jOHN G. BAYNES John G. Baynes has been elected to the Hall of Fame for his accomplish­ ments in the field of athletic training. Baynes. a native of Pennsylvania and Peace Corps veteran ofEl Salva­ dor, was for the last three decades the University's head athletic trainer. serving 22 women's and men's varsity sports and a comprehensive Jack Baynes intramurals program. He and his wife. the former Connie Trask, recently moved to Ariwna, where Baynes will provide athletic training services to the Santa Rita secondary school system. Since arriving at Northeastern as an assistant trainer in 1971. Baynes has become synonymous with Husky athletics, as well as athletic training as a discipline. After just one full season at Northeastern, he was promoted to bead the A.T. staff by Dr. George Lane. Since then he would serve four Lane Health Center directors and three athletic directors. In very short time. Baynes asserted himself as a primary cog in the development of varsity athletics at NU. and as a leader in the National Athletic Trainers Association (NAT A). After accepting an invitation from the National Health and Physical Education Association in 1975 to lecture on the subject throughout Mexico, he was selected to the training staff for the Pan American Games that summer. In 1980, he served on the staff of the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. His meteoric rise through the NAT A rank-and-t1le continued as both a new decade and a severe health threat approached. Seemingly minor problems with his neck surfaced in 1983, and, as symptoms lingered into 1985, he underwent further examinations at Mass. General Hospital. Kelly Dyer A team of specialists finally diagnosed the problem--the extremely rare Gorhams Vanishing Bone Disease-in 1983. After undergoing a series of radiation treatments. he continued to fulfill his duties, scarcely missing a beat. A neck collar worn since that time for added stability is the only outward sign of the now arrested disease. In sickness and in health, Baynes framed a Northeastern athletic land­ scape dotted by some of its greatest luminaries. National Football League greats Keith Willis, Dan Ross, and Sean "Spider" Jones were just a few of the football players he tended to in the span of three decades of athletic training. In particular, he quotes Keith Motley, now the University's Dean of Students, as a particularly refreshing competitor and student athlete as he prowled the basketball sidelines. Despite the added health pressures, Baynes career nourished. In 1979. he was elected a NATA District Coordinator. Athletic Trainer of the Year honors. College Division, came in 1985, which made it even easier for the • NATA governing board to tab him as their vice president. The Association'sDistinguishedServiceAwardin 1993 and the Cramer Award for outstanding contributions to Athletic Training (1991) arc the most recent proof of personal courage and professional resiliency. John Flora Connie and Jack Baynes are the proud parent~ of Sharon and Alan, both recent graduates of Northeastern. KELLY L. DYER JOHN B. FLORA Kelly L. Dyer has been elected to the Hall of Fame for her achievements John B. Flora, Oass of 1980, has been elected to the Hall of Fame for in the sport of ice hockey. his achievements in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track. Dyer, a 1990 graduate of the University's College of Business Admin­ Flora progressed from parochial status as a Connecticut scholastic istration and current professional hockey player in Florida's Sunshine phenom to one of the most frequently pursued runners in the elite ranks Hockey League, strung together an amazing 47-6-2 record as a goaltender of collegiate cross country and long distance racing. for the women's varsity squad. Distinguished by a beard from his twin brother and Husky teammate, She is currently one of three women in the world to play hockey Robert, Flora helped the Huskies, led by head coach Irwin Cohen and long professionally and will be looking toward the 1997 World Championships distance guru Everett Baker, dominate New England track and field in the and 1998 Olympics in Japan, the first to officially recognize women's ice second half of the 1970's. hockey. His presence alone presented a mitigating factor for coaches of oppos­ With Dyer going to the post, the Huskies amassed a 48-3-1 record in her ing powers. In his collegiate debut race, Flora finished fourth against junior and senior seasons, earning two Eastern College Athletic Confer­ Harvard at Franklin Park. The Huskies' one-point victory sent onlookers ence titles- symbolic of the women's collegiate national championship. and fellow Hall of Farner Bernard "Bunny" Solomon and Cohen into a Over her four varsity seasons, the Huskies were a combined 89-12-3. She frenzy and effectively ended a decade-long drought against the Crimson. posted a career 2.04 goals against average. Flora was a three-time All American in cross country in an epoch of A high school backup to three-time National Hockey League all-star superfluous track talent at Northeastern. Teammates such as his brother Tom Barrasso at Acton-Boxboro High School, she later emerged as one Robert, Ken Flanders, and Mike Buckley might have joined him with that of the best goaltenders to ever play the women's game. She and Barrasso status had they run in a different era He, Bruce Bickford, and current formed a goalie tandem that backboned three successive Dual County Husky men's coach Mark Lech were the tip of a deep running iceberg League titles. En route, she caught the attention of the elite women's during the mid 1970's. collegiate programs. He was the first Husky across the finish line as a sophomore in the Undecided on her next hockey home, she broke new ground at New autunm of 1975, leading Northeastern to its first IC4A cross country Hampton Prep where she played forward on the women's team and was championship at Van Cortland Park. Individually, he added the Greater the backup goaltender for the men's squad. Boston cross country championship to his fledgling Division I track Successfully courted by head coach Don MacLeod at Northeastern, resume that year. Dyer delivered with a level of dufflebagging never before seen at the As a junior, he shattered former Olympian Steve Prefontaine's course women's level. With Dyer guarding the vault, the Huskies captured two record at Franklin Park, clocking a 23:30 to coast in the GBC' s. Outdoors, straight ECAC Championships and four straight Beanpot Championships. he conquered a starry field and 110-degree heat at the University of She was voted the team's Most Valuable Player in 1988, and again in Pennsylvania to capture another IC4A title, symbolic of the East's best. 1989, when she also served as captain of the skating Huskies. Her En route to running the fastest times of his career, he became collegiate career germinated a starry international one. Northeastern's first back-to-backcross country All American. Not to be In 1990, she started in goal for the United States National Team that overlooked was his versatility. Indoors, he finished second in the GBC earned a silver medal in the World Games in Ottawa, Ontario. In 1992, she and New England two mile championships. took her goaltending acrobatics to Tampere, Finland, where the women's Loftier niches were carved in his senior season. In cross country, he national team salted away their second silver medal. strung together three straight GBC championships, fulfilling a prophecy Professional hockey - as in men's professional hockey - loomed as begun in his freshman year victory over Harvard. Following a third in the the next logical space on Dyer's resume. For the past five years, she has New England's, he posted an IC4A title with a 17:14 time over the played minor league pro hockey while also engaging her creative pas­ gruelling Van Cortland layout, and ran 17th at the NCAA's. sions. After several seasons with the Jacksonville Bullets, she was traded Indoors, he won the GBC two mile championship, setting the stage for to the West Palm Beach Blaze, last year's league champions. a dramatic, career-closing performance outdoors at Penn. With intense To stay in shape for the winter grind, she tends goal and is the Director media scrutiny of him trying to become one of three collegians to win of Marketing for the Orlando Rollergators of the International Roller consecutive 10,000-meter IC4A outdoor titles, Flora answered the chal­ Hockey League. Dyer remains active as president of the NU Friends of lenge. Women's Ice Hockey. PROGRAM NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY VARSITY CLUB I Toastmaster I President Melvin L. Litvin ' Melvin L. Litvin Executive Vice Presidents Introductions Philip M. Chrusz Jack Grinold Irwin M. Cohen Martin J. Damian Barry C. Gallup Inductees Frank J. Rando John G. Baynes Daniel J. Roberts Kelly L. Dyer John B. Flora Treasurer Stephen E. Grolnic George P. Makris Reginald Lewis, Sr. Angelo P. Toyias Assistant Treasurer Martin J. Damian For the University Secretary President John A. Curry Scot D. McKenney Ex-Officio For the Varsity Club Jack Grinold Melvin L. Litvin Vice Presidents John J. Connelly Robert G. Middendorf David A. Fraizer James P. O 'Shaughnessy David G. Lister David W. Sheehan Scot D. McKenney Janet S. Swanson Executive Committee Robert J. Cappadona Philip R. McCabe i Kelly Dyer Walter J. Lyons l STEPHEN E. G ROLNIC REGINALD LEWIS SR. Stephen E. Grolnic has been elected to the Hall of Fame for his Reginald Lewis Sr. has been elected to the Hall of Fame for his accomplishments in the sport of baseball.