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use the still-unfinished and unnamed building to practice for the 1987 Fiesta Bowl game against Miami that eventually gave Penn State the national champi- onship. Caldwell remembers "the wield- ers still up in the scaffolds while we were practicing and the sparks flying down." A motivating factor Holuba Hall became the official name of the new indoor facility at a meeting of the board of trustees in January 1987. Univer- sity president Bryce Jordan made the an- nouncement: "For nearly 60 years, the name Holuba has been synonymous with academic and athletic excellence at Penn State. Penn State wishes to honor the Holubas – especially the late father, Stan- ley – by forever associating their name with the university." The actual donation was in the form of stock shares that Bob had in Revco Drug Stores. The shares were worth $1 million on Dec. 31, 1986, and Penn State quickly sold them for the cash. It could have been a $2 million donation, Bob said wistfully, if Penn State had waited three more months to cash in, because the stock had doubled in value following a corporate takeover. The $1 million gift from the Holubas was the catalyst for the honor, and Bob said it wouldn't have happened if not for Paterno and assistant coach turned fundraiser Tor Toretti. Toretti had re- cruited Bob in 1967, convincing him to abandon his intention to matriculate and play football at Yale. Bob Holuba became a perfect example of Paterno's famous "Grand Experiment," a philosophy aimed at showing that Penn State could produce outstanding football teams composed of superior students who were also superior players. Holuba graduated in 1971 with a 3.65 GPA in busi- ness administration, making the Dean's List five consecutive terms as an ac- counting major, and was Paterno's sec- ond player to receive the prestigious $5,000 NCAA postgraduate scholarship honoring scholar athletes. Bob was a 6- foot-2, 225-pound guard out of New Jer- sey's Bergen Catholic High School, not far from the New York state line. He became an integral part of those two back-to- back undefeated teams that finished No. 2 in the country at the start of Paterno's legendary 46-year coaching era. As a sophomore in 1968, his debut season, Bob was a backup to junior guard Tom Jack- son, helping shuttle plays in from the sideline. Paterno moved Jackson to tackle in 1969, and Holuba started at left guard for the next two seasons. After graduating from Penn State, Hol- uba went to law school at the University of Virginia, concentrating on tax law. Then he worked several years in Rich- mond, Va., for one of the leading multi- national accounting firms, Coopers & Lybrand, utilizing his accounting and law degrees to gain experience in the Byzan- tine world of tax law before joining his fa- ther in the family business in 1976. At one point, when the Greenberg com- plex was being constructed but before it was named, Toretti had discussed with Bob and his father a donation that would attach the Holuba name to the Hall of Fame room. When the Greenbergs came A lthough Bob Holuba, like his fa- ther, is a loyal Penn State graduate, none of Bob's three sons and two daughters have Penn State degrees. Three children graduated from Princeton, and all three sons played football, two for Princeton and an- other for Harvard. Bob's oldest son, Robert, was a mid- dle linebacker on Princeton's 2005 team. He later received an MBA from Georgetown and is in the commercial real estate business. Now 37, he lives with his wife and three children in Wayne, Pa. Jack Holuba, 30, was a first-team All-Ivy League center at Harvard in 2012. Since receiving his master's de- gree in real estate from NYU, he has been working in New York. Jack and his fiancée, Bethany Spencer, will continue to work remotely when they move in 2021 to Melbourne Beach, Fla. Kurt Holuba, 25, was captain of Princeton's 2018 undefeated team. As a redshirt sophomore in 2016, he was a third-team All-America defensive end and first-team All-Ivy League selec- tion. However, an ACL injury curtailed his NFL aspirations. Kurt, who is still single, is on track to graduate from Columbia with a pre-med degree next year. Lauren, 39, is the oldest of Bob's children. She graduated from Prince- ton in 2004 and went on to attend the University of North Carolina Law School. Lauren now practices law in Augusta, Ga., where she lives with her four children. Bob's other daughter. Frances, 32, played lacrosse at the University of Virginia and graduated in 2010. She and her husband, Giuseppe, operate a catering and food truck business named Peruvian Brothers and live in Great Falls, Va., where they raise Pe- ruvian alpacas and Hog Island sheep. As for the rest of the family, Bob also has seven grandchildren. He lives in Palm Beach, Fla., with his partner of 10 years, Susan Furman, a promi- nent Palm Beach area real estate pro- fessional. Bob's mother is still going strong at 100 and divides her time between Palm Beach and Augusta, Ga. – L.P. Holuba children excel in Ivy League athletics

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