William Rost:
CLASS OF 1968
Wantagh High SchoolClass of 1968
Wantagh, NY
Indiana UniversityClass of 1972
Bloomington, IN
William's Story
It has been a long and interesting trip since WHS but have decided on the same story previously entered but briefer... I do remember Wantagh fondly and the terrific times growing up with great people. The soccer team and the track team adventures and HS friends....loved my classmates,first and second loves of my life, the teachers, Jones Beach, soccer for Joe Levorcheck and with Evans, Gilmore, Degan(s), Mooney, Olson, Bellis, Eich...track for Mike Byrnes and with Tumey, Holbrook, Cressi, LaMoglia, Bellis, Gers, Donato, Sherinski, Konitzer, Long, Kelly...all remembered, not forgotten; the great thing about memories - it's inexpensive to travel down memory lane!
Left in WHS '68 to get an education (BA & MS)and play soccer at Indiana University; loved the campus, friends, education and playing soccer for the best program in the US (still) and for the premier college coach in the US (7 National Championships); lucky enough to be captain, MVP, and East-West Senior team, played 'til I was 35 y.o. - D.C., Maryland, Indiana area;
Was asst. soccer coach at IU then college faculty and head soccer and ...Expand for more
swimming coach at Gettysburg College (PA), Wabash College (IN) and MacMurray College (IL);
Left coaching and teaching to become an administrator in college fundraising and alumni relations at Indiana U, College of William & Mary, Cheapeake General Hospitalm Briar Cliff Collegen, SUNY-Buffalo, Assistant Chancellor and President of the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Foundation, Marian University and Ripon College...these bones are getting tired, time for some new adventures;
Got married for the first time at the age of 52, to Karin, an elementary school teacher here in River Falls, WI;
Mom sold the house on 3445 Lufberry Ave, left Wantagh and moved to Wisconsin in 1979; she passed on here in River Falls in Jan 2008 at 94;
I retired May, 2012...time to try something new that isn't 60-70 hours a week!!!
Wife retired June 2015 after 35 years of elementary school teaching....winters working lift operations 35 hrs/week with Vail Resorts Inc. Afton Alps, MN!!!! Moving September '17 to home on a lake in MN with 4-5 months in AZ starting '18... time is shorter 4 us all so... gotta git er done now!
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