PLEASE WRITE LINFIELDER GENE 'ACE' FORMAN IN SALEM, OREGON

PLEASE WRITE LINFIELDER GENE 'ACE' FORMAN' IN SALEM, OREGON

Please write Gene "Ace" Forman, a Linfielder (Class of 1967, M.Ed., 1968) and outstanding tackle for the football Wildcats.

Here's a photo taken 7/30/2022 with Ace in a wheelchair and Bob and Nancy Haack alongside. He needs his spirits uplifted. Please mail him a card or a note: Ace Forman, 2520 Coral Ave NE, Salem OR 97305

If you don't know Ace and his challenges read info here ...

https://golinfieldwildcats.com/sports/2020/8/20/bob-ferguson.aspx?id=212

It was an auto accident which left Gene Forman paralyzed from the waist down. The accident happened in August 1965 when he was a Linfield senior. Ace was attending Linfield summer classes and also pitching for a Portland baseball team. The team had a game on a Sunday night in Longview, Wash. – about 88 miles from McMinnville. The team needed Forman to pitch because "the other pitchers couldn’t,” Ace said in an Oct. 1, 1974, Oregonian story.

(Posted here is the Oct. 1, 1974, Oregonian story.)

"After I got off National Guard duty I drove to Longview for the game. On the way home I feel asleep (on Highway 18) while driving three miles outside of McMinnville. The car went off the road and into a ditch.” Thrown from the car, he broke his neck. A Linfield football teammate, who made the trip with him from McMinnville, was in the car, too. The teammate suffered a chipped tooth.