Sunday, August 17, 1997 - The Oskaloosa Herald
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"Checker players dream" - George Daily Trust
Dedication of the
George Daily Community Auditorium and Statue
Someone is missing a wonderful opportunity to promote,
organize,
and establish Youth Chess
& Checker in the Oskaloosa, Iowa School System and surrounding areas. The George
Daily Trust would gladly support and sponsor this program. What any Trust
committee is looking for is numbers. How many volunteers (parents & teachers)
and participates (kids) and who will benefits from this event. They want the
biggest bang for their bucks. Get started by organizing and establishing
clubs in Oskaloosa City & Mahaska County Schools with clubs playing monthly. Each club need clocks,
checker sets, instruction materials, with
an instructor
and supervision, something
like Bob Murr, John Cardie, and Robert Pike does. Each club would have
their local tournaments and scheduled play offs between schools and districts
(with trophies, certificates, and plaques) kids love recognition!
A George Daily Open would involve Iowa's 99 counties and the Statewide Youth
Tournament held in Oskaloosa at the George Daily Community Auditorium. Of course
the clubs do the normal things like other such student clubs and meetings do:
open house, parents night, and fund raisers, invite checker & chess celebrities,
special attractions & exhibition tours from guest speakers & perhaps a
Grandmaster.
Bob Murr
and John Cardie both do a tremendous job at getting invited into elementary schools and teach an
introductory course on checkers. They illustrate checkers as a fun way to
develop your thought process, problem solving, concentration, and visualization
while playing checkers. Bob has a power point presentation and John uses
charts and a large illustrated checkerboard. You should invite them or
duplicate their presentation. You should keep good records on attendance and
tournament results. Now package all the above and presents it to the
George Daily Trust and I will assure you they will sponsor and match any funds
raise by your clubs. This is a huge project in volunteers, youth
motivation and improvement while relative inexpensive when compared to their
other funded projects.
March 24, 1995 The Oskaloosa Herald - "People Key to Daily successes" - George Daily, checker player
Mr. Daily left over $6 million to Oskaloosa, so the bronze statue of him
playing checkers was very fitting, because he loved to play checkers.