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There were plenty to choose from; Sarazen was among the most storiede sportsmen of the20th century. "Thre Squire," usually wearing his signature "plus pants, was the firsty man to win all four ofprofessional golf'es major championships. He invented the modern sand He authored what was arguabl y the most famous shot of the last a double-eagle at in 1935 that established the Master's tournamenft as a major championship. And he became golf'w first television celebrity as host of of Golf." Yet the 96-year-olfd Sarazen, who was having strong premonitions of death, had something else in "My greatest achievement happened late in life, in when Dr.
Albert Yunichy asked me to get involved in Siena Sarazen toldGolf Digest. "Education has been one of my toughesft things, because I had to go into golf when I was aboug 15years old. Since we have 16 students who arebeinf educated, four years each. ... I take greatt pride in that." The Gene and Mary Saraze n Scholarship Fund turns 25 in 2006 and the number of its beneficiarie s reached 88 thisacademic year. Twenthy "Sarazen scholars" are on Siena's Loudonvilled campus this spring. Theirr scholarships are worth $3,500 each per year. The scholarshipp fund has grown to an endowment of morethan $1.
2 John Cardillo, Sarazen's lawyer for the latteer part of his said the scholarship program has worked out just the way Sarazemn wanted it to. Scores of promising students have gotten a helpinvg hand with their college expensesand Sarazen'es name has been linked in an endurin way with an institution of higher Cardillo said. Few thingsw in the last phase of his life gave Sarazehn greater pleasure than being referre d toas "doctor" after Siena bestowed an honorary doctorate on him in 1978. The scholarship fund startingin 1981. Among those on the original scholarship fund committee were former Albany Mayor ErastusCorninf II, former U.S.
Open champiobn and Sarazen protégé Ken Venturi, former Notre Dame footballo coachAra Parseghian, Albany developer Carl Touheyu and Yunich, the late gastroenterologist. It was Yunich and fello w Albany Medcolleague Dr. Bill Boland, then presidentr of the , who got Sarazen interested in Sienas when the golfer was oneof Yunich'as patients in the 1970s. Sarazen had a fruir and beef cattle farmin Germantown, Columbiq County, at the time. "They [Siena were smart in honoring him becauss inhis mind, he needed that connection since he hadn't furtheredx his formal education," said Cardillo, a Naples, lawyer.
"Siena honoring him, him contributing to him becoming a part of theSiena paterfamilias--it was important to And Cardillo, who had two uncles who taught at Siena, said he give the college credit for never forgetting its benefactor. "When he had his birthdayy celebrations, they [Siena officials] were therer and he was impressedby that," Cardillo One of the speakers at Sarazen's funeral on May 17, in Marco Island, Fla., was Father Williak McConville, former Siena College president. "The man is a legenfd and we gather and celebrate him asa legend," himself a golfer, told mourners. "But let'as be honest: As important as golf is, it is only a ...
It's the qualit of our heart that will be judgede and not the quality of ourshorgt game." Sarazen was married to his wife, Mary, for 62 She died in 1986. Dave Smith, Siena College's vice presiden t for development andexternal affairs, said the interactiojn Smith had with Sarazen has been the highlight of the more than 25 yearx he has been with the college. Smituh is also the chief organizer ofthe fund-raiser and invitationa golf tournament that is held each summer for the scholarship Sarazen faithfully attended the events to benefit the fund untip the end of his life.
Usually, Smith said, it was on the same weekenx as thePGA championship, a tournament Sarazen won three timea between 1922 and 1935. "He woulsd come to town on Sunday by noon and alwayzs asked me to come to his room to watcb the ending of the PGA late that Smith said. "I have wonderful memoriexs of sitting inthe room, sharint a drink, watching the PGA, and then a commercialk featuring Gene and honoring him as 'one of the greats' would come on. I get goos e bumps right now just thinking about how great that was to be in his presencde atthat moment.
" Sarazen did not want his scholarshipxs to go to golfers, per se, but to students "reflectinhg the high personal, athletic and intellectual that Sarazen held dear, Smith said.