DR. FRANK G. DICKEY President, University of Kentucky
Welcome . . .
We wish to take this opportunity to extend a most cordial and hearty welcome to our many Kentucky friends on the occasion of this sixth annual University of Kentucky Invitational Basketball Tournament. We also wish to welcome the outstanding teams from Ohio State University, Oklahoma State University, and the University of West Virginia. To the members of the teams, to their coaches, and to their followers, we give a real Blue Grass welcome.
We hope that all visitors to the campus for this event will enjoy the stay here in Lexington. May we bear in mind throughout the tournament that this Memorial Coliseum is dedicated to the mem-cry of Kentucky's sons who gave their lives for their country and may we conduct ourselves in such a manner that we shall be worthy of the sacrifice made by these young men.
Frank G. Dickey, President University of Kentucky
A tall, silver-haired administrator, who was a three-sport star in his collegiate days at Illinois and Director of Athletics for the University of Kentucky since 1938, serves in the capacity of Tournament Manager of the U.K. Invitational. He is Bernie A. Shively, a capable supervisor known familiarly to thousands of athletes, coaches, officials and fans as "Shive." During his college career at Illinois in the late twenties, he was an All-America guard on the same grid team made famous by Red Grange. "Shive" also laid claim to the Big 10 heavyweight wrestling title and annexed letters in track. During his tenure at Kentucky, he has held the posts of football line coach, head of the Physical Education Department, track coach, baseball coach and head football coach in addition to supervising the steady growth of one of the nation's top athletic programs in the capacity of Director of Athletics. The Kentucky sports chief also is a member of the NCAA Basketball Tournament Committee and for the past five years has been president of the SEC Coaches and Athletic Directors Association.
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OFFICIAL TOURNAMENT PROGRAM
Published by University of Kentucky Athletics Association Edited by Ken Kuhn
BERNIE A. SHIVELY Tournament Manager
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