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What"s up everybody look like we are going to have some fun its going to be nice to see everyone.]]>eboydhttp://altgeldgardens.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18210Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:45:34 +0100
Let's plan something real soon.........

Elizabeth Boyd]]>ladystohttp://altgeldgardens.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18110Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:48:31 +0100was there any replies ???to my last statement, question for oldtimers 1940 forward are there any more croxtons out there to answer my previous questions. any information on eugene croxton his relatives, or childred. very appreciated thank you]]>terreljehttp://altgeldgardens.forumco.com/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=172&REPLY_ID=20510Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:05:57 +0100ladystohttp://altgeldgardens.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=18010Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:07:27 +0100 THE NAME IS EUGENE CROCSTON, CROCTON OR KOCSTON, KOCKSTON ??? I HEARD HE WAS A ONLY CHILD IN THE GARDENS BACK IN THE 1950'S HE BE FRIENDED MY MOM MILDRED STOKES AND ABOUT FOUR OTHERS . I ALSO HEARD HIS FAMILY RAN A RESTURANT UPTOP AT THE STORE YEARS AGO, HE ALSO WORKED DOWNTOWN FOR CHANNEL 7 AS A EXECUTIVE LIMO DRIVER. I SPOKE WITH HIS FRIEND CLY'S/SLY'S LIVERY CAB SERVICE IN 2007-08 THANK YOU SLY.IF ANYONE HAVE PICTURES OR ANY INFORMATION TO SHARE PLEASE EMAIL ME GIB05SON@AOL.COM THANK YOU ARLENE GIBSON AKA LADYSTO..]]>chiquitahttp://altgeldgardens.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17910Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:30:17 +0100
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LARRY HAWKINS | 1931-2009: Coach, educator aided thousands of youths
Larry Hawkins, Carver High School Teacher, Coach and Friend passed away on January 30th.

Date of Service: Saturday, February 7, 2009
Location: Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 5850 South Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, Illinois at 10:00 a.m.

Repast: Memorial Service Only

Loisteen will be posting more information shortly.



LARRY HAWKINS | 1931-2009: Coach, educator aided thousands of youths

http://yourseason.suntimes.com/boys_basketball/1407032,013009-larry-hawkins-obituary.article


Larry Hawkins discovered Cazzie Russell in a gym class and groomed him into one of the greatest basketball players ever produced in Chicago. But friends and colleagues think Hawkins’ legacy was making an impact on thousands of young lives and preaching that athletics are an important part of education.

Hawkins coached Carver High School to second place in the 1962 state tournament and to the state championship in 1963 before becoming the director of the University of Chicago’s Office of Special Programs and the founder of the Institute for Education and Athletics. He died Friday at 77 after a long illness.

‘‘He taught me to play the game from the floor up,’’ said Russell, who was the college player of the year at Michigan in 1966, played in the NBA for 12 seasons and now is the coach at Savannah (Ga.) College of Art and Design. ‘‘He was a disciplinarian. If you didn’t go to class, you didn’t play for him. He didn’t want instructors to think you were a jock. He taught me foundation, work ethic, priorities, that there are no shortcuts to success.’’

Hawkins grew up on the South Side, near 30th and Prairie. His family was poor and on welfare. His father died when he was 11. He attended Phillips High School, Wilson Junior College and George Williams College. He sold newspapers, shined shoes and worked as a stock boy to make money.

He played with the old Brown Bombers, a spinoff of Abe Saperstein’s Harlem Globetrotters, under the name Hawk Washington. During barnstorming trips in the South, he saw people who needed help and vowed to teach kids how to cope with discrimination. Later, while coaching at Carver, he discovered how kids could use sports to achieve a better life.

‘‘I saw clearly what happened around sports, how it energized the school, kids, parents and the whole community,’’ Hawkins said. ‘‘You had to get the attention of hard-to-reach kids so you could counsel them. You have to start with kids where they are so you can understand where you want to take them.’’

In 40 years as an educator, through the Office of Special Programs, the IAE and Big Buddies Youth Services Inc., Hawkins and his staff annually taught, tutored and counseled hundreds of African-American youngsters.

Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas once asked Hawkins to become the Public League’s sports supervisor. He declined.

‘I’ve got kids I have to look after, kids who need me,’’ Hawkins said.
Ken Maxey, one of the leaders of Carver’s 1963 championship team, said Hawkins was ahead of his time in emphasizing academics to athletes and talking about the importance of athletics in the educational process.

If you counted up the number of people he impacted and directed to college, there would be more than anyone else in Chicago — and there were more non-athletes than athletes,’’ Maxey said. ‘‘He sent kids to black colleges but also to schools such as Illinois, Michigan, Harvard, Yale and Cornell.’’

Maxey, now a career counselor at Crenshaw High School in Los Angeles, said Hawkins taught more than basketball.

He taught us a way to deal with the cruel world at that time, when we were coming out of Altgeld Gardens,’’ Maxey said. ‘‘He taught us a sense of striving for excellence, to put your heart into whatever you did.’’

]]>keeblerjghttp://altgeldgardens.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17710Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:39:49 +0100chiquitahttp://altgeldgardens.forumco.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17610Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:26:35 +010013247 S. Langley on the corner of the block, My cousins name were watts. Any pictures will be great.

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