And he knew in his heart that, as an only child, I was desperate to be around other kids. He liked the fact that I was friendly and curious about the world. He picked up right away that for all I had been through I wasn’t hardened or bitter. Just as he also knew that sports, under the right conditions, could save a kid’s life. He did have two parents, but he knew the meaning of being poor. He was so quiet sometimes I thought he wanted to be one of those monks who take a vow of silence.Ĭoach Dru’s circumstances were slightly different from mine. He had big ears that stuck out like gigantic stereo speakers. For most of the time we played together he was a puny little pip-squeak. Little Dru tagged along, and even though he was only four or five, he began picking up the nuances of the game just by watching. On Saturday mornings Coach Dru played several hours of pickup basketball at the Elizabeth Park Community Center with some men from his church. Coach Dru didn’t waste any time getting Little Dru involved in sports. In January 1985, Coach Dru and his wife had their third child, a son, Dru Joyce III. So he stayed, eventually moving to a house on Greenwood Avenue in West Akron. But there was something about Akron he liked-the size of it, the feel of it, even the smell of it: although Goodyear and Firestone had closed their tire plants in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a few companies were still making rubber products back then, and every afternoon you could catch the sharp aroma. He moved there with his family in March of 1984, thinking it was temporary. A district manager at Hunt-Wesson suggested he settle in Akron, which was a little cheaper than Cleveland, and Coach Dru took his advice. Had he done so, I never would have met him, and without meeting him, who knows what would have happened to me. By all rights Coach Dru and his family should have settled in the Cleveland area. He got a sales job at Hunt-Wesson Foods, in Pittsburgh, and after a few years was promoted to senior sales rep for Cleveland and the eastern suburbs. I believe it was Karma that connected me to Coach Dru.ĭru Joyce graduated from Ohio University in 1978. The East Liverpool Historical Society reserves the right to charge such an individual a fee for the use of the Society’s material.I believe that things happen for a reason. A person framing the Society site is effectively presenting the entire East Liverpool Historical Society web site as his own site and doing it at no cost to himself, i.e. The East Liverpool Historical Society pays fees to keep their site online. Many cases that were taken to court ended up settling out-of-court with the one doing the framing agreeing to cease framing and to just use a regular link to the other site.
Though there have been court cases in which framing has been seen as violation of copyright law. Legally speaking framing is still in a murky area of the law Hyperlinking, or as it is also called framing, without permission is not permitted. providing the URL of the East Liverpool Historical Society web site for viewers to click on and be taken to the East Liverpool Historical Society entry portal or to any specific article on the website is legally permitted. This site is the property of the East Liverpool Historical Society. V-M coach Dru Joyce II receiving Dapper Dan honorĬontinue to Potter Track Records, 1981-86 He was cut from the eighth-grade team and didn't try out for the sport again, although he played a lot of playground basketball. He played football and ran track for the Potters, but didn't play basketball. SVSM coach Dru Joyce graduated from East Liverpool in 1973.
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