Guy Valvano

Guy Valvano became fascinated with high school athletics while an elementary student in the Dunmore School District. When he moved on to high school he became a member of the Dunmore High School basketball team and kept close to other sports by keeping score for the baseball teams and serving as the statistician of the football team.

Valvano started his newspaper career late in the summer of 1946, a few months after his graduation from high school. He was hired as a copy boy by The Scranton Tribune, a morning daily, and its sister newspaper, The Scrantonian, a Sunday publication. After six months, he was promoted to correspondent, a position he held for 2 1/2 years, before his appointment to the general news staff of the two newspapers.

Valvano covered high school, college, and amateur athletics during his 43 years as an employee of the newspapers. At the time of his retirement in 1990, he was sports editor of The Scrantonian and assistant sports editor of The Scranton Tribune. Two years after his retirement, he resurfaced as sports information director at Lackawanna Junior College, retiring after 11 years to follow the athletic pursuits of his grandchildren. Other books written by Guy Valvano are “The Dream Lives On”, a history of the football Dream Game; “State Champions”, which chronicles the Scranton area teams that won state basketball titles, and “Royals of Renown”, a tribute to the men’s and women’s basketball teams at the University of Scranton that captured national championships.

He lives in Dunmore with his wife, Marie, of 71 years. He has 4 children, 5 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.