{"id":1233,"date":"2011-06-15T09:44:04","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T09:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2013-09-13T20:49:03","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T20:49:03","slug":"ward-im-worried-about-the-beaver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2011\/06\/15\/ward-im-worried-about-the-beaver\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ward, I&#8217;m worried about the Beaver&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-fathers-day-2011-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1252\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1252\" title=\"Beaver\" alt=\"Beaver\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2011\/06\/3lb07.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As <strong>Father\u2019s Day<\/strong> approaches this weekend, you might be interested to learn of the little-known connection between <strong>UTC<\/strong> and one of television\u2019s most-revered <strong>TV Dads<\/strong>.\u00a0 Baby boomers will remember the late 1950\u2019s- early 1960\u2019s TV show, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leave_It_to_Beaver\">Leave It To Beaver<\/a>,\u201d about the Cleaver family: Ward and June Cleaver, and their two sons, Wally and Theodore, aka \u201cThe Beaver.\u201d \u00a0This popular show featured actor <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hugh_Beaumont\">Hugh Beaumont<\/a> as the father, Ward Cleaver.\u00a0 As it turned out, Hugh Beaumont attended school in Chattanooga, including one year at the University of Chattanooga, where he participated in sports.\u00a0 Apparently, he was not involved in acting at all then, but was a talented athlete, participating in sports while attending the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorschool.org\/\">Baylor School<\/a> in Chattanooga, as well as being on the freshmen football and basketball teams at UC, early in Coach Moore\u2019s tenure here.\u00a0 It is said that Beaumont left the team, and the school, after one year when his position on the football team was changed.<\/p>\n<p>Beaumont was born in Kansas in 1909, and his father was involved with business that had the family constantly on the move.\u00a0 According to city directories, the Beaumonts lived in <strong>Chattanooga<\/strong> in the late 1920s into the early 1930s.\u00a0 Hugh attended the <strong>University of Chattanooga<\/strong> during the 1930-31 school year.\u00a0 Unfortunately, he left very little evidence of his time here- he does not officially appear in the yearbook, and since he played on freshmen, or \u201cB\u201d teams, there is not much mention of his athletic contributions.\u00a0 However, the freshmen basketball team photo below, from the 1931 Moccasin yearbook, shows a player that bears a resemblance to Beaumont.\u00a0 According to his biography on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0064604\/\">IMBD<\/a>, Beaumont began appearing in plays and theater performances in 1931 in California, probably soon after leaving UC.\u00a0 His movie career began in 1940 consisting of mostly uncredited, small roles in films.\u00a0 By the 1950s he was getting bigger roles, which no-doubt led to his being cast at the father in the \u201c<strong>Leave It To Beaver<\/strong>\u201d series.\u00a0 Ward Cleaver was a fair, honest, and diligent father, doling out practical sense and patient advice (particularly when cautioning son Wally on his friendship with the falsely-sincere, and always trouble, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eddie_Haskell\">Eddie Haskell<\/a>).\u00a0 The show ended its run in 1963 and for the rest of the 1960s Beaumont made guest appearances on many TV shows.\u00a0 Also a <strong>Methodist minister<\/strong>, Beaumont died unexpectedly in Germany in 1982 while visiting his son there.\u00a0 He is remembered today as one of the quintessential TV dads.\u00a0 <strong>So, as 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