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Respect
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There is one job on the market that I
Would never accept payment for. The
job is too insecure and seems to be too
pressurized for me.
; It doesn’t matter how good of a job
you do, there is always someone that
isn’t satisfied. You don’t have one em
ployer or a company employer; you
hhve over 1,000 employers each con
tributing indirectly to your salary.
{The job you do is really unseen. Your
j?b rests on the performance of others,
so in fact you are a supervisor of sorts.
Ijyou superivse the wrong way at a key
t|me (and there are many key times)
yjju are scrutinized forever. If you
make the right move at the key time,
then you don’t get any credit your su-
I perviseesgetmostof it.
But, generally you can get support
any time you need it. There is always
someone with an open ear, an open
mind or even an open wallet to take you
out to lunch. But, it always seems to
work out that you “owe” them some
kind of favor in return.
Your actual job span is covered in
about three months and the other nine
months you are always questioned as to
what you are doing while “on the job”.
It seems that there is always someone
that devotes their time to keeping up
with what you’re doing.
No sir, I might take this job as a
hobby, but I’d never except any pay
ment for it. Those that do except pay
ment for it, don’t get slandered by me
they get sympathy, encouragement
and respect.
I'm talking about coaches, whether
they are high school, collegiate or pro
fessional. It takes a strong individual to
be a coach.
I’fi be the first to admit that there are
some people in the coaching business,
who should be be dojng something with
the responsibility of a concrete, bjpck
cleaner.
You all know Vince Dooley, that
famed University of Georgia Bulldog
coach from Auburn who has only had
one losing season in Athens. In 1979
Vince’s ‘Dogs lost their first four
games of the season and miraculously
finished with a winning season.
After those first four losses, Vince
couldn’t have run for dogcatcher and
won in Athens. IN FACT, there were
even RUMORS that Vince couldn’t han
dle the job anymore.
Then there was the Pepper Rodgers
case. You remember Pepper, the infa
mous Georgia Tech football coach who
was the alumni’s “favorite son”. Pep
per is no longer coaching at Tech, be
cause he didn’t win over four or five
games a season. Bill Curry’s only won
one game and tied a big one.
How about the powerful Woody
Hayes. Do your remember when
Woody thought he was in the ring with
Sugar Ray during that game with
Clemson. On national television one of
the most respected and winning
coaches in football history slugged an
opposing team’s player as he ran by
him. Granted, Woody should have hit
the road, but isn’t it a shame that the
pressure is so great.
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Often times high school coaches are
the easiest jobs to fill. A coach can be
at a school for a season and then gone
the next.
I guess one of the greatest coaches in
the game of football was exactly right.
He really said it to his players but we
can apply it to coaching and the unpre
dictable reactions of fans.
Vince Lombardi said it right, “Win
ning is everything.” I think that’s a fit
ting remark.
His View’s From New Angle Now
By SCOTT VAUGHAN
Sports Writer
“When you walk in that gymnasium,
you can feel that basketball atmo
sphere,” Cecil Castleberry, a Georgia
High School Athletic Association offi
cial from Forsyth County, said.
Castleberry, a 1975 graduate from
Forsyth County High School, played
football, basketball and baseball while
in school. He is now employed in a fam
ily construction business and officiat
ing is his “hobby.”
“You certainly can’t do this for the
money," Castleberry said. “You have
o love it and love the sports and I do
ovethem.”
Castleberry played four years on the
ligh school’s varsity basketball team.
'I never believed that I would be offi
ciating one day. You get so mad at the
wfs and now I can see it from a whole
Local Wrestlers See
Building Year Ahead
The Forsyth County Bulldogs wres
tling team will open its third year of
grappling in what coach Bob Penland
calls a “building year" for the wres
tlers.
Penland, who is the Bulldogs’ foot
ball defensive coordinator, came to
Forsyth County from Berkmar High
School where he started and coached
the wrestling team there.
“The first year we wrestled at Berk
mar we finished 6-3 and in the last
seven years they’ve only lost one
meet,” Penland said. “They started
out with about 17 guys and now they
have about 60. They had about eight
fans at the meets and now they sell out
the gymnasium.
“Wrestling is a difficult sport. In my
opinion, swimming and wrestling are
the two hardest sports to play,” Pen-,
land said. “You must rely on individual
performance, without assistance from
anyone else, to help the team win. In
football you can call for help in a bad
There Are Many Different
Varieties, Tastes Of Fish
Ever hear of a fish with four eyes?
The anableps, a small fish of tropical
America, has eyes which project above
and below the water’s surface.
Two eyes out of the water have dis
tance vision, while the two below the
surface see under water.
Fish are amazing creatures. Differ
ent species possess physical traits
which enable them to fill every possible
niche from the deepest ocean to the
Lakers ’ Sophomores Back
The Gainesville Junior College
Lakers, finishing 20-8 in 1979-80, will
have five returning sophomores to
their 1980-81 team.
“The team has worked extremely
hard and I hope they realize the hard
work that lies ahead. We have begun to ,
look like a team in recent practices but
we have a long way to go before we will
Cheerleading Captains
The Forsyth County High School varatty basketball cheerleaders will have a lot of
yelling to do this season, and are already preparing for the first game, which will
be Friday night The cheerleaders wIU be led by Dee Copelan, front, and Deborah
Mills, who were selected captains of this year’s squad. See more about the basket
ball season in a special section in this week’s issue of The News.
different angle. I can really appreciate
those guys sitting over there on the
bench.”
Castleberry has been officiating for
two years and this will be his third on
the road to a five-year accreditation
term. Officials must be certified
through the association’s office and the
certification takes five years.
According to Castleberry, “you have
to attend four or five clinics for each
sport and take two tests each year. You
take part one of the test before the sea
son starts and the second part during
the season.” About 80 percent of the of
ficials become certified within the pro
gram.
After an official is certified he is
exempt from having to be certified
again. Castleberry is on the road to be
coming certified in football, basketball
and baseball. He also Is working on
softball. It costs $lO dues for each sport
situation, but in wrestling you are all
alone out there.”
The wrestling team will hold meets
through mid-February. There are four
areas in the state, unlike football, with
classifications in each area. Three of
the areas are around Atlanta. There
are 16 to 20 teams in each area.
The Bulldogs practice every day of
the week at the old gymnasium. Meets
will take place on Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday afternoons.
“We start our practice with a light
workout at the fieldhouse and then we
run over to the old gymnasium,” Pen
land said. “We run about three to four
miles each day and then pratice for
about two hours.”
The Bulldogs will see North and
South Gwinnett, Norcross, Crestwood,
Habersham Central and Dawson
County on their schedule.
In the meet individual matches are
counted towards the final team total.
To compete in the match there must be
one wrestler in each of the 14 weight di
surface of the water.
More than 17,000 species of fish exist
in the world. The variety of their physi
cal characteristics is astounding.
While most of these are not species
which the average angler will encoun
ter, some possess such unusual fea
tures that officials feel they are of
interest to nature enthusiasts.
In South America, there’s a catfish
be ready to play this schedule,” head
coach Mike Nordholz said.
Among the returning sophomores are
Billy Joe Wright, a 6’2” guard, Lonnie
Conner, a 6’2” forward and Doug Ma
haffey, a 6’4” forward all from Dacula.
Dwayne Dorsey, a 6’4” forward returns
from Avondale High School, along with
6’8 t? guard Geofge McKinney.
and $5 for a rule book. Other expenses
include the uniforms and umpiring
equipment for baseball.
The state association has a main
headquarters and then branch associa
tions throughout the state that issue the
dates to officials. “They usually call us
about two days before the game. I av
erage one football game a week and all
the b-team I want. During basketball
and baseball, I might do two or three
games each week,” Castleberry said.
“I look back on the difference in
playing and offiating and the big differ
ence is the level of competitiveness,”
Castleberry said. “They are a lot more
competitive now. Teams are more
well-balanced with not as many teams
relying on one important player.”
“teams now play more as a team
and I think that this is a major advan
tage,” Castleberry said.
visions or the match is forfeited. A for
feit hurts the final score. The individual
wins go towards the team’s points.
The scoring is: take-downs, two
points; escapes, one point; near pins,
two to three points; pin, six points; and
there are several penalty points.
If a win is by eight or 10 points the
team gets five points; six to eight point
wins get the team four points. A win is
worth three points and a draw, two
points.
The meet last for three, two minute
periods.
“I remember a meet once where we
had 14 weight divisions and 14 matches
and won the whole meet in 30 minutes.
We were pretty good that year,” Pen
land said smiling. “We’re looking to
build an excellent program here.”
Surprisingly, only about one-half of
the football team performs on the 16-
man wrestling team. “Anyone can
wrestle successfully,” Penland said.
“The most non-aggressive person on
campus can do very well. ”
that looks like a tank.
This fish, which often weighs 100
pounds, has plate armor so tough that
native fishermen can’t skin the crea
ture to eat it.
Their solution is to toss the entire fish
into a fire, then break open the shell
and scoop out the cooked meat.
If you think all strange fish live else
hwere, guess again.
Cavefish, with five species living east
of the Rocky Mountains, have external
sense organs over most of their bodies,
but are totally blind after losing their
eyes when young.
Then, there are fish that walk, fish
that climb trees, even fish that kiss on
the lips and you can’t pull them apart.
The world of fishes is indeed strange.
The fish that come from Lake Lanier
are probably known best by those who
make regular trips, as fish that are
good to eat and fun to catch.
The Body And Mind Doesn’t
Have Instant Development
BY DR. JOHN EARL RABER
You have instant coffee, instant tea,
instant on and off appliances, instant
mashed potatoes and biscuits. We have
been beset by instant everything. With
few exceptions we expect and want it
now.
Two things which defy this instant
development and require a great deal
of toil to bring to perfection are the hu
man mind and body. The human body
1 is an intricate series of systems that re
quire constant use. Unlike machinery
that wears out from use, the body
wears out when it is not used.
If the human body does not move, it
starts to degenerate and atrophy sets
in. In fact, if there is any more than two
days between an exercise session, a de
training effect starts to occur. In other
words, if you work out on a Monday and
don’t work out again until Thursday the
body gradually degenerates to a worse
physical and mental state.
The real problem is that movement
or exercise of any form cannot be
stored. If you decide to run an extra
mile today with the intention of taking
off more than two days before you
exercise again, then you are headed for
trouble.
Perhaps, the worst of the on again,
off again movement beings is the week
end warrior who only moves on the
weekend and loafs or lays around the
rest of the week. The body systems re-
“Basketball is probably the hardest
sport to officiate because it is moving
constantly. In football, each referee
has his own section of the field to watch
and in baseball there are ‘slow’ mo
ments. In basketball you keep mov
ing,” Castleberry said.
a But doesn’t a close game get you ner
vous? “The closer the game the better.
Officiating is a lot like playing. You
have to love what you’re doing and
have confidence in what you’re doing is
the best thing to do. The closer the
game the more alert you have to be and
being alert is what makes an official
good,” Castleberry said.
“It takes a lot to get up into college
and professional officiating and the pay
is a lot better,” Castleberry, who works
weekends for Cumming’s WHNE, said.
“Professional football officials get
about sftrt per game.”
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19,1960-
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Girls’ Captains
Paula Nix, left, and Tracy l Gossett will lead the Forsyth County Lady
Bulldogs for the 1980-81 season. Both girls are senior members of the var
sity squad.
Forsyth County To Open
Basketball Season Friday
The Forsyth County Bulldogs and
Lady Bulldogs will open their 1980-81
season Friday night when the Milton
Eagles travel to Forsyth County for
opener. The girls tipoff at 7 p.m. and
the boys follow at 8:30.
“Milton has a good basketball tradi
tion,” head Bulldog coach Phil Mead
ows said. "They have an excellent girls
team and should prove to be a good op
ponent for Friday night. They will be a
test for us.”
Meadows is beginning his fifth year
act negatively to this type of abuse and
naturally produce negative results.
This all being true, you say, then
there is no sense even starting to exer
cise. This latter decision, if made,
could be a deadly one. The human body
is a movement machine. Movement is
symbolic of health, vitality, and a feel
ing of wellness. Lack of movement is
'indicative of disease, infirmity and
even death.
Saints Ready
For Big Year
The North Georgia College Saints
will be attempting to bounce back from
their first losing season in 10 years and
the first ever in veteran coach Bill
Ensley’s 23-year career.
With the return of four starters,
which includes All District performer
Ricky Glasper, and one of the best re
cruiting campaigns in recent years the
Saints are expected to be a vastly im
proved club.
In addition to Glasper, who averaged
17.3 points per game last year, the
Saints return center Roger Wilmont
who led the team in rebounds with a 7.8
Between the time Castleberry played
basketball for the Forsyth County Bull
dogs and when he began officiating
games the dunk rule was made avail
able to high school teams. Before, the
dunk was considered a technical foul. ‘
“I think that the dunk is a definite asset
to the game because it gets folks ex
cited and when you get people excited
in a closed gymnasium anything can
happen and rarely does a home team
lose.”
But, Castleberry can’t officiate any
of his alma mater’s athletic events due
to a state officating rule that will not al
low officials to call their home team’s
games. “I like the rule," Castleberry
■aid. “It relieves a lot of pressure and
avoids a lot of problems."
Athletically-minded and staying
right in the middle of things is this for
mer Forsyth County Bulldog.
as coach of the Bulldogs and third with
the Lady Bulldogs. He assumed the
role of dual-coach in 1978. He will be as
sisted by coaches Raleigh Pastrick and
Betty Kochakian.
The Bulldogs finished as the region 8-
AAAA champs in 1979-80 and posted a
record of 24-3.
The Lady Bulldogs were runner-ups
in the 8-AAAA region and had a record
of 14-14. Both varsity teams won berths
to the state championships last year.
With movement comes the desire to
be more creative along with a greater
feeling of self confidence leading to a
much more enjoyable life style.
Movement gets your motor running,
and keeps it that way.
Movement in any form is a life-long
commitment. A commitment which
you must make if you are to grow in
both wisdom and strength.
average. The Saints lost point guard Al
lan Ross but return his counterpart,
Johnny Porter, who started every con
test last season. Also returning is se
nior team captain David Lavender who
an all-around performer at both guard
and forward position lastyear.
The Saints are preparing for their
toughest schedule ever as they play a
nine game pre-Christmas schedule that
includes three tournaments, and three
regular season games, two of which
will be District 25 games against Flag
ler College of St. Augustine, FI.
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CECIL CASTLEBERRY
...former Bulldog player offictat#*
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