Museum also wants your assistance to create summertime exhibit recognizing Woodstock-area athletes
By
Mark Schadenberg
In
baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out.
In
bowling, three strikes in a row is a great accomplishment.
The
City of Woodstock is to establish success in its checklist of three: New
nominations for sports wall of fame, more information on past inductees, and also
collecting memorabilia and biography material for planned Woodstock Museum
exhibit.
Woodstock
Sports Wall Of Fame
New
Inductees
I’ve
written lots on this topic in the past, but there are 7 categories and the
recreation advisory committee (WRAC) is accepting new nominations until June 30.
If you nominated someone in the past and they have not been inducted, these
suggested names will now stand for 3 years on file.
The
sports wall started at the community complex opening ceremony back in 1996, and
the biggest change in criteria is that the historic nominations can now be
anything from before 1970.
The
other 6 categories are: female athlete, male athlete, team, builder of sport,
lifetime achievement and honourable recognition.
The
newest honourable recognition level was created for specific current
accomplishments that truly needed to be bestowed upon a person still competing.
The 3 athletes inducted in this area are Stanley Cup champion Jake Muzzin,
Olympics hockey linesman Brad Kovachik, and Special Olympics world record
holder in powerlifting Russell Gerber.
This
blog includes a full list of those already inducted in case you have a name in
mind.
The
link to the actual nomination form is here, and paper work should be submitted to
City Hall, attention Brad Janssen from Community Events and Communications
department.
Reminder:
Deadline for Woodstock Sports Wall of fame nominations is June 30, and the ceremony
will be Saturday, Oct 29 in the afternoon at Goff Hall at the community complex.
Father & Son -- Ed MacQueen (right) and Dave MacQueen
Previous
Inductees
The
fabulous news about the overall presentation or appearance of the sports
shrine, is that the City Of Woodstock will be installing two 42-inch touch-screen
monitors in the foyer of the complex’s Southwood Arenas.
Files
and boxes, letters and original nomination forms, biographies and resumes, and many
old pictures have been collected and saved over the years by the WRAC committee,
but some pictures on the wall have faded over the years, so the City is
requesting new photos be contributed.
Also,
this new data base (archived bios in the touch-screen monitors) has the
opportunity to expand the biographical info on past inductees, including
multiple photos, scanned newspaper clippings, pictures of trophies, and other
scrapbook material or photographs of uniforms, etc.
Make
contact with anyone listed below if you have items which can be copied. The
Woodstock Museum has the technology to re-photograph originals and therefore
add some bulk to their archives. In other words, that great football picture of
your Uncle Charlie from 1955 could appear on the sports wall of fame kiosk
monitor, at the museum exhibit in 2016 (see story below), and be utilized again
in the future.
Penny Farthing bike -- Woodstock Museum
Woodstock
Museum
Beginning
July 30 and running until Sept. 24, the Woodstock Museum at 466 Dundas Street in
Downtown Woodstock is planning to honour the Woodstock Sports Wall of Fame with
an exhibit recognizing the many great athletes and teams and people in general
in local sports history.
With
that in mind, the museum staff wants to borrow artifacts, memorabilia,
scrapbooks, old trophies, jerseys and jackets, historic sports equipment, and
anything else that fits this description for its display.
Anything
borrowed by the museum will be cataloged and will be displayed under glass in a
secure case.
If
you have memorabilia from an important sports era in Woodstock – an old
athletic association, broomball league, historic curling trophy or anything
that represented a club championship in perhaps golf, badminton, tennis or
bowling, consider the idea of lending out this historic sportsware to the
museum.
Some
of the supplied newspaper clippings (etc) will also be used to augment the
information the City already has on its historic sports figures, but also the
more recent accomplishments. The sports wall of fame committee, along with the
recreation advisory committee have maintained files or biographies and even the
original nomination forms of those inducted in the past 20 years, but over time
pictures fade (Including many on the wall plaques at Southwood Arena complex
foyer).
Any
assistance you can offer will depict the great combined efforts of many people
to create a legacy of sports in Woodstock for both the museum and the
touch-screen format at the complex.
Curator
Karen Houston was interviewed by the Woodstock Sentinel-Review about the
collections process.
“It’s
been great to see what people have… If people have photos, this is an
opportunity to have them scanned and in the wall of fame and be saved,” she
said. “They’re loaned and they get them back, but it’s really important to
increase the information we already have.”
Contact
the museum today as they certainly wouldn’t want a last-minute rush in the last
week of July for artifacts.
Reminder:
Deadline for Woodstock Sports Wall of fame nominations is June 30. The link to
the nomination form is here, and in the Sentinel-Review story. If you plan on
suggesting a person or team, be sure to include as much background resume or
statistics you may have, as the committee expects a strong group of nominees to
consider, so it is a competition to some degree.
CONTACTS:
Museum
Karen Houston
Karen Houston
Adam
Pollard
(519)
537-8411
City
Hall
Brad
Janssen
Ann Ash
(519)
539-1291
Recreation
Advisory
Mark
Schadenberg
(519)
537-1553
LINKS:
March blog item:
Cambridge sports hall:
Brantford sports hall:
Woodstock
Sports Wall Of Fame
Inductees
(1996 - 2015)
Olympic Rower - Stephen Beatty
Male
Athlete
Stephen
Beatty, Robert Bowman, Jim Carnwath, Eddie Collins, Brian Does, Peter Fowler,
Elvis Fraser, Bill Gillespie, John Gofton, Scott Grover, Mark Heather, Steve
Kocsis, Ted Long, Ed MacQueen, Bob McKinnon, Tom Moulton, William Parkes, Brian
Paton, Brad Sales, Mark Scriver, Scott Seagrist, Dan Simard, Martin Smith, Drew
Symons, Ray Tilley
World Silver Lawn Bowler - June Bell
Female
Athlete
Chrissy
Allin, June Bell, Catherine Bond-Mills, Rachel Dean, Ashley Geris, Nancy
Hostetler, Luanne Izzard, Julie Kivinen, Amanda Kruse, Kristi Lampman, Karleigh
Parker, Penny Parkes, Marlene Peters, Jill Purola, Sharon Rice, Erin
Vandenbussche, Stephanie Worsfold
Olympic Heptathalete - Catherine Bond-Mills
Team
June
Margerum & Doris Sibley lawn bowling
Wildcats
Senior D 1996
Wildcats
midget 2003
Woodstock
Redshirts hockey 1933
Athletics
hockey Senior A 1964
Warriors
hockey Junior B 1954
Navy
Vets hockey Junior C 1969
Navy
Vets hockey Junior C 1998
Woodstock
hockey Bantam 1957
Timberjack
hockey Bantam AA 1973
YMCA
hockey Bantam 1950
Woodstock
Optimist hockey bantam 1988
Special
Olympics Thunderbirds hockey 1978
CASS
boys’ basketball 1975
Huron
Park girls’ hockey 2005
Huron
Park football 1960
St.
Mary’s boys’ soccer 2002
WCI
Red Devils football 1955
Woodstock
Actives baseball 1879
Woodstock
Red Sox baseball 1936
Paton’s
White Rose baseball peewee
Woodstock
Merchants baseball1990
Woodstock
Mustangs softball 1970
Woodstock
Oxford Hotelmen fastball 1972
Woodstock
Twins men’s fastball 1978
Woodstock
Tornadoes fastball 1980
Woodstock
Grads football 1931
Woodstock
Jr Grads football 1937
Woodstock
Whirlwinds skating 1989
Woodstock
Whirlwinds skating 1992
Woodstock
F/X slo-pitch 1995
Note:
Some teams may have been inducted in historic category, but for purposes of
this list were placed here with the other teams.
Baseball - Woodstock Actives
Historic
Hazel
Baynton, George Bennett, Klondike Joe Boyle, Erastus Burgess, Jack France, Bob
Hayward, Merv Harron, Clayton Krug, Weston Krupp, Jack Luckman, Effie Nesbitt,
Tip O’Neill, George Parkes, Doug Shelton, Myrton Showers, Roy Smith, Steve
Stewart, Gerry Stringle, Sparky Weiler, Wendy Wendling
Builder
Of Sport
Joe
Aspden, George Bacik, David Bond, Marie Bowerman, Norman Carter, Moe Cosyn,
Elmer Cuthbert, Bob Fitzgerald, Bill Gillespie, Doug Gunn, Gordon Harper, Phil
Hinchley, Al Huras, Don Izzard Sr, Verne Kean, Sam Keeping, Walter Kirchner,
Jack Lawson, Ken Lewis, Stuart MacFarlane, Dave MacQueen, Ed MacQueen, Walter
Polzin, Jan Post, Larry Roddick, Rene Rossewy, Jean Sedgwick, Pat Sloan, Marnie
Tatham, Phyllis Thomson
Figure Skating -- Marie Bowerman
Lifetime
Achievement
Ed
Anderson, Bill Carrothers, Bill Gillespie, Laing Kennedy, Walter Kirchner, Ross
Moyer, Fred Murphy, Penny Parkes, Brian Paton, Marg Skillings
Bill Gillespie
(Photo courtesy of Scherle Family)
Honorable
Recognition
Russell
Gerber, Brad Kovachik, Jake Muzzin
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I'm a long-time member
of Woodstock Recreation Advisory Committee
and a full-time Realtor locally for 17 years
Mark Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Senior Real Estate Specialist
(SRES designation)
Royal LePage Triland Realty
Independently Owned & Operated, Brokerage
757 Dundas St, Woodstock
(519) 537-1553, cell or text
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