Applications sought for 10th GAHS Athletic HOF class

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Fifteen members of Gallia Academy High School’s Athletic Hall of Fame Committee held its first meeting of the year in the school cafeteria on Tuesday, March 22.

The HOF committee announced the 2011 Hall of Fame induction ceremony would be held on Friday, Sept. 16, prior to the Gallipolis-Marietta football game on Memorial Field. The 2011 HOF banquet will be held Saturday, Sept. 17, in the GAHS cafeteria, beginning at 6:30 p.m. HOF committee officers for the 2011-12 school year will be voted on after the 2011 banquet.

Deadline for accepting nomination applications for the 10th annual HOF event is Friday, July 1. Individuals may obtain applications from the school’s website. Applications should be mailed to committee president Rusty Saunders, 2577, State Rt. 141, Gallipolis, Ohio, 45631.

The committee will meet on Tuesday, July 19, 6:30 p.m., at GAHS to vote on the 2011 HOF class.

Male applicants eligible for membership this year are those who graduated between 1925 and 1987. Female applicants eligible are those from 1975 to 1992.

In other matters Tuesday, member Dan Mink said he has contacted The Park Front Cafe to cater this year’s HOF banquet on Sept. 17.

Since Dan Davies, local jeweler retired earlier this year, the committee announced David Tawney would take care of the 2011 HOF plaques this fall.

The committee tabled a motion on the status of current committee members in alignment with the group’s by-laws.

The committee is searching for a picture of the late Danny Howard, who was inducted into the GAHS HOF several years ago.

A committee made up of Tom Meadows, Dan Mink, Hobart Wilson, Jr., and Renee Barnes is scheduled to meet later this spring to check on possible HOF applicants. President Saunders told the group that there are 10 active applicants on record, 12 others who have not been selected and five others that need to be renominated.

Next committee meeting will be held Tuesday, May 24, at 6:30 p.m., in the GAHS cafeteria.


Attending were: Rusty Saunders, committee president; Tom Morgan, committee secretary; Jim Osborne, Tim Massie, GAHS principal; Hobart Wilson, Jr., Dan Mink, Jim Noe, Sarah Evens-Moore, Lori Young, treasurer; Tom Young, John Milhoan, Renee Barnes, Jack Payton, school superintendent; Tom Meadows, and Craig Wright GAHS athletic director.