Miss Mary
Sometimes something happen to make me think of someone who played a role in my formative years. I, of course, always think of them as they were forty or fifty years ago and then go on to do the math, often coming to the statistical conclusion that they are most likely dead.
You can imagine my great pleasure this morning when I turned to the sports page in the News and Observer to find it dominated by a photograph of Miss Mary Garber, the long-time sports writer for the Winston-Salem Journal and (when evening papers still were printed) Sentinel. Tonight Miss Mary will be inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame.
Now ninety-two years of age and infirmed, Miss Mary covered high school sports when I was playing football and basketball in the early 1960's. Always wearing her rimless glasses and a cap of some kind, Miss Mary was maybe five feet tall when measured with a short ruler. In those days she didn't go into the boys locker room. She would, instead, send in a messenger for the folks she wanted to interview.
Miss Mary was the society editor of the newspaper in 1944 when, out of necessity, she began covering sports. That lead to a sixty years career covering sports figures ranging from Jackie Robinson to that tall, skinny kid with the flat top and a missing front tooth on the Northwest Forsyth High School Falcon's football team.
These was also a nice article about her in the New York Times on Saturday. Click here to read it.
You can imagine my great pleasure this morning when I turned to the sports page in the News and Observer to find it dominated by a photograph of Miss Mary Garber, the long-time sports writer for the Winston-Salem Journal and (when evening papers still were printed) Sentinel. Tonight Miss Mary will be inducted into the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame.
Now ninety-two years of age and infirmed, Miss Mary covered high school sports when I was playing football and basketball in the early 1960's. Always wearing her rimless glasses and a cap of some kind, Miss Mary was maybe five feet tall when measured with a short ruler. In those days she didn't go into the boys locker room. She would, instead, send in a messenger for the folks she wanted to interview.
Miss Mary was the society editor of the newspaper in 1944 when, out of necessity, she began covering sports. That lead to a sixty years career covering sports figures ranging from Jackie Robinson to that tall, skinny kid with the flat top and a missing front tooth on the Northwest Forsyth High School Falcon's football team.
These was also a nice article about her in the New York Times on Saturday. Click here to read it.
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