Jerry and Shirley Boone: - Ferrum College

2001 ALUMNI SPORTS
HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
On Saturday, October 27, 2001, four Ferrum alumni and one former coach were inducted into Ferrum College’s
Alumni Sports Hall of Fame during a special banquet and football half-time ceremony. These individuals were recognized for
distinguishing themselves in athletics while at Ferrum and contributing in a positive manner to society after leaving college.
The inductees exemplified the highest ideals of small college athletics,
sportsmanship and the spirit of Ferrum’s motto “Not Self, But Others.”
U. GRANT HUDSON
1930-1989
(inducted posthumously)
• Served as head basketball coach and assistant
director of athletics at Ferrum from
1977-1985
• Served as head basketball coach at Highland
Springs High School 1956-1977
• Most successful coach in the history of Ferrum
College basketball with 175 wins and 59 losses
• Led the 1982 Panthers to the national
tournament
• In 1985 led the last junior college basketball
team to the NJCAA tournament, finishing
8th in the nation
• Highland Springs Gymnasium named in his
honor in 1991
• Region X Virginia Coach of the Year twice
• Received bachelor’s degree from Lynchburg
College and master’s degree from the
University of Richmond
• Retired as Colonel from the United States
Marine Corps
• Inspirational father figure who changed the
lives of many young athletes
JAMES C. SCHUBERT ’67
Manchester, New Hampshire
• Quarterback for Panthers from 1966-67
• Led Ferrum to the semi-finals of the
Junior College National Championship
• Named Junior College All-American and
All-Region X Team as quarterback
• Went from Ferrum to Wake Forest
University where he starred as a linebacker
and defensive end
• Named Atlantic Coast Conference Player
of the Week vs. the University of Virginia
• Served as an assistant football coach in the
Wake Forest freshman program
• 1971 graduate of Wake Forest
• Head football coach for Central High
School from 1989-present
• Continues to serve youth with Schubert
Football Camp, Inc. in New Hampshire
• Director of Alternative High School for
Manchester School District
• Member of Manchester Sports Hall of
Fame and Central High Hall of Fame
DONNIE L. BROWN ’66
Staunton, Virginia
• Played guard on the Panther’s 1964-65 and
1965-66 basketball championship teams
• Named Mr. Ferrum
• Member of Phi Theta Kappa, National Honor
Society and Honor Council
• President of Student Council
• After Ferrum, named a Moreland Scholar at
Randolph-Macon College—the first full
scholarship given to a transfer student in
136 years
• 1972 graduate of University of Virginia with a
graduate degree in industrial psychology
• Member of Omicron Delta Kappa
• Worked at DuPont for 20 years as manager of
industrial training
• Author of nine books in the field of industrial
training and designed eight training facilities
• International motivational speaker
• For 21 years carried the “Rock That Went to
Georgia” around the country telling about the
miracle of the 1965 Football Champions
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