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'Fallen Knight' cherished Alter Hall of Fame honor
Sunday, February 08, 2009
When former Alter High School basketball captain Dan Meyer learned he had been nominated for the school's Hall of Fame, the 1966 graduate wasn't sure he was deserving.
But in the end he was thrilled. And as he visited old haunts on Friday, Jan. 30, Meyer snapped a photo of his childhood home on his cell phone, marveling, "The hoop's still there."
As Meyer faced a crowd of 250 people that night for the ceremony, his old friend Bob Vari thought Meyer seemed nervous but he wasn't worried. "Dan always comes through in pressure situations," he told himself.
Meyer delivered a rousing speech about what it means to be an Alter Knight. He closed with a benediction: "May God hold you in the palm of his hand, today and for all of eternity."
Those were the last words he ever spoke.
"He's our fallen Knight," a tear-stricken Katie Meyer said of the father who died during one of the proudest moments of his life — a very public death that traumatized the audience but united them in a profoundly communal experience.
