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TOPIC: TERMINALLY ILL — Dr. Robert Beitman, right at head of table, addresses Volunteer Chaplaincy Council of Burdette Tomiin Memorial Hospital on medical and ethical questions involved in treatment of the terminally ill. Dr. Beitman is an internist and gastroeaterologist and past president of County Chapter of American Cancer Society. At his right is doctor's wife, Gail, a social worker, who also participated.

From The Principal By Stanley Kotzen

| Principal, Lower Cape May Regional High School

Across the country and throughout the State of New Jersey, this is the time of year wb^n coaches and sportswriteffe are balloting to select a variety of Coach of the Year Awards. Hie ritual is repeated at the end the each sport's season. The problem A have always had with these awards is that they are usually given to coaches who win championships, and I think there are better criteria. I also think that the wrong people vote for these awards. FIRST, THE criteria: all of us know the profound impact that a coach can have on a young man or woman, and the stories are legion that list the significance of coaches as role models who

help young people discover their potential. So let's make certain that coaches of the year are the kind of people we want out children to emulate. Let's measure the way they see the game they coach and their role in that game. Let's check to make sure that coaches don't act in a manner that indicates the game is more important to them than it is to their players. LET'S ANALYZE coaches on how they perform when they win and when they lose to make sure that their charges have a clear understanding of the value of competition. Let's evaluate the manner in which coaches teach young men and women the fundamentals of sportsmanship as well as the fundamentals of the game. A won-lost record does not necessarily reflect these values. As for who should do the selection, I suggest that fellow coaches and sports writers are poor judges because all they see is a * sampling of performance and a host of box scores and league standings. IF WE ARE looking for excellence in leadership, then let's permit those people to vote who can measure performance on a daily basis. Let's give the vote to the last and lowest member on every squad and permit that youngster to evaluate his or her coach according to whether or not the weakest player is treated as if he/she had a genuine contribution to make to the team. It should be significant that the best coaches relate

positively to every member of their squads. LET'S ALSO enfranchise school administrators and teacher-colleagues. Shouldn't a "coach of the year" be an educator who understands the supplementary role that athletics plays in the total program of the school? And how can an outstanding coach be anything but an outstanding teacher? Let's also give the vote to parents who can best evaluate the subtle changes that coaches develop in their children. A "coach of the year" should be able to help a youngster develop confidence and focus on the values of sacrifice and determination. IF YOU BACK off from these criteria and balloteers because they must make judgments that are too subjective, then I would like you to consider changing the award to "winningest coach of the year". In my long career in * education, many years as a coach myself, I have seen some absolutely perfect examples of those golden moments ^when a school and community can take great pride in the actions of their coaches. George Masters coached football at Moorestown High School for 29 years before his death in 1982 and had both winning and losing seasons, but nothing so represented the best of coaching as one little - episode I will never forget. WITH HIS TEAM playing for a championship, driving for the go-ahead touchdown in the fourth quarter of a critical November game, a youngster was wide open in . the end zone for the winning touchdown, and he dropped the perfect pass. Despair, frustration, even some anger, was vented at the 17-year-old player until George met him coming off the field, threw his arm around that youngster, and walked with him to the sideline. For me, that one gesture was all that is the very best in and about coaching. George's team didn't win the championship, and he wasn't named coach of the year that year. The award did come to him eventually, and justifiably, but not necessarily for all the right reasons.

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