John Shearer: With New Vocational School Planned, 1950s Kirkman Athletes Recall Positives Of School And Playing For Jack Carr Tuesday, July 6, 2021 - by John Shearer
Jack Carr
Kirkman graduates, from left, Darrell McDonald, Bill Green and U.S. Myers
U.S. Myers, left, and Darrell McDonald with old Kirkman letter jackets.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and a photo of a signed basketball remembering a moment of sports success for Kirkman High in the 1950s started quite a conversation recently among three former players about playing for their well-liked coach, Jack Carr.
Coach Carr had died in 2008, and one of his sons, Allen, with whom I had gone to Baylor in the 1970s, was going through some of his father’s items recently and had emailed me saying he had a signed basketball.