Brian Leslie Benson Obituary

Daniel Noyes '64 said:

I was much younger than Aussie Benson, however I do remember as a terrific outside shooter in. basketball. Aussie along with Clark

Wambold, Dave Block and Doug Bailey were starters on the first team ever to play in the gym, when the new school first opened in 1958
That 1958 team won only 3 games, however the days came when coach Block turned Hammondsport basketball around, and won the 1963 section 5 championship finishing with 20 wins, while coming. up short 2 times..
I will always remember, as the best. high school basketball. two. handed set shot shooter ever!

William F Mccann '59 said:

H WAS BETTER KNOWN AS AUSSIE BC HE COME FROM ASUSTRALIA ,MAYBE AROUND 2ND GRADE, , HIS MOM MARRIED BEANS( FIRST NAME ???,LOL) PARA , WE PLAYED SOCER TOGETHER, ,HE WENT TO BACKETBALL AND BASEBALL, WE WENT TO CORNINC CC AT THE SAME TIME, ,WE WENT OUR SEPERATE WAYS , THEN WE BOTH RETIRED GOT REAQUAINTED at our 10th claSS REUnON At JOAN HONEYMAN'S FARM, E WENT TO THE AMERICAL LEGION , HEE HAD BEEN IN THE AIR FRCE, MAYBE NAVY BUT I WSA IN THE ARMY, SO BTH VETS. ,OH HE LIVED IN TX TOWN, SAME AS PAT PERCY, THEY LIVED THERE 10 YRS , NECER KNWE UNTIL I TOOK BOTH ANDBOTH THEIR SPOUCES,TO DINNER. NOW THINGS COMING BACK. SOMEVERY ALUMNI BANQUET WE GOTTOGETHER , HE LOST HIS WIFE BUT HE AND DELORES GOWIN BILLS TOOK UP AND WERE COMPANIONS UNTIL HE PASSED OIN 2012, AM GOING TO POST , DON'T PROOF READ SO YOU CORRECT IT, YA A COUPLE MORE STORIES BUT LATER BIL MCCANN CLASS OF 1959 , = 65 YEARS IN 20 24 ,NOT QUITE YET IN JUNE 19TH WE GRADUATED , 1ST ClASS FROM THE PRESENT SCHOOL.