I started with Willi on a sunny Saturday morning at the Haley track in Warfield. Bina Brown was there, and so were Diane Gerace, Georgia Tognotti and Paulette Gavrilik, who turned out to be Willi’s unbeatable women’s relay team from Trail. Henry DeRosa was there, and so were Dick Zanier and Bob Bush, to name […]
Dianne (Gerace) Fox’s Tribute I regret that I have a commitment in Nassau which makes it impossible for me to be here in person today to share some memories of Willi with you. After I left Trail in 1966, and eventually moved to the Bahamas, the memories of my Track and Field days gradually faded, […]
TRIBUTE TO WILLI KRAUSE The story of how Willi influenced the life of only one athlete. Our son Barrie attended school in Nakusp, grades one to twelve, receiving his share of blue ribbons in sports. While in high school he learned that the Nakusp branch of the Royal Canadian Legion was sponsoring a “search for […]
In Remembrance Of Willi Krause: Coach, Friend & Counsellor One who lived a life with as much depth and breadth as did Willi Krause deserves many words of description, yet in searching to find the right ones, I find myself coming back to terms that invoke the image of father-figure. Yet that would be fair […]