Everett Case
Everett Norris Case (June 21, 1900 – April 30, 1966), nicknamed "Gray Fox", was a basketball coach most notable for his tenure at North Carolina State University, from 1946 to 1964.
Born in Anderson, Indiana, Case graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1923. He compiled a 726-75 record while coaching 23 years in high school basketball, including winning 4 Indiana state championships while coaching in Frankfort, Indiana (1925, 1929, 1936, 1939). Frankfort's Case Arena is named after him. Case is one of only five coaches to win at least 4 state titles in Indiana basketball (the others being Marion Crawley, Glenn M. Curtis, Jack Keefer with 4 and Bill Green with 6).
Case enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1941. He was commissioned a senior-grade lieutenant and reported to Annapolis for a four-week training course. He then traveled to Chicago for five weeks training before reporting to Naval Pre-flight school at St. Mary's College in California, where he served as assistant athletic director and director of basketball. He also served as athletic director at the Alameda Naval Air Station.
Everett Ruess
I was born Everett Ruess
I've been dead for sixty years
I was just a young boy in my twenties
The day I disappeared
Into the Grand Escalante Badlands
Near the Utah and Arizona line
And they never found my body, boys
Or understood my mind
I grew up in California
And I loved my family and my home
But I ran away to the High Sierra
Where I could live free and alone
And folks said, ?He?s just another wild kid
He?ll grow out of it in time?
But they never found my body, boys
Or understood my mind
I broke broncos with the cowboys
I sang healing songs with the Navajo
I did the snake dance with the Hopi
And I drew pictures everywhere I go
Then I swapped all my drawings for provisions
To get what I needed to get by
And they never found my body, boys
Or understood my mind
Well I hate your crowded cities
With the sad and hopeless mobs
And I hate your grand cathedrals
Where you try to trap God
?Cause I know God is here in the canyons
With the rattlesnakes and the pinon pines
And they never found my body, boys
Or understood my mind
They say I was killed by a drifter
Or I froze to death in the snow
Maybe mauled by a wildcat
Or I?m livin? down in Mexico
But my end, it doesn?t really matter
All that counts is how you live your life
And they never found my body, boys
Or understood my mind
But you give your dreams away as you get older
And oh but I never gave up mine
And they?ll never find my body, boys
