It
has been a while since my last update and an event has just transpired that is
worth mentioning to all of you who I know will appreciate it. Due to some
unforeseen circumstances our beloved manager Peter Kohn has had to move out of
his apartment on
Here
are a few highlights that can hopefully give you a feel for what's taken place
over the last 3 weeks, I can't do this complete justice so I'll keep it
very brief. We truly needed David Gaynes on
site to capture some footage for the sequel to Keeper of the Kohn.
September
17th - the original start date, Hugh Marlow and players arrive on the scene, hugh leaves with no less
than 25 albums of photos and the players are considering trying to do an
independent project during J-term to catalog all of Pete's belongings
September
20th - our first big push, a number of players and I head over to Pete's and
realize that this is a much bigger ordeal than originally anticipated. The task
looms larger by the fact that Pete has misplaced his hearing aid and we
have to shout at him from a few inches away for him to hear us. We
proceed to go through every book, trophy, commemorative plate, post card,
pennant, stuffed animal, spoon, autographed ball, oriole's media guide,
lacrosse magazine one by one and ask Pete what he'd like to do with each
one. He had 7 options as to where each item would be directed, ship to
Cape May, storage, the "antique man", Hugh Marlow (i.e. the college), I'll
give that away if someone wants it, that's coming with me to Cape May, and
trash. Pete is great with the guys and appreciates all of their efforts, we're starting to make some headway.
September
25th - Pete makes his first of 3 trips up to
October
1st - We drop Pete off at the Middlebury Inn for the week after finishing
things up in the apartment. I feel the last half hour of the move with
Pete summed up what the previous weeks were all about. If Pete was
going to give something away he wanted to give it to someone who was
going to appreciate it. Unless something was completely unusable he
wanted to find a home for it. Along those lines, one of the last things
we had to clean out was his refrigerator and his supply of non perishable
food. We found a few cans of Billy Beer, some frozen sour cream that was
still good if someone wanted it, a half can of Dinty
Moore beef stew that was still good, butter......you get the point, none of it
was going straight in the garbage without a discussion.
It
was hard for Pete to have to go through all of his belongings and have to
part with some of them but in the end he had great perspective on
everything. He was happy that he was able to make others happy
by giving some things away, he realizes that as
he's getting older that this would have to happen eventually and he was able to
spend some time with the team. For our guys it was a great
experience, the freshman were able to spend some quality time with Pete
and get to know him a bit. There were also a few older guys who really
took it upon themselves to make sure they were there for him. A few of
the guys and their efforts really stood out to me though. Chris Mejia, who
because of his pick up truck became an invaluable resource in terms of bringing
boxes to storage and furniture to the dump was there
anytime we needed him. Bart Witmer,
who drove Pete up to