January 2002 - October 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

I'd select say ten seperate opponents from a random draw one by one and
'poster's' could give their view of the outcome. |
|1/22/03 05:59:29 PM|Carl Weingarten|TJQF||TJQF||||10|Sonia, Sabrina and
family,I am very happy that you like the new home page. Before James
passed, he had asked me to use that photo of him and Jerry. Brandi had also
asked about that photo, which I thought would be great for the cover, and a
perfect tribute to both Jerry and James. There are additional design changes on
other pages, which I hope makes the web site more professional and attractive.
New video clips will be added as I have time. James had sent me all kinds of
footage that I never see anywhere else - mostly rare interviews and sparring
sessions. Anyway, it's my pleasure to work on the site and help the
foundation. It's been and honor as well, to have known James, and having
followed Jerry and Mike since the early 1970s, when I was growing up in St.
Louis. I spent many late and anxious school nights with my ear glued to the
radio, waiting for fight results.|
|1/23/03 12:50:02 AM|Daryl Breese|Bakersfield||CALBREESE@aol.com||||10|The book
is progressing nicely, Paul Drolet is co-authoring. Very talented. As more and
more material pour in, it has to be sorted, edited and verified. I have to tell
you straight up this book needs to (will) be as comprehensive and interesting as
possible. A complete story. That being said, everyone and anyone with
firsthand knowledge of Quarry Family Stories, please call me for a SASE that I
will mail to you so you may include those thoughts in the book. Keep it positive
and upbeat! I will interview you if you would like. I do need a couple of
volunteers to submit (handwritten) the complete Quarry Family Tree with birth
years, connecting as many dots as you can...we love the duplicity of multiple
sources. Also, Carl, TJQF please call me at your convenience. cellular
661.703.4444 Contributors, if I don't answer, please leave a message on my
voice mail with your address for your SASE. Thanks Paul, Kent, Steve and Jimmy!
No Quit until it is on the bookshelves! Daryl|
|1/23/03 08:18:53 PM|charles anderson|pine bluff
ark.||ctjjandfam@aol.com||||10|thanks for the update on the book, d. after the
books a hit they can make a movie. matt damon would be cast as jerry and brad
pitt as mike. what do you think?|
|1/24/03 07:27:58 AM|Sonia Hathaway(Quarry)|Joshua Tree,
CA||Sonia81@aol.com||||10|Whoever is doing this book, hopefully it was cleared
before my Father died, and not just ramblings on about thing when some don't
have a clue. It needs to be done through the proper channels, and all done
legally.|
|1/25/03 03:53:42 AM|Paul|Sydney, Australia||PlMls4@aol.com.au||||10|In regard
to the poster calling for the abolition of boxing, I must say that such a call
is analgous to saying that life should be banned simply because people
eventually become ill and die. People are seriously injured or killed from a
broad raft of sports - football, water skiing, sky diving, horse riding, motor
racing, etc - and injuries and deaths also result from lifestyle choices
(alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, eating MacDonalds, etc). Boxers enter the sport
aspiring to better themselves and for every death there are literally thousands
of successes that otherwise save people from living in the gutters from poverty
or stopping then from ending up in the morgues from drug overdoses. The Quarrys
- because of all the family trials and tribulations - are far better placed than
the rest of us to make a call on the viability of boxing, and even Jerry Quarry,
despite what happened to him, would probably have not changed even one second of
his courageous career. If people really want to ban dangerous sports and
lifestyle choices, then medicines and anti-biotics must also be legislated
against. After all, for every thousand people these medicines save, there is
one in ten thousand that are killed from allergies to those drugs. |