Paradise High School Class of 1963

We received this from

Vada (Dwinelle) Krumwiede

Class of 1958

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"We bought a book, "Club 50 - 50 Point Single Game Scorers" this morning from Steven Michael Farney, the one who wrote the book about Class BB Basketball that mentioned Larry Hoopes and Ben Howe and a guy I worked with at the State. This book was a book signing by Nino Samuels, a Salina High School basketball standout who played a year a KU and then played for Ken Cochran and Marymount basketball in Salina. Lynn played basketball at the old "Y" where Nino played too, and we saw him play at Central. Lynn saw one game at KU before he transferred to Marymount. He was quite a player.

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Now, for what I want to say . . .

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There is also a section in the back of the book that writes about the Notables (The 40-49 Club) in which Mr. Farney mentions players who scored 40-49 points in a basketball game. He sent letters to over 350 schools in Kansas to obtain information and heard from only eight.

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He mentions Rod Heitschmidt who scored 43 points against Waldo on Jan 29, 1963. Mr. Farney wanted to know of any misspellings of stats so I sent him a correction on Rod's last name already. There was an "r" instead of an "i".

This is the third book we have bought that Mr. Farney wrote. He is keeping history alive in his writings. One doesn't have to be from large metropolitan areas to become noteworthy. One just has to do well and be outstanding --be the best they can be at what they're doing.

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I have Roger Heitschmidt's e-mail in my PHS directory but not Rod's, and I think they may be two different people. Please forward this to Rod with my congratulations to him being mentioned in the book, Club 50.

Mr. Farney has a web site: http://www.stevenmfarney.com/ and you can read about the Wilson native. He is on-going in writing books about sports.

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Vada (Dwinelle) Krumwiede

Class of 1958 at PHS"

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← Steven Farney

Steven was born and raised near Wilson, KS, and was a three-year basketball letter man for the Wilson Dragons.
As of 2008, he lives in McPherson, KS

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A note from Onnalee . . . .

Thank You Vada for this information.

We have a signed copy of Steven's book "Title Towns" which he signed 9/15/08.

Steven had enclosed a note . . .

"I need your help! I am looking for the first name of _______ Hertschmidt, a great basketball player for Paradise in 1963. Do you know this person or do your readers? If so, please let me know. It is for my next book.

Best Wishes"

(Unreadable signature.) Ha!

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Thanks to our Paradise Reunion Directory, I found Rodney Heitschmidt's (class of 1963) name and address and sent both to Steven.

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It is great to hear that he has another book in print.

Congratulations, Steven Farney!