Trester

Lights, Marianne Meadows; costumes, Megan Perry Holeva; sound/video, Erik Trester.

Review: Scena Theatre's 'The War of the Worlds' at H Street Playhouse Nelson Pressley 2010

"As I got into my late 20s I realized, hey, I'm going to live," says Trester, who is now alcohol-free, married and expecting his first child.

An Unexpected Reprieve 2008

In late 1941, black Republican state legislator Robert Brokenburr finally got the best of Arthur Trester.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

When Trester died, still on the job in September 1944, all 778 Indiana high schools participated in the four-week tournament, in open competition in which the smallest school could hope to upset the largest, and the championship game was played before fifteen thousand frenzied fans and a three-state radio audience of some two million.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

To those who violated the rules and then complained of their punishment, Trester had a retort, “The rules are clear, the penalties severe.”

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

When Arthur Trester took charge of the IHSAA in 1913, the state tournament was in its third year and had thirty-eight participating high school teams, playing before twelve hundred spectators over a couple of days at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

Hinkle once told IHSAA commissioner Arthur Trester that he could add five thousand seats to Butler Fieldhouse at a cost of two thousand dollars a seat, and Trester had replied, No, Tony, five thousand would just make things worse.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

Hinkle once told IHSAA commissioner Arthur Trester that he could add five thousand seats to Butler Fieldhouse at a cost of two thousand dollars a seat, and Trester had replied, No, Tony, five thousand would just make things worse.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

Arthur Trester, czar of Indiana high school basketball for thirty one years and the house that Trester built: Butler Fieldhouse, mecca of the state tournament, and for decades the largest arena in the county built specifically for basketball.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006

Arthur Trester, czar of Indiana high school basketball for thirty one years and the house that Trester built: Butler Fieldhouse, mecca of the state tournament, and for decades the largest arena in the county built specifically for basketball.

Getting Open Tom Graham 2006