Back in the late 1970’s I had the opportunity to meet Joe. I was a student in the School of Community and Allied Health at UAB. The hotel up the street (can’t remember the name) allowed the Allied Health and Nursing students to use the hotel swimming pool.
UAB Town and Gown theatre was doing a production and Joe was one of the actors (I believe it was Guys and Dolls). He was staying at the hotel. Joe came strolling by the pool where we were hanging out, stopped, sat down and just started chatting away with us for about 30 minutes. It was like he was just one of the gang.
Of course, it didn’t hurt to have several good looking young ladies from the nursing program at poolside as well. 😉😉😉