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WILLIAM A. (FRED) BARRY DUANE VANDENBUSCHE KEVIN BORSETH U.P. Sports Hall of Fame 33RD ANNUAL INDUCTION BANQUET PREMIERE CENTER IRON MOUNTAIN, MICHIGAN April 24, 2004 • 5:00PM CT 6:00PM ET CLAY WILLMAN GARY FORS JOHN L. GAFFNEY PAT GALLINAGH SCOTT GARCEAU JOE JOHNSON REBECCA (DRAKE) CECCONI 2004-2005 U.P. SPORTS HALL OF FAME CALENDAR April 24, 2004 Hall of Fame Induction Banquet June 1, 2004 Deadline for nominations for Inductee Class of 2005 June 12, 2004 Negaunee Lakeview Gymnasium, U.P. All Star Basketball Classic July 17, 2004 Timber Stone, Iron Mountain, Scholarship Golf Fundraiser July 30, 2004 Sault Ste. Marie, Hall of Fame Annual Meeting/ Class of 2005 April 23, 2005 Hall of Fame Induction Banquet June 11, 2005 Negaunee Lakeview Gymnasium, U.P. All Star Basketball Classic August 2, 2005 Marquette, Hall of Fame Annual Meeting U.P. SPORTS HALL OF FAME SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS 1997 Kerry Kusz - Iron Mountain 2001 Megan Canadeo - Marquette Kristen Nichols - Lake Linden Karolyn Getzen - St. Ignace William McDonald - Pickford Kelsey Fors - Ewen/Trout Creek Michael Moore - St. Ignace Steve McDonald - St. Ignace 1998 Darcy Millon - Cedarville 2002 Jamie Fornetti - Kingsford Elizabeth Pietila - Hancock Maria Han - West Iron County Jared Bowerman - Munising Bryan Jacobs - Escanaba Steve Grunlund - North Dickinson Tony Mendina - Norway 1999 *Sara Boyer - Rapid River 2003 Korry Schwanz - Menominee Tara Reddinger - Kingsford Jill Recla - Kingsford Beth Koski - Baraga Christopher Kupitz - Bessemer Matt Barron - Mid Peninsula Benjamin Seppala - Chassell John Pietila - Kingsford 2004 Sarah Stream - Westwood 2000 Adriane Ostwald - Kingsford Krista Clement - St. Ignace Jennifer Swanson - Westwood Matt Franti - Ewen/Trout Creek Nathan Fraiser - West Iron County Jordan Ostwald - Kingsford Lance Veeser - Bark River Harris * Due to a full basketball scholarship to University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, NCAA rules did not allow Sara Boyer to accept UPSHF scholarship. The U.P. Sports Hall of Fame is located at the Pine Mountain Resort in Iron Mountain If you have any questions or comments visit the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame website at upshf.com. PROGRAM MASTER OF CEREMONIES . Art Allen U.P. Sports Hall of Fame, Council Member INVOCATION . Gene Maki U.P. Sports Hall of Fame, Council Member WELCOME . Nancy Osier President, U.P. Sports Hall of Fame REMARKS . .Duane Tirschel Executive Director, U.P. Sports Hall of Fame INTRODUCTION OF HALL OF FAME SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS . Dave Lahtinen U.P. Sports Hall of Fame, Council Member INTRODUCTION OF PAST INDUCTEES DINNER PLAQUE PRESENTATION INDUCTEES WILLIAM A. (FRED) BARRY KEVIN BORSETH REBECCA (DRAKE) CECCONI GARY FORS JOHN L. GAFFNEY PAT GALLINAGH SCOTT GARCEAU JOE JOHNSON CLAY WILLMAN DUANE VANDENBUSCHE BENEDICTION . Gene Maki U.P. SPORTS HALL OF FAME COUNCIL Executive Committee Council Members Duane Tirschel Art Allen, Manistique Executive Director Dennis Chartier, Iron Mountain Iron Mountain Bill Crawford, Sault Ste. Marie Karl Dickson, Escanaba Nancy Osier Robert Erkkila, Calumet President Frank Fazi, Sault Ste. Marie Wakefield Ted Kearly, Houghton Bob Krysiak, Menominee Rod Guizzetti N.E. “Boots” Kukuk, Big Bay Vice President Dave Lahtinen, Gladstone Negaunee Jim Lamoreaux, St. Ignace Gene Maki, Wakefield Dennis Grall Craig Remsburg, Marquette Executive Secretary Frank Rodman, Hermansville Escanaba Larry Rubick, Newberry Cathy Shamion, Ontonagon Steve Swanson Joe Vestich, Watersmeet Treasurer Ishpeming 2004 U.P. SPORTS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES WILLIAM A. (FRED) BARRY, 10 U. P. Class A-B track titles and set seven records and Calumet - A standout in football, was a four-time all-state selection. She was a three-year hockey and baseball, Fred Barry track letter winner at Central Michigan University, setting a was regarded by many as the best school pentathlon indoor record with 3,549 points, and was a all-around athlete in the Copper cheerleader for one year. She is a four-time Upper Peninsula Country during his career. An all- Ladies Golf Association champion and a five-time qualifier state football player in 1963 when for the U.S. Women’s Amateur Publinx tournament. he was U.P. Back of the Year, he received a football and hockey scholarship to Michigan Tech but GARY FORS, EWEN - Widely left school after his freshman year regarded as one of the top 10 prep to play semi-pro hockey, helping the Portage Lake Pioneers basketball players In the Upper win the U.S. Senior Men’s national title in 1956 and helping Peninsula, Gary Fors led Ewen- the C.L.K. Radars win the Gibson Cup in 1953. He was Trout Creek High School to the invited to baseball tryouts with the Kansas City Athletics and 1972 Class D state championship New York Giants and played In the Copper Country Twilight and helped Lake Superior State League and fast pitch softball. He died in 1988. University to the 1976 NAIA Tournament in Kansas City as a KEVIN BORSETH, BESSEMER - Very successful as a second-team NAIA All- women’s basketball coach at American. He holds LSSU’s three colleges, Kevin Borseth career (2,113 points) and season was also an outstanding athlete (716 points) scoring records. He averaged 25 points and 18 at Bessemer High School, rebounds. In his prep career. Fors was a two-time MVP at Gogebic Community College LSSU and a two- time recipient of the LSSU Clifford Everett and Lake Superior State Award as the outstanding male athlete. University. Borseth was 72-45 as coach at Gogebic (1983-86), JOHN L. GAFFNEY, 225-97 as coach at Michigan Manistique/Houghton - A 12-year Tech (1987-98) and 137-47 at career as Houghton High School’s Wisconsin-Green Bay (1998- boys basketball coach was 2004) In 2003-2004 he became Horizon League Coach of highlighted by a Class C state the Year for the fifth time in his 6 years at UWGB. He was championship in 1954-55 as the WBCA Region 6 Coach of the Year In 2002-3 after taking Gremlins were In the midst of a he Phoenix to their third NCAA tournament berth and first- 42-game winning streak. ever NCAA victory in a school-record 28-4 season. He was Houghton won four conference Division II Great Lakes Regional Coach of the Year at Tech titles, nine district crowns and in 1991 and 1995. three regional titles under the direction of the Manistique native. Among Houghton’s REBECCA (DRAKE) victims in the title year were Mass City, which won the Class CECCONI, Kingsford - A D state title. He died in 1986. championship performer in gymnastics, track and golf. Becky (Drake) Cecconi is regarded as the finest female athlete in Kingsford High School history. She was a U.P. all-around champion gymnast in 1979, won PAT GALLllNAGH, Bessemer/Ironwood - A starting gymnastic championships at Northern Michigan University, defensive tackle and first-team Johnson also placed 11th In the Central U.S. ski jump meet. Academic Ail-America on Johnson has completed more than 100 marathon runs and Michigan State University’s completed eight 100-mile races. He is one of just four to run undefeated Big Ten and National in every Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth. He also consistently Champion football team in 1966, places in the top 10 in a variety of canoe races and is a two- Pat Gailinagh spent 30 seasons time winner of the Master outrigger title In Hawaii and was as a high school football coach. a member of the nine-man team which won the 41-mlle The Detroit native was 161-120 International outrigger title in Hawaii In 1985. He won four as head coach at Bessemer and national canoe championships since 1977. Ironwood, In addition to a one- year stint at Gallup, N.M. He had two U.P. championship CLAY WILLMAN, Kingsford - A 10-letterman in football, teams and was a two-time U.P. Coach of the Year and led basketball and baseball at Kingsford High School, Clay Bessemer to the Class D runner-up spot in the 1985 state Willman was a four-year starting quarterback for Michigan tourney. In 1992 he was head coach of the West squad at Tech, winning the conference the state coaches high school all-star game. He has also been championship, setting school an active sports historian for the Gogebic Range. records, was named conference co-MVP as well as SCOTT GARCEAU, some small college All- Ishpeming - A career that American honors. He was began as a teenage named first-team quarterback sportscaster for WJPD Radio for Michigan Colleges and Unlversities and was MVP In in his hometown eventually the Tri-State Semi-Pro League carried Scott Garceau to and was drafted by Boston broadcasting professional (AFL), Minnesota (NFL) and events. The former WLUC- Saskatchewan (CFL). Was TV sports anchor in runner-up to Fran Tarkenton as Vikings’ QB before career- Marquette did play-by-play of ending injuries. Was Inducted into Michigan Tech’s Hall of the Baltimore Orioles for more than a decade for WMAR- Fame in 1995. TV and covered the 1983 World Series, then he handled play- by-play for the NFL’s Baltimore Colts and Baltimore Ravens, DUANE VANDENBUSCHE, Rock - A track and cross USFL’s Baltimore Stars and CFL’s Baltimore Stallions. He country coach at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo. broadcast the Super Bowl and has handled coverage of the since 1971, Vandenbusche has led his men’s cross country Preakness, the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, NCAA team to five Division II NCAA Final Four and women’s U.S. Open golf. He was also sports championships and one NAIA director at KGGM-TV in title and the women’s cross Albuquerque, N.M. country team to three Division II NCAA titles and one NAIA JOE JOHNSON, Ironwood/ crown.