In 1960 he started working at Mound City bank. They sponsored softball for many years. In 1963 he was drafted & played on the Ft Lewis, WA team. Over the years as a pitcher, Dave racked up 368 wins! Dave said one highlight of his career was playing & beating Eddie Feighner - "The King & his Court" twice in Platteville.

In 1983, Jim McIntire asked him to coach HS softball. He said as long as he got "yes" from 2 places, Mary Lou & the bank. Well, for 25 years, Mary Lou said yes. She coached with him and over the years they had great success with winning about 60% of the games. For him there was a lot of time involved - almost a second career.

Dave said that he has had a lot of fun times and many honors. He helped start the WI State Fastpitch Softball Coaches Assn. He was the President and started many things. He & Mary Lou were inducted into the initial class of the Coaches’ Hall of Fame.

He is spending time helping Heather Townsend with the UW-P softball team and watching his son Greg rack up wins at Winona St. They are a nationally ranked team this year. Last year they went 33 - 8. When his son was a coach of the Monroe HS softball team, he got to coach against him. Dave told a story about how during one of these games Greg argued with the umpire and "Mom" escorted him back to his dugout.

Thanks for the wonderful speech!

UPCOMING EVENTS

UPCOMING SPEAKERS

The club approved establishing a second club here in Platteville. The group decided to change the meeting times to the 2nd and 4th Wednesday at Noon at the Take 2 Restaurant. Gary is planning to hold the next meeting at Chicago’s Best on May 13.

Howard Crofoot was the lucky one selected. He drew the 10 of Hearts and won $2! Good luck to next week’s winner.

The next Board Meeting is Thursday May 14th at 7 AM at Badger Brothers. Look for the Minutes for the March & April meetings on the web soon!

Milt Rewey took charge of this effort. Duane Borgen, Holly Cook, Ernie Thalmann, Maxine Lane & Angela Udelhofen were on the committee. Milt said this year was a challenge with 6 perfect 4.0 GPA students. They sent 5 names to the school for consideration for the 2 scholarships.

The Bike Rodeo was scheduled to coincide with a Safe Routes to School presentation on April 25. Since the Rooster call was not published in a timely fashion, we know that the Rodeo is rescheduled for May 16 at Legion Field.

The SWIS Conference is in the Kalahari at WI Dells on May 2. They will hold the District Oratorical Contest. Unfortunately, none of the Platteville students went forward to District.