Happy Birthday Mike. Spending a few days with Harley Ludewig here in Tucson; Jim Goodkind also stopped bytes. Hope you are well. Peter

Happy Birthday my man. Miss seeing you more than every ten years. PChat

All:   I did not know Dan very well but like most Beloiters at the time, we all knew everyone in some form or fashion.  Allan and Paul, thanks for your thoughts.    I actaully remember that Knox game to which Allan referred,  since I played in it and overtime games were not that common.  When we traveled, even though we had a very good team that year, we did not have a lot of fans who could travel to Northfield MN, Cedar Rapids, Iowa or Gailsburg, IL where Knox was located (especially in the middle of winter in the Midwest). Knox was a hard place to win and I don't think we liked them very much.   I recall (or think I do) that sometime in the first half when we were down by about 6 points, there was a commotion at one end of the gym and our pep band came in banging instruments. The Knox fans all looked confused as to who these people were. Our team looked too, waived, maybe gave a thumb's up; then we started playing better.  Knox had a chubby guard who came in for parts of the game and the only thing he could do was shoot 35 foot semi-set shots; but he was very good at that and made 2 or 3 of them.  Knapton was on my ass for not stopping him.  We eventually survived chubby, the hostile crowd, got to overtime and then won a game that was key to eventually winning the conference championship.  Thanks to Dan, Allan and the rest of the band for making the difference in that game and for all its support the rest of the year.

We will all miss Daniel, our brother Beloiter.    Peter