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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Splash</strong> mARCH 11, 2010 • <strong>The</strong> PowwowAlumniMagazine forWashingtonState featuredartwork ofDarroll Wallercelebrating hisaccomplishmentas a four-sportletterman. <strong>The</strong>magazine notedthat he was thefirst four-sportletterman on theWest Coast sinceJackie Robinsonat UCLA.LEGACYContinued from page A: O.E. “Babe” Hollingberry, who wasthe lifelong football coach at WashingtonState College (now Washington State University),asked my coach Billy Frazier aboutme coming down andplaying ball at WashingtonState. In thosedays anything close tohome was desirable.Q: What sports didyou play at WashingtonState?A: When I got downWALLERto Pullman I sort ofgot into other things(beyond football). I started playing baseballdown there. <strong>The</strong>y asked me one day to comeout and throw a few balls and I did. I wentout and pitched a little batting practice, sothey recruited me to pitch for the team.I alternated baseball and track in thespring. <strong>The</strong>y would pitch me on Thursdayor Friday and then I would leave and gowherever the track meet was. I once pitchedbaseball on a Thursday and after the game Itook a bus to Seattle to do a track meet.In basketballI was a sub forVince Hanson,an All-Americanat WashingtonState. I took hisplace anytimehe was out of thegame.Q: What wasone of your bestmoments in collegeathletics?A: In footballI playedhalfback andlinebacker anddid the kicking,not the puntingbut the try forpoints. One ofSubmitted art my best gameswas against Californiadown there. I intercepted a pass andran it back quite a ways. From that pointon we scored a touchdown and I went into kick the point to tie the game (the gameended 7-7).Q: Which of your coaches influencedyou the most while at college?A: <strong>The</strong>y all had a great influence. AtPullman, Jack Friel, the basketball coach,was the most influential. We traveled allover on the basketball team and had only12 to 14 players, so the coach had a moredirect and personal relationship.Q: As college wrapped up, did you haveany aspirations to play professionally?A: I had an opportunity to play pro football(with teams that no longer exist). <strong>The</strong>ycontacted me to see if I was interested intrying out but I wasn’t. Back then you werelucky to get a free meal and bus2010fare. I decidedI wanted to be a teacher and wentTto Eastern Washington University to getmy teaching certificate, which was a goodmove and I never regretted it.Q: What did your career in educationinclude?A: I started in St. Maries, Idaho, and Itaught in the county and then I went toProfilesCentral Valley as the elementary principalat Greenacres Elementary School. <strong>The</strong>n Iwent to East Valley as the curriculum directorand then from there I became assistantsuperintendent and when he retired Ibecame the superintendent.Q: What did you enjoy most aboutyour career in education?A: To start with, I enjoyed the kids asa teacher, but then as I moved up, workingin curriculum, and working with theteachers on behalf of the kids.Q: You have been married 60 yearsnow; what is the secret?A: I gave up right away (Waller said witha smile). We have had a great marriage andwe enjoy each other. We typically had ourdifferences, but after 60 years we decided itwas going to work.Q: What makes you most proud ofyour family?A: <strong>The</strong>y all went to school, and they allgraduated from college.Q: How did you encourage them inthat direction?A: <strong>The</strong>re was never a doubt from whenthey were young that they needed to dowell in school and they were going to goStreetLegal!Competition Yellow Gunmetal Grey Orange SingeTHE BEST DRIVE ON THE COURSE!on to college. It wasn’t an issue; we keptencouraging them to find a field and go atit. It was one of those things that our attitudewas, you go to school and get yourdegree.Q: What do you enjoy most about livingin <strong>Liberty</strong> <strong>Lake</strong>?A: <strong>The</strong> atmosphere; <strong>Liberty</strong> <strong>Lake</strong> is abeautiful place to live. 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