#LaceyGane January 13

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For January 2024 several of us will be participating in the “30-Day 6 Degrees of Separation Coach4aday Challenge”-today we learn about the connection of basketball coach named LACEY GANE to Colin Powell.

Lacey Gane and his family are very important to me both personally and professionally. A Pennsylvania native, Gane served in the Army Air Corps from 1944-46 and then went to Elon College on a basketball scholarship. He was a starting guard for the Fightin’ Christians for three years. He would marry Allene Stallings Gane and have five children all who are consider great friends.

Lacey coached high school basketball in Lexington NC and Guilford County (Bessemer HS) prior to being named the Basketball Coach and Athletic Director at then Pembroke State in the 1960’s. In 1977 he, Ray Pennington (Chair of HPER Dept) and Joe Gallagher (Head Coach) hired me as Assistant Basketball Coach and Lecturer at Pembroke. Lacey coached a lot of successful men including Carl Peed.

Rules of the Challenge

Many people have heard of this concept. The notion of six degrees of separation grew out of work conducted by the social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s. It then became a 1993 film named appropriately “Six Degrees of Separation.”

Organizing a six degrees of separation challenge involves creating a chain of people, each connected to the next by a mutual acquaintance. The goal is to demonstrate that any two people in the world can be connected through a chain of six or fewer personal connections.

How to Participate

Here is how to participate:

1. Identify the First and Last Person in the Chain.
2. Go thru the connections with a brief explanation.
3. Do this daily for 30 Days posting on social media with the hashtag #Coach4adayChallenge

Day 13-Lacey Gane to Colin Powell

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1. Lacey Gane coached basketball for a decade at UNC Pembroke (back then it was Pembroke State) and one of the players he coached was Carl Peed.
2. Carl Peed was from Hamlet NC and graduated from Pembroke in 1969. He was the son of Sheriff Deputy and after a stint in the military for two years he became a corporal in the Fairfax County (VA) Sheriffs Office. In 1990 he was elected Sheriff of Fairfax County and served in that role for a decade. In 2001 he was appointed by Attorney General John Ashcroft to the position of Director of COPS
3. John Ashcroft was a US Senator from Missouri who was appointed Attorney General by George W Bush in 2000.
4. George W Bush was the 43rd President of the United States and appointed a number of people to Cabinet positions during his two terms as Commander-in-Chief including Colin Powell.
5. Colin Powell was a US General who became the country’s 65th Secretary of State in 2001

Great video about Leadership from General Colin Powell