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Ray Stokes first moved to Wrangell, Freddy, a game official and maintenance man at the school, made an impact. “He would let you tell him what you thought… he didn’t let it change the way he called the game but it made you feel better…I always felt I got a game when Fred was blowing the whistle, not an advantage but a fair shake for sure… He could come into the gym before my practice with his leatherman and flashlight strapped to his belt, go to the corner and tell the boys, ‘feed me,’ and they were always amazed how a maintenance guy could grab a ball in his work clothes and shoot it high into the air and see the consistent results day after day…It always impressed me how wicked smart he was, he could have been a star on Jeopardy, he knew a lot about a lot of things…Something that I always admired about Fred was how he treated me as a coach who coached his boys. Never one single time do I remember him blaming me, a ref, a player, or anyone else for anything that happened that didn’t go favorably for his kids or our team. He was honest and he was fair. I think this contributed to his kids being among the best. He supported them to the max but also he was honest.”

Former Mt. Edgecumbe coach and Wrangell Wolves country wise email marketing list star Archie Young said, “Growing up as a kid in Wrangell, Fred Angerman was a barometer, if not the barometer, for where you ranked in the hierarchy of Wrangell basketball. Wrangell holds an annual three-on-three Fourth of July Tournament and for years, if you wanted to win you had to beat some combination of Jeff Jabusch and Fred Angerman. Freddy was the standard you measured yourself up to. I can still recall the first time I was part of a team who beat him. I was playing with my cousins Rick and Dino. It was such a feeling of, ‘Damn it, I finally beat Freddy!’… As I became a coach, and traveled to Wrangell I knew he would be officiating. I loved the way he would say, ‘Oh NO,’ when I would argue a call and he was certain I was wrong. LOL Little moments like that, not specific moments, are what I will remember. He was always willing to talk about the game and the rules. I called him a few times over the years for some rules interpretation. Fred was always willing to listen and teach, cause I dang sure didn’t know all the rules like I thought… Fred was a big part of who I became as a player, and a coach. He loved the game…He loved Wrangell.”