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| H&N photo by Andrew Mariman Oregon Tech guard Mike Nieraeth, left, races go-karts with a player from another team at Wild Woody’s theme park in Branson, Mo., Tuesday. The Hustlin’ Owls had a day to relax Tuesday, and some went racing. Others went to the world’s largest Titanic exhibit. |
March 7, 2007
BRANSON, Mo. - While some Oregon Tech basketball players raced go-karts Tuesday, Souleymane Traore and Joshua Wetzler both survived the Titanic.
On the Hustlin' Owls' only unstructured day at the site of the NAIA Division II men's national basketball tournament, OIT players spent their afternoon enjoying the sites, sounds and styles of Branson.
Several players hit a go-kart track. A few others opted for 90 minutes at the world's largest display from the Titanic, an exhibit with more than 400 artifacts from the “unsinkable” luxury liner that went down on its maiden voyage.
“That was pretty cool,” senior Danny Mills said.
Unfortunately for Mills, Joshua Garrett, coach Tim Bruner and sponsor John Fitzgibbons, they all went down with the ship. Traore and Wetzler were the lone survivors.
Everyone who enters the museum receives a boarding pass with the name of one the more than 2,200 people who were onboard the liner as it left Queensland, Ireland, for New York City April 11, 1912.
Three days later, the Titanic hit an iceberg 37 seconds after the ice was first spotted.
About three-quarters of those on board went down with the ship.
The names of passengers and crew members are listed, each noted as having survived or perished, and visitors to the museum were able to check their “boarding pass name” to find out whether they survived or not.
Both Traore and Wetzler were crew members according to their boarding passes.
Among the many artifacts were china from first-, second- and third-class accommodations. Two rooms have been built following specifications from the builders, one for third-class passengers, the other for first-class.
The first-class room was modeled after the one used by John Jacob Astor and his wife. The two-person bed barely was the width of a current twin bed, and it was maybe five and one-half feet long.
A number of the museum guests laughed as the basketball players considered their sleeping options.
The Astor's suite, according to the curator, would go for about $125,000 in today's dollars, which grabbed the player's attention.
Among the first-class artifacts was a wooden lounge chair valued at $175,000 and the only complete menu from April 14, including its cover, that was said to be worth $100,000.
There also was a talisman being brought back to the United States by Margaret Brown for her home in Denver, Colo. She gave the talisman to the captain of the Carpathia, the ship that rescued slightly more than 700 passengers in lifeboats.
The talisman given away by the woman called “the unsinkable Molly” Brown is so valuable it cannot be valued, according to the museum's curator.
The two other items that caught the player's attention were a water display that was at 28 degrees, the temperature of the water in the North Atlantic April 14, and a display that showed the angle of the ship's desk as it sank.
“It's really a different kind of place,” Fitzgibbons said, “and you really never know how people will react to it. It seemed like these really enjoyed it, however.”
They did.
As the small group left for the Titanic museum, Traore said: “Maybe we'll see Leonardo DiCaprio (who starred in the movie),” and the comment drew a many groans as laughs.
Paper clips
Pat Dailey, sports editor of the Branson Daily News, picked Oregon Tech to win the 2006 tournament, and the Hustlin' Owls went 1-1 and came up shy, missing the quarterfinals.
This year, Dailey has picked Mount Vernon Nazarene to win the tournament this year. The Cougars are in the same quarter of the bracket as is OIT.
Dailey's prediction for the Owls this year?
“Nothing but respect for Oregon Tech from this corner, but I think the great fans from Klamath Falls, Ore., will again be gone before the weekend this season,” he wrote in Tuesday's edition of the newspaper.
On tap today
OIT will practice at 11 a.m. (CST) today and then head to Keeter Gymnasium to watch Northwest of the Cascade Collegiate Conference play its tournament opener against Holy Names University.
Then, before the parade of champions, the Owls will visit Silver Dollar City and get to ride roller coasters as park employees train newcomers on how to run the rides for the spring break rush later this week.
Quote of the day
While visiting the Fudge Shop, the owner was asked by H&N photographer Andrew Mariman where he could get a latte.
The owner's answer: “What's that?”
- Steve Matthies
BRANSON, Mo. - While some Oregon Tech basketball players raced go-karts Tuesday, Souleymane Traore and Joshua Wetzler both survived the Titanic.
On the Hustlin' Owls' only unstructured day at the site of the NAIA Division II men's national basketball tournament, OIT players spent their afternoon enjoying the sites, sounds and styles of Branson.
Several players hit a go-kart track. A few others opted for 90 minutes at the world's largest display from the Titanic, an exhibit with more than 400 artifacts from the “unsinkable” luxury liner that went down on its maiden voyage.
“That was pretty cool,” senior Danny Mills said.
Unfortunately for Mills, Joshua Garrett, coach Tim Bruner and sponsor John Fitzgibbons, they all went down with the ship. Traore and Wetzler were the lone survivors.
Everyone who enters the museum receives a boarding pass with the name of one the more than 2,200 people who were onboard the liner as it left Queensland, Ireland, for New York City April 11, 1912.
Three days later, the Titanic hit an iceberg 37 seconds after the ice was first spotted.
About three-quarters of those on board went down with the ship.
The names of passengers and crew members are listed, each noted as having survived or perished, and visitors to the museum were able to check their “boarding pass name” to find out whether they survived or not.
Both Traore and Wetzler were crew members according to their boarding passes.
Among the many artifacts were china from first-, second- and third-class accommodations. Two rooms have been built following specifications from the builders, one for third-class passengers, the other for first-class.
The first-class room was modeled after the one used by John Jacob Astor and his wife. The two-person bed barely was the width of a current twin bed, and it was maybe five and one-half feet long.
A number of the museum guests laughed as the basketball players considered their sleeping options.
The Astor's suite, according to the curator, would go for about $125,000 in today's dollars, which grabbed the player's attention.
Among the first-class artifacts was a wooden lounge chair valued at $175,000 and the only complete menu from April 14, including its cover, that was said to be worth $100,000.
There also was a talisman being brought back to the United States by Margaret Brown for her home in Denver, Colo. She gave the talisman to the captain of the Carpathia, the ship that rescued slightly more than 700 passengers in lifeboats.
The talisman given away by the woman called “the unsinkable Molly” Brown is so valuable it cannot be valued, according to the museum's curator.
The two other items that caught the player's attention were a water display that was at 28 degrees, the temperature of the water in the North Atlantic April 14, and a display that showed the angle of the ship's desk as it sank.
“It's really a different kind of place,” Fitzgibbons said, “and you really never know how people will react to it. It seemed like these really enjoyed it, however.”
They did.
As the small group left for the Titanic museum, Traore said: “Maybe we'll see Leonardo DiCaprio (who starred in the movie),” and the comment drew a many groans as laughs.
Paper clips
Pat Dailey, sports editor of the Branson Daily News, picked Oregon Tech to win the 2006 tournament, and the Hustlin' Owls went 1-1 and came up shy, missing the quarterfinals.
This year, Dailey has picked Mount Vernon Nazarene to win the tournament this year. The Cougars are in the same quarter of the bracket as is OIT.
Dailey's prediction for the Owls this year?
“Nothing but respect for Oregon Tech from this corner, but I think the great fans from Klamath Falls, Ore., will again be gone before the weekend this season,” he wrote in Tuesday's edition of the newspaper.
On tap today
OIT will practice at 11 a.m. (CST) today and then head to Keeter Gymnasium to watch Northwest of the Cascade Collegiate Conference play its tournament opener against Holy Names University.
Then, before the parade of champions, the Owls will visit Silver Dollar City and get to ride roller coasters as park employees train newcomers on how to run the rides for the spring break rush later this week.
Quote of the day
While visiting the Fudge Shop, the owner was asked by H&N photographer Andrew Mariman where he could get a latte.
The owner's answer: “What's that?”
- Steve Matthies
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