Bill Harding

Bill Harding

Scott Stearman

b. 1953, Kansas. Graduated from Southern Nazarene Univ.

Studio: Scott Stearman, PO Box 417, Green Mountain Falls, CO
Foundry: Art Castings of Colorado, 511 8th St. SE, Loveland, CO

Bronze bust of Bill Harding smiling, wearing suit jacket and turtleneck.

Plaque: BILL HARDING / A high school basketball standout at Nixa, Bill Harding played four years at Drury prior to graduation in 1954 and then embarked on a highly-successful coaching career. He was at Nixa three years, Buffalo four and Parkview three, compiling an overall record of 225-62 for a .784 winning percentage. Included was a remarkable 76-8 standard at Parkview which included Springfield's first large-school state championship, the Class L title won in 1965. He then returned to Drury where he took the Panthers to the Missouri Collegiate Athletic Union championship in all but one of his six years. Drury was 119-44 for a .730 percentage under Harding and gained entry to the NAIA national tournament in Kansas City three times, making the quarterfinals in 1968. After retiring as coach in 1971, he remained as athletic director until 1987, maintaining the Panthers' record of excellence in both athletics and academia.

c. 2010

21st

45 cm. h. x 22 cm. w. x 22 cm. d.

Sculpture

Bronze

Cast

Gift of Lyle Reed and the Todd Parnell Family. Commissioned for opening of O'Reilly Family Event Center in 2010.

2018.002

2018

21080003 (bust)

20180004 (plaque)

Stearman

Scott