Resigns from board
Cosby resigns from Temple University’s board of trustees. He had been on the board for more than 32 years. According to a statement released by the university, Cosby stated:
I have always wanted to do what would be in the best interests of the university and its students. As a result, I have tendered my resignation from the Temple University Board of Trustees.
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Cosby voices, produces and hosts the animated television series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. The show features the adventures of a group of Philadelphia inner-city kids.
When I did Fat Albert, I started thinking about, as the hero, what is it he could say that consistently and people would pick up on it. He loves the Temptations. And he wanted to be a background singer.
Cosby, Hanks marry
Cosby marries Camille Hanks, in a church in Olney, Maryland. Camille Olivia Hanks is a middle class 19-year-old psychology student at the University of Maryland. She is the daughter of an Army colonel.
I remember my pre-proposal which was, I would like to spend the rest of my life with you.
Attends Temple University
Cosby receives a “Track and Field” athletic scholarship at Temple University, Philadelphia. He studies physical education along with running track. Cosby also plays fullback on the football team and joins the school’s chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. He plays freshman football.
I’m around 185. I think I am a good running back, but I’m really not that fast. There is only one thing I can do, that is throw a cross-body block. Picture perfect. I love it. Not that good at pass blocking.
After one hit:
I started to feel my legs and I said, ‘Oh, my God, I’m paralyzed.’ If I don’t try to move, I’ll never know if I’m paralyzed, so I stay there. My trainer says, ‘Ask him his name.’ Dumbest thing I ever heard. I said, ‘Rumpelstiltskin,’ and Coach said, ‘He’s all right!’ I got up and the field was tilting. Somebody tapped me and said, ‘You have to go off the field.’
On deciding to become a physical education teacher:
They put me in remedial everything at Temple University and I will tell you I was the happiest 23 year old in remedial everything. I was there and I now knew what I had to do.
While at school Cosby tends bar and tells jokes. He continues to wear a cherry-red Temple sweatshirt while working clubs in Philadelphia and New York.
It made me walk from the dressing room to the stage. There would be no fear — unless I put that fear in myself.
Bill Cosby born in Philadelphia
William Henry Cosby Jr. is born in Philadelphia Pennsylvania to Anna Pearl (née Hite) and William H. Cosby Sr. a U.S. Navy sailor.
I started out as a child and group up in the streets of Philadelphia playing street football.
He spends many afternoons at the movies:
I was able to go on a Saturday afternoon and see cowboys and cartoons and a serial—we called them chapters in our neighborhood in the Projects in Philadelphia.
