Bill Sutherland:  

Hello all you tigers and tigresses. It's been a while, hasn't it? It seems like a lifetime since graduation and sadly, for some it has been. Don Sawicki and Alan Rawlyk immediately come to mind – both teammates in football and baseball. Alan was an excellent catcher in baseball and a hard-running fullback in football. When you needed a few tough yards, it was Alan with his low centre of gravity and high charging knees that could always get them. And Don was a sure-handed end in football, a solid defenseman in hockey, and the hardest throwing pitcher of his era, bar none. Both were tough – Westfort tough. May they rest in peace. I’m happy to say that I’m still here although I have lost some of the spring in my step. As I was approaching my 48th birthday, I went out for my normal run and mysteriously fell down – over and over again. It signaled the end of my running days and a near brush with joining my teammates, not once but twice. I wrote a book about it, a critically acclaimed memoire covering 8 years of my life – from the time that I ran my 5th and final marathon in October of 1996 to a point where I could no longer walk at all. Then, working my way back to walking with a walker, then crutches, then to a cane and then finally to walking free of all walking aids, something I call in the book “walking with no hands” in May of 2004. The b...Expand for more