Growing Up: Farm Life & Basketball in the 1940s & '50s Paperback - 2017

Harold L. (Hal) Schoen was born on a small hardscrabble family farm in west central Ohio in 1941, the oldest boy of 13 children. His mother's family still spoke German to each other when they visited even though they had lived in west central Ohio for over one hundred years. He was the first in his family to attend college when he was awarded a basketball scholarship by the University of Dayton. He struggled to make the team but eventually became a starting forward as a junior. That year, 1962, the Flyers won the NIT championship.

Hal was a high school mathematics teacher and baseball and basketball coach for four years. Upon completing the necessary graduate education, he began a 34-year career as a jointly appointed Professor of Mathematics and Education. He is author of high school and beginning college mathematics textbooks and has written many professional papers. Growing Up is his first book for a general audience.

A University of Iowa Professor Emeritus since he retired in 2005, he is a dedicated husband, father and grandfather. Since 1999, he and his wife Theresa have spent two or three of the coldest winter months in a condominium on the west coast of Florida. Taking advantage of the warm weather, the two of them love walking and resting on the beach.