LeHers to the Editor Dear Sir/Madam, REQUEST FOR FRISBEE I should be extlemely grateful if you can send me some Frisbee. We have organize a team called HAFIA Our game are football, table tennis, and Frisbee. I am in charge of Frisbee (captain) but we don't have any flying saucer which will help us. I came across a friend, he gave me address for I.F.A. I wrote them they gave me the pamphlet which gives me the guidelines and they gave me your address to give me the flying saucers. I beg you if you can help me sir. I hope this my request would be granted. Yours Faithfully.
Oppong Damson Arim c/o Mr. Danson Box203
Sunyari BIA Ghana, West Africa 5th April 1984 While sitting here in my police cruiser at 4 a.m. on Dec. 2, 1983, my 25th birthday, on my beat in the alleged toughest section of Durham, North Carolina, my Remington 870, 12 gauge shotgun my only passenger, I started to reminisce back to happier, carefree, 70 degnx: Spring days on the campus of Glassboro State College, the Ultimate Frisbee Capital of the Northeast, located between Atlantic City, N.J. and Philadelphia, PA I remember sitting around a keg of beer after a 2 hour workout, which we did 4 to 5 days a week, listening to Neil Young and discussing what the "real world" would be like. Well, I suppose most of us have been forced into this phenomenon now, and we have become separated. The U.P.A is the only channel I have to say Hello to all my friends from the World Champion (1979-80) Glassboro UJtimate Frisbee Team and to say thank-you to all the great Ultimate people around the country who I have met and played against To my friends from Glassboro Ultimate, I now have the tide of Public Safety Officer for the city of Durham, North Carolina. Instead
of seeking ways to prevent the cork-screw pass from beating our great zone defense, I
now respond to subject shot; man with knife; disturbance with a gun; and fire calls at all hours. You see, not only am I a cop, get this Timba, Brat, and the boys from Wildwood, N.J., I'm a fireman too. As a matter of fact, just a couple of days ago I was treated for smoke inhalation and two officers went to Duke Hospital all to save an empty ghetto house that looked like it was worth about $500.00 They teach us at the Training Academy to save lives and protect property. We risk our lives to save wood, and decayed wood at that It just doesn't make sense. This "real world" is a drag. Remember " Ultimate" friends from GlassTrying to keep my sanity in the " real world", boro when we looked forward to the ChristGlassboro Ultimate Forever, mas season when Glassboro State College's Radio Station hosted "Prqect Santa", a Tom Urban program where students pledged money over the radio in return for a song or a crazy stunt, • to help the poor of Gloucester County. Frankie Bono would pledge money if Kevvo "" ...._ Walsh, who loved to take his clothes off anyway, did a handstand in the buffon the big grand stand stage where the Radio Program t was stationed. Frankie would surely have to pay, Kevvo couldn't wait We usually raised about ten thousand dollars. For Tom Urban, three years later in the . "real world", Christmas time in East Durham means an increase in armed robberies and overall crime in the already " I'm told", highest crime rate per capita city in North Carolina. I'm told crime always increases around the holidays. I never knew that. Remember Glassboro Frisbee Friends, when we would be so happy to get the new U.P .A magazine or the school newspaper when the World Champion Glassboro Frisbee Team was featured, especially you C. Scap. Or the 1980 Ownpionship game in Atlanta, GA, when we paid money to travel and play and we were actually on the 6 o'clock news after our victory. I can only dream of reliving that memory. Tcm "Urbine" Urban-member 1979 World Today the "real world" gives us headlines Championship Team. Tri-Captain 1980 of athletes holding out because six hundred World Championship Team. thousand dollars is just not enough; inflation
Questionnaire give out complimentary copies of the newsletter to interested schools. Increase team membership percentages with minimum requirements. Encourage tournaments to start on time so the media and public are not constantly turned off and put out. Form a P.R/Recruiter position for each region. Package a kit to help players run tournaments, include lists of teams in the area (package available this fall). How can increased membership be achieved? "UPA officers should 16
is getting worse; fighting crime is everywhere; and nuclear destruction is very much a potential reality. Sorry Fella's and I .adies, only Mike De'Maio, Greg and Bobby Mo should sound this depressing. I realize this was not a Frisbee Article, per se, but I just want to tell all you Frisbee people out there and especially my loved ones from Glassboro State College, those were truly the happiest years of my life. I thank-you, love you, and will remember you forever. I consider Frisbee People a class amongst themselves and people who should be heard from.
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wear nice clothes and say nice things to everybody." How can the UPA raise money? Sponsorship and team membership requirements recurred as answers. In the East, the CROWN ROYAL sponsorship efforts were looked at positively despite the poor fit of Ultimate and quality booze. "Money comes from companies who recognize determination and hustle." I guess that means more extensions. Ultimate and the UPA must appear more credible to attract new members and big time sponsors. There you have it. We've got to hustle to get your support and you've got to be determined to make the sport grow. Fundraising can be easy. " Hey man, do you want to buy a 1/8?"