Cochren humbled by outing support
20.09.11
Chuck Cochren feels overwhelmed, and not by the Type 4 colon cancer
that he has fought since learning of it in January.
“It was very humbling,” the 45-year-old Wood Memorial and Oakland
City University grad said of Saturday’s Benefit for the Big Man
golf scramble that drew 30 four-person teams and an estimated 250
visitors, players and non-players included.
“It’s humbling that so many people came out to take part in this,”
Cochren said Monday afternoon from his Bloomington home.
“Words can’t describe how it made me feel.”
The 6-foot-9 Cochren, a basketball standout at Wood Memorial and
OCU in the 1980s, stationed himself at the tees to the second hole
at Oakland City Golf Club, where he greeted and thanked all the
players on the 30 teams. He also volunteered to hit a tee shot for
each group.
“My swing was better than my execution,” he chuckled.
“I ran into high school friends, and some people I hadn’t seen in
years. Some were classmates in grade school and maybe my first year
in high school, and then they moved away.
Source: Princeton Daily Clarion