| The Tuscaloosa News
Since his daughters were born, New Yorker Bill Getchell had been hoping to send them down South to his alma mater, the University of Alabama.
“I would tell my wife they’ve gotta go here,” said Getchell, who is in Tuscaloosa now, working to ready his new business, combining Rita’s Ice and PJ’s Coffee, for opening in early March on the Strip near the UA campus. “She’d say ‘You haven’t been back there in 20 years.’ “
Then came an anniversary reunion of players under coach Ray Perkins, and the former Crimson Tide wide receiver brought the family down, where the lush green beauty of UA’s central campus helped seal the deal.
“We walked on the Quad; she was standing a few steps in front of the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library. She did a 360, and said ‘OK, they have to come here,’ ” Getchell said.
Their eldest is at UA now, studying nursing, and the youngest will start in the fall. After his wife finishes her last year of a teaching contract, the…
