Comments on: Audio Slideshow: Memorial to Bill Keightley http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/ From the staff of the Lexington Herald-Leader Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:54:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: March 30 - April 5, 2008 Week in Pictures | Heraldleaderphoto.com http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/comment-page-1/#comment-3046 March 30 - April 5, 2008 Week in Pictures | Heraldleaderphoto.com Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:04 +0000 http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/#comment-3046 [...] Clinton in Kentucky, Ramel Bradley in the studio, the Legends warming up, spring break activities, Bill Keightley’s memorial and high water in the state. [...] [...] Clinton in Kentucky, Ramel Bradley in the studio, the Legends warming up, spring break activities, Bill Keightley’s memorial and high water in the state. [...]

]]> By: Cliff Richardson http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/comment-page-1/#comment-2608 Cliff Richardson Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:40:47 +0000 http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/#comment-2608 I'm an 82 yr. old former student at U.K. Bummed around with Bob Gaines, Wa Wa Jones, Alex Groza, Lloyd McDermott, Ralph Beard, Cliff Taylor and so many others back in the late 1940's. It was a great time after the war when we all had the opportunity to "let off some steam". U.K. has that certain something that sticks with you when you have been able to experience it all. Back then, the student body consisted of about 7,000 students. Tickets to the basketball games for the students were green one week and red the next "cause we didn't have room for everybody." No colliseums like we have today. Just a regular gymnasium, but Adolph and the boys were National Champions !!! Just goes to show you that it isn't the magnificent facilities that make the performers..it's what's inside them . The allegiance, the dedication, the desire and determination. The money afterwards, was never thought of with those guys that I knew so well. But U.K. is still a special place and I'm proud to say that I was able to spend at least some of my time there. Cliff Richardson I’m an 82 yr. old former student at U.K. Bummed around with Bob Gaines, Wa Wa Jones, Alex Groza, Lloyd McDermott, Ralph Beard, Cliff Taylor and so many others back in the late 1940’s.
It was a great time after the war when we all had the opportunity to “let off some
steam”. U.K. has that certain something that sticks with you when you have been able to experience it all. Back then, the student body consisted of about 7,000 students. Tickets to the basketball games for the students were green one week and red the next “cause we didn’t have room for everybody.” No colliseums like we have today. Just a regular gymnasium, but Adolph and the boys were National Champions !!!
Just goes to show you that it isn’t the magnificent facilities that make the performers..it’s what’s inside them . The allegiance, the dedication, the desire
and determination. The money afterwards, was never thought of with those guys that I knew so well.
But U.K. is still a special place and I’m proud to say that I was able to spend at least some of my time there.
Cliff Richardson

]]> By: CHARLES BURGIN http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/comment-page-1/#comment-509 CHARLES BURGIN Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:31:27 +0000 http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/#comment-509 I LIVE IN MICHIGAN BORN A WILDCAT LOVE THE WILDCATS WILL MISS SEEING BILL ON THE BENCH CAN;T IMAGINE TRYING TO FILL THE SHOES HE LEFT. SO HAPPY THEY HAVE THE INTERNET SURE LOVED THE SERVICE THAT I GOT TO SEE AND LISTEN TO. AS MR BILL WOULD SAY GO CATS. SIGNED A MICHIGAN UK WILDCAT I LIVE IN MICHIGAN BORN A WILDCAT LOVE THE WILDCATS WILL MISS SEEING BILL ON THE BENCH CAN;T IMAGINE TRYING TO FILL THE SHOES HE LEFT. SO HAPPY THEY HAVE THE INTERNET SURE LOVED THE SERVICE THAT I GOT TO SEE AND LISTEN TO. AS MR BILL WOULD SAY GO CATS. SIGNED A MICHIGAN UK WILDCAT

]]> By: Patty Reynolds http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/comment-page-1/#comment-479 Patty Reynolds Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:31:17 +0000 http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/#comment-479 For Miss Hazel and daughter, Karen. Thank you for sharing Mr. Bill with us for so many years. I am so sorry for your loss and our loss, too. For Miss Hazel and daughter, Karen. Thank you for sharing Mr. Bill with us for so many years. I am so sorry for your loss and our loss, too.

]]> By: Shelly Stanley http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/comment-page-1/#comment-477 Shelly Stanley Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:35:37 +0000 http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/#comment-477 I believe that the first chair on UK's bench should remain empty as a tribute. I believe that the first chair on UK’s bench should remain empty as a tribute.

]]> By: RICK MCDOWELL http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/comment-page-1/#comment-473 RICK MCDOWELL Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:26:15 +0000 http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/#comment-473 THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER MR. WILDCAT, SAY HELLO TO MR.CAYWOOD ,WE KNOW YOU BOTH ARE UP THERE WATCHING OVER THOSE CATS........ THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER MR. WILDCAT, SAY HELLO TO MR.CAYWOOD ,WE KNOW YOU BOTH ARE UP THERE WATCHING OVER THOSE CATS……..

]]> By: Angie (Hart) Hager http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/comment-page-1/#comment-472 Angie (Hart) Hager Fri, 04 Apr 2008 23:37:12 +0000 http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/#comment-472 I enjoyed what I saw but I haven't seen it all (the service) in it's entirety. A former classmate is working on that for me. I got to see about an hour of the Memorial Service. Enjoyed everything and everybody. Cried. My friend sent Rick Pitino's and Billy Gillespie's speech last night - both outstanding - cried like a big baby. The tribute to "Mr. Wildcat" was a great fete for a great man! I will miss seeing Mr. Bill on the bench. I'm 46 years old and have been a Wildcat Fan almost all my life. I do bleed blue - good seasons and bad. I started in Memorial Coliseum and then moved to Rupp when Rupp was built. My Dad has been a season ticket holder for many many years. He took me to Memorial Coliseum so I have "known" Mr. Bill almost all my life. My Dad is a member of the Committee of 101. He ushered at Mr. Bill's Memorial Service 4/3/08. My prayers are with "Miss Hazel" (who I worked with many years ago in the Funkhouser Buildging. She was in financial Aid and I was in Undergraduate Admissions.) and Karen and her husband (I have never met them) and their extended family: Big Blue Nation. The postings, the guest book signings, everything that has been written or said about him this week are a great tribute to a great man. I know you will miss him more than we will, but know that we will miss him too. He was loved by us too. "I Can Only Imagine" is one of my favorite Christian songs by one of my favorite Christian group's (Mercy Me) and to have that song being sung while you showed Mr. Bill's life in video.....well, it was just another tear jerker. Tears release pain like nothing else can do. Pain and Sorrow for you for us. We will cry with you Miss Hazel and Karen and friends and we will laugh with you at all the memories that we know of. He was a much loved man, as you well know. May God bring you peace in this most difficult time and rest in peace Mr. Bill. Thank you for all the years that you gave to the great Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky and everywhere you went as an Ambassador of Kentucky. You wore your pride well. I enjoyed what I saw but I haven’t seen it all (the service) in it’s entirety. A former classmate is working on that for me. I got to see about an hour of the Memorial Service. Enjoyed everything and everybody. Cried. My friend sent Rick Pitino’s and Billy Gillespie’s speech last night – both outstanding – cried like a big baby. The tribute to “Mr. Wildcat” was a great fete for a great man! I will miss seeing Mr. Bill on the bench. I’m 46 years old and have been a Wildcat Fan almost all my life. I do bleed blue – good seasons and bad. I started in Memorial Coliseum and then moved to Rupp when Rupp was built. My Dad has been a season ticket holder for many many years. He took me to Memorial Coliseum so I have “known” Mr. Bill almost all my life. My Dad is a member of the Committee of 101. He ushered at Mr. Bill’s Memorial Service 4/3/08.

My prayers are with “Miss Hazel” (who I worked with many years ago in the Funkhouser Buildging. She was in financial Aid and I was in Undergraduate Admissions.) and Karen and her husband (I have never met them) and their extended family: Big Blue Nation. The postings, the guest book signings, everything that has been written or said about him this week are a great tribute to a great man. I know you will miss him more than we will, but know that we will miss him too. He was loved by us too.

“I Can Only Imagine” is one of my favorite Christian songs by one of my favorite Christian group’s (Mercy Me) and to have that song being sung while you showed Mr. Bill’s life in video…..well, it was just another tear jerker. Tears release pain like nothing else can do. Pain and Sorrow for you for us. We will cry with you Miss Hazel and Karen and friends and we will laugh with you at all the memories that we know of. He was a much loved man, as you well know. May God bring you peace in this most difficult time and rest in peace Mr. Bill. Thank you for all the years that you gave to the great Commonwealth of Kentucky, the University of Kentucky and everywhere you went as an Ambassador of Kentucky. You wore your pride well.

]]> By: Larry Williams http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Larry Williams Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:51:00 +0000 http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/#comment-470 I am proud to be a Kentucky fan today, I will miss seeing Mr. Bill on the bench and will tell the stories to my kids about who and what he was all about. I am proud to be a Kentucky fan today, I will miss seeing Mr. Bill on the bench and will tell the stories to my kids about who and what he was all about.

]]> By: Glenna Vickers Burton http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/comment-page-1/#comment-468 Glenna Vickers Burton Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:33:56 +0000 http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/#comment-468 The position will be filled but the man will never be replaced in the hearts and minds of those who experienced his love and friendship. What wonderful tributes by so many! May the happy memories experienced by those who held him dear help take away the hurt. The position will be filled but the man will never be replaced in the hearts and minds of those who experienced his love and friendship. What wonderful tributes by so many! May the happy memories experienced by those who held him dear help take away the hurt.

]]> By: David http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/comment-page-1/#comment-467 David Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:45:03 +0000 http://www.heraldleaderphoto.com/2008/04/03/audio-slideshowremembering-bill-keightley/#comment-467 I have never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. wildcat but his passing brought tears to my eyes. After learning so much about him in the last several days, I am so inspired by the life he lived. My wife is always telling me that she knows me better than I know myself. Thats really true in a strong way. You live your life and when its time for you to go, its the people that are left behind tell your story. His live and passing brought both joy and sadness to me. I was truly touched by his story. God bless his family and those that can tell his story, I pray to God for their comfort. I have never had the pleasure of meeting Mr. wildcat but his passing brought tears to my eyes. After learning so much about him in the last several days, I am so inspired by the life he lived. My wife is always telling me that she knows me better than I know myself. Thats really true in a strong way. You live your life and when its time for you to go, its the people that are left behind tell your story. His live and passing brought both joy and sadness to me. I was truly touched by his story. God bless his family and those that can tell his story, I pray to God for their comfort.

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