Artis was gutted when he found out, partly because he wasn't well enough to attend the funeral. "Shed said he was out working in the yard, came inside and his wife, Melba, was crying. The coach of that team, Don Haskins, wrote "Glory Roads," an autobiography about that season that was made into a movie. "We just put it together.

“We obviously had significant racial issues in the ’60s,” Dick Myers said, “and I thought we had gotten better. Artis scored in double figures in all five NCAA Tournament games.He was enshrined in the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame and in the UTEP Athletics Hall of Fame, along with joining his teammates in Springfield, Mass., in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.Artis retired after a long career as a detective with the Gary, Ind., Police Department. Michael & Ermalene Gault Sr

My uncle was Britt Artis, my father was Wilson Ruben Artis. A Gary In legend.

“Our network of limited partners, including leading providers, payers and vendors that together touch one in three healthcare consumers in the U.S., relies on us to help them uncover and develop innovative solutions. Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp had vowed never to recruit a black player. God makes no mistake RIP my friend He would shoot off the wrong foot and I would have to cover him in practice and it would drive you crazy. Artis retired after a long career as a detective with the Gary, Indiana police department.

Keith Haring death cause Keith Haring was a gay, but he always advocated safe sex, in his paintings of radiant babies, we can see the explicit depiction of his thought- He was the torchbearer of AIDS awareness campaign in New York City because in many paintings. Orsten Artis broke his shoulder a month ago when he slipped on the carpet in his kitchen and fell. The two were like brothers. "We laughed. Orsten "Happy" Little "O" Artis Jr, age 75 of Gary, Indiana passed away at home on December 26, 2017. Orsten Artis, one of two team captains on Texas Western's legendary 1966 NCAA championship basketball team, died Tuesday at his home in … Activ Surgical’s patent-protected surgical Bobby Joe Hill, team leader and point guard, died in 2002 and the team's coach, Hall of Famer Don Haskins, died in 2008. For more information about Activ Surgical, the ActivEdge platform, leadership team and Board of Directors, please visitLRVHealth is the “Inside Healthcare” venture capital platform. Orsten Artis. The friendship between the two was based on their Gary roots. He averaged 12.6 points and 3.5 rebounds, shot 47 percent from the field and 86.3 percent from the free throw line in that championship season. Joseph L. Griffin Jr There is no minimizing the significance of the win. A true classy man. When a friend called to deliver the news, Artis was speechless: "I couldn't say nothing. "Steve Tredennick, a teammate, an attorney in Austin and the representative for this group of champions, said: "Orsten came in when I was a sophomore. Flournoy was in a wheel chair. Artis has a son. "Shed agreed: "I don't think I ever saw him mad. Orsten taught in the Gary Public Schools and worked at US Steel.

As A longtime Friend, There Will Always Remain ( In My Mind ) That Smile. "These men, this band of brothers, made history together. "Teammate David Lattin said from his home in Houston: "What a great teammate. I'm sure he will be up there with the Lord and I'm sure he will be bouncing a ball again soon. "We all stuck together. I just hate this. We came a long way. Activ Surgical is building a hardware-agnostic platform to enable autonomous and collaborative surgery through the integration of computer vision, artificial intelligence and robotics. The Herald-Leader of Lexington, Ky., wrote that the game would be a "dramatic wake-up call for universities across the South that if they wanted to win anymore, they would have to accept black players."

Their final year, the Miners finished 28-1. “We believe Activ Surgical’s platform and technology are poised to transform the surgical space by enabling existing surgical systems and robots to visualize what surgeons can’t and guide them, thus making surgeries safer, reducing errors and improving patient outcomes,” said Ameena El-Bibany, principal, ARTIS Ventures.

He dressed well and moved with grace. ANNIE QUEEN,JUANITA,MARY ALICE(Mae),BARBARA JEAN,and ROSS LEE. Their only loss was by two points to Seattle in the last game of the regular season. Haskins visited and challenged Artis to a free-throw shooting contest at Froebel. To the Artis family, sorry to hear about the lost of Orsten he was truly a good friend, we had a lot of good memories together and he will truly be missed.

It was great being the first black team to win the NCAA Tournament and beat Kentucky. Before that, he lost five toes to diabetes after contracting a staph infection.. In 2018, Activ Surgical completed the world’s first fully autonomous minimally invasive robotic surgery of soft tissue. Artis didn't even know Flournoy was going to Western until they arrived in the fall of 1962 and were roommates.

Indiana State and Pepperdine, along with Texas Western, were the leaders. Flournoy said Haskins was ruthless that year because he knew he had something.

High School: Gary Froebel 1962.

Flournoy, 73, visited Artis in the fall of 2015 at his Merrillville apartment. He scored 22 points against Utah in the NCAA Tournament semifinal game, and had 15 points and eight rebounds in the championship game against Kentucky. The two made history playing for Texas Western (now Texas-El Paso) on the first NCAA national championship men's basketball team with an all-black starting lineup. I wish I had seen the movie before Orsten passed away.

God bless him and condolences to his familiy.To the Artis family. El Paso police have a man in custody in the death of a woman at a home on Harry Flournoy Avenue in the far East Side. Then, he recognized him. Flournoy, who was the Miners' top rebounder, hurt his knee six minutes into the championship and missed most of the game. Artis was confused. Inducted 2014. Artis had a slew of scholarship offers. “We welcome the guidance and support from our new and current investors and Board members as we accelerate our efforts to commercialize our first product, ActivSight.