey High School, received
his BS degree in Restaurant
Management from Kansas State
University in 1970 and was currently
attending graduate school at
Missouri State University.
He was a corporate restaurant
manager.
While living in Manhattan he was
a member of Seven Dolors Catholic
Church.
Mr. Koppes was a wonderful chef
and he enjoyed cooking for family
and friends. His hobbies included
furniture refinishing, interior decorating and art appreciation.
Mr. Koppes is survived by four
children: Jeanette M. Koppes of
Indianapolis, IN, Anne L. Koppes of
Cazadero, CA, Mary F. Koppes of
Northampton, MA and Geoffrey C.
Koppes of Springfield, MO. He is
also survived by his mother: Mary L.
Koppes of Manhattan, by two brothers: Dr. Gerald M. Koppes, MD and
his wife Brenda of San Antonio, TX,
Steven N. Koppes of Homewood, IL
and his fiancé Julie Pierce, and by
one sister: Jeanette L. Leeper of La
Verne, CA.
He was preceded in death by his
father in 1994.
Memorial services were held at
11:00 a.m. Saturday at the
Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen Funeral
Chapel with Father Loren Werth officiating.
On-line condolences may be left
for the family through the funeral
proponent for Deaf Services, she
also loved music and to dance, but
most importantly, was her love for
her family. She was faithfully devoted to caring for her daughter Susan.
Phyllis adored all of her family, but
her grandsons: Ryan and Alec were
the center of her attention. She was
excited about the approaching birth
on November 21 of her great-grandson: Ayden James Bloodgood.
She was preceded in death by her
father: William.
Survivors include: her mother:
Jean Mackey of Clearwater, FL; her
daughters: Jane Bloodgood and her
husband James of Manhattan, KS;
Susan Doyle of Safety Harbor, FL;
and Jill Ferguson of Minneapolis,
MN. She is also survived by her
brother: Fred Miller of St.
Petersburg, FL; her sister: Jackie
Wikle of Bargersville, Indiana;
grandsons:
Ryan
and
Alec
Bloodgood, both of Manhattan, KS
and many other family and friends.
Funeral Services was held at 11:00
a.m. on Monday November 24, 2008
at the Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen
Funeral Home 1616 Poyntz Ave.,
Manhattan, Kansas with Rev.
Michael Ide officiating. Memorial
contributions may be made to the
National Association of the Deaf in
care of Yorgensen-Meloan-Londeen
Funeral Home 1616 Poyntz Ave.,
Manhattan, KS 66502.
On-line condolences may be left
for the family through the funeral
home website at: www.ymlfuneralhome.com.
Marysville, KS she was married to
Floyd “Bud” Herrmann.
They
farmed in Washington County, KS
area for 25 years, before moving to
Manhattan in 1957. He preceded her
in death on May 4, 1978. On March
31, 1988 she was married to Miles F.
Sedlacek in Junction City, KS. He
preceded her in death on August 1,
1997.
Mrs. Sedlacek’s hobbies included
sewing. She also served as a 4-H
leader in Washington County and
was a member of the Rebecca Lodge
and was past noble grand in Barnes.
In addition to her husbands, Mrs.
Sedlacek was preceded in death by
her parents; 4 sons, Jimmy
Herrmann in 1937, Billy Herrmann
in 1959, Richard Herrmann in 1965
and Larry Herrmann in 2002, a
grandson, Todd Herrmann, and a
daughter-in-law Thelda Herrmann.
Survivors include two grandsons,
Kevin Herrmann and his wife, Julie,
Meridian, Idaho, and Michael
Herrmann, Omaha, NE; three great
grandchildren; one great great granddaughter; two stepsons: Larry
Sedlacek, CA and Randy Sedlacek,
Kansas City; a brother, Jack Dover,
Wamego, KS; two nieces, Lou Ann
Roepke and her husband, Alvin;
Waterville, KS, and Norma
Herrmann, Marysville; a nephew,
Gene Herrmann, Topeka, KS; and
many friends.
Funeral services will be at 10:00
a.m., Saturday, November 29, 2008
in the Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home,
Manhattan. Burial will follow in
Riverside Cemetery, Waterville, KS.
The family will receive friends from
7:00 until 8:00 p.m., Friday,
November 28, 2008 at the IrvinParkview Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions can be
made to the Terry C. Johnson, Center
for Basic Cancer Research-KSU and
sent in care of the Irvin-Parkview
Funeral Home, 1317 Poyntz Ave.,
Manhattan, KS 66502. Online condolences can be sent to www.irvinparkview.com.
High School in 1934. She married
Harry E. Post on March 7, 1947.
They lived for ten years on a farm
north of Valley Falls, KS and in
Valley Falls for several years before
moving to Manhattan in 1967. Mr.
Post preceded her in death.
She was primarily a homemaker
but also did paper hanging and baby
sitting. She loved to sew and was
active in sewing groups with the
First United Methodist Church and
the V.F.W. Post #1786 Auxiliary of
which she was a life member.
She was preceded in death by her
parents; her husband; and three
brothers, Paul, Charley and Tony
Leadtka and a brother-in-law,
William O. Post.
She is survived by her daughter,
Catherine A. Post of Manhattan;
three sisters-in-law, Evelyn Leadtka
of Topeka, Mary Sarver of Haysville,
Jo Schulte of Newton; and many
cousins, nephews and nieces.
Cremation is planned. Memorial
services was held at 1:00 p.m.,
Monday, November 24, 2008 in the
Irvin-Parkview Funeral Home,
Manhattan with Rev. Nancy J
Kollhoff officiating. Inurnment will
be later in the Valley Falls Cemetery,
Valley Falls, KS.
Memorial contributions can be
made to the V.F.W. National Home
for Children or the donor’s choice
and left in care of the Irvin-Parkview
Funeral Home, 1317 Poyntz Ave.,
Manhattan, KS 66502.
In 1961, Hannelore and Paul
Michaelis were united in marriage in
Salt Lake City, UT. During the 20
years that they were married, they
traveled and resided in both the
United States and Europe.
Mrs. Michaelis later used her artistic creativity as she worked in retail.
She lived in Eureka Springs, AR
before moving back to Manhattan in
2003. Hannelore was a member of
the Seven Dolors Catholic Church,
an active member of the church
choir, and fulfilled a special calling
for prison ministry. She loved to
travel, always returning to the Island
of Brac in Croatia.
Survivors include two daughters,
Bettina Boller, and her husband,
Tom, Manhattan and Christine
Michaelis, Bellingham, WA; a brother, Klaus Schultz, Hannover,
Germany;
and
grandchildren,
Elizabeth
Buckley,
Catherine
Buckley, Michael Boller and Taryn
Boller.
Cremation is planned. Mass of
Christian Burial was held at 10:30
a.m., Tuesday, November 25, 2008 in
the Seven Dolors Catholic Church,
Manhattan with Father Joseph
Popelka as celebrant. Inurnment will
be at a later date.
Memorial contributions can be
made to the Manhattan Catholic
Schools or the Manhattan Arts
Center and left in care of the funeral
home. Online condolences can be
sent to www.irvinparkview.com.
Brewer. She grew up in Liberal,
where she attended the local schools
and was 1981 graduate of the Liberal
High School. She also attended
Seward County Community College
and received her BS degree from
Cameron University, Lawton, OK.
She later attended Kansas State
University, Manhattan receiving a
Masters Degree in Computer
Science.
She was united in marriage Scott
E. Mall on September 24, 1994 at
Manhattan. He survives of the
home.
At the time of her death, Karen
was a Systems Analyst for the Farm
Bureau
Financial
Services,
Manhattan and was a member of the
Manhattan Pilot Club. Other memberships included the First United
Methodist Church, Liberal.
In addition to her husband, Karen
is survived by her mother, Lila J.
Hagaman, Liberal; and a brother,
Douglas R. Brewer, Liberal.
She was preceded in death by her
father, Erwin L. Brewer in 1974; and
her step father, Jay Hagaman in
2007.
Funeral services were held at
10:00 a.m., Friday, November 21,
2008 in the First United Methodist
Church, Manhattan with the Rev.
Kay
Scarbrough
officiating.
Graveside services were held at
11:00 a.m., Saturday, November 22,
2008 in the Liberal City Cemetery,
Liberal, KS.
Karen’s family will receive friends
from 7 until 8:30 p.m., Thursday,
November 20, 2008 in the IrvinParkview Funeral Home, Manhattan.
Memorial contributions can be
made to the Terry C. Johnson Center
for Basic Cancer Research-KSU or
the SCCC Development FoundationErwin L. Brewer Scholarship Fund
and sent in care of the IrvinParkview Funeral Home, 1317
Poyntz Ave., Manhattan, KS 66502.
Online condolences can be sent to
www.irvinparkview.com.
home website located at www.ymlfuneralhome.com
A memorial has been established
for the St. Jude Children’s Research
Hospital. Contributions may be left
in care of the Yorgensen-MeloanLondeen Funeral Home, 1616
Poyntz Avenue, Manhattan, Kansas
66502.
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Kansas Profile Now That’s Rural
By Ron Wilson, director, Huck
Boyd National Institute for Rural
Development at Kansas State
University.
Barn raising. It´s a symbol of a
bygone day, when pioneer neighbors
would come together to build some
homesteader´s barn. But in
September 2008, a modern day barn
raising was held in rural Kansas with
neighbors from across the nation. It
was another step in the rebuilding of
Greensburg.
In the last two weeks, we´ve
learned about Gene and Jan West and
their roles in helping their hometown
of Greensburg rebuild from the tornado. Today is the conclusion of our
series on Greensburg. The story
includes an unusual camera crew and
an unlikely set of builders.
Gene West explains that the 2007
Kiowa County Fair had to be held in
tents because fairground buildings
were destroyed by the tornado.
This came to the attention of an
organization called the New York
Says Thank You Foundation.
Jeff Parness was a firefighter in
New York during 9-11. He saw the
devastation caused by the terrorists,
but he also saw the phenomenal
response of giving from across the
nation.
Two years later, Jeff´s five-yearold son heard about people in southern California who lost their homes
to wildfires. The little boy suggested
giving some of his toys to the kids
who had lost theirs.
Jeff saw this as a way to give back
to those who had supported them
during 9-11. He drove a truck of toys
across the country with a banner on
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The response was so gratifying
that a foundation was established
with that name. Every year, on the
weekend before the anniversary of 911, representatives of the foundation
go to provide assistance to some
community across America which
has suffered some kind of devastation.
Then, representatives of the community which is helped travel to a
similar community to give back the
following year.
In 2008, the New York Says Thank
You Foundation decided to support
the community of Greensburg. The
identified need was a new 4-H building, and on Sept. 4 through 7, 2008,
some 500 volunteers from New
York, Texas, and elsewhere joined
local people to begin the reconstruction of the 4-H building.
In keeping with the Greensburg
spirit, the idea wasn´t just to put it
back, but to build it better. The volunteers helped build a 14,000 square
foot pavilion to house livestock and
exhibits. Many donors and building
companies helped. The volunteers
included numerous New York firefighters who survived 9-11.
A major rainstorm moved through
that weekend, but muddy conditions
did not dampen the spirit of the participants. Their work was also documented on film.
Last week we learned about the
proposed Kiowa County Media
Center. As an example of what such
a facility could do, K-State faculty
Bert Biles and Ron Frank proposed
to do a workshop on video documentaries for the students during the
barn-raising weekend. They brought
camera equipment to Greensburg
and taught the students how to use it.
Then during the barn raising, those
students went to the site and did
interviews plus filmed video footage
to document the event. Gene West
says, "Those kids were out there with
cameras at seven in the morning
interviewing people. Then at the end,
the kids themselves were interviewed about their experience, and
they had impressive insights."
The framework of the building
was up by Saturday night, and
Sunday morning a worship service
was held for the community. Who
would have thought there would be
builders from New York and Texas,
being filmed by high school kids
with TV cameras? It was a great day
for the rural community of
Greensburg, population 800 people.
Now, that´s rural.
Barn raising. It´s not just a symbol
of a bygone day. It became a part of
the rebuilding of Greensburg.
Volunteers came from New York
City and coast to coast to be a part of
this effort. 4-H members and families will benefit from this wonderful
new facility. We commend Jeff
Parness and the New York Says
Thank You Foundation along with
Gene and Jan West and all the volunteers of Kiowa County for making a
difference with their service. They´re
not just raising a barn, they´re raising
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2009 will be the 18th performance
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Hills Chorus in the Wamego regional
area. The committee is looking for
people to sing in the chorus and in
the past, the chorus has grown to
more than eighty people. The 2:00
performance this year will be on
Palm Sunday, April 5th, 2009 at the
United Methodist Church in
Wamego, Kansas.
For several years, an orchestral
ensemble has accompanied Handel’s
Messiah performance. All chorus
rehearsals will also be held the
United Methodist Church in
Wamego, Kansas.
The dates and times for the
rehearsals are as follows:
January 4th, 11th, & 18th -2:00
February 1st, 8th, & 15th -2:00
March 1st & 8th -2:00
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2nd dress: April 4th-1:00-5:00 followed by a soup supper in
Fellowship Hall at the United
Methodist Church
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your calendar and plan to attend and
also invite several of your friends to
join the chorus.
If you don’t have your own
Messiah Chorus Book, you may
choose to purchase one at the
rehearsals.
Check out the chorus web site at:
www.flinthillsmessiah.org
If you have any questions about
participating, please feel free to call
the Director-Christine Day at (785)
456-8254 or Chairperson-Tim
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Thanksgiving-An American
Family Tradition
Thanksgiving is an American Day
rooted in gratitude to God for the
blessing of life, freedom and opportunities. Jenny and I are in California
and Wednesday we will drive with
Doug’s family to Sisters, Oregon, to
celebrate Thanksgiving with our
daughter Deb’s crew, my younger
brother’s family and friends gathering for the occasion. The past week
has been a whirlwind of activities
with grandsons. We’ve made several
trips to the trap and rifle range and
the racquetball court. Yesterday I got
to fly the C-5 Galaxy to San
Francisco and back. In the simulator,
of course. The C-5 is the largest aircraft in the free world yet nimble as
a cat.
Now, at the moment I’m wearing
an ice pack after Levi and I made
racquetball a contact sport.
For the moment I’m blocking out
the world to enjoy family. The grandkids often ask what it was like growing up “back then.” So, here’s a sample about a Thanksgiving past
through the eyes of an 11- year old
boy. As the time between my first
remembrance of Thanksgiving Day
1944 and today increases, the more
appreciation I have for that first recollection and I realize the more I
have, the less I am thankful and the
less I had, the more thankful I was
for it.
As usual on the day before
Thanksgiving, our school day was
spent studying about the Mayflower
and the Pilgrims. The teacher helped
us make Pilgrim hats and we had a
Dick Miller
play to reenact the first Thanksgiving
shared with Native Americans. Each
of us in grades one through eight had
a part in the play on the stage of our
one-room school. However, I was
most excited that day because my
older sister and brother were coming
home from college for the first time
since leaving three months earlier.
The anticipation of their arrival kept
us all glancing down the holler to
catch the first glimpse of them coming past Stalnaker’s barn a half mile
away at the end of the dirt road that
led up to our house. Donal hitchhiked from Morgantown and got
there before Dad got back from
Glenville with Irene in the Model A
Ford.
That night was very special. After
the milking was done and the animals fed, we all gathered around the
table for supper. It was the first time
all eight of us had been together for
three months and it was a good feeling. I can still smell the aroma of
Ann
Coulter
Genius, Thy Name
Is Obama
With Time magazine comparing
Obama to Jesus, I guess we should
be relieved that, this week, liberals
are only comparing him to Abraham
Lincoln.
The one thing every liberal on TV
seems to know about Lincoln is that
he put rivals in his cabinet, as subtly
indicated in the title to historian and
plagiarist Doris Kearns Goodwin's
book: "Team of Rivals: The Political
Genius of Abraham Lincoln." Like
Lincoln, Goodwin is always open to
contributions from her rivals,
although Lincoln was better at crediting their words.
And hasn't Obama talked to former
rival Hillary about becoming his secretary of state? Hasn't he had a sitdown with Sen. John McCain? Did I
imagine this, or is he even now brokering peace talks between Joy
Behar and Elisabeth Hasselbeck?
Ergo: Obama is a genius.
Indeed, historians have just named
Obama the best president-elect ever.
I don't recall the media swooning
when President George W. Bush
reached out to rivals, such as Sen.
Teddy Kennedy, who was asked to
co-write Bush's education bill. In
fact, the way I remember it, Bush is
liberals' most hated president ever
(only because they can't remember
George Washington or they'd hate
him, too).
And yet no modern president has
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ever done more to bridge partisan
divides and show respect to his
opponents than George W. Bush. I do
not say this with admiration; it is
simply a fact.
Throughout the year and again in
his convention speech during the
2000 presidential campaign, Gov.
Bush bragged that he had "no stake
in the bitter arguments of the last few
years. I want to change the tone of
Washington to one of civility and
respect."
(As a side note: Bush would never
have been elected president if not for
the "bitter arguments of the last few
years," in which Republicans
exposed and impeached Bill Clinton,
which then killed Al Gore's presidential ambitions. So you're welcome.)
But the point is: Bush was massively chummy with his enemies -Democrats, communists and the
Congressional Black Caucus. So
chummy that even they began to
wonder if he was a little daft.
In his first few weeks in office,
Bush met with more than 150 members of Congress, half of them
Democrats -- including five events
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fresh baked corn bread coming out of
the oven mingled with the smoke
from the wood cook stove that also
made the room cozy warm. I don’t
remember what was said but mostly
Irene and Donal telling about college
and everything was funny. We were
together and felt secure and for the
moment we forgot about the war and
the news that Uncle Gordon had
been killed in France earlier that
year.
Our house had three bed rooms
and a path. In the winter the nightly
ritual was to make the trek to the outhouse in the back corner of the yard,
come back in, pull off our shoes and
get our feet as hot as we could stand
it by holding them close to the potbellied wood stove that was the only
other source of heat in the house.
Then we would race up stairs and
jump in the feather tick bed before
our feet got cold. Even though I
couldn’t see him in the dark, it was
good knowing my big brother was
there again.
Thanksgiving
Day
became
butchering day also and this year
Donal showed us the new ways of
cutting and preparing meat he had
learned in agriculture classes. While
we stored the meat in the smoke
house and did all the chores, Mom
and
my
sisters
prepared
Thanksgiving supper with fresh
pork, candied sweet potatoes and
pumpkin pies galore. We gathered
around the table again, held hands
and Dad prayed for the soldiers
fighting for freedom and thanked the
Lord for the bounty He had given us.
When he said Amen and raised his
head, I noticed there were tears in his
eyes. I wondered if they were tears
because we were together or because
his younger brother would never
come home. He never said and I
never asked.
Thus began the tradition of
Thanksgiving at our house as I
remember it.
with America's leading liberal menace, Sen. Teddy Kennedy.
Bush's very first social event at the
White House was movie night with
the Kennedy family to watch
"Thirteen Days," a falsely heroic
portrayal of JFK's disastrous handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
This suggests to me that Obama's
first social move as president will
have to be to invite Lindsey Graham
over to a screening of "Larry the
Cable Guy Saves Christmas."
Naturally, Bush also had primary
rival John McCain and his wife,
Cindy, over to dinner at the White
House.
Bush was the first president in
memory to attend the congressional
retreats of the opposing party. After
two weeks in office, a Wall Street
Journal column noted that Bush's
charm offensive was "disorienting
the local Hatfields and McCoys."
(Again: You're welcome.)
Bush even made a special point to
meet with the Congressional Black
Caucus upon taking office, which -given their feelings toward Bush -would be the equivalent of Obama
holding a special meet-and-greet session with the upper management of
the Ku Klux Klan.
Bush invited the Democratic black
mayor of the District of Columbia to
the White House, attended a majority black District church service and
appointed the first black secretary of
state.
And that was all before Feb. 1,
2001. (By the end of his presidency,
he would have appointed the first
two black secretaries of state.)
Though it was small potatoes after
all that palling around with Teddy
Kennedy, this is the same George W.
Bush who had Muslim "spiritual
leaders" to the White House a week
after 9/11.
Bush also famously said of thenRussian president, former KGB
agent Vladimir Putin, that he looked
him in the eye and "was able to get a
sense of his soul."
(This made Bush's critics almost as
apoplectic as if he had said, "I looked
into Putin's eyes and, frankly, I just
don't trust the guy." No matter what
Bush did, liberals were incensed.)
As president, Bush scuttled the
playing of "Hail to the Chief" in his
honor and repeatedly reminded his
staff to act humbly.
This is as opposed to Obama, who
I believe is the first president-elect in
history to have his own "Office of
the President-elect" seal commissioned.
Like I always say, even if you don't
like the current president-elect, you
should still have some respect for the
office of the presidency-elect.
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Season Schedule, Record 4-0
Fri, Nov 28
Sat, Nov 29
Kentucky
at Las Vegas, Nev.
Iowa or West Virginia at Las Vegas, Nev.
11 p.m. ESPNU
6:30/9:30 p.m.
Sun, Dec 07
Thu, Dec 11
Sun, Dec 14
Sat, Dec 20
Tue, Dec 30
Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series
Oregon
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7:30 p.m. FSN
Southern Mississippi at Kansas City, Mo.
7 p.m.
FSN Kansas City
Gardner-Webb Manhattan 6 p.m.
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Wagner Manhattan 7 p.m.
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Sat, Jan 03
Mon, Jan 05
Sat, Jan 10
Tue, Jan 13
Sat, Jan 17
Wed, Jan 21
Sat, Jan 24
Wed, Jan 28
Sat, Jan 31
Idaho State
Manhattan 1 p.m.
FSN Kansas City
Chicago State
Manhattan 7 p.m.
FSN Kansas City
Oklahoma *
Manhattan 12:30 p.m.
Big 12 Network
Kansas * at Lawrence, Kan.
7 p.m.
Big 12 Network
Nebraska *
at Lincoln, Neb. 5 p.m.
Big 12 Network
Baylor * Manhattan 8 p.m.
ESPN2
Colorado *
at Boulder, Colo. 5 p.m.
Big 12 Network
Missouri * Manhattan 8 p.m.
FSN Kansas City
Texas *
at Austin, Texas 3 p.m.
Big 12 Network
Tue, Feb 03
Sat, Feb 07
Wed, Feb 11
Sat, Feb 14
Tue, Feb 17
Sat, Feb 21
Wed, Feb 25
Sat, Feb 28
Tue, Mar 03
Sat, Mar 07
Iowa State *
Manhattan 7 p.m.
FSN Kansas City
Texas A&M *
at College Station, Texas
3 p.m.
Big 12 Network
Texas Tech *
Manhattan 8 p.m.
ESPNU
Kansas * Manhattan 2:30 p.m. ABC
North Carolina Central
Manhattan 7 p.m.
Live Video Available
Iowa State *
at Ames, Iowa
5 p.m.
FSN Kansas City
Missouri * at Columbia, Mo.
8 p.m.
ESPNU
Nebraska *
Manhattan 7 p.m.
Big 12 Network
Oklahoma State *
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W INNER OF THE K ANSAS G AS S ERVICE
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2006 K ANSAS P ROFESSIONAL
C OMMUNICATORS P HOTO E SSAY AWARD
William Jewell in 1963. He earned his
M.A. from Eastern New Mexico in 1965.
As a player, he was a three-year letterwinner as a defensive back at William
Jewell. Snyder and his wife, Sharon,
have two sons (Sean and Ross) and three
daughters (Shannon, Meredith and
Whitney). They also have eight grandchildren, Sydney, Katherine, Tate,
Matthew, Alexis, Gavin, Kadin and
Tylin.
Jacob Pullen scored a career-high 26
points as Kansas State beat Oakland,
Mich. 83-64 on Tuesday night to go 5-0
for the first time since 2004.
Denis Clemente added 19 points and
Luis Colon finished with 12 for the
Wildcats, who scored 27 points off
Oakland turnovers.
Johnathon Jones led the Grizzlies (1-4)
with 16 points. Erik Kangas and Drew
Maynard scored 11 apiece.
Kansas State led 39-25 at halftime and
staged a 16-7 run midway through the
second period to take a 64-41. Clemente
stole the ball and passed to Pullen, who
capped the run with one of his six 3pointers.
The Wildcats shot 45 percent from 3point range after averaging 30 percent
through their first four games. Oakland
made 4-of-15, or 27 percent, from
beyond the arc.
Kansas State scored more than 80
points for the fourth time this season.
Oakland outrebounded the Wildcats
38-36.
Head Coach Frank Martin
On K-State’s balanced scoring
offense...
“That is who we need to be as a basketball team. We played against a zone
team today and against a zone you need
good ball movement, the big guys have
to be patient because a lot of the times
when you get a zone you still have to do
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1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
Overall Big 8/12
1-10-0
0-7-0
5-6-0
2-5-0
7-4-0
4-3-0
5-6-0
2-5-0
9-2-1
4-2-1
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5-2-0
10-2-0
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9-3-0
6-2-0
1997
11-1-0
7-1-0
1998
11-2-0
8-0-0
1999
11-1-0
7-1-0
2000
11-3-0
6-2-0
2001
6-6-0
3-5-0
2002
11-2-0
6-2-0
2003
11-4-0
6-2-0
2004
4-7-0
2-6-0
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5-6-0
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your job and post up. Because of the zone
the ball can always got in there so you
have to rely on the jump shots and as the
game went on I thought our guys got
more comfortable about attacking there.
To our guys credit they shot the ball,
moved the ball, and did their jobs. We
made shots when we were open and that
is what you have to do to attack a zone.”
On having 24 assists and 28 field
goals...
“That is what you have to have to be a
good. Assist numbers up usually means
good ball movement. The thing that we
try to emphasize in practice and we do
half way decent job, but it is part of a
learning process that you have to go do
when there is officials, fans, television
and everything else that goes with a college basketball game. I thought Dominic
Sutton was phenomenal in what he did
against the zone today. I thought he
moved the ball and attacked gaps. I
thought he got shots for people. When we
shot the ball he got on the glass and made
opportunities for everybody.”
On junior forward Abdul Herrera...
“He has been practicing for three
weeks. He is going to give us a presence
at the rim. He kind of flopped around out
there today because he was nervous like
every other kid that goes out there for
their first college basketball game. He is
big and can block shots. Offensively he
has a feel hoe to play around the basket
and score by himself. He is another person that we have that can bring something to the table.”
On defensive play...
“Defensively we were good. We paid
attention to the scouting report and stuck
to our principals. We played disciplined
and the only thing that was discouraging
to me was in the second half when we
gave up six or seven offensive rebounds.
Towards the end of the game you cannot
do that. You cannot play until you’re
comfortable you have to play buzzer to
buzzer. They had 17 offensive rebounds
and you cannot give that up. If we would
not have made the threes that we made
today then that would have been huge
stat. Defensive rebounds is something
that we have to do a better job of. When
we rebound that ball we are so fast we
can put a lot of pressure on people so we
have to come up with clean rebounds.”
Guard Jacob Pullen
On shooting the three tonight...
“I got open looks and they went in
today. They were the same looks I got
against Emporia State and Cleveland
State, I just got a few more of them today
and they went in like they are supposed
to. We just really emphasized in practice
this week on getting into their zone and
drawing two and then kicking it to our
teammates. Dominique (Sutton) got
inside hit me at the high post then I was
able to hit Denis (Clemente) for the shot.
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regular season since 1910. It was just
the third 10-win season in 102 years of
K-State football. Kansas State won a
school-record seven conference games,
finishing second in the North Division to
undefeated and eventual national champion Nebraska.
The Wildcats defeated South Division
champion Texas A&M, 36-17. The season ended with a 35-18 win over Big
East Conference champion Syracuse in
the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, with an estimated 50,000 K-State fans attending KState’s first-ever Alliance Bowl.
The 1996 season saw K-State finish
with a 9-3 record, while more than
45,000 Wildcat fans painted Dallas purple for the Southwestern Bell Cotton
Bowl, Kansas State’s first-ever New
Year’s Day Bowl. Despite a 19-15 loss to
No. 5 Brigham Young, the support and
respect for the K-State program grew to
unprecedented heights.
In 1995, Snyder guided K-State to a
10-2 record, including a 5-2 Big Eight
mark to tie for second place behind
national champion Nebraska. Following
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Colorado State in the 1995 Holiday
Bowl, the Wildcats finished the season
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were the highest ever attained by a
Kansas State football team to that point.
In 1995, the Wildcats finished tied for
second in the Big Eight and their 5-2
league mark gave K-State two consecutive 5-2 Big Eight seasons. In the last
three years of the Big Eight, the Wildcats
defeated or tied every team in the league
except Nebraska. Since the inception of
the Big 12 in 1996, K-State is third in
league victories with a 45-19 record.
In 1993, Snyder guided K-State to its
first bowl win in school history and, in
1994, the Wildcats cracked the Top 10
for the first time in school history. In
1998, the K-State achieved a No. 1
national ranking in one of the major polls
for the first time in the program’s history.
Individually, Snyder produced 45 different All-Americans during his 17 years
as head coach, including nine consensus
first-team All-Americans: in 1992 (P
Sean Snyder), 1993 (FS Jaime Mendez),
1995 (CB Chris Canty), 1996 (Canty),
1997 (PK Martin Gramatica), 1998 (PR
David Allen), 1999 (LB Mark Simoneau)
and 2002 (CB Terence Newman).
Newman became the third Wildcat to
win a national award when he was voted
the 2002 Thorpe Award, given to the top
collegiate defensive back. Gramatica was
the 1997 Lou Groza Collegiate PlaceKicker Award winner, the first major
award winner in Kansas State history.
Quarterback Michael Bishop became the
first K-State player to be named a finalist
for the Heisman Trophy (finishing as
runner-up) while winning the Davey
O’Brien Award as the nation’s outstanding quarterback.
The foundation for K-State’s turnaround was laid in 1989 during Snyder’s
first season in Manhattan. Although the
season yielded just a 1-10 record, it
became evident to everyone involved in
the program that something special was
happening. Most important, Snyder
instilled a winning attitude and a healthy
dose of self-respect and enthusiasm to a
program that had been given up for dead.
In 1990, Kansas State was one of just
four teams in the country to improve its
record by four games with a 5-6 mark,
including its first Big Eight Conference
wins in four seasons with victories over
Oklahoma State and Iowa State. Snyder
again beat those two schools with in
1991, while adding Kansas and Missouri
to the list of his Big Eight victims to finish at 7-4 for K-State’s first winning season since the Independence Bowl season
of 1982.
Heavy graduation losses on the offensive side of the ball resulted in a 5-6
mark in 1992, but the Wildcats were still
able to hang their hats on their first perfect home season (5-0) since 1934.
Of course, it should come as no surprise that Snyder would be this kind of
architect for a building program. At
Iowa, he played a key role in the renaissance of a Hawkeye program that went
from 17 consecutive losing seasons to
eight straight bowl appearances. Snyder
was the mind behind Iowa’s potent offensive attack.
The Hawkeye offense ranked first in
passing efficiency and third in passing
yardage nationally in Snyder’s last five
years of direction. In his final Iowa season, the Peach Bowl team led the Big
Ten, and ranked seventh nationally, with
277 passing yards per game. That team
was second in the Big Ten with 416 yards
of offense per game.
Snyder also served as quarterback
coach at Iowa and helped develop some
of the best quarterbacks in NCAA history, including NFL players Chuck Long
(second in Heisman voting with over
10,000 passing yards in Iowa career),
Mark Vlasic and Chuck Hartlieb, who
wrapped up his career as the first
Hawkeye quarterback to throw for 3,000
yards in back-to-back seasons.
Snyder began his full-time coaching
career in 1964 as an assistant at Indio
High School in California. In 1966 he
served as a graduate assistant at USC
under John McKay before returning to
become head coach at Indio High School
in 1967. He accepted the same position at
Santa Ana Foothill High School in 1969,
where he stayed until 1973.
In 1974, Snyder became the offensive
coordinator on the football staff and head
swimming coach at Austin College in
Sherman, Texas. He joined the
University of North Texas staff in 1976
and helped author an impressive turnaround with a three-year record of 26-7.
He left UNT for Iowa in 1979.
Over the last three years, Snyder has
remained involved with the university as
the special assistant to the athletics director and is currently a member of the
Missouri and Kansas Halls of Fame, the
Kansas State Athletics and Austin
College Sports Halls of Fame while also
being inducted into the Holiday Bowl
Hall of Fame.
The long-time coach and mentor is
also still active in the community as he
currently is the Chairman of the Kansas
Mentors Council and the Kansas
Leadership Council, a member of the
Board of Directors for Kansas
Leadership Center, the Board of Trustees
for the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame, the
KSU Leadership Studies Advancement
Council, the Terry C. Johnson Cancer
Research Center Advisory Council, the
Manhattan Community Foundation
Board of Trustees, the KSU Foundation
Board of Trustees and is the Honorary
Co-Chairman of the Kansas Masonic
Partnership for Life.
Snyder, 69, received his B.A. from
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