SCARBOROUGH, (NEWS CENTER Maine) -- It seems an unlikely place to find Dick Whitmore until you know that's just where you ought to look for him.
The man who coached Colby Basketball for forty years has spent a lot of time in retirement working there. The reasons are energy and family.
Dick Whitmore now helps son-in-law Jim Hartley build a business. He uses the same intelligence, discipline and determine that he used to build Colby Basketball.
It's appropriate to say that Whitmore worked on building a community at Colby, not a basketball program.
He is beloved by his playes, in whom he maintains a life-long interest. Colby's basketball alumni group is one of the closest and most active in the country.
Whit's Colby teams won three ECAC Championships, had ten 20-win seasons and produced thirteen All-Americans.
He graduated from Bowdoin as that school's all-time leading rebounder and second leading scorer. He was an inaugural inductee into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. He has been in inducted into the Maine Sports Hall of Fame, an organization he now serves as Executive Director.
He amassed 637 victories at Colby which ranks seventh all-time in Division III.
He was Colby's Athletic Director for fifteen years and coached 40,000 young athletes as co-director of the Pine Tree Basketball Clinic.