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Fran Welch and Bill Hargiss
Honored
...cited for meritorious service
Topeka Capital, May 1970
EMPORIA (Special) — Two famed coaches
will be among four outstanding alumni of Kansas State Teachers College here to be
honored this week for meritorious service to the college.
The four are Homer W. "Bill" Hargiss, a 1909 graduate;
Francis G. "Fran" Welch, a 1918 graduate; Margaret Lowe Burke, a 1931 graduate,
and Arthur E. Grope, a 1927 graduate.
Hargiss will receive a Distinguished Alumnus Award Thursday
night, at a dinner in his honor. The other three will receive similar certificates
at a luncheon Friday during Alumni Day.
An outstanding KSTC athlete, Hargiss later coached at College
of Emporia and Oregon State University and served for many years as coach and director
of KSTC Physical Education Dept., leaving to become head football
coach at the University of Kansas.
Welch, a standout football player in school, served there
for 24 years as football coach and remained head of the track squad until 1965,
five years after retiring as director of athletics. He coached several U.S. Olympic
teams and was named to the NAIA Track and Field Hall of Fame.
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