Andrews, Kenneth George

Born at Windsor, ON; deaf at 4 from spinal meningitis; Ontario School for the Deaf, Belleville 1917-1928, then a day school for the deaf in Detroit, MI, commuting daily across the border from Windsor, ON. A talented and accomplished boxer, with 44 or 45 wins, 10 losses, and the rest draws in a 60-bout career, including one match where he knocked out his opponent in just 7 seconds after the opening bell; he also won the Golden Gloves title in the middleweight division. Forced to leave school during the Great Depression for lack of money, began working at a automobile factory in 1930 and remained there until retirement in 1971. Stopped boxing in 1938, the same year he married Dorothy Mary Meeke.