Schumann Family Newspaper Clippings

September 17, 2023 Daddy is still in touch with Roland Martens and his wife, and had learned from Mrs. Martens that Roland is beginning to experience Altzheimers. Daddy passed this article along to them, as he thought it might bring back some happy memories for him.  Daddy said that in 1947 they didn't even have a gym. The Naval Air Station that had operated at Vero during the war had a building they were no longer using, and the team used that. (It is possible that the whole Naval Air Station had shut down, my notes aren't clear on that.   

 

September 24, 2023 Daddy said that he had forgotten that they had won this tournament, and that he had to look at the names to recognize some of them. He remained friends with Jimmy Buckingham, Harry (Bump) Holman, Jim Thompson, John Jewett, Dale Talbert, and George Loy for life, and over life --- they changed.