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Clifl Ward Ray Meyer fans get chance for rebuttal Letters, I get letters. Both letters had to be edited for reasons of space, but I hope I have done justice to the authors' salient points. Mr. Ward: This writer takes umbrage with you and your mythical bar stool "friend" concerning remarks about DePaul and The Coach, Ray Meyer. I'm sure your column was written to promote you as a...columnist and to provoke one, such as I, a DePaul basketball affidanado. To introduce myself, I'm not a >"j ohnny-come-lately" Demon fan. My interests in the university by the "el" goes back BRM (Before Ray Meyer). So you see, I can't sit idly back and and have someone draped over a bar stool denigrate the coaching kbility of the Baron of Belden Avenue. This person's observations on Coach Meyer are about as accurate as his pronunciation and spelling of Chet Coppock (Kopick), the WMAQ sportscaster. Furthermore, your beer-swilling buddy's enlightenment, Ray Meyer took his first DePaul team, during the 1942-1943 (FDR) season to tfte NCAA tour­ nament. That team decisively defeated the team favored to to win the tourney, the highly-touted eastern champion, Dartmouth. "Questionablecompetition?" C'mon, better get that beer rag from in front of your guzzling chum. Yes, the Meyer-led tournament teams did not do as well as many expected. "Can't win 'em all," as your con­ temporary coaches Knight, Hall, McGuire, et al, will attest. Nobody likes to win more than fatherly, honest, generous and humble Ray Meyer. But he realizes that basketball isn't the most important thing in the world. Thank you coach for many, many years of roundball entertainment. Good luck to you, Mr. Ward, may your your journalistic endeavors be as fruitful and productive as Coach Meyer. Respectfully, LARRY HUCK, Jr. . McHenry \ Reply: I certainly hope to have as "productive" a jour­ nalism career as Coach did in basketball, but fruitful? Baaedon coach's record, that would be like my Watergate- caliber expose«getting aced out in the first round of the Pulitzfef^s by "Magic Wingo." Dear Mr. Ward: I'm sorry about the problems you recently encountered getting your telephone service moved-problems detailed in your recent column. As you learned, we at Illinois Bell aren't perfect, hard as we try to be. Seriously, we do try to be easy to reach and easy to do business with. Unfortunately, sometimes we fall short of the mark. Jr • You said that when you had your phone telephone service moved you kept the same phone pumber-the only thing that changed was your address. '̂ Everything else stayed the same," you said. Well, for us a whole lot of tilings changed. Granted, yodr name and number stayed the same, but were is much more than those two items involved in providing your service. I'd like to explain just what is involved when you call Illinois Bell and say you'd like to have your service started, or, as in your^ease, have your service moved from one address to another. V In most cases, the only person you ever talk to when starting service is the service representative. Sometimes you'll also talk to a technician who comes to your home. But there are numerous people behind the scene, people you never see or talk to, who have as much a part in handling your order: -The order writer, who takes the information from the service representative and keys it into a computer for verification and processing. -The people who assign a telephone number to your order, determine which pair of wires is available to connect your phone line to our switching center and assign the order to an installer, if necessary. / -The person who physically makes the/ connection between the pair of wires that connects your residence to the equipment in our switiching center and makes sure the * connection is working properly. -The person in the directory department who prepares listing information for future directories and adds your phone number and new address to lists used by directory* assistance operators. / -The person in accounting who sets your new billing record reflecting Vour address change. -The person in our maintenance group who prepares a repair record reflecting your new address so that we can find information about your service if we ever have to call for repair. All of these people were part of your change of service. It looks simple enough on the surface and that's how we want it to look. We want it to be simple for our customers no matter how complicated it is for us. The next time you have to deal with Illinois Bell, I hope it is a whole lot easier for you. . Sincerely DAVID S.DUNLAP Manager, Community Relations Illinois Bell Reply: You know, ever since I wrote that column I've had terrible static over my phone, so maybe we should note that behind-the-scenes person as well. Defenders offer scholarship PAGE 3 -PLAINDEALER- WEDNESDAY,; MAY t, iS84 ^.general News MoiVf * brunch bvffet \)*y Served from 10a.m. - 11a.m. and 12 noon - 1p.m. $8.50 CALL M5-1072 FOR RESERVATIONS Served from * • a a mm 2p.m.-3p.m. HQ QK or 4p.m.-5p.m. Including Complimentary Class of Wine McHENRY COUNTRY CLUB 820 N.JOHN ST.. 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