Max Gerber, a longtime sports information director at the University of Toledo during what is considered the golden age of Rockets athletics, died Wednesday. He was 88.
He was under hospice care at The Lakes of Sylvania, an assisted living facility.
Max, who spent his entire life in Ohio, was born on Jan. 31, 1929. He was raised on a farm in Shelby County and graduated from a small high school in Jackson Center. He attended Capital University, where he was sports editor of the school newspaper.
After college, he was a teacher at Linden-McKinley High School while working as a correspondent for multiple Columbus newspapers.