PLEASE JOIN US Athletic Hall of Fame Members The 12th Annual Monday, September 14 Bill Eddy 1998 at Sig Makofski 1998 Schenectady Proctor’s Theatre Larry Mulvaney 1998 City School District ……… Schenectady Walt Przybylo 1998 . Ray Vacca 1998 ……….. 1999 . TICKETS are $45 Bill Leonard 1999 Athletic Tony Parisi 1999 Hall of Fame & For Tickets and Information Pete Shulha 1999 . Please Call Ed Catino 2000 Reunion Dinner Bob Pezzano Bill Rapavy 2000 2000 . (518) 346-9297 Tommy Brennan 2001 Monday, September 14, 2009 or Billy Connors 2001 Proctor’s Theatre . Donna Frank Mack Suprunowicz 2001 (518) 668-5332 Dom Denio 2002 Al DeSantis 2002 . Norm Kitching 2002 . r est Speake Steve Szumachowski 2002 Gu Jim Barbieri 2003 Bill Kirvin 2003 Pat Riley Dick Suprunowicz 2003 …………………. Walt Suprunowicz 2003 • & Football Mike Maietta 2004 All-American at Linton High 1954 Schenectady Little League School World Series Champions 2004 Bob Czub 2005

Joe DeMeo 2005 tees • All-American Basketball Induc Marty Servo 2005 2009 Player at the University of Don Blaha 2006 Kentucky Abe Feldman 2006 Dick Bennett Shirley Muldowney 2006 Mike Meola • Won seven NBA Sidney Edwards 2007 & Championships (one as a Bill Manikas 2007 Special Legacy Tribute player, one as an asst. coach Ron Oyer 2007 honoring the undefeated & five as a head coach) Peter Famiano 2008 1954 Mont Pleasant & Nott Terrace John Grabowski 2008 Football Teams Joe Loudis 2008 • Member of the Basketball ………………………………... Hall of Fame Gue The purpose of the Athletic Hall of Fame is st Speaker • Member of the Schenectady to honor those individuals who have made City School District Athletic significant contributions to the history Hall of Fame and tradition of sports in the Pat Riley Schenectady City School District. …………………………………………………. 2009 Inductees Mike Meola Legacy Tribute Dick Bennett (Bednarkiewicz) Linton High School, Class of 1963 1954 Mont Pleasant & Nott Terrace High School Football Teams Mont Pleasant High School • Played three years of varsity football, basketball • Played varsity basketball at Mont Pleasant and baseball at Linton Both teams had 5-0 records and didn’t have an High School from 1937-1940 • First team All-County selection in all three sports opportunity to play the scheduled game against each other. The game was canceled after MP running back Dan • Considered one of the greatest players of the during his junior & senior years (first athlete to Monaco contracted polio. Oliver DeVito, a Nott Sig Makofski era achieve this) Terrace player, also contracted polio. • Mont Pleasant finished with a 56-4 overall • His three Linton football teams finished 21-3 record during his three year career, winning (7-1 each year) Mont Pleasant High School league championships during his junior and • Linton was undefeated & not scored upon Final Record: 5-0 senior seasons vs. Section II opponents in 1961 Outscored opponents 171-6 • His Mont Pleasant teams defeated several • Linton won the Class A League football title in Games vs. Nott Terrace HS and CBA were canceled. college freshmen teams 1961 and 1962 • Played on an undefeated Mont Pleasant • Union Star Schenectady County Football Player of Head Coach: Larry Mulvaney team in 1938-1939 the Year in 1962 Co-Captains: Dan Monaco & Lou DeMarco • Played on Mont Pleasant teams that won 37 • Schenectady Gazette Five County Football consecutive games (the streak ended versus All-Star for two years ( at two different positions: Game Scores the Colgate freshmen team) end and half back) MP 25 White Plains 0 • Attended Michigan State and Siena • Honorable Mention All-American football selec- MP 25 Albany 0 • Played basketball for parts of two tion in Scholastic Coach Magazine MP 32 Newburgh 0 seasons at Siena MP 56 Amsterdam 6 • Thom McAn Award winner in 1962 MP 33 Troy 0 • Played on Dan Cunha’s first team at Siena • Linton basketball finished 46-7 during his three • Started and averaged 15 points per game year career Six of the 11-member All-County team were MP while playing on the 1941-42 Siena team • 1960-61 basketball team won the Class A players: Larry Pivacek, Joe Green, Lou DeMarco, • Played a key role in Siena’s 37-34 victory League Championship, Class A Sectional Title Mickey Petrolle, Mickey Ferraro & Bob Patrick . over Villanova in the 1941-42 season and Class A-B Sectional Championship (scored over half of his team’s points, made • Played against Power Memorial & Lew Alcindor Mickey Ferraro won the Schenectady County scoring title. the go ahead basketball & made a key (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) in 1961 late in the game) (Linton won 74-68) Nott Terrace High School • Collegiate career was interrupted by World • 1961-62 basketball team tied for the Class A Final Record: 5-0 War II (served in the army) League title, losing a playoff game to Amsterdam Outscored opponents 193-33 • Played pro basketball for the Schenectady Games vs. Mont Pleasant & Albany were canceled. • Averaged over 17 points per game as a senior Comets (New York State League) in 1946 • Started on 1961-63 Linton baseball teams • Later played for the Schenectady Packers Head Coach: Pete Shulha (.617 winning percentage, batted .300, .333 (American Basketball League) Co-Captains: Alonzo Burnham and Derry Cooke and .400 as sophomore, junior & • Started for both the Comets and Packers senior respectively) Game Scores • Played in exhibition games against the • Received numerous college scholarship offers NT 25 LaSalle 7 (with their stars, Goose • Played basketball at the Univ. of NT 53 Amsterdam 0 Tatum & ) and the • Named to the ECAC “Team of the Month” twice NT 58 Troy 14 Rochester Royals (with their standout NT 32 Newburgh 6 players, and ) during his sophomore season (others honored included , Jimmy Walker, NT 25 Gloversville 6 • Member of the Mont Pleasant Sports and Sonny Dove) Hall of Fame Five of the 11-member All-County team were NT • Named All-Yankee Conference Honorable • Changed his name from Bednarkiewicz players: John Bezio, Alonzo Burnham, Derry Cooke, Mention (1964-65) to Bennett in 1944. Ed Wilgocki and Dick Kaczmarek. • Coached at CPMS, BG and Linton

• Author of several publications on local sports Derry Cooke won the Thom McAn Award. • Taught in the SCSD for 38 years. All 11 players on the All-County team came from Nott Terrace and Mont Pleasant.