 Phil Krouskop played football and baseball at Bluffton in the 1960s, but he is best known as Coach K due to his nearly four-decade coaching career at Perry High School. Krouskop compiled a record of 503-336 as head baseball coach of the Perry Commodores from 1968 to 2007.
During his 39 years of coaching high school baseball, he racked up six league titles, 24 sectional titles, seven district titles, four regional final berths, one regional championship and a state appearance in 1998. In 2011, Krouskop was inducted into the Ohio High School Athletic Association’s Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame. The Perry High School baseball field was named in his honor in 2012.
Krouskop graduated from Bluffton in 1965 and earned degrees in social work and psychology. He was a member of the 1962 baseball and football teams that were previously inducted into the Bluffton Athletics Hall of Fame.
Krouskop stays active in retirement by volunteering. He reads to local youth at the Mizpah Community Center in Lima, tutors at Perry schools and is a volunteer custodian at his church.
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 A three-year performer at quarterback for Bluffton, Mike Kelly steadily climbed up the list of top career passers. When he graduated in 1980, Kelly ranked third in career completions (95), fourth in career attempts (242) and fifth in career passing yardage (1,028). He was just the sixth player in Bluffton history to pass for more than 1,000 yards and today ranks 17th on the career passing yardage list.
After graduating with a degree in health, physical education and recreation, Kelly held college coaching positions at Edinboro, Marietta, Ohio Wesleyan, Capital and San Francisco State before going to the professional ranks as offensive coordinator of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League from 1992-96. He returned to the collegiate level as head coach at Valdosta State from 1997-99 before returning to the CFL in 2000 with Edmonton.
In 2001 he was the offensive coordinator of the Orlando Rage of the XFL, before joining the ranks of the National Football League as a pro scout with the Philadelphia Eagles. He was also an offensive assistant coach for the Eagles before moving on to the Washington Redskins, then back to the CFL.
A native of Muncie, Ind., Kelly is a member of the Delaware County (Ind.) Athletic Hall of Fame. He has been published many times in football coaching magazines and has a tremendous history with charity organizations, including the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
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Emil Kn orr was a two-sport athlete at Bluffton. Knorr played football all four years and was named honorable mention all-conference in 1955. He was co-captain in 1956, when Bluffton won a conference title with Knorr starting at both fullback and defensive end. He also played baseball for the Beavers and was a two-year letter winner.
In 1968, Knorr received his master’s degree in mathematics from Boston College. He taught at both the high school and collegiate levels, including at Hiram College and the Gilmour Academy.
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 The leader of two Bluffton volleyball teams that are in the Athletics Hall of Fame, Jamie (Knox ‘88) Beachy was twice named first-team All-Western Buckeye Collegiate Conference and was an Academic All-America selection following her senior season in 1987.
Beachy was a four-year starter on teams that fashioned a 121-42 overall record and captured three conference championships and NAIA District 22 tournament appearances. At the time of her graduation, she held Bluffton records for career kills (641), assists (1,255) and digs (1,227). The Wauseon, Ohio, native still ranks 10th in career assists in the Bluffton record book.
On the volleyball court, Beachy’s talent at every facet of the game made her an invaluable member of Coach Kim Fischer’s teams. As a freshman, she played a defensive role on Bluffton’s 1984 team that went 26-15 and won the WBCC title. She took over setting duties as a sophomore and put up a then-school-record 601 assists as the Beavers improved to 35-6 while collecting WBCC and NAIA District 22 crowns. That 1985 team was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 1996.
Also a resident adviser and junior homecoming attendant, Beachy was voted a captain for her junior and senior seasons as her role on the court changed to attacker. Both seasons she ranked in the top 10 in the WBCC in kills, kill percentage, digs and even assists.
In 1987, her senior season, Beachy was named the WBCC Player of the Week following her performance in the conference tournament, where she led the Beavers to their fourth title in six years. She also earned all-district honors that year. The 1987 team joined the Hall of Fame in 1998.
After graduating with a degree in math and English education, she taught English at Fairfield Junior High School in Cincinnati for two years and was a stay-at-home mom for nine years. She then became coordinator of the Ohio Reads Program at Lakeside Elementary in Cincinnati, where she tutored second and third graders in reading.
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Erin (Kurtz) Baker remains in the top five in 11 pitching statistics for a Bluffton softball career. Her rankings include second  in opponents’ batting average (.216) and shutouts (tied, with nine); third in wins (38), strikeouts (365) and complete games (finishing all 64 games she started); and fourth in earned run average ( 2.47). Also second on the fielding percentage list (.991) and a .286 hitter during her four years, Baker was named first-team all-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference in both 1999 and 2000; Most Valuable Player of the 1999 HCAC tournament, won by Bluffton; and conference MVP during the Beavers’ second-place season in 2000.
After receiving her Bluffton bachelor’s degree in elementary and special education, the Wooster native was an intervention specialist at Marshallville, Ohio, Elementary School for three years. From 2002-07, she was head softball coach at her alma mater, Smithville High School, where she then went on to be an intervention specialist. She earned a master’s degree in special education from the University of Akron in 2009.
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Dennis Lane accumulated seven athletic letters in high school and was the school’s Athlete of the Year his senior year. But his college career was to be even more impressive.
By the time Lane gra duated in 1970, he had been named to the NAIA all-district baseball team twice and the all-district basketball team once. He finished college with eight athletic letters and received the A.C. Burcky Award as Bluffton’s outstanding senior male athlete.
Lane became a pitcher in the Kansas City Royals’ minor-league system in 1970. The English major then taught and coached at Ridgemont High School in 1972-73 before moving on to Bellefontaine High School. He has been an assistant football coach, head baseball coach, boys’ head basketball coach and girls’ basketball coach.
Lane has also been involved in several organizations relating to teaching and coaching, including the National Association of English Teachers, the Ohio Basketball Coaches Association and the Ohio High School Athletic Association Officials Association.
He enjoyed Bluffton’s friendly atmosphere, which influenced him to attend when he first looked into the college. “I visited severa l other colleges, but nowhere did I feel that the people in the campus environment were as interested in other people as at Bluffton,” he said.
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 One of the best hitters in Bluffton softball history, Allison (Lange ’05) Bentley was named to the National Fastpitch Coaches Association/Louisville Slugger All-American (2nd team) and NFCA/Louisville Slugger All-American All-Region (1st Team) during the 2004 season when the team was ranked in the top 10 nationally in NCAA DIII for much of the year. She was also a two-time All-Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference 1st Team selection.
In 2004, she was nationally ranked 5th in slugging percentage, 6th in batting average and 18th in doubles. Bentley’s name is all over Bluffton softball’s records book including career records of 2nd with 39 doubles and 7th with a .355 batting average and single-season records such as 1st for both a .522 batting average and .600 on-base percentage. At one point, her name was listed 30 times in Bluffton’s record books. She was awarded Bluffton’s Kathryn E. Little Award in 2005 for being Bluffton’s Outstanding Senior Female Athlete.
 Bentley graduated in 2005 with a middle childhood education major and is currently a math/STEM/technology teacher at Archbold Middle School. She has coached a variety of high school, junior high and youth teams. A resident of Archbold, Ohio, she is married to Andrew Bentley ’05 and they have three children, Anderson, Adelle, and Archer. Bentley was previously inducted with the 2004 softball team.
Allison (Lange ’05) Bentley was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 2022 for her individual achievements as a four-year member of Bluffton’s softball team.
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Bill Lape ’62
Bill Lape ’62 was a first-team, all-Mid-Ohio League (MOL) halfback in 1960 and 1961, and remains in the top 10 in several Bluffton statistical categories for a game, a season and a career. A four-year starter and letter winner, from 1958-61, he played on three league-champion teams and was co-captain of the 1961 team. In 1962, he was the first recipient of the A.C. Burcky Award, presented annually to Bluffton’s top senior male athlete.
The West Chester, Ohio, resident led the MOL in scoring as a sophomore—when he received all-league honorable mention—a junior and a senior. He is tied for second on Bluffton’s single-game scoring list, with 24 points on four touchdowns against Defiance in 1961, and stands fifth on the career scoring list (236 points); sixth in career touchdowns (37); and 10th in single-season scoring (82 points in 1960). His rankings on career rushing lists include fourth in yards per carry, with a six-yard average, and ninth in career yardage, with 2,654 yards. *
Also a four-year letterman in track and president of Varsity B as a senior, Lape earned a bachelor’s degree in biology. He then played two years for the Cleveland Bulldogs of the former United Football League and taught middle school science for 11 years in Parma Heights, Ohio, and Cincinnati. In addition, he was head football and assistant basketball coach at Greenbriar Middle School in Parma Heights, and an assistant varsity football coach at his alma mater, Greenhills (now Winton Woods) High School, Cincinnati.
The father of two later worked for five years at Pat Matson’s Nautilus Fitness Centers in Cincinnati, and retired in 2006 after 26 years in sales manager and general manager positions in the automobile business. Also in Cincinnati, he has been involved with the Cincinnati Gospel Mission, Neediest Kids of All and Matthew 25 Ministries.
* school records as of 2014
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The late Fred Liechty played three sports at Bluffton after graduating from Berne (Ind.) High School. He lettered twice in football and four times each in basketball and baseball.
 In baseball, he was the leading hitter all four years and posted a .577 average in 1948. His other extracurricular activities included Student Christian Association, Men’s Glee Club and May Day chair in 1949. He was also voted Most Popular Man on campus in 1950.
Most of Liechty’s subsequent career was spent at First Bank of Berne, where he served 16 years as cashier, 23 years as a director and 12 years as president before retiring in 1993.
He was active on the Adams County Migrant Committee and the First Mennonite Refugee Resettlement Committee. A Sunday school teacher for 41 years, he had also been president of the Mennonite Choral Society and was a Mennonite Biblical Seminary board member for 17 years.
Liechty, who died in 2012, credited Bluffton with helping him grow and mature, saying he had been impressed with the friendly attitude of people on campus. He also noted that his exposure to Mennonite thinking about service and peace issues changed his position on the military draft. “Bluffton became my family for four years and gave me values that have shaped my life and that of my family,” he said.
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Jennifer (Liechty) Zickafoose, a three-sport standout, was the fifth woman inducted into the Bluffton Athletics Hall of Fame.
 Zickafoose, a graduate of South Adams High School in Berne, Ind., earned two letters in basketball, three in tennis and four in volleyball at Bluffton. She captained the volleyball team her final two years.
She has coached several sports since graduation, directing Bluffton’s tennis program for two years and serving as swim coach at Lima Senior High School four years, at Shawnee High School one year, at Shawnee Country Club three summers and for the Lima YMCA. She has also coached volleyball for several years at the junior high and assistant varsity levels. Two of her Bluffton tennis players qualified for and played in the national tournament in 1984.
Zickafoose served as aquatics director for the Lima YMCA for two years and has taught seventh- and eighth-grade learning disabled students at Lima South Middle School. She received the Franklin B. Walter Outstanding Educator Award in 1994 for her work with exceptional children. Zickafoose also went on to pursue her master’s degree in reading at The Ohio State University.
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The late Kathryn Little was an instructor in physical education at Bluffton from 1956-59 and again in 1965-73. She illustrates the story of coaching and teaching at Bluffton, moving gracefully from the r ole of student-coach to full time teacher-coach. Little combined college study with teaching and coaching and with the multiple arts of homemaking and a variety of community activities.
In high school at Leipsic she earned three letters in basketball and was selected to the All County team. Years later she coached the women’s teams in basketball, volleyball and softball in the revival of these intercollegiate sports. She is one of the unsung heroines of that movement coming to national recognition through the efforts of Billy Jean King and others. However, leaf through the pages of old Ista yearbooks and one finds a significant plane given to women’s sports on the Bluffton campus, the activities of the women’s varsity B and the women’s hiking club.
Little reflected the balance which characterized Bluffton’s athletic spirit and tradition. An able student, winning Pi Delta honors as an undergraduate, she reflected thoroughness and quality in the classroom. She organized a broadly-based intramural program for women. She opened up an intercollegiate sports program for women. She worked with cheerleaders in the intricacies of the cheerleading art and served on hundreds of committees which serve behind the scenes of Homecomings, May Days and special campus events.
Little and her family symbolized by their activities and interests that athletics is not just a series of spectator sports where you play hard in high school and college and then sit out the rest of your life on the stands or in front of the TV. Her avid love of tennis and other “lifetime sports” affirms the importance of sports and recreation in the whole man and woman.
Little died in 2005.
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The late Ralph Locher graduated from Bluffton High School and was an active member of the First Mennonite Church. A football player at Bluffton College, he received his bachelor’s degree in history in 1936. He then studied law at Western Reserve Law School in Cleveland, earning his law degree in 1939. In 1945 he was named secretary of the Industrial Commission of Ohio, where he served until 1953.
A 10-year member of Bluffton’s Board of Trustees, Locher was also a representative to the Council of State Governments. He served as a member of the board of the National League of Cities and was involved with the Central YMCA of Cleveland board.
“Bluffton taught me to appreciate the meaning of a sense of values,” Locher said.
A.C. Burcky, Locher’s football coach, remembered him well. “He meant business all the time he played. He was a dandy fellow and a good, solid player.”
The 1935 Ista yearbook lists Locher as “a big, rugged forward,” and he and two teammates were honored in the 1936 Ista: “We pay due respects for the fine spirit of sportsmanship that they have displayed while under the Beaver colors and to the fine brand of ball that they have played. Some outstanding plays will stand out in our memories which will bring back the days when these players kept vigil beside the Beaver hut.”
Locher died in 2004.
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A first-team All-Mid-Ohio Conference selection at offensive end as a senior in 1959, Ron Lora was a main cog in the passing game on teams that make up the greatest era of Bluffton football.
 During Lora’s four seasons on the gridiron, the Beavers posted a combined 20-0 record in the MOC to win four straight conference championships—a feat that has never been duplicated.
Lora lettered all four seasons and was named a team captain for three of those years. With Hall of Famers Elbert Dubenion and Willie Taylor in the backfield for head coach Ken Mast, the running game took center stage, but Lora was still among the team leaders in touchdowns.
The Bluffton High School graduate also lettered in basketball two seasons for the Beavers and served as president of the Varsity B Club for three years.
After graduating in 1960 with a degree in business administration, Lora spent several years as a coach in the Fostoria school system before returning to Bluffton as a professor of history in 1964. He earned his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1967 and that year moved on to the University of Toledo, where he is now a professor emeritus of history.
The author/editor of several books, Lora is a regular columnist in The Bluffton News and has dozens of published articles and book reviews to his credit. He was a member of the Bluffton Board of Trustees from 1987-2011 and is active in many other organizations.
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Lynn Martin not only was a four-year letterman in both football and basketball, but he also received three golf awards and another in baseball, matching the 12 letters he had won at Mount Blanchard High School.
 He was an All-Mid-Ohio Conference offensive guard on a 7-2 Bluffton football team in 1965. He was also a guard on the basketball court, and that’s where he really stood out.
He was All-MOC three times in basketball, first-team All-NAIA District 22 once and second team all-district once. He still holds the Bluffton single-game record of 19 field goals, plus a career free throw percentage of .812. He is sixth in career scoring at 1,513 points—with a 17.8 average per game—and tied for sixth in single-game scoring, with 42 points against Northwood during his sophomore season. He is also near the top of five other statistical categories, including his mark of scoring 20 or more points in 39 games.
In 1974, Martin started a successful coaching career at Van Buren High School.
As coach of the boys’ basketball Black Knights, Martin had a record of 243-96 and won seven Blanchard Valley Conference championships, 11 sectional titles, six district championships and two regional titles. His 1985 and 1986 teams were state semifinalists, and he was named BVC Coach of the Year six times.
In six years as golf coach, he led his teams to two sectional and two district championships, plus a third-place finish at the state tournament in 1984 and the state title in 1985.
He was also an assistant football coach and athletics director at Van Buren before moving on to Olentangy High School near Columbus as athletics director.
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Abe Mast played basketball, baseball and golf at Bluffton, earning four letters in each while coached by his brother, Ken. He also played basketball, football and baseball at Wadsworth High School, where he was inducted into the Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.
 An art major, Abe spent 10 years as a health and physical education teacher and an assistant and head basketball coach at four high schools in northeast Ohio. He compiled a 134-51 record before leaving education.
After working as an insurance agent until 1972, he established Graphic Publications Inc., which published five weekly, free community newspapers in the Millersburg area.
“Bluffton, as a small liberal-arts institution, provided me an opportunity to expand my horizons on a variety of fronts,” Mast said. “Certainly, my participation in intercollegiate athletics played a role in helping develop skills and attitudes reflective in my coaching, teaching and business careers. Bluffton also allowed me to diversify my interests through participation in dramatics and music. These experiences, nurtured in the Bluffton environment, helped provide a sound foundation for my family life, my vocational life and my Christian life.”
Mast has been a member of Community Papers of Ohio and West Virginia, the Millersburg Chamber of Commerce and the Berlin Area Business Association. He has been commissioner of the Holmes County Little League, chair of both the Holmes County Cancer Crusade and the Longest Day of Golf for the county American Cancer Society, and a member of the Ohio Conference Renewal Committee. He has also been a member, elder and Sunday school teacher at Martins Creek Mennonite Church, Millersburg.
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John S. Mast of Millersburg, Ohio, graduated from Bluffton in 1987 with a bachelor’s degree in art. A four-year letter winner in baseball, Mast e arned all-district honors twice. He is Bluffton’s career leader in batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. He also leads Bluffton ballplayers in triples and ranks sixth all-time in doubles.
While on campus, Mast was the intramural sports director for two years, a member of the senior art show and the 1987 May Day king. Mast continued to play ball after graduation, participating on a team that won Class C slow-pitch softball titles at the United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA) state and national levels, as well as the Amateur Softball Association world title in Atlanta, Ga., in 1987. He was named Most Valuable Player of the USSSA nationals that year. From 1984-90, Mast played with the Akron AA Amateur League. He was a two-time all-star and was named co-MVP in 1989.
Mast has been a graphic designer at Graphic Publications Inc. He is actively involved in his church’s worship team and Sunday school, and has been a Vacation Bible School director. He coaches his children’s baseball, soccer and fast-pitch softball teams.
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Kenneth Mast coached four sports at Bluffton—football, basketball, track and golf—from 1951-67. While many men have coached at Bluffton, he seemed to have that special gift of establishing rapport with his players and getting them to work to their fullest potential. 
Commenting on his years at Bluffton, Mast stated “Bluffton was a way of life for me and my family. Aside from the many thrilling victories and championships we shared at Bluffton, the thrill of assisting a dedicated faculty and being able to touch the lives of scores of students can never be measured.”
For a time, Mast was the winningest coach in football and track at Bluffton. He also coached its championship basketball team in 1964.
Mast, who started the Bluffton golf program, was also head golf pro at Lost Creek Country Club in Lima, Ohio, and played in many tournaments, spreading his name—and Bluffton’s—throughout Ohio.
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Frankly, for the late James Miller, it all boiled down to money. Since he lived in Bluffton, he was able to live at home and go to college while working at Triplett Corp. for 25 cents an hour.
 Still, Miller found time to play two of his favorite sports, football and baseball. The Varsity B member played for all four years of college. His sophomore year was the highlight of his football career, with the team ending the season 4-1-2. He was noted as a diminutive but elusive back with much determination. By the time he graduated, he had earned eight sports letters.
In addition to earning letters, he was learning valuable lessons for life. “One of the most important lessons I learned while attending Bluffton College and playing for Coach Burcky was that in life you need to learn to play with the hand you are dealt—to do with what you have—and if you do learn this, you’ll probably win more than your fair share of life’s prizes,” he said.
Miller recalled a tremendous amount of negative thinking throughout the country during the Depression years, yet he graduated from Bluffton with a positive attitude. “I think Coach Burcky is largely responsible for this attitude. He had little to deal with—money, equipment, talent—yet he made you feel that there was always a chance.”
In addition to his studies, work and athletics, Miller found time for other activities. He was on the men’s debate team that placed third in state competition in 1937. He was active in student government and was Student Council president his junior year. He was editor of the Ista yearbook and participated in thespians as a senior.
The leadership activities and positive attitude that Miller gained at Bluffton carried him into leadership positions after his 1939 graduation with a degree in social science. He taught and coached high school football before entering the U.S. Coast Guard in 1942. He was commissioned as a senior lieutenant during his four years with the Coast Guard. Following World War II, he returned to coaching, this time in Mission, Texas.
Miller was head of his own company, JFM Associates, a marketing organization selling energy-related products throughout Texas. He was also a community and church leader. His credits included being mayor of Mission and its Man of the Year in 1951; a school board and Lions Club president; and a member of a bank board of directors.
He was also a Sunday school teacher, lay leader and chair of the building financial drive for First Methodist Church in Mission.
A leader must think positively about life’s opportunities. Miller, who died in 2012, attributed his value of this personal quality in part to his educational experiences at Bluffton. “I am and will always be deeply grateful to Bluffton College and more particularly to Coach Burcky for this invaluable gift—a positive attitude.”
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Sylvester Moore ’76 was one of the outstanding defensive middle guards in Bluffton football history, earning All-Hoosier-Buckeye Collegiate Conference honors and first-team NAIA District 22 honors three straight years.
 He received two national awards his senior year, gaining second-team NAIA All-American recognition and honorable mention Little All-American. Only he, Elbert Dubenion ’59 and Greg Gilcrease ’89 have received first- or second-team All-American honors among Bluffton football players.
Moore was an outstanding player despite his size (175 pounds), as he utilized quickness to become virtually unstoppable on the defensive line. He was named Bluffton’s outstanding defensive player as a sophomore, then was the Beavers’ Most Valuable Player his junior and senior seasons.
He has since been a teacher in the Cleveland school system.
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Stanley F. Naylor, a 1954 Bluffton graduate, was a four-year letterwinner in football and track. He held the broad jump record in Mid-Ohio League until the final track meet before the league disbanded. Additionally, he held Bluffton’s broad jump record for 40 years. While in school, Naylor was active in Big Brothers and Sisters, faculty committee, commerce club, vesper choir, joint house councils, student advisors, ISTA photography editor and Varsity B.
 Stan held master financial planner status with American Express Financial Advisors Inc. prior to his retirement in 2000. He is a long-time member of the local Lions’ Club, having served three times as president, and recently received the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award. In Bluffton, he served as Bluffton United Fund chairman, Mennonite Memorial Home Fund Drive treasurer, Bluffton Family Recreation Board president and Bluffton Child Development Board’s director of finance.
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Andy Nowlin graduated from Bluffton in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in recreation management. Nowlin was an outstanding football player offensively as well as a leader on the field. He was a four-year letter winner and earned all-district honors his senior year. He held the NCAA Division III record for longest reception (99 yards) and is at or near the top of the Bluffton record book in numerous offensive categories.
Nowlin is director of recruitment and personnel service for Starr Commonwealth. He has been an active member of the Van Wert, Ohio, American Legion and on the board of directors of Upward Bound and the YMCA Central Ohio Eldon W. Ward Branch, which he has also served as vice-chair. In addition, Nowlin has been active in the Van Wert Optimist Club; tutoring; and the men’s ministry at his church.
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The late Aser Nurmi, also known as “Paavo” or “Ace,” was born in Finland and came to the United States when he was about 7 years old. He graduated from Painesville Harvey High School in 1934.
Nurmi was a four-year basketball letterman who played on two of Bluffton’s best teams prior to World War II. The 1934-35 team was 11-5, while the 1935-36 team, with a 12-4 record, matched Bluffton’s all-time best winning percentage and was co-champion of the Northwest Ohio Conference.
The Cleveland Pressonce called Nurmi “inch-for-inch the best player to appear on the Western Reserve court.” The former Bluf fton captain recalled his greatest thrill as “racing down the court and throwing in a hook shot from the corner at the last second that gave the Beavers a one-point win over previously undefeated Defiance.”
Nurmi played a few years of semi-pro basketball. He later served on a variety of community and professional boards.
Following his graduation in 1939 with a physical science major, Nurmi held various management positions with Industrial Rayon Corp. until 1972, when he joined R.W. Sidley Inc. as a vice president and director. He retired as company vice president in 1984 but remained on the board. Nurmi died in 2001.
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The late James M. Oliver was a 1954 Bluffton graduate, who passed away in 1998. Oliver was an outstanding football player on both sides of the ball. He earned all-conference honors several times and was a four-year letterwinner. He was also a member of the track team and competed in two events, discus and shot put.  After attending Bluffton, he completed his compulsory military service as a paratrooper and then continued his higher education at The Adelphi College, obtaining a master’s degree in social work. Most of his professional career was spent with human service organizations. Prior to his death, he was on the teaching faculty of Youngstown State University’s sociology department, working closely with the urban studies program.
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