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50th Annual Eastern College Athletic Conference Sports Information Directors’ Association AWARDS DINNER June 8, 2005 Sea Crest Oceanfront Resort North Falmouth, Mass. DINNER PROGRAM Welcome . Jim Seavey, ECAC-SIDA President (Stonehill) Introductions . Dan O’Connell, ECAC-SIDA First Vice-President (Towson) Past Presidents’ Welcome . Wally Johnson, ECAC-SIDA Activities Chair (St. Lawrence) Bill Esposito Memorial Award . Presented to Jonathan Maggart, Le Moyne By Mike Donlin, Le Moyne Invocation . Bill Gorman, ECAC-SIDA Division III Rep. (Wentworth) Dinner Past Presidents’ Remarks . Rosa Gatti, 1978-79 President (ESPN) Past Presidents’ Remarks . Larry Kimball, 1973-74 President (Syracuse) Bob Kenworthy Award . Presented to Tony Wells, The Tony Wells Agency By Rosa Gatti, ESPN ECAC-SIDA Media Award . Presented to Jim Camp, Erie Times News By Brian Streeter, Penn State-Behrend ECAC-SIDA Media Award Presented to Geoff Converse, Cape Cod Times By John Garner, Former ECAC Associate Comm. Irving Marsh Award (Univ. Div.) . Presented to John Leisering, Mercyhurst College By Mark Fisher, Carnegie-Mellon Irving Marsh Award (College. Div.) Presented to Eric McDowell, Union By Jack Molloy, Brandeis Benediction . Sue Edson, 2002-03 President (Syracuse) 2005 ECAC-SIDA Workshop 2004-05 ECAC-SIDA Executive Board Local Organizing Committee President: Jim Seavey, Stonehill Chair: Jim Seavey (Stonehill) 1st Vice-President: Dan O’Connell, Towson Committee: 2nd Vice-President: Kent Cherrington, Plymouth State Chuck Sullivan (Harvard); John White (Springfield); Treasurer: Roger Crosley, Emerson Bill Gorman(Wentworth); Roger Crosley (Emerson); Secretary: Adrienne Gonzales, U.S. Mil. Aca. Kent Cherrington (Plymouth State); Adam Levin Past President: Ann King, College of New Jersey (Brandeis); Scott Dietz (Wheaton); James Kramer Division II Representative: Mike Donlin, LeMoyne (MIT); Jamie Weir (Harvard); Tim Volkmann Division I Representative: Mike Albright, U.S. Mil. Academy (Springfield); Mike Serjian (Nichols); Jeanne Carhart Division III Representative: Bill Gorman, Wentworth (Brown); Tony Berich (Philadelphia Univ.); Leigh Matejkovic (Neumann); Dan O’Connell (Towson) ECAC Representative: Heidi Kravchuk, ECAC Marketing Chair: Jason Fein, Staten Island Membership Chair: Jeff Bernstein, New York Univ. 2005 ESPN 50th Anniversary Activities Chair: Wally Johnson, St. Lawrence ECAC-SIDA Dinner Program Charities Chair: Bob Beretta, U.S. Mil. Academy The 50th anniversary ECAC-SIDA Awards Dinner program Ex-Officio: Sue Edson, Syracuse was produced by Dan O’Connell with assistance from Ann Newsletter Editor: Tracy King, Stevens Inst. of Tech. King, Pete Nevins, and Brad Tufts. Printing courtesy of Junior Press, 823 York Road, Towson, Md. 21252. Legal Counsel: Jay Waldman 50 YEARS OF ECAC-SIDA PAST PRESIDENTS William Crowley Les Unger Dick Page Holy Cross - 1956-57 Rutgers - 1960-61 Mass. - 1964-65 The very first president of ECAC-SIDA ... Les was SID at Dick began his presided over the first workshop in New Rutgers from 1954 to sports information York City ... Bill was SID at Holy Cross April 1978 ... Les had career at Springfield from 1953-60. been elected presi- in 1950 ... he spent dent of CoSIDA, but 22 years at the could not serve University of because he left Massachusetts, Richard Gordon Rutgers ... became starting in 1958 ... Hofstra - 1957-58 director of public relations and college ath- has fond memories of one-day ECAC- Dick came to Hofstra as director of athletic letics at the Meadowlands Sports and SIDA sessions at the Hotel Manhattan ... publicity in 1939 and retired in 1969 . the Exposition Authority ... left there in 1990 for won a 1970 Camero in the 100th “Silver Fox” also served as golf coach ... USGA ... advises young SIDs to “be Anniversary of College Football promotion was director of publicity for the Greater patient” ... moved to Colorado Springs by Chevrolet ... received Irving Marsh New York Collegiate Athletic Conference . when he retired in 2000. Award from ECAC-SIDA in 1980 ... presi- . 1970 winner of the Irving Marsh Award . dent of CoSIDA in 1971-72 ... member of . spent three years in the Army Air Corps the CoSIDA Hall of Fame ... one of three as a special information specialist ... was a people who served as president of ECAC- newspaperman (10 years) and radio com- Ben Mintz SIDA and CoSIDA ... advises young SIDs, mentator 2 years). Cornell - 1961-62 “be prepared to work many long hours in a Ben served 31 years profession that still had not received the on the sports informa- status and recognition that its constituents Walter Splain tion staff at Cornell ... have worked to achieve” ... retired and cur- Colgate - 1958-59 he served as director rently a resident of Ft. Myers, Florida. Walt was Colgate’s SID from 1951-52 for all but three of through 1961-62 ... from there, he went on those years ... mem- Peter McCarthy Brown - 1965-66 to hold public relations and information ber of the CoSIDA Pete was the SID at Brown from 1959 to positions at Drexel University and College Hall of Fame. 1968. Misericordia. Richard Baldwin Clifford Sundberg Dartmouth -1966-67 Al Shrier Brandeis - 1962-63 Dick was the SID at Temple - 1959-60 Cliff’s career included St. Lawrence from Al’s career has been 14 years as SID at 1960-66 ... he very special ... he Brandeis ... also served as president was named SID at spent three years of ECAC-SIDA dur- Temple on July 1, heading the sports ing the first of his 1953 ... no longer the publicity program at two years at SID, Al is still active Boston University, his Dartmouth ... he was at Temple as special alma mater (’41) ... SID at Buffalo from assistant to the ath- was sports editor of 1968-78... he also letic director ... mem- The Boston Herald Traveler when it folded served as press steward for NCAA cham- ber of the CoSIDA Hall of Fame ... winner in 1972 ... later was publicity director at pionships in ice hockey and swimming and of the Irving Marsh Award in 1981 when Wonderland Park, Foxboro Raceway and diving. member of the university rela- the workshop was in Philadelphia ... advis- Suffolk Downs ... received 5th annual tions staff at Buffalo for 20 years before es young SIDs, “be prepared to work long Distinguished Civic Contribution Award retiring in 1998 ... advises young SIDs, hours, become a computer whiz and from Brandeis in 1997, a year before his “establish professional integrity in first always keep learning as new situations death. encounter with all coaches” ... member of pop up” ... first SID with his own bobble- a jazz quartet ... resides in Williamsville, head doll, which was a giveaway at a N.Y. Temple basketball game last year. William Stryker Princeton - 1963-64 50 YEARS OF ECAC-SIDA PAST PRESIDENTS Robert Smith John Morris Bob Cornell Lafayette - 1967-68 Penn St. - 1971-72 Princeton - 1974-75 Bob was SID at John was the SID at Bob is concluding his Lafayette from 1961 Penn State from 29th year as the SID until November 1966 1970-79 ... spent six at Colgate ... a mem- ... he then moved years as SID at ber of the CoSIDA into school’s public Delaware before Hall of Fame, he was information office ... going to Penn State the winner of the graduated from ... worked as a sports Irving Marsh Award in Wagner in 1960 ... reporter for The 1992 ... graduate of sports editor of The Daily Gazette in Centre Daily Times in State College and the University of New Haven who was the McCook, Nebraska for a year before taking The Baltimore Evening Sun ... left Penn UNH SID after graduation ... worked as position at Lafayette ... served as secretary State for a position with ABC-Television ... Assistant SID at Princeton before getting and vice president of ECAC-SIDA before also worked with the United States Golf job at Colgate in 1976 ... served as USOC assuming presidency. Association. press liason at two Olympics ... winner of Scoop Hudgins Outstanding SID award Dave Fay RPI - 1968-69 from the All-American Football Foundation Bill Esposito in 2003 ... advises young SIDs, “enjoy St. John’s - 1972-73 what you are doing ... if not, this job isn’t Art Dunphy A 1950 graduate of for you.” Boston U. - 1969-70 St. John’s, Bill was Art’s career in public SID at St. John’s information began in from 1960 to 1984 the Army before he when he retired . enrolled at Boston served as team man- University... was SID ager for baseball and at BU for eight years basketball teams ... beginning in 1961 ... honored with Irving Marsh Award in 1973 served as “voice of ... winner of Wilbur Snypp Award from BU hockey and foot- NCBWA in 1972 ... taught a history of jazz ball” for eight years. ... left BU for the insur- class at St. John’s ... won the Arch Ward ance industry six months after election as award from CoSIDA in 1984 ... worked as Kevin DeMarrais ECAC-SIDA president ... advises young a media consultant for the Heisman Columbia - 1975-76 SIDs, “you need to be honest and open in Memorial Trophy and the National Kevin handled SID all of your dealings ... never compromise Invitation Tournament ... Korean veteran responsibilities at your integrity and do everything possible to who won the Bronze Star For Valor twice ... Columbia from 1965- accomodate the media” ... lives in member of the CoSIDA Hall of Fame. 84, with two years out Scituate, Mass. for Army service. ... introduced to profes- Larry Kimball sion as student assis- Ed Fabricius Syracuse - 1973-74 tant at Columbia Penn - 1970-71 Larry was the SID at (1962-64) ... led first ever panel on Ed served as SID at Syracuse for 31 women’s sports organized during year as the University of years (1966-97) ... he president ... won Irving Marsh Award in Pennsylvania from had previously 1975 ... left a NYC-based PR firm for full- 1961-77 ... his term served six years at time position at The Bergen Record in as president was the Vermont ..