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1950s |
ORIGINAL ENTRY: August 16th, 1954
Betsy Cullen TULSA
, OKLA.
> She is only 15, but pretty, well-tanned Betsy is the 1954 women's golf champion of Oklahoma
. A popular member of the high school set at Tulsa
Central—and a large consumer of hamburgers and chocolate cookies—she is in training for the girls' junior championship. |
CULLEN ATTENDED Oklahoma
, which didn't have a women's golf team, but she joined the LPGA
tour in 1964 and won three tournaments, including the Sears
World Classic in Port St. Lucie
, Fla.
, in 1972. |
SHE STAYED on tour 15 years and landed on the cover of Florida
Golfer (left) in 1973. In 1983 she settled in the Houston
area, where she has family. She has twice been LPGA
central section Teacher of the Year. |
TODAY CULLEN CAN be found at Pine Forest C.C. in Houston
, where she'll give four to 11 lessons a day "depending on the weather." Golf is her passion and hobby; during her downtime Cullen will hit balls for fun or read golf books "about the mental aspects of the game." |
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1960s |
ORIGINAL ENTRY: March 7, 1966
Stuart Isaac AMHERST
, N.Y. > Stuart Isaac, 12, a junior high school swimmer, clipped .2 of a second off the national age-group 50-yard breaststroke record with a 31.6 in an AAU meet in Latham, N.Y. He also won the 50-yard butterfly (30.1) and the 100-yard individual medley (1:07.5). |
ISAAC'S FATHER had died two weeks before the record-breaking meet, and competing helped him cope with the loss. He went on to become an All-America at Michigan
and a member of the U.S.
team. |
AFTER GRADUATING in '74, Isaac coached the Wolverines women for nine years, winning five Big Ten
titles. At his '93 wedding to fellow swim coach Maureen, he posed with his former swim coaches. |
THE ISAACS live in Ann Arbor
, Mich.
, with daughters Sylvie, 8, and Tierney, 11. Isaac is the senior vp of marketing and sales for Speedo, where he develops everything from bobsled uniforms to swimsuits to make "other people go faster." He rarely swims unless it's for fun with his daughters. |
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1970s |
ORIGINAL ENTRY: January 27, 1975
Cynthia Hayden, SCITUATE
, MASS. > Cynthia Hayden, a senior center-forward on the Scituate
High field hockey team, scored 25 goals to break a school record set in 1959. Also, she is No. 1 on the tennis team and is undefeated in 45 straight interscholastic league matches. |
HAYDEN MET Jamie Kempner at Yale—she played tennis, squash and soccer—and they married after moving to Boston
. She worked for Bank of New England, then earned an M.B.A. from BC. |
KEMPNER WAS a full-time mom by 2000, when she reunited with her high school tennis and field hockey coach, Mary Bauer, who originally nominated Kempner for FACES and who was herself featured in 1982. |
THE KEMPNERS now reside in Greenwich, Conn.
, with their children, Chris, 21, Meggie, 20, and Nina, 13. The kids are following Mom into sports; Chris is the captain of Yale
's lacrosse team, and Meggie plays squash at Penn. Kempner still makes it out to the squash courts three times a week. |
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1980s |
ORIGINAL ENTRY: November 10, 1986
Mike Hairston WICHITA
, KANS.
> Hairston, 31, won the Woolaroc Road Race in Bartlesville
, Okla.
, for the fourth time in the event's six-year history. He completed the five miles in 25:02, running through a wildlife preserve inhabited by buffalos, llamas, elk and deer. |
WHILE TRAINING for the Olympic trials in 1988, he shredded the cartilage in his knee. He turned to racewalking and served as racewalking chair for USA
Track & Field's Oklahoma Association. |
HAIRSTON MET HIS wife, Kimberlee, while at Oral Roberts
. They've been married for 23 years and live in Tulsa
with their sons, Christopher, 12, and Nathan, 10. They start each morning with a family hug. |
FOR OVER 16 YEARS Hairston has been a computer programmer for ONEOK, a FORTUNE 500
energy company, where he recently passed out 85 pedometers to coworkers to track their steps and promote fitness. He is a youth mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters and 100 Black Men of Tulsa
. |
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1990s |
ORIGINAL ENTRY: September 15, 1997
George Mulcahy WESTBROOK, MAINE
> Mulcahy, 84, the oldest member of the Gorham Country Club, playing with a 17 handicap, shot an 18-under-par 195 over 54 holes to win the club's President's Cup championship. Mulcahy has shot his age or better 46 times since turning 80. |
MULCAHY BEGAN caddying at 15, and while deployed abroad during World War II, he kept a lookout for places to play in downtimes. These days he prefers shipping out with his grandson, Joe McKee, 17. |
GRANDDAUGHTER Laura McKee, 19, teaches him to rock, but the history buff prefers reading. He managed a box company before retiring and had four kids with his wife, Margaret, who died nine years ago. |
WEATHER PERMITTING, Mulcahy plays at Gorham five or six days a week, and in September 2005 he got his first hole in one when he hit a three wood over the water and into the cup on Gorham's par-3 15th hole. "Better late than never," laughed Mulcahy of his ace after 77 years on the links. |
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2000s |
ORIGINAL ENTRY: October 3, 2005
Karin Korb, ATLANTA
> Korb, 37, who develops programs for disabled athletes, defeated Nancy Christensen 6--4, 6--1 to win the National Public Parks tennis championships in Stamford
, Conn. Korb is the first wheelchair player to beat an able-bodied player in tournament play. |
KORB BROKE her back in a gymnastics accident at 17 and started playing tennis 10 years later. A two-time paralympian, she is ranked 33rd in the world in wheelchair tennis. |
SHE MADE the cover of Atlanta
Tennis in fall '05, and this year she coordinated 18 Tennis Run/Roll events—pairing wheelchair and able-bodied players in mixed doubles—held across the country. |
KORB, WHO HAS an M.A. in sports management from Georgia State
, created Disabled Divas—camps that promote fitness and self-esteem for disabled girls—where "sports meets lip gloss." She also teaches tennis, works with disabled veterans and gives diversity talks. Her motto: Live to train; train to live. |
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