URBANA — More than 35 years after his time at Champaign's Jefferson Junior High in the late 1960s, Mike Kiser was back in C-U and ran into his old PE teacher, Richard Freehill.
Describing himself as a "little guy" at 4-feet-10 and 90 pounds in the eighth grade, Kiser said he loved sports but didn't play on Coach Freehill's football or basketball teams, so he never expected Freehill to remember him.
But Dick, or "Free," as he was known by friends and family, walked right up to Kiser and called him by his first and last name.