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The Red and Black/Between the Hedges • Friday, September 29, 1989 • S
Parking lot revenue creates scholarship monies
By DEREK SMITH
Sports Writer
At 79 years old, Louise Cameron
spends her gameday Saturdays
parking cars.
Monday through Friday, Cam
eron serves as treasurer of the
Inter-Community Council of the
Athens Housing Authority and as
chairperson of the Resident’s
Council Scholarship Committee.
But on Saturdays, she is the chief
car parker and fund raiser.
The revenue that Cameron col
lects from her parking patrons is
used to support the council’s big
gest fund raising projects of the
year. The $5 that is paid for
parking helps the public housing
residents by establishing a schol
arship fund, food bank, and clothes
closet.
In the last two years of raising
money through parking revenues,
Cameron has already awarded
three scholarships to residents of
the Athens Housing Authority pro
jects.
Rus-.y Hammond of the Park-
view Homes was awarded a grant
to study electronic: at Athens
Tech. The Residents’ Cout.cil schol
arship of $150 helped him pur
chase items for his classes. “He had
the funds for his tuition, but he
needed the money for his tools,”
Cameron said.
Judy Lawrence, a mother of five
and a resident of the Nellie B Pro
ject, was another recipient of Cam
eron’s fund raising efforts.
Lawrence was awarded $300 to
cover the costs of books and tuition
for her last quarter of studies at
Athens Tech
“She is working at the Univer
sity now," Cameron said.
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USC’s Green fired up
to show he’s the best
Tailback hopes to tear up Georgia
defense and earn place in records
By Robert McDonald
Sports Writer
When University of South Caro
lina tailback Harold Green was
growing up, he really got around.
As the son of a career Air Force
man, Green called Japan, the Phil-
lipines and Panama home before
his family settled down in j
Charleston, S.C., in 1982.
These days, Green gets around
pretty well on the football field as
the Gamecock’s top runner. The 6-
2, 218-pounder needs only 104
yards against Georgia on Saturday
to move into the fourth spot on
Carolina’s career rushing list just
ahead of Johnnie Wright, who
gained 2,589 yards from 1977-81.
With three 100-plus yards
rushing efforts in four games this
season, Green is capable of the ef
fort, but hell have to face a Bulldog
defense that was particularly
tough against run-strong Missis
sippi State in their last game.
‘Georgia is a really tough phys
ical game," Green said. They’ve
got good linebackers ard real good
team speed on defense."
Green was a prep all-American
out of Stratford High in
Charleston, but injuries and
playing in a passing offense have
prevented him from pceting tre
mendous rushing stats in college.
A nagging ankle irgury flagged
Green’s bid for a banner season
last year as he gained only 606
yards in Carolina’s somewhat dis
appointing 8-4 campaign.
“Coming into the season healthy
meant a lot to me,” he said. “1 feel
pretty good. The ankle feels
strong."
Green said that being injured
last year taught him patience.
“1 was banging my head into the
wall (with not playing much) when
I finally realized that 1 have to take
things in stride in this world," he
said. *
Like the rest of USCs returning
players, Green is having to adjust
to a new head coach in Sparky
Woods. Woods, who coached at Ap
palachian State last year, replaced
Joe Morrison who died of a heart
attack in the off-season.
“Coach Woods has done well ad
justing to what’s going wrong and
right with the offense and he’s
helped us a lot," Green said.
Green said he isn’t one much for
comparisons, though many who
follow South Carolina football
liken him to former Gamecock
Heisman Trophy winner George
Rogers.
Harold Green: USC tailback
“We’re friends though still to
this day I haven’t seen film of him
(Rogers) running," Green said. “He
teases me about breaking his TD
record.”
Green needs throe scores to
break Rogers’ school-best mark of
33.
Green describes himself as an
instinct runner who looks for the
big play. In USC’s last effort, a 21-
10 win over Georgia Tech, Green
picked up 139 yards and scored a
touchdown. The three-year let-
terman is also a threat as a re
ceiver. His 92 career catches rank
fourth best in Carolina history.
Four games into this 1989 col
lege football season, Green is
ranked one of the nation’s top 20
ground-gainers. Though it is early,
the Gamecock coaching staff be
lieves that if Green stays healthy,
he will have a fine season and will
be a top pro prospect.
Despite his talent and accom
plishments, Green is a soft-spoken
player who sees the revenge factor
of this week's Georgia game as
something cooked up mostly by the
fans.
"1 don’t take too much interest in
mouthing off," he said. "I leave that
to the other players. Just put the
ball in my hands and I’ll let that
speak for itself."
As a senior, Green plays his final
game against the Bulldogs on Sat
urday, a finish he said he hopes
will be a memorable one.
“I think I’m ready," he said. “It’s
my last chance to go up there (to
Sanford Stadium) and 1 really
want to do well."
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