SHENKAR COLLEGE
Pays To Be Sports
Minded
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ROTHSTEIN, first coach of the
Miami Heat and coach of the Detroit Pistons, recalls his childhood
days in the Bronx. He delighted in teasing his younger brother Warren,
who was a very quiet kid until he was five.
One day Warren couldn’t
take it anymore and grabbed one of the plastic stacking tables and
broke it over his brother’s head.
“We crawled on the floor
to pick up all the pieces,” Ron said. “We were afraid our father
would kill us both.”
Now
a successful businessman – chairman of Worldwide Web NetworX and
ceo of ATM Service Ltd. – Warren was honored with a dinner at New
York’s Waldorf-Astoria by the American Committee for Shenkar
College in Israel.
“I’m
52 and it’s good to be someone’s little brother,” Warren
cracked.
Actually he did follow in
his brother’s footsteps, at least in his college days. Warren
attended the University of Texas at El Paso on a basketball
scholarship.
Sonny Shar,
committee president, also honored Kenneth J. Rood, head of
Ralph Lauren Home, and Sami Sagol, ceo of Keter Plastics, an
Israeli company that manufactures garden furniture and bathroom
accessories.
When Sonny called Rood to
be an honoree, Rood asked, “What do I have to do?”
“You make a speech and
send me money,” an unabashed Sonny told him.
It was a good choice, as
far as doling out honors to deserving sports minded persons.
In 1978 the New Jersey Nets
drafted Rood after a two-year stint as an all-star in the
Continental Basketball Association, the farm system for the NBA. In
1982 he was inducted into the Hofstra University Basketball Hall of
Fame.
And
Sagol? He’s athletic in his own way. He owns Hapoel Keter,
Israel’s leading soccer team.
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