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Barry Bronson \u201970 (left) and Jon Alexander \u201971 visited the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland in 2017.
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Three men who stood together as college students during the\ntroublesome Vietnam War era now stand together in the face of a different sort\nof struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of these Transylvania University alums, Jon Alexander\n’71, was diagnosed with prostate and bone cancer a few years ago. Since then\nthe other two, Barry Bronson ’70 and Chris Compton ’71, have been there with\nhim, as they were back when Alexander, the Student Government Association\npresident, grabbed a bullhorn and addressed National Guard troops and\nUniversity of Kentucky students who had ended up on Transy’s campus as\npost-Kent State protests raged across town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Who would have thought that 50 years later these same\ntwo men would once again stand with me in another ‘volatile’ situation, as I\nbattled stage IV metastatic bone cancer,” Alexander said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bronson, in fact, gave so much support to his ailing friend\nthat a group called Cancer Family Care<\/a>\nrecently gave him the Joslin Haggart Yeiser Unsung Hero Award at a ceremony in\nCincinnati.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Compton, who was Alexander’s SGA vice president at Transy, helped arrange a consultation at the renowned Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center, Bronson bought Alexander a plane ticket to fly to Lexington from his home state of California \u2014 and then Bronson, his Pi Kappa Alpha brother, drove him to the Cleveland Clinic. As Alexander’s condition worsened, Bronson also repeatedly took his friend to the Louisville area for treatments, which because of a Medicare stipulation were more affordable in Kentucky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Given the accompanying chills, fatigue, sweats, nausea\nand vomiting, he cooked for me, took me to church and drove me whenever the\noccasion necessitated, never failing to bring light and even humor to what was\na dark and depressing time,” Alexander said. “Plain and simple,\nwithout this loving, compassionate human being that I\u2019m blessed to call brother,\nI would never have been able to receive the immunology treatment I\u2019d traveled\n2,000 miles to receive.” Alexander called Bronson’s efforts a “much\nneeded injection of hope.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Add that to what happened a year earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bronson captured this photo of Alexander meeting Bruce Springsteen in New York City after a 2017 performance of \u201cSpringsteen on Broadway.”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

That’s when Compton called up Bronson and suggested they\ntake Alexander to a Bruce Springsteen show on Broadway. Originally from New\nJersey, Alexander had seen The Boss in concert 84 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After learning he was going to the show, former attorney\nAlexander wrote a letter to Springsteen about how much his music had helped\nbolster his morale in his fight against cancer. Along with the letter,\nAlexander wanted to include a Los Angeles Times story about his successful\ndefense of Diane Grue, an Orange County homeless woman. The story concludes:\n“As the family celebrated, attorney Alexander, who defended Grue for no\nfee, broke out his guitar. Right there, at the front door of the courthouse, he\nbegan singing Bruce Springsteen\u2019s ‘Ghost of Tom Joad,’ an ode to the\ndestitute.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bronson, a writer and public relations consultant, then got in contact with Springsteen\u2019s management and forwarded the letter, story and their seat locations (they could get only two tickets so it was just him and Alexander). “Immediately after the show at the Walter Kerr Theatre a man who identified himself as Bruce\u2019s security head, motioned for us to follow him out the backstage door,” Bronson said. “He said Bruce wanted to meet Jon. Seconds later, Bruce and wife Patti emerged and went straight for Jon. To me, it seemed like a reunion of great friends. I was happy to catch the meeting with my camera.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, a couple years ago Compton invited Alexander to\nKeeneland and arranged a reception for him at the Thoroughbred Club of America.\n“When you’re in poor health, the best thing you can do is be around\nfriends,” Compton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Compton (left) and Bronson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

While Compton \u2014 who along with Alexander nominated Bronson\nfor the award \u2014 only recently became reacquainted with Alexander, Bronson\nhad kept in touch with him over the years, visiting him at the Outer Banks bar\nhe owned and in California during the ’80s when Alexander lived there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We stayed close, sharing a friendship and a love of\nrock ‘n’ roll,” Bronson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Compton, it was Bronson’s quiet, unselfish support that\nled to his nomination. “I watched Barry’s continuing friendship with\nJon,” Compton said. “It was unwavering.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bronson said he was motivated to help a brother \u2014 one who\nwould have been there for him had their situations been reversed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“For me, just attending the Cancer Family Care banquet\nin Cincinnati was an honor,” Bronson said. “I got to hear cancer\nsurvivors tell their stories and hear about caregivers who made my small\ncontribution seem minor. Really humbling and gratifying.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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