Coach Schaefer Cites 8 years at HT: When head coach John Schaefer leaves Hinsdale this year after 8 years to become an Assistant professor of Physical Education at Wisconsin State Oshkosh, he will miss coaching gymnastics but not his study halls. Coach Schaefer, who used to enjoy performing on the flying rings, which are obsolete, pegged the side horse as his best apparatus for coaching. This coaches best is mighty fine as it was just last year, in what has to be one of his most glorious moments at HT, when Craig Kinsey got 2nd in State in front of TV cameras on the side horse. "Many schools don't have the facilities that Hinsdale Central has, therefore, the students should feel privileged rather than forced to participate in weight training, gymnastics and swimming, etc.  Coach Schaefer still keeps in shape by lifting weights. He also participates in biking, riding to and from school each day (a 22 mile trip). "Gymnastics is not considered a major sport, nor is it treated like a major sport here. Some people feel gymnasts have their own little world of P-Bars and trampolines." Coach Schaefer is always coming up with different ways of teaching us something. I remember him as a general inspiration who always had time for the team, whether in season or out and during the summer, said Tom Johnson speaking on behalf of the team...   (Hinsdale Courier - school newspaper 1966)