Count your blessings for your families. I received word several weeks ago that my son-in-law, Les Roos, was going to be inducted into the Temple University Sports Hall of Fame. I had never been to Philadelphia, all their boys and Les's brother Ken and his wife Pam were also going to be there. This seemed like a very good reason for me to join everyone. A side note - I also decided I would just go ahead and use my airline miles before I lost them. This is how you get to fly places at horribly inconvenient times! I got to go in a day early (arriving around 12 Midnight) and upon departure, I got to rise at 3:30 am in order to get back to Denver at 10:30 am.
Pennsylvania is a beautiful state with huge trees and lots of green, green, green. I now know why, it rains in the northeast of the United States. It rains a lot. And, it did the whole three days I was there. I had planned to visit some of the historic sites in Philadelphia but since my water wings were not available, I just watched T.V. and read a book and napped. Every now and then people from Colorado need to go visit other states that do not enjoy our climate. It sure makes you appreciate what we enjoy here.
Everyone eventually arrived on Friday and we all got up to date on schools, the schedule for the induction and lots of hugs. On Saturday we proceeded to the Philadelphia Eagles Football Stadium. The school provided a continental breakfast for all the inductees and families. It was really something to see these athelets from all over the country standing and being recognized for their achievements. They had a woman who played LaCrosse, a man who was a gymnist, the 1951 and 1953 soccer teams and Les Roos for his time playing baseball for Temple. The soccer teams were 8 to 1 and 9 to 0 respectfully. These gentleman were in their 70's and great fun to visit with.
Les set records in baseball in 1968 that still stand today. His coach form that time, Skip, attended also (he's now 81!). Someone asked Skip who was the best baseball player he ever coached and he stated, "Les Roos". Les went on to sign with Houston and their minor league system and later also played with the Kansas City Royals. There came a time when he realized he wasn't having as much fun traveling and playing baseball so he went back to school, received his law degree and moved to Denver. This past April he was listed in the magazine 5280 as one of Denver's top 100 attorneys. He is a great guy and I am very proud to claim him as one of my own.
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Jacqui Jeffress
Denver and Points North REALTOR®
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