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Hal Perry - starter on USF's national championship teams

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May. 6, 2009
Harold "Hal" Perry, the energetic, outgoing guard who was member of the USF basketball teams that won back-to-back NCAA titles in 1955 and '56, died Thursday in the East Bay after a long illness. He was 75. Perry was a starter for the Dons during those...
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch