Distinguished:
Maury Poppen
Maury Poppen (Class of 1959) graduated from Madison High School and went on to the University of South Dakota, but transferred to General Beadle State Teacher’s College in 1955. During the three years Maury was at GBSTC, he led the men’s basketball team in rebounding and averaged nearly twenty points a game. He was named to the SDIC All Conference Basketball team in 1956 and 1957 and was SDIC Honorable Mention in 1958. He graduated from GBSTC in 1959. Maury went on to earn his Masters Degree in Secondary Education and Psychology from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff in 1970.
Following college Maury took a job at Carthage High School where he coached all sports. Under his leadership Carthage was named as the top six-man football team in the state in 1959. In 1962 Maury moved to Orange City, Iowa where he was an assistant coach in all sports. In 1965 he moved to Las Vegas, NV where he coached and taught at Valley High School until his retirement in 1991. He began his coaching at Valley High School as the head junior varsity football coach and assistant baseball coach. In 1969 he was named head baseball coach and his Valley High School Vikings went on to win the Nevada State Baseball Championship in 1970. He retired from coaching in 1973 but continued as a teacher of Psychology and Personality Development.
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