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Lucas shares his secrets of remembering people's names; Memory expert, a former pro basketball standout, speaks at Stow United Methodist Church
by Mike Lesko
Associate Editor

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Former pro basketball star Jerry Lucas, a memory expert, shared some of his secrets of remembering names Aug. 10 at Stow United Methodist Church. Here, Lucas, 69, greets visitors at the church after his final presentation.

Stow -- Former pro basketball star Jerry Lucas, a memory expert, has appeared on numerous talk shows through the years, but one particular appearance on "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" stands out in his mind.

Before his appearance, Lucas was chatting with Fred de Cordova, the show's director.

"Johnny loved what I did," Lucas said, referring to displaying his memory skills. "Mr. de Cordova asked what I was going to do this time."

The director suggested that Lucas meet everyone in the studio audience before the show and memorize their names, then be quizzed during the broadcast.

There would be 400 people in the audience, and de Cordova, perhaps second guessing himself, was skeptical, telling Lucas, "You'll make a fool out of yourself."

Lucas had never memorized the names of an entire audience before, but he gladly accepted the challenge.

"Was I nervous?" he said. "I was not."

The task was not easy.

"There must have been a Polish convention in town that day," Lucas said, chuckling. "But I didn't miss a name. I never missed a name on a TV show.

"Once, I met 800 people and named them all," he said.

Lucas appeared Aug. 9 and 10 at Stow United Methodist Church, 4880 Fishcreek Road in Stow.

On the first day, he gave two presentations, speaking about "Improving family relationships" and "Learning made fun and easy."

On the second evening, his talk was entitled, "Names and faces made easy."

Lucas, whose trademarked name is Doctor Memory, spoke to about 75 people Aug. 10.

"The problem is not recognizing a face but a name," Lucas told the audience.

Lucas talked about the "sound alike word system" that he developed.

"Learning is a process of connecting things together," he said.
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Lucas wows crowd at prayer breakfast
By L.B. WHYDE ? Advocate Reporter ? September 11, 2009

NEWARK ? Jerry Lucas knows a thing or two about winning. He also knows a bit about bringing families together; it?s as easy as counting to 10, he said.

More than 550 people attended the 19th annual Licking County Prayer Breakfast in Adena Hall on the campus of Ohio State University/COTC this morning to hear Lucas, a former Ohio State and NBA basketball player and Olympian.

The opening prayer, by Pastor Steve Osborne, commemorated the 9/11 events and the resulting unification and solidarity against a foreign enemy the tragic event created. But he went on to depict the country?s current situation of a weak economy, record numbers of unemployed and a division among elected officials on a number of issues, including health care. He then quoted scripture that ?a house divided will not be strong.?

The goal of the Licking County Prayer Partners is to bring the families in the community together and to that end, they presented the keynote speaker, Lucas. The Hall of Famer, author and educator taught the crowd 10 steps or guidelines to follow every day.

Lucas, a leading authority in memory training and learning systems, demonstrated his visualization technique with the simple count to 10. He related the number one to running television, which he says is one of the biggest enemies to families, and said families should run away from the entertainment device in order to spend more quality time together.
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Lucas wows crowd at prayer breakfast | newarkadvocate.com | The Newark Advocate
 
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It was mentioned last night during the Ohio State basketball game that the only person besides Wilt Chamberlain to average a double double in an NBA season was "Luke". That is just hard to believe considering the fact that he was only about 6'8" while Chamberlain was 7'2"+. Simply an amazing accomplishment.
 
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LitlBuck;1589652; said:
It was mentioned last night during the Ohio State basketball game that the only person besides Wilt Chamberlain to average a double double in an NBA season was "Luke". That is just hard to believe considering the fact that he was only about 6'8" while Chamberlain was 7'2"+. Simply an amazing accomplishment.
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They forgot Oscar Robertson then. He even went further and averaged a triple double in 61-62: 12.5 RPG 11.4 APG 30.8 PPG.
 
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LitlBuck;1589652; said:
It was mentioned last night during the Ohio State basketball game that the only person besides Wilt Chamberlain to average a double double in an NBA season was "Luke". That is just hard to believe considering the fact that he was only about 6'8" while Chamberlain was 7'2"+. Simply an amazing accomplishment.
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Something is wrong with that statement.

Shaq has done it 13 times.
 
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Innovation comes naturally to basketball Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas
Golden age
By Jerry Crowe
January 11, 2010

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Hall of Fame basketball player Jerry Lucas next to his gold medal from the 1960 Olympics at home in Templeton, Calif. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times / December 30, 2009)

As a player he was the first to win championships at high school, college, NBA and Olympic levels. Today, at 69, he champions his Lucas Learning System and a new website he says will ?revolutionize the education process.?

From Templeton, Calif.

Jerry Lucas never abided the mundane.

It wasn't enough for Lucas, in the early stages of an athletic career that would earn him enshrinement in the Basketball Hall of Fame, to merely launch 5,000 shots a day as a youngster.

He challenged himself by visualizing a clock face atop the rim, not counting a shot made, for instance, unless it grazed 3 o'clock -- or 9 o'clock or 12 o'clock, wherever he was aiming -- before falling through the net.

Other times, to improve his rebounding, he'd purposely miss shots while mentally cataloging where the ball caromed, insight that Lucas claims made boxing out unnecessary.

"I did things," he says, "that I found out later on no other basketball player in the history of the world ever did."

But Lucas didn't stop there.

With an incredible capacity for retaining information that earned him the nickname Dr. Memory, he didn't content himself with feats such as memorizing the Bible or the Manhattan phone book, which he did, or identifying hundreds of studio-audience members he'd only just met moments before appearing on "The Tonight Show," which he did to Johnny Carson's astonishment.

He wanted to share his gift.
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Innovation comes naturally to basketball Hall of Famer Jerry Lucas - latimes.com
 
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Lucas helps fire up Mohawks
By Rick McCrabb, Staff Writer Updated
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Staff photo by Gary Stelzer Basketball legend Jerry Lucas talks Monday, March 15, 2010 with the Madison girls and boys basketball team in Madison Township, Butler County, Ohio. The Girls will be traveling to Columbus on Thursday in the State semi finals tournaments. The boys will play Wednesday in Kettering at the regional semifinals.

MADISON TWP. ? If the Madison boys and girls basketball teams aren?t good enough ? they?re a combined 50-0 ? they now have Middie Magic on their sides.

Jerry Lucas, who led the Middletown High School boys basketball team to 76 straight victories and back-to-back Class A state titles, made an impromptu appearance Monday, March 15 between practices.

Lucas was in town Monday visiting friends ? Don ?Woody? Withrow and J.B. Deaton ? and he?s teaching a memorization class tonight, March 16 at Bethany United Methodist Church on Cincinnati-Dayton Road Liberty Twp.

After posing for a picture with the boys team ? only 6-foot-9 senior Justin Brunswick was taller ? Lucas stood before the players on both teams and talked about his high school, college, Olympic and professional basketball championships.

Lucas was the first player to accomplish this feat.

?He?s done it all,? Jeff Smith, the boys coach, told the players. ?Now he wants to help the Mohawks.?

Lucas called all his championships ?great fun? and said he?d remember them forever. Lucas said the 1960 NCAA Championship team from Ohio State recently celebrated its 50-year reunion.

?You never forget about winning,? he said.

When asked to name his favorite teammate, Lucas couldn?t name one. He called the Buckeyes ?a phenomenal team? that possessed a 3.5 accumulative grade point average with ?great, unselfish people.?
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Lucas helps fire up Mohawks
 
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Ohio State legend returns to Columbus
Lucas visits state tournament for first time since high school
By LOU CALI JR. Tribune Chronicle correspondent
POSTED: March 26, 2010

COLUMBUS - Long before the LeBron James era at the state basketball tournament, before the self-proclaimed king took his Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary team to four state finals, before ticket scalpers were getting up to $500 for one ducat from those who just wanted to say they were there when, there was Jerry Lucas.

Lucas grew up in a time where the current media three-ring circus was nothing more than a neighborhood festival. His roots trace back to Middletown in a decade (1950s) where only the wealthy owned color television sets, when ESPN was nothing more than four letters in non-sensible order, where hunting was the only thing that could possibly come to mind if Fox Sports was mentioned, where the internet was even too far-fetched for sci-fi movies.

But if one considered all those factors, Lucas was every bit as big as James, if not bigger. Without the benefit of today's available technology, which negates any possibility of an extremely talented player being kept a secret, everyone who followed high-school basketball in the state knew of Jerry Lucas.

His nationwide recognition was also huge considering when it was. By the time he was a junior, the New York Times had already done a story on him.

Lucas was a 6-foot-9 wonder who dominated inside, could shoot from 20 feet and was an incredible passer. Keep in mind that 6-9 in the 50s was like a 7-footer these days.

In three years as a varsity player, Lucas' team lost one game?- his final one. Middletown fell 63-62 to unbeaten Columbus North in a 1958 state semifinal.
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Following his scholastic career he became an All American at Ohio State and led the Buckeyes to their only national championship, in 1960. Ha had not seen OSU play live until a 50-year reunion this winter.

"The 50th was great," Lucas said. "I hadn't seen some of those guys in, well, 50 years. That was a special time with special people. We were all from Ohio, all good people, good citizens and great students. We represented Ohio State very well."

This season's Buckeyes are in the NCAA sweet 16 and many feel this is the best chance they've had to get a title since Lucas' teams.

"I'm impressed by them," Lucas said. "They're really good; a well-rounded club. They have a chance. It would be nice to see them in the final."
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Ohio State legend returns to Columbus - TribToday.com - News, Sports, Jobs, Community Information - Tribune Chronicle - Warren, OH
 
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