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Minium: A.H. Foreman's Grandchildren Approve of the Memorial to old Foreman Field

By Harry Minium

Peggy Bartlett called a few months ago and asked if I would show her what Old Dominion University had done to honor her grandfather, A.H. Foreman, at the new S.B. Ballard Stadium.

Foreman not only secured federal funding to build a football stadium that bore his name for 82 years, he was also a founding father of the Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary, which eventually became ODU.

That phone call led to a truly memorable three-hour meeting in which Dr. Wood Selig, ODU's athletic director, and I watched the grandchildren of A.