Patrick Hawley

Other - Athens, Alabama

At Birmingham Southern College

1981 1983

9th grade
10th grade
11th grade
12th grade

Hi-Y, Basketball 1,2,3,4; Class Vice-President 1,4; Class President 4 Beehive Vice-President 4, Most Popular Boy 4

Many summers working on farms: Claude Downey, Joe Wilson et al. I worked in tobacco and hay. I also worked for the Stewart Window Company, and for Dr. Freeland Hicks at Lone Oak Park

I had no car and did not have a license until I was 21. My mother was a Lakota and the Last of Wild America. There was NO meat and I grew up hunting trapping and fishing until we moved to Lone Oak and lived at 111 Illinois Street across from Bill Osborne

A.A. PJC
B.A. UK
M.S. Indiana University
Doctorate Indiana University
Post Doctoral work: Mary Baldwin College and Alabama A & M

The Vietnam War, of course. I finished college on a Wednesday and was drafted on Friday, January, 1968. I served 369 days with the 101st and was attached through the 25th M.A.S.H. Unit. This meant I did not jump out of any airplanes, although I do think I might have like it. Upon return to Stateside, I served as Ft. Carson Liaison to the united States Army at the Office of the Adjutant General. My favorite memory of that time? Paula Metzger Leeper was expecting a baby and had a difficult pregnancy. I helped Ricky avoid a year long tour of duty and he went to New Orleans instead. GOD WAS TOTALLY IN THAT DECISION. I will never forget it.

I have been a teacher for 42 years. I married Ann Dunbar in 1971. She had cancer and died in 1998. However, we both attended Indiana University. She was a music major and the school of music there is simply incredible! It had four big recital halls and the best art in the world was on each instrument: Eleanor Fells, Harp;Abbie Simon,Piano;Josef Gingold,Violin;Eilene Farrell, Virginia MacWaters Voice. It was amazing to a young man who had been kicked out of a church choir and could not read music! My favorite memories of all the places I lived, however,was the pickup basketball games! It is my favorite adult memory of UK,IU,and Georgia. The great black players were in the parks,because they could get no scholarships. I played often at Woodland Park in Lexington. (In 1969 in a book entitled In Your Face Basketball, it was named the # 2 outdoor court in America.

Mostly in Indiana,Georgia, and Alabama. I have taught at Auburn, Indiana, and Alabama. I am Director of Campus Crusade for Christ for Alabama A & M University,where I also teach.

No; too old

Walking my black lab: Shamma and UK basketball. I just saw the greatest basketball team I ever saw! We will never forget them. They were better than the 1964 UCLA team, the 1983 Georgetown team, and the 1996 UK team. They were the best college team I ever saw.

All the incredible people who were wonderful to me and the legendary John Robinson. He treated me as a son and gave me my high school ring and told me something I will NEVER forget. I have never told anyone. He was the finest person I ever met in my lifetime

I will try to revisit this later. There are so many!

Yes - I'm listed as: Patrick Hawley

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