I remember this day well with Steve as we played a round of golf to help support USA Water Polo. We got to meet Terry Schroeder – Men’s USA Olympic Water Polo Team Coach at the time. A bronze copy of Terry’s bust is outside the LA Coliseum with a chiseled 12 pack – some have called it the best specimen of a man. A friend in our foursome started chatting up Terry, not knowing his background as a two time Olympic Silver Medalist in Water Polo and asked him “you get in the pool Terry?” Steve and I busted up laughing. We spent the remainder of the day ribbing our playing partner with additional funny questions to ask a proven Olympic athlete about his background. Lots of laughs and a lot of good shots were had as Steve had his golf game tuned up. On the drive back Steve and I chatted about family and our better halves. He was such a big fan of my wife and called her Sunshine #2 (a previous beautiful blonde at RWG has the original Steve provided nickname of Sunshine). Steve spoke fondly of his boys when they were young and the fun they had at the cabin in Big Bear. Erin and I made a trip to the Big Bear cabin and played in the snow with the boys. Steve made us breakfast and we took turns sledding down the stairs and the hills around the cabin. Then Steve turned up the fun when he asked Will and Matt to bring out potato gun. Wow! That was awesome. We launched a few potatoes at the trees around the property and giggled, oooh’d and awed at the shear noise and percussion the weapon of fun created. I loved that Steve led the charge with these devices with his sons. I hope to bring this kind of enthusiasm for developing our own fun with my children as Steve did with his boys. On another occasion the boys invited Erin and I to the Orr house for a double stage water propelled rocket launch party. Steve was so pumped about what his boys had developed it was beyond infectious. I am a mechanical engineer by degree and I was easily sold on this epic event. What I loved most is that Steve got my political science major wife pumped on the launch of a rocket made out of 2 liter coke bottles and duct tape. Of course the successful launch was topped and toasted to with cocktails and a great steak with all the fixings’ at the Orr dinner table served by Sir Steve himself. To me Steve is not gone. He has touched so many lives with memories that cannot be erased; he will live on forever. I am permanently changed and influenced by Steve. I appreciate the time we spent together and the impact he left on us all. Thank you Steve and I raise my glass of scotch to you good friend.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 03:36:38 +0000
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