| One Shot Short: The 1957-1958 Chattanooga Central Basketball Season Contributor(s): Summers, Jerry H. (Author), Stone, Karen P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1947589121 ISBN-13: 9781947589124 Publisher: Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc. OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2019 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Basketball - Biography & Autobiography | Sports - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6" W x 9" (0.59 lbs) 194 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South |
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| Publisher Description: The 1957-1958 basketball season of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Central High School Purple Pounders who accumulated a record of 33 wins and 4 losses but lost the Tennessee State Championship by one point to Lenoir City, Tennessee, with a score of 34-33. Coaching career of Gordon W. Smith 1953-1974, and post high school careers of team players. Features 130 photographs and charts and contains a DVD of the championship game inside the back cover.. All proceeds will be donated to the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga, a 501(c)(3) charity, to support Gordon W. Smith Scholarship. |
Contributor Bio(s): Summers, Jerry H.: - Jerry H. Summers is a practicing attorney in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He has served as an assistant district attorney and municipal judge since he began the practice of law in 1966. He has argued cases before the United States and Tennessee Supreme courts and has been involved in numerous landmark decisions in both civil and criminal law. His peers in the legal profession have elected him to membership in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, American College of Trial Lawyers, International Society of Barristers, American Board of Trial Advocates, American Board of Criminal Lawyers, and he has been selected every year since 1983 as one of the Best Lawyers in America, in both personal injury and criminal law. By an unsolicited vote of the lawyers of Tennessee, he has consistently been selected as one of the "Best 100 Lawyers in Tennessee" and "Mid-South Super Lawyers". Orange Grove Center and the Chattanooga Bar Association have both honored him as philanthropist of the year for his community work. In 2007 he was selected as a Distinguished Alumnus at the Centennial Celebration of Central High School in Chattanooga. In 2014 he was designated as the Distinguished Alumnus at the University of the South at Sewanee, and in 2016 the University of Tennessee at Knoxville designated him Distinguished Alumnus.Stone, Karen P.: - A native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Karen Paul Stone holds a BA degree in French and Spanish from the University of Kentucky and founded Waldenhouse Publishers, Inc. in 1995 near Chattanooga. She serves as Editor in Chief and principal designer. She is also Editor of McCoy Farm & Gardens Newsletter in Walden, TN. She was co-founder of Ashland Press in 1975 and for ten years a principal of Transylvania Printing Company, both in Lexington, KY. She is author of several books. |
