Ernie Vandeweghe

Ernie Vandeweghe was a Canadian basketball player and physician, born in Montreal on 12 September 1928 and died on 8 November 2014. He grew up on Long Island, New York, where he played football, basketball and baseball at Oceanside High School, and he was an All-American guard at Colgate University before the New York Knicks drafted him in 1949. He played six seasons in the NBA, then left the league in 1956 to practise medicine as an Air Force physician stationed in Germany. He later chaired the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports and served on the Olympic Sports Commission under President Gerald Ford. He is best remembered alongside his family: his wife Colleen Kay Hutchins was Miss America for 1952, his son Kiki was an NBA All-Star, his daughter Tauna swam at the 1976 Olympics and his granddaughter CoCo Vandeweghe plays professional tennis.