Johnny “Lam” Jones, former UT football player and track star.
In his freshman year he ran in the same backfield as another Johnny Jones. To distinguish the two, Coach Darrell Royal gave one the nickname Lam, for Jones’s hometown, and the other the nickname Ham, because that Jones came from Hamlin, Tex.
He was an Olympic gold medalist in 1976 and a star football player for UT, but did not have an entirely successful pro career.
W. S. Merwin, noted poet. While I like me some poetry, and have heard of Merwin, I confess to not knowing his work very well. But:
In later years Mr. Merwin was equally known for his work as a conservationist — in particular for his painstaking restoration of depleted flora, including hundreds of species of palm, on the remote former pineapple plantation in Hawaii where he made his home. He had lived there, in blissful near-solitude, since the 1970s, refusing to answer the telephone.
Anyone who’s a fellow member of the Alexander Graham Bell Was a Meddling SOB Society is okay in my book.
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