HENRY, Clayton ~ Graceland's Hall of Fame

HENRY, GILBERT

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 8/25/2013 at 20:02:37

HALL of FAME

Clayton G. Henry
Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa

The love of Clayton HENRY'S life, aside from his family, has been mathematics, baseball and basketball.

While in high school, Clayton was a substitute player on a very successful basketball team in Salina, Kansas. But at Graceland, Clayton blossomed into a quality performer who was the only freshman starter on a title contending Yellowjacket team under Head Coach Willie GIBERT.

Employed as an adjunct math instructor at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, Clayton was exposed first hand to Indiana High School Basketball as an assistant coach to Rex Rudicel. Before leaving teaching and coaching to work for the RAND Corporation, where he helped develop and program a computerized air defense system for the U.S. Air Force in the mid 1950's, Clayton accepted a position at Wyandotte High School in Kansas City, Kansas. Clayton co-coached the Wyandotte Basketball Team to the Kansas State Championship.

Having exited the business world, Clayton returned to teaching and coaching in the Shawnee Mission Schools of Kansas City, Kansas as an assistant for 3 years at East H.S. and head coach at West H.S for four years in the highly competitive Sunflower League Conference before moving to Lamoni to become a teacher and coach at Graceland for the last eighteen years of his professional life.

Clayton began his basketball coaching at Graceland in 1966. His successful recruiting efforts in the Kansas City area high schools paid dividends when the team was crowned Co-Champions of the Conference. While at Graceland, Clayton also coached baseball for three years with assistant William DUDEK. In their third year, the team won fifteen of their sixteen conference games as well as the conference title.

Clayton HENRY was inducted into Graceland University's Hall of Fame in 2002.

SOURCES: gujackets.com/f/Hall_of_Fame.php

Submission by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2013