In what has been a busy year for Absent Friends, let me remember two more on this second to last day of the year.....
Stan Terlecki
1955-2017
Indoor professional soccer had a brief run in Pittsburgh in the early 1980's in the form of the Pittsburgh Spirit, and when they were playing, the Spirit's biggest star was Polish born Stan Terlecki, or "Stush" Terlecki, as Myron Cope dubbed him. The fact that Cope even mentioned Terlecki and the Spirit was a testament that the team was more than just a gimmicky side show.
I am not sure what became of Terlecki after both he and the Spirit left the local sports scene, but he was in the news this week due to his death at the too young age of 62.
Rose Marie
1923 - 2017
Perhaps Rose Marie will be best remembered for her role of Sally Rodgers in the classic 1960's sitcom "The Dick Van Dyke Show", but in fact her career in show business spanned a remarkable 90 years. She began vaudeville at the age of three years old and was the subject of a well reviewed documentary in 2017 called "Wait For Your Laugh". One item in her obit that intrigued me was that she got her start as a night club singer in Las Vegas in the 1940's at the Flamingo Hotel, a job that was given to her by none other than Bugsy Siegal!
RIP Stan Terlecki and Rose Marie.
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