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They Got Memphis Moving

William Foster (left) and Hosea Hill

  • William Foster (left) and Hosea Hill

The Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation asked me to write something about youth mentoring. Good topic, questionable choice. My experience doesn’t go much beyond my own children. But I just met a couple of guys who know a lot about mentoring and whose story deserves telling.

For more than 50 years, Hosea Hill and William Foster helped hundreds of Memphis boys and girls literally run to success on high school cinder tracks, college and Olympics stadiums around the world, and later in their professional lives as doctors, police officers, and businessmen and women.