To steal a famous quote… “Tell me it ain’t so Joe!” Richard, needless to say I am shocked and disappointed with your decision, but I can certainly understand your reasoning to spend more time with your wife. Both YOU and your coaching staff did a marvelous job with our women’s basketball program this year, and under your leadership the program was headed for great success.
If at anytime in the near future you reconsider your decision, PLEASE feel free to contact me. Your coaching style and friendly personality will be greatly missed by our female athletes, and especially by all of us in the athletic department.
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to Trojan Athletics. It’s been a genuine pleasure working with you these past two years. May all of your days be blessed with smiles and sunshine.
Sincerely,
Coach D.P. "Mick" Lorusso
Director of Athletics
Valley Forge Military Academy & College
1001 Eagle Road
Wayne, PA 19087
Phone: (O) 610-989-1491 (Trainer Hall)
(FAX) 610-989-1496
Email: dlorusso@vfmac.edu
Website: www.vfmac.edu
The Finest Institution of its Kind in the World!TM
Friday, June 4, 2010
NEW PRIORITIES: MY DECISION TO MOVE FORWARD
I have just forwarded the following letter to the school's athletic director and administration:
Mick et al:
With the benefit of time since the final game of the VFMC Women's basketball season to reflect on all that was accomplished last season, and after consultations with others including those on campus and off-- especially those with my life partner, Barbara Brooks (Pomerantz) as we now turn our own focus to the new and very exciting personal and professional priorities we have in front of us the remainder of this year and beyond--I have decided to leave it to a successor of the school's choosing to lead the VFMC Women's Basketball team into the next season.
To have established the foundation for and realized the unprecedented experience of the 2009-2010 women's basketball program (including but not nearly limited to the institution's first ever women's intercollegiate athletic victories), can best be summarized the way it was described to me the first day on the job last summer: "To be a successful coach at VFMAC is unlike any other experience...It will challenge you in every which way...and more...as a leader...as a motivator...as a teacher...It's a bit like paraphrasing the Frank Sinatra song New York New York: If you can be successful there, you can do so anywhere..."
It did...and I have appreciated the opportunity...
Kindest personal regards.
Dick Pomerantz
Mick et al:
With the benefit of time since the final game of the VFMC Women's basketball season to reflect on all that was accomplished last season, and after consultations with others including those on campus and off-- especially those with my life partner, Barbara Brooks (Pomerantz) as we now turn our own focus to the new and very exciting personal and professional priorities we have in front of us the remainder of this year and beyond--I have decided to leave it to a successor of the school's choosing to lead the VFMC Women's Basketball team into the next season.
To have established the foundation for and realized the unprecedented experience of the 2009-2010 women's basketball program (including but not nearly limited to the institution's first ever women's intercollegiate athletic victories), can best be summarized the way it was described to me the first day on the job last summer: "To be a successful coach at VFMAC is unlike any other experience...It will challenge you in every which way...and more...as a leader...as a motivator...as a teacher...It's a bit like paraphrasing the Frank Sinatra song New York New York: If you can be successful there, you can do so anywhere..."
It did...and I have appreciated the opportunity...
Kindest personal regards.
Dick Pomerantz
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