Bill Gent (left)
Enterprise High School
"Outstanding Athlete of the Year"
1937
"I always loved athletics, and I tried all of them while I attended high school. Football was probably my favorite, but I still participated in basketball, baseball, and track & field. In my senior year I was chosen the outstanding athlete of the year. This was the height of my glory, at least I thought it was.
"I had a football scholarship given to me by Oregon Stake College at Corvallis, Oregon and I attended my freshman year there. I never saw so many big men in my life as I did there. My, I was homesick, and there is only one cure for that and that is home. I went back the next year, 1939, and went the fall term, but I just didn't have the perseverance that was needed to stick it out. I have surely regretted this, although maybe this was my destiny."
Bid Gent
Personal History, written 1982
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