The Wolfpacker: An Independent Magazine Covering NC State Sports
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128 ■ THE WOLFPACKER ■ PACK PAST money for the Wolfpack Club, a symbiotic relationship since the athletics department was more than $70,000 in debt to the din- ing hall as well as $70,000 in debt to John- son & Lambe Sporting Goods. Stewart, using modern fundraising tech- niques, helped wipe away that debt and made the athletics department financially stable by connecting donations to ticket sales to basketball and football games, the Dixie Classic and the ACC Tournament. He resigned from the position in the middle of the 1958 Dixie Classic in a disagreement with Clogston over basketball tickets. Stewart became a successful insurance salesman, a noted public speaker and sto- ryteller, and the distributor of custom-de- signed NC State silk scarves and ties. With the death of Bubas earlier this year, Stewart is the only surviving participant in one of the oddest chapters in NCAA, ACC and NC State history. Even after a century, he's never experienced anything like that day in the piney woods of Louisiana. (The details of this story come from Stew- art's personal recollections, which he shared with me during the course of a two-day in- terview in his Raleigh home and from a re- markable piece in Sport Magazine called "A Scholarship for Jackie" written by North Carolina native Furman Bisher in 1957.) ■ GO WOLFPACK!!! Dr. Lisa Padfield Dr. Karen Bray Dr. Jaime Barta Dr. Erin Slaughter Dr. Annette Ward 'U/LVD3DGILHOG'U.DUHQ%UD\ 'U(ULQ6ODXJKWHU'U$QQHWWH:DUG'U&RUD%HWK/DQLHU 3URFXUH6WUHHW )XTXD\9DULQD1& ZZZDFDGHP\HDVWYHWFRP )D\HWWHYLOOH5RDG6XLWH 5DOHLJK1& ZZZPLGGOHFUHHNYHWFRP $IXOOVHUYLFH$$+$FHUWLILHGVPDOO DQLPDOSUDFWLFH :HSURYLGH0HGLFDO6XUJLFDO%RDUGLQJ DQG*URRPLQJ6HUYLFHV $9,$1$1'(;27,& 6(59,&(6 $OVRFRPPLWWHGWRSURYLGLQJVPDOO DQLPDO0HGLFLQHDQG6XUJHU\ GO WOLFPACK!!! Zebulon Dentistry supports the pack! Mark S. Barrett, D.D.S. B. Kevin Collins, D.D.S. (Wolfpack Club member since 2007) Zebulon FaMily Dentistry 313 Hospital Rd. Zebulon, NC 27597 Phone (919) 269-9698 Fax (919) 269-9778 Tim Peeler is a regular contributor to The Wolfpacker and can be reached at tmpeeler@ncsu.edu As a young man, Stewart was part of NC State's attempt to recruit Louisiana native Jackie Moreland, the nation's best high school basketball player in 1955. PHOTO COURTESY NC STATE MEDIA RELATIONS