average.
And while he's banking in jumpers, he's also banking away the tuition to Georgetown Law School, which he'll attend this fall.
As to whether any of this would have been possible without Big Brothers - three in particular - is anybody's guess.
"My natural father died when I was 15," Nesmith explained. "My mother (Ruby Nesmith) was afraid I was getting incorrigible, so she signed me up for Big Brothers."
At the time his family lived in North Philadelphia, and he was attending Dobbins Technical High School.
Enter Mark Loder, who was working for Big Brothers matching kids with adult volunteers. He saw something in Nesmith that intrigued him.
"When he read my file, he decided to become my Big Brother himself," said Nesmith. "I'd made the honor roll at Dobbins, and he saw a young kid with a lot of potential. Mark was the reason I got into Malvern."
David Loder, Mark's brother, is also an important part of this story. ''Mark prepared Steve for the (entrance) test at Malvern and made the
financial arrangements for him to go there," David recalled. "And we all became his big brothers. We played a lot of basketball with Steve in our back yard.
"I arranged for Steve to play for the Tower Hamlets. I played for them while I was attending the London School of Economics after Penn Law School. I wanted Steve to go somewhere where he knew the language, so he could enjoy the culture. And I knew there were good people running that team."
The Georgetown connection comes from a third brother, Tom, who was a law student there when Nesmith was starring for American University.
"I was in the Capitol Centre crowd the night Steve (who scored 15 points) led American over Pat Ewing and Georgetown," Tom said. "I thought I was in a neutral section, but people told me to sit down and shut up. I was going out of my mind."
