New Book About Former Wrestling Coach Mike Milkovich
What happens when Dellinger Award winning writer Jim Kalin interviews America’s greatest wrestlers about one of the most legendary coaches in any sport, National Wrestling Hall of Fame member Mike Milkovich? The result is Mustang.
Milkovich was only the third high school coach ever to be inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, and his Maple Heights Mustangs captured ten Ohio State Championships and finished runner-up eight times.
Accomplishment bought recognition to Milkovich, but it’s his dynamic personality that makes Mustang impossible to put down. Set in Cleveland during the Milkovich wrestling dynasty, this book follows the rise of a blue-collar community that became a production hive for some of Ohio’s greatest wrestlers and eventual NCAA champions and All Americans.
Drawing on personal accounts from former Maple Heights wrestlers, nationally known celebrities of the sport like Larry Owings and Bobby Douglas, and the four Milkovich brothers, Kalin draws a picture that’s typically triumphant, but often unsettling.
Mike Milkovich changed American wrestling. In this definitive biography, Mustang chronicles a wrestling life and provides the reader with an accurate, honest look at Milkovich the icon, his genius and modesty, his unparalleled sense of fairness, but also the contradictions, the strict discipline toward his sons, and the refusal of accepting anything but victory. Mike Milkovich was more ferocious than Patton and as unbending as the Great Santini. For any reader, how could Mustang be anything but compelling?
For More Information, please visit: www.mustangthebook.com, or call 323.456.3299. MUSTANG can also be ordered on Amazon.
The Home Repair Resource Center - "BoomerFest" 2016
Caring for aging parents? Looking for resources and information to help aging loved ones? Recently retired and looking to define the next phase of your life? Come and join The Home Repair Resource Center at the 2016 "BoomerFest" Keynote speaker Atty. Laurie Steiner will discuss proactively redefining your life to your needs and desires. There will be workshops on topics like aging in place, Flex Design, sharing your time and talents through volunteer organizations and a whole lot of fun. Meet service providers that can advise on tropics from making senior home modifications to locating support and services to help with aging loved ones. This event is free to the public.
Date: September 17th, 2016
Time: from 10 AM until 3 PM
Location: Cleveland Heights Community Center
1 Monticello Blvd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
Free Admission to anyone that...
Brings their aging parents...
Brings their adult children...
Wears their favorite tie dyed t-shirt..
Did I mention that this event is free and open to the public?
For more information call: Wesley Walker 216-381-6100 X 22
wwalker@hrrc-ch.org
Gerald Kulkofsy, class of1956
Jerry played football for the Mustangs as an offensive lineman. Following graduation he enlisted in the US Army. When his duty was over he came back to Maple Heights and worked as a salesman for General Electric in Cleveland. When he retired he and his family moved to Cape Coral, Florida. He passed away on February 3, 2016 from cancer.
God loved him and so did I
Dick Suess. Class of 1956.
posted February 5th, 2016
Richard A. Kohout, class of 1949
Dick Kohout passed away suddenly on February 17, 2012. Please inform his classmates. You can view his obituary at www.thomasmillermortuary.com. We celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary on September 15th with a cruise to Hawaii, and had a beautiful time. I have a lifetime of memories with a wonderful husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He will be missed...
Rosemary (Herak) Kohout
Class of 1951.
John R. Varga 1966 Graduate Passed away June 26, 2010
John R. Varga owner of the Karaoke Station on Route 82 in Northfield, Ohio died on Saturday June 26, 2010 of aspiration pneumonia. John graduated from Maple Heights High School in 1966 and was married to Audrey Goodall in 1968. He and his wife had their first child in 1969. They bought a school bus and converted it into a camper and the 3 of them traveled around the country, ending up in Florida where they managed a campground until 1973. They returned to Ohio to settle down in Bedford Heights and had their second child that same year. John started a fork lift repair business in 1983 - 2007. He was Merchandise Director of the Coca-Cola Collectors Club 1988-1995. He threw the greatest Halloween parties and started a club lighting & sound business in 1999 which grew into the Karaoke Station. Before moving the business to Northfield Center in 2008, it was located on the corner of Rockside Road & Bartlett in Bedford. His son, John. an immigration attorney, is helping Audrey operate the business. Their daughter Carri-an is a wedding & private event coordinator for the Holden Arboretum. John is buried in All Saints Cemetary in Northfield.
