Pam Dawber portrayed Lucy Wedemeyer. His specialties: Hawaiian teriyaki chicken, Korean barbecue, short ribs, turkey chili, meat loaf and chicken stir fry. There are times when practice gets hard, hot double days, struggles that you face both on and off the football field, Edwards told The Times last fall. Cheering on the sidelines was Lucy Dangler, Wedemeyer's high school sweetheart and now his wife of 42 years. WebWhile on the run from dangerous enemies, an assassin (Jennifer Lopez) comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she gave up years before. Coordinates: .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}330046N 800509W / 33.0126715N 80.0859218W / 33.0126715; -80.0859218. Even as ALS began to ravage his body, Wedemeyer persevered. Remembering Charlie Wedemeyer. A lot of coaches are militaristic and loud. This still didnt prevent Charlie from impishly suggesting that he was going to attend Los Gatos home games wearing a Nike headband on which someone had printed the following words: EXCUSE ME FOR LIVING. "The day before I got a feeding tube, I was at clinical for eight hours giving vaccines outside in 7-degree weather," she says. His legacy has lived on for how he carried himself and for the love he had for his players and other coaches. The film was shot on location in South Carolina, with the Wedemeyer family present. It was as if someone was standing right next to him, saying, Just trust in me and everything will be OK.. Charlie, though, didn't squirm like his brother, Herman, an All-American at St. Mary's, but feinted, side-stepped, dodged and eluded every would-be tackler to step into the 'ewa end zone. So he chose not to. 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The most fun I had with the guy, though, was when we could just talk football. He was a high school athlete and was quarterback of the Punahou They simply told their story, Charlie mouthing the words to Lucy, who relayed them to the audience. Daughter Carri Andry, 40, lives in Los Gatos and runs the Charlie Wedemeyer Family Outreach, which raises money for ALS families. Today, he coaches from a wheelchair with the help of his wife, Lucy. Every one of our players in the NFL had a person who influenced them and mentored them as they were coming up. I called him in the late 80s to tell him wed be interested in naming the all-star football game after him. All these people who look perfect and yet are broken inside.. His teams continued to excel, reaching the Central Coast Section semifinals in 1984, then claiming the ultimate prize a year later with a 14-12 win over St. Francis in the finals to win the CCS Division I championship. Practice is a highlight, despite the two- or three-hour process of getting out the door. A native of Hawaii, where he was known as the "God of Lightning" because of his athletic ability, he went on to play football at Three Bay Area men, including justice reform activist, plead guilty in Norteo RICO murder case, Californias hardest to book campground isnt in a famous park. If you are experiencing difficulties logging in or are a subscriber getting a paywall, please try one or more of the following steps. The family has been through desperate times, but those days seem far away. Weakened by her ordeal, Cercena could not complete her final coursework to graduate in May. T WAS a wonderful life for Charlie Wedemeyer. Instead, he found another calling. Born Feb. 19, 1946, in Honolulu, Wedemeyer was a football star while growing up in Hawaii and at Michigan State University. Many of his former players consider him their most inspirational coach by far, among them Buffalo Bills quarterback Trent Edwards, who played at Los Gatos High and later Stanford University. He attained his dream of teaching math and coaching high school football in California. The school really stuck by him, and [principal Ted Simonson] really stuck by him, said Cattolico. I am disappointed, Charlie told me through Lucy when I went to talk with them about the situation. But during her hands-on clinical training at a hospital pediatrics department, she tested positive for COVID-19. COVID Nurse Struggles with PTSD After Seeing Her Patients Die: 'I Wonder Why I'm Still Breathing'. Despite permanent back, shoulder and neck injuries caused by years of straining to lift her husband, she works up to 15 hours a day, seven days a week. 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Even in his last few days, as Wedemeyer entered the final throes of his guerrilla war against ALS, he and his family were confounding the physicians. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, Buffalo firefighter makes 'ultimate sacrifice' in blaze that may have sparked backdraft, Sabres place Alex Tuch on injured reserve; top-line winger's status is uncertain, Nebraska cheerleader competes by herself at state competition, but crowd doesn't let her feel alone, Paula's Donuts to move Clarence store that faced backlash for tax breaks to Amherst. He continues to astound the medical world with his indomitable will to live despite being stricken by Lou Gehrig's disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) 32 years ago. One of the most versatile athletes locally, Wedemeyer earned nine varsity letters in a brilliant high school career. It must have been awful in 1978, when as a healthy 32-year-old high school football coach, Charlie was told he had ALS often known as Lou Gehrigs disease. Wedemeyer, a sophomore backup quarterback and holder, was one of three Hawaiians on the Spartans 1966 national championship team along with senior kicker/punter Dick Kenney and junior fullback Bob Apisa. Heres a guy who could have been a good high school coach. Today, he inspires others through his will to live. Scott Downs, Los Gatos assistant principal and former frosh-soph football head coach, worked with Wedemeyer for nine seasons. "He was determined to win, especially when he had ended up in Kaiser Hospital after the first time they played," Lucy wrote in a recent e-mail. Wedemeyer was the last of nine children born to Bill and Ruth Wedemeyer. On the same night, Hawaii legend Tommy Kaulukukui will be enshrined. I remember how the San Francisco Giants once invited him to throw out the first pitch at a home game. 11 ratings2 reviews. The legendary football coach died Thursday. February 1978: Diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrigs disease, and given two to three years to live. They did. He watches the Food Network every day and memorizes recipes. In October 2020, 22-year-old Samantha Cercena was looking forward to finishing her senior year at Ohio University and graduating in the spring with a nursing degree, her childhood dream. WebCharles A. Wedemeyer (19111999) was a pioneer in the field of independent and distance learning. "With no nutrition.". WebQuiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story is a 1988 American television film directed by Roy Campanella II and starring Michael Nouri as Charlie Wedemeyer and Pam Dawber as Really? Im sure there were tears between Charlie and his wife, Lucy. Harriette Cole: I don't want the neighbor's kids at my house, Dear Abby: My wife said she doesn't like it, but it's part of my life, Ask Amy: I feel guilty for not speaking up about my co-worker's activities, Ask Amy: I'm your cabin housekeeper, and you apparently have no idea what I do. June 29, 1995: Inducted into first class of the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame along with Lucy. Unable to walk long distances, Cercena uses a wheelchair on frequent walks with her mother around the neighborhood. Unable to walk, he coached from a golf cart. Wedemeyer ruled like King Kamehameha on Oahu less populated than now and one without an NCAA Division football program until 1974. This past New Year's Eve, she developed sepsis related to a central line in her chest and went into septic shock; she coded in the emergency room, was placed on a ventilator and spent time recovering in the ICU. Pity? document.getElementById("ak_js_1").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()); Behind the scenes sports news. He was named head coach in 1977. But as the months went by, he got worse, and the chalk began dropping to the floor. Mike Harrington: His team looks good, even without Alex Tuch. The real Lucy has retained her beauty, which suggests that Dawber's appearance is understandable. Their story attracted national attention, and they were the subject of a made-for-TV movie in the 1980s. Dec. 26, 1988: Quiet Victory: The Charlie Wedemeyer Story, a TV movie, airs on national network television. Somehow, some way, things get done, Lucy said. That's been my symptoms for the last year and a half.". I remember trying to be positive and have words of encouragement. But when I walked out of that hospital room, I felt like I was never going to see him again. Except for Charlie.. When it was over, people approached, many weeping. During one such visit to a small Chinese place in Los Gatos, Wedemeyer was struck by the aroma as the front door opened. said Lucy. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! IRS delays tax deadline for Bay Area, but California hasn't followed: What should you do? After his graduation from Punahou in 1965 he attended Michigan State University where he played for coach Duffy Daugherty. He was 64. But there is no anger or bitterness. Whether you win or lose, we will act like gentlemen.". The ventilator fastened to Wedemeyers throat, as well as a feeding tube inserted in his stomach, saved his life. ALS is a terminal illness in which one is given, at most, three years to live. Interestingly, the 1964 Punahou-Kamehameha playoff game was also televised live throughout the state. Services have been tentatively scheduled for June 19 in Los Gatos. He was teaching in Flint, Mich., when in 1970 he accepted an educational fellowship in San Jose, and a teaching and coaching job at Los Gatos two years later. And to witness Charlie's pride when Kale was honored to play in the Hula Bowl 25 years after he did was unbelievable, Lucy added. The Honolulu Advertiser's Hawai'i Prep Athlete of the Decade. Still, restaurant excursions remain one of his greatest pleasures. This is pure joy for our family, Lucy said. Anyone else would have just given up long ago., Patti Hughes, an assistant principal on Simonsons staff, added, There are many wonderful, outstanding people in the town of Los Gatos and on the staff of Los Gatos High School, she said. He's expected to be released this week, in time to attend a coaches' all-star dinner Friday and the 35th Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Game next Wednesday at Spartan Stadium in San Jose. Only while broken did he discover the man he could be and the purpose that it would serve. They shared their own stories of personal tragedies, with a woman they had never met and a man who cannot speak. Clad in a black Los Gatos coaching shirt, Wedemeyer is ready to go. They remember the guy with the smile on his face.. He made us better in the early years.. I was in tears.. At the age of 30, he was appointed head coach of the Los Gatos Wildcats in California in 1976. He has met astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, a fellow ALS survivor, and was named the Disabled American of the Year in 1992. Dick Sparrer is the editor of the Los Gatos Weekly-Times and Saratoga News, and sports editor for the Los Gatos, Saratoga, Campbell, Cupertino, Sunnyvale and San Jose weekly newspapers. Those plans changed when Wedemeyer found himself drawn toward helping kids. 4.27. You try like hell not to say ALS. The thing is . We literally begged the doctor to change the order, she said. Zoom chops about 200 jobs in Bay Area, tech layoffs mount, The 10 most expensive reported home sales in Hayward the week of Feb. 20, Feds charge two with robbing two San Francisco banks during the same day, Ukraine official: Forces may pull out of key city of Bakhmut. A native Hawaiian, Mr. Wedemeyer was the youngest of nine children. Plugged into a respirator with a TV monitor beside his bed, he called plays with Lucy lip-reading and then sending them via telephone to the press box. The victory served as the climax of a television movie made about Charlies life. The ordeal left her unable to return to school "like I had originally planned," says Cercena, who learned she'd been accepted into a selective emergency room immersion training program at OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital. Indiana high school basketball has its Bobby Plump, the real-life Jimmy Chitwood, in the movie Hoosiers. Hawaii of the 1960s had its Charlie Wedemeyer, The God of Lightning, the Hawaiian translation of Kalekauwila (or Charles in English). Despite her protestations in the script, Dawber's character comes off as a saint who easily handles a very difficult situation. He went on to star for coach Duffy Dougherty at Michigan State University, where he represented the Spartans in the East-West Shrine Game and the Hula Bowl, and marry his high school sweetheart, Lucy Dangler. Within weeks both nurses were let go because they couldnt master lip-reading, leaving the Wedemeyers to start the process over. Wedemeyer was the last of nine children born to Bill and Ruth Wedemeyer. But while the procedures fortified his body with food and oxygen, they cost Wedemeyer the ability to speak, eat and breathe on his own. He went to see to Dr. Frank Griffin, the team physician for the Wildcats, and the news was frightening. The punishment for swearing was hed make you run a mile after practice, in full gear, with a big rubber tire around your neck. Springbett said he only had to be punished like that once before learning his lesson. Charlie is survived by his wife of 44 years, Lucy, daughter Carri (& Keith) Andry of Los Gatos, son Kale (& Sonia) Wedemeyer of Los Gatos, seven grandchildren, He loved Duffy Daugherty, who had been Charlies college coach at Michigan State. If it were a game of touch football, he still would have scored. At 5-8, 175 pounds, he would knock those big 6-4, 258-pound ends flat on their backs. Wedemeyers widow Lucy presents the plaques. Maybe 5 percent live 20 years. Prep Rally is devoted to the SoCal high school sports experience, bringing you scores, stories and a behind-the-scenes look at what makes prep sports so popular. Wedemeyer was especially gifted as an offensive coach. PHOTO: Charlie Wedemeyers athletic career spans his career at Michigan State, coaching at Los Gatos High in the Bay Area and his induction into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame in Hawaii. Simonson called Wedemeyer a great example for everyone. Apisa is considered the godfather of Polynesian football that launched the wave of Polynesians now permeating all levels of football and spreading from coast to coast on the mainland. The teen said he planned to kill himself. When he got up to leave, Scialabba placed his hand on Wedemeyers shoulder and said, Coach, its going to be an awesome season this year. We wouldnt have done what we were able to do without him. Trending. No one was too big for him to attack.. Wedemeyer was never going to cooperate. For a while anyway, the pulse of the ventilator was drowned out by the laughter of a child snuggled next to his grandfather, who was clad in a 10-gallon hat. She always read his lips and interpreted his words. Tejada is moved by Cercena's resilience. As he moves from the strong athlete to a man whose degenerative disease causes slurred speech and a loss of motor skills, Nouri gives this role a quiet dignity. 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Though Wedemeyer went on to play at Michigan State, where he was a standout end and earned selections to the 1969 East-West Shrine and Hula Bowl all-star games, he always pictured himself running his own hotel in Hawaii. Already weakened by an inability to eat and weighing less than 100 pounds Wedemeyer stopped breathing three times, twice in a 48-hour span. People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative condition known as Lou Gehrigs disease, just dont live this long. He's not finished. Shes looking to get smoked; Messages reveal aggressive threats from suspect on morning of San Carlos beheading, Antioch council ends remote-meeting options for members and the public, Zoom chops about 200 jobs in Bay Area, tech layoffs mount, The 10 most expensive reported home sales in Hayward the week of Feb. 20. His family established the Charlie Wedemeyer Family Outreach program that would present scholarships to deserving young people and raise funds for others coping with ALS; his autobiography, Charlies Victory, offers an inspirational story of love, courage and commitment; and the Wedemeyers would travel the world, according to their website, to share their message that he is a living testament that, with God, all things are possible.. Wedemeyer went to see Griffin, the Los Gatos team doctor and an orthopedic surgeon. Charlie Wedemeyer, Gregg Lewis. If you had a problem hed help you find a solution, he said. The northern California high school all-star football game in San Jose, celebrating its 35th year, is named the Charlie Wedemeyer All-Star Game in his honor. Eight years later, he had lost 60 pounds and had stopping breathing twice. She had to drop out before she even started. Between Two Women. "Getting a second chance to play them was a gift, thanks to Roosevelt.". More people can know about someone that faced adversity and never gave up. When people hear my dad speak, they dont remember the guy in the wheelchair, Kale said. Charlie Wedmeyer is survived by his wife, Lucy; his son, Dr. Kale Wedemeyer; his daughter, Carri Andry; seven grandchildren; and five sisters and one brother. Tommy Kaulukukui was a mentor to all of us who went to Michigan State, said Bob Apisa, who was enshrined in the Polynesian Hall in 2018 as the first Samoan All-American player with the Spartans in 1965 and 1966. In the early years of his illness, Wedemeyer prayed to God that he could get to see his two children, Carri and Kale, grow up to graduate from high school and then college. 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It is the honest moments in the script that put "Quiet Victory" a cut above most inspirational sports movies. Each year, co-payments increase. Harriette Cole: I don't want the neighbor's kids at my house, Dear Abby: My wife said she doesn't like it, but it's part of my life, Ask Amy: I feel guilty for not speaking up about my co-worker's activities, Ask Amy: I'm your cabin housekeeper, and you apparently have no idea what I do. He was eventually forced to coach from a golf cart. Lets go over the four important words again, she said. CHARLIE WEDEMEYER his life. Hazards and dangers are everywhere, and he must be looked after every second, day and night. Charlie Wedemeyer was one of those teachers and coaches who inspired kids to be better because of the work he did with them.. When the cheerleading coach broke the news to Katrina Kohel that she was the only one left on the cheer squad, Kohel was determined to compete anyway. 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A year later, he felt weakness in his right hand. The immense payoffs overshadow the games grass roots. I was the one who said, Probably two or three years. Thats what the medical books said at the time. His throat cleared and, for the first time in months, he drank bowls of soup without choking. Charlie never had to pay, said Lucy of their favorite restaurant stop. He continued to coach, though he couldnt walk and could barely talk. He was the subject of a PBS documentary and a made-for-TV movie. 1968: Invited to play in East-West Shrine and Hula Bowl college all-star games. But 30 years after his diagnosis, Wedemeyer is still here. Three cheers -- and three tears -- for Charlie. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). At his death, he could only move his eyes, eyebrows and lips. But his reach as a football coach went much deeper than the Xs and Os. He was fed through a stomach tube. "At the time it was devastating," she says, "because I was so excited, that's what I had really hoped for and where I wanted to be placed. Hes the most amazing guy youll ever meet, the person told me. He had undergone five surgeries in the last two weeks because of intestinal blockages. Daughter Carri Andry, 40, lives in Los Gatos and runs the Charlie Wedemeyer Family Outreach, which raises money for ALS families. Charlie, though, has a bunch of athletic accomplishments to be numbered among the 50 fabulous athletes since statehood. Some of Charlie's ambitious assistant coaches feel his obsession to remain coach against all odds may be more harmful than helpful to the team. As a favor to one of their nurses, the couple agreed to speak at a Christian couples retreat. He was named Hawaii Prep Athlete of the 1960s. . Lucy, daughter Carrie and son Kale (Charles in Hawaiian) are attending the enshrinement at the Polynesian Cultural Center. Two films have portrayed Wedemeyers life. 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