Stanley Farmer: We Called Him Coach

Author: Jerry (Gerald) H. Summers

ISBN: 978-1-935186-92-2

Description:

6″ x 9″
Softcover
208 pages
archival paper
175 photographs

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017911549

Cover, Type and Design by Karen Paul Stone

Proceeds from the sale of Stanley Farmer will go to Orange Grove Center (OGC), a 501(c)(3) Charitable organization under the Internal Revenue Status. Copies of Stanley Farmer can be purchased directly from Orange Grove Center, 615 Derby Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee 37404 – or – www.orangegrovecenter.org

What others are saying:

Only Jerry Summers could tell this tale so beautifully. As one who was deeply influenced by a “Coach” in high school, Jerry Summers’ priceless portrait of Stan Farmer meant more to me than most, and I am blessed by that. Stan Farmer did far more than educate, coach or make a way for Central students. His was a rich, abiding love for all people – he adored it when integration turned black and white athletes into the same shade of purple. Thanks to my friend Jerry for telling this legend’s story and kindling the hope somewhere another coach may influence the next generation of “us.”

~ Roy Exum, Chattanoogan.com writer and former Sports Editor, Chattanooga News-Free Press

Although I did not get to meet Stan Farmer officially, I feel like after reading Stanley J. Farmer: We Called Him Coach, that I have gotten personally introduced to him and actually now feel like I know him. This book is a great and fun read! If you love Central, then it is a MUST read, but if you love and care about young people, then it should not be missed. Coach Farmer’s life was a model of what it means to “pay it forward.”

~ Finley King, Principal, Central High School, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Coach Stan Farmer reminded me of my own high school coach in West Virginia. He was very shrewd and smart and had a way about him that made you know he cared about people and he cared about you. Jerry Summers has written a very passionate book about Coach Farmer that reflects how much he cared about Coach Farmer, the man and the coach. I love the title “We Called Him Coach,” but the truth is that he was way more than that to so many young people.

~ Sam H. Woolwine, Retired Chattanooga News-Free Press sports writer