Applications sought for 10th GAHS Athletic HOF class

[jottings]

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.

[jottings]

Boys 1925 to 1987. Girls 1967 to 1992. We've inducted more than 50 athletes during the past nine years. Got a list somewhere on file. I'll have to look it up.

[jottings]

GAHS Athletic Hall of Fame Honorees
First Class of Inductees
Friday, Sept. 13, 2002
Honoree Year Event
Homer Burton 1944 Football
Martha Cornwell 1969 Basketball, softball, track
Bill Eachus 1963 Football, basketball
Bill Joe Johnson 1949 Football, basketball, baseball
Bob Marchi 1949 Football, baseball
John Milhoan 1956 Basketball, golf coach
Bob Saunders-* 1947 Booster
Andy Gilmore 1962 Football, track, basketball
H. B. Saunders-* 1940 Golf
Tom Spencer 1969 Football, track, baseball, basketball
Jim Thomas 1955 Basketball, baseball
Bill Wamsley 1965 Football, teacher, coach, athletic director
Betty Wilmouth 1967-70 Coach
Second Class of Inductees
Friday, Sept. 5, 2003
Paul Evans 1961 Football, baseball
Charles Hamrick-* 1933 Football, basketball
Hobart Wilson, Jr. 1952 Sports editor, booster
Pete Anderson 1966 Football, basketball, baseball
Dick Shrider 1949-55 Coach
Danny Howard-* 1963 Football, basketball, baseball
Third Class of Inductee
Friday, Sept. 18, 2004
Richard C. Roderick 1961 Football, basketball, baseball
Odie O’Donnell-* 1947 Booster, scorekeeper
Aldo Jeffers-* 1944 Football, basketball, baseball
James Simms 1947 Football, baseball, basketball
Wayne Gibson 1941 Football, baseball, coach in 1950-51
Janet Groves 1979 Volleyball, basketball, softball, track
Karen Sprague 1977 Volleyball,basketball, track
Fred Raike 1951 Football, baseball
Chris Roderick 1966 Golf, football
Gee Marchi-* 1949 Football, baseball
Bill Cherrington-* 1930 Football, basketball, tennis
Fourth Class of Inductees
Friday, Sept. 2, 2005
Jimmy Noe 1973 Basketball
Sarah-Evans-Moore 1982 Basketball, volleyball, track
Cathy Wall Icard 1975 Basketball, volleyball, track
Forrest Borden, Jr. 1949 Football, basketball, baseball
Leo Valentine 1945 Football, basketball, baseball
Gil Price 1974 Basketball, tennis
Barb Eddleman 1977 Basketball, volleyball, track
Gary Lane 1960 Football, basketball, baseball
Brent Johnson 1977 Golf, basketball, baseball, football
John E. Halliday-* 1925 Football, basketball, track
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Fifth Class of Inductees
Friday, Sept. 8, 2006
Dave Burnett 1971 Football, basketball, baseball
Joe Duncan 1961 Football, basketball, baseball
Jim Gilmore 1968 Football, basketball, baseball
Jackie Knight 1966 Coach, volleyball, basketball
Jim Niday 1975 Football, basketball, baseball
George Pope 1963 Football, basketball, golf, track, baseball
Brent A. Saunders 1976 Football, basketball, track
N. Evans- Seeberg 1983 Basketball, volleyball, softball, track
Larry Snowden 1972 Football, basketball, track
Tom Valentine 1975 Football, basketball, track
Sixth Class of Inductees
Friday, Sept. 1, 2007
Kathy Daniels 1979 Volleyball, basketball,, softball, track
Jack Matthews 1970 Golf, baseball, basketball
John Janes 1936 Tennis
Kent Shawver 1977 Football, track
Cora Wolfe 1983 Track and field
Jack Mills 1959 Football, basketball, baseball
Brent Saunders 1968 Coach, football, track
Seventh Class of Inductees
Friday, Aug. 29, 2008
Gene Wetherholt-* 1950 Football, basketball, baseball
Bill Conley 1961 Football, track, golf, basketball
David Porter 1961 Football, baseball, track, basketball
Brett Wilson 1976 Baseball, football, basketball
Keith McGuire 1977 Track, basketball, coach
Angie Halley Malone 1988 Cross country, track, basketball
Eighth Class of Inductees
Friday, Sept. 18, 2009
Chris Ellcessor 1984 Basketball, football, cross country
Allen Romaine 1949 Football
Cliff Wilson 1963-‘70 Coach
Ron Janey 1966 Football, baseball, coach
Chuck Wood 1972 Football, track
Larry Fraley 1964 Football
Renee Halley Barnes 1984 Basketball, softball
Ninth Class of Inductees
Friday, Sept. 10, 2010
Lori Hamilton Strieter 1990 Basketball, Track
Gary Harrison 1987 Football, Basketball, Track
Andy Howard 1987 Football
Tina Nibert Jury 1978 Basketball, Softball, Volleyball
Tom Prose 1971 Football, Baseball, Track
David Tawney 1962 Booster President, photographer
Kristi Thomas Charbonneau 1990 Basketball, Volleyball



*-Deceased.

[headhunter1]

when will they be inducted

[jottings]

Saturday, Sept. 17, in the new GAHS school cafeteria. The new inductees will be introduced prior to the GAHS-Marietta football game on Friday, Sept. 16.