Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Club Member John LeBar, who will be talking about recent developments with college football and basketball. LeBar has been a teacher/coach at 3 universities, teaching and coaching at Rice University for 2 years. the University of Missouri in Kansas City for 4 years, and then at Duke University for 47 years as a tenured faculty. When he stopped coaching at Duke, he became the Director of Undergraduate Studies for his department and a full-time teacher.
LeBar has played, taught and/or coached many sports, including Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, Swimming, Squash, Racquetball, Handball, Fencing and Tennis.
LeBar has published 4 books: #1- Learning Tennis Together, # 2- dissertation: An ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF FACTORS IN THE ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS OF SELECTED DUKE UNVERSITY GRADUATES OF 1959-1960-1961, #3-Marching Toward Madness, and #4- COLLEGE SPORTS ON THE BRINK OF DISASTER, which was published last year.
John was born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas. He graduated from Wyandotte High School, then received a BS degree from Kansas State college in Pittsburg, Kansas. He received a MS degree from Kansas State Teachers in Emporia, Kansas, and received his Ed.D from Duke University.
Mark Your Calendar
All Meetings at Croasdaile Country Club
7/19/23 – Brian Kalbas, Head Women’s Tennis Coach, UNC
8/2/23 – Andrew Carter, Reporter, News & Observer