For some two decades ADOLFO ROENSCH (HS '28 and Commerce '31) was the trouble shooter of Col. Andres Soriano, Sr. in Anscor (Andres Soriano Corporation) in San Francisco, California, but he is best remembered as an athlete by La Sallites while he was a junior student at the school on Taft Avenue. He was sitting in the bleachers, watching the track and field games of the National Collegiate Athletic Association when Nick Machan, the La Salle coach, told him to go down and put on the school's uniform. Adolfo was a hefty lad - six feet tall and over 205 pounds in weight. When he asked why, Machan told him that their shot putter, Frank Murphy, hadn't shown up. "You're going to enter the shot put event for the school." "But I've never thrown the 16 pound ball in my life!" he protested. Machan there and then taught him the mechanics of shot putting, placing the sphere behind his right ear and putting his weight on his right leg before springing for a mighty heave. And to everybody's surprise, Roensch placed second in that event, helping La Salle win the track and field championship that year. This was the year when Agustin Vallejo won the 440 yard run, Charlie O'Classen was the miler, and Johnny Spirig of Zamboanga dominated the sprint events. Adolfo began practising assiduously for his event, and when he went to Shanghai for the Far Eastern Games as a member of the Philippine track and field team, he won the gold medal and established a record that stood for three years. Any kudos that he gathered later as a student at Harvard University, or as Colonel Soriano's right-hand man in the United States, have not given him as much pleasure as that day when he won a medal for La Salle in an event that he knew nothing about.