Point Guard - Pearn, Victor
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Gary loved to play basketball from the first moment his hands touched a ball and he dribbled up and down his stairs. He always dreamed of playing point guard on the high school varsity team. Flustered by fights with the town bully, and conflicts with a coach who never gave him a fair shake, Gary transferred to Ashland High for his senior year. Ashland was a sleepy little farm community in Illinois, it was the place where he had been born. Gary wasn't treated like a new kid at all; he was a wayward friend who'd finally returned home. Everything began to click with his new coach and teammates.…mehr

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Gary loved to play basketball from the first moment his hands touched a ball and he dribbled up and down his stairs. He always dreamed of playing point guard on the high school varsity team. Flustered by fights with the town bully, and conflicts with a coach who never gave him a fair shake, Gary transferred to Ashland High for his senior year. Ashland was a sleepy little farm community in Illinois, it was the place where he had been born. Gary wasn't treated like a new kid at all; he was a wayward friend who'd finally returned home. Everything began to click with his new coach and teammates. At a time for hot rods, tiny Nash Ramblers, and long black hearses, Elvis had the top hits on radio and the juke boxes. Magically, all the dreams for the purple and white Ashland Panthers basketball team began to come true. Point Guard is the story of how it happened way back in 1957.
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Victor Pearn, Marine, award winning poet, and book publisher. A week after receiving an honorable discharge he became a student at Lincoln Land Community College. While a freshman he published his first two poems, and made the dean's list. Skipping his sophomore college year he entered Sangamon State University (SSU) in Springfield, Illinois as a junior. After a semester there, he spent the summer studying and writing in Madrid; he graduated from SSU with a double major in Individual Option. His degree in the Individual Option program was: People, Poets, and Institutions. He earned his MA in English Literature at Colorado University in 1983. Garrison Keillor has read his poems on the "Writer's Almanac," radio program. Pearn was invited to be Poet-in-Residence at Quincy University, in Illinois. In 2005 he established Pearn and Associates, a book publishing company which has published 61 titles by award winning authors. His poems have been published in more than 300 publications. His poem "Living Inside Confucius Wall," was translated into Mandarin and published by Jining University in China. His poems have also been published in Swansea, Wales, Canada, and the Virgin Islands. Swinging Away: A Celebration is his 15th book. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.