FAMILY, FARM WORK AND PLAY; BASKETBALL FOR LEGENDARY COACH TOM BLACKBURN'S DAYTON FLYERS; WINNING THE 1962 NIT

Born in 1941, Hal Schoen grew up on a small hardscrabble family farm located in an almost exclusively German-Catholic rural community, the oldest boy in a family of 13 children. His mother's siblings still spoke German to each other, even though their ancestors had lived in west-central Ohio for over one hundred years. No one in the family had attended college. Neither parent graduated from high school. At first the farm had no electricity and was operated with workhorses. The...