Here is another side of our father and Woody Hayes that most people don't know. Woody and Anne Hayes were good friends with our parents, George and Lilyan Haddad. Everyone knows Woody as a colorful personality, but Anne would also light up the room. She had a lot of energy and enthusiasm and loved to swim in our pool. As our mother's health started to deteriorate as a result of multiple sclerosis, her eyesight became extremely compromised. Woody would often come over to visit and he would kneel down by her wheelchair and read to her.
People might think that Woody, the football coach, and our father, the concert pianist, had nothing in common, but that couldn't be further from the truth. They would talk for hours about the importance of relationships, whether it was the coach and his players or the professor and his students. Not only did they talk, but they demonstrated this in the way that they chose to live their lives. Woody and Dad enjoyed their children and grandchildren and shared their adoration for them.
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