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The Nova Scotia<br />
Sport Hall of Fame<br />
Contents 2011–2012<br />
Premier’s Message / Chairman’s Message .............................................................. 2<br />
Bringing the Hall’s Artifacts to the World Online (by Tinisha Stilling) ................. 3<br />
Education Program Having a Positive Impact ...................................................... 6<br />
Team Jones 1999-2004 (by Joel Jacobson) ........................................................... 10<br />
Will Njoku (by Joel Jacobson) ............................................................................. 16<br />
Steve Pound (by Joel Jacobson) ............................................................................ 20<br />
Cam Russell (by Willy Palov)............................................................................... 28<br />
Mike Scarola (by Joel Jacobson) ........................................................................... 34<br />
Hubert Earle (by Joel Jacobson) ........................................................................... 38<br />
Carolyn Savoy (by Katie Wooler) ........................................................................ 42<br />
Cover Photos<br />
2011 Nova Scotia Sport Hall of<br />
Fame Inductees:<br />
Top (l to r): Mike Scarola, Cam<br />
Russell<br />
Middle: Carolyn Savoy, Will Njoku,<br />
Steve Pound<br />
Bottom: Team Jones 1999-2004,<br />
Hubert Earle<br />
Stellar Inductees Enter Hall in 2010 .................................................................. 46<br />
Induction Procedure Meets with Success ........................................................... 50<br />
Past Chairs of Hall of Fame ............................................................................... 51<br />
Our Mission / Our Vision ................................................................................. 52<br />
Editor: Joel Jacobson<br />
Contributors: Joel Jacobson, Willy Palov, Tinisha Stilling, Katie Wooler<br />
Cover Design: Paul Birmingham, Studio11<br />
Magazine Photography: Layla Calvi, Nick Pearce, Hall of Fame staff, Hall of<br />
Fame archives, Inductee personal collections<br />
Marketing Assistance: Karolyn Sevcik, Shane Mailman<br />
La<strong>you</strong>t and Design: Paula Yochoff, Sport Nova Scotia<br />
Sponsorship and Advertising: Karolyn Sevcik<br />
Printing: Halcraft Print Ltd.<br />
Contact:<br />
Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame<br />
1800 Argyle Street, Suite 446<br />
Halifax, NS B3J 3N8<br />
Tel: (902) 421-1266<br />
Fax: (902) 425-1148<br />
E-mail: shane@nsshf.com<br />
www.nsshf.com<br />
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Premier’s Message<br />
On behalf of the Province of Nova Scotia, I’m pleased to congratulate the athletes, sports<br />
teams and builders being inducted into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame.<br />
Our province has a rich history in sports, featuring individuals and teams who have<br />
made significant contributions to the culture and heritage of Nova Scotia. I believe it’s important<br />
to teach the next generation of athletes about their predecessors so that they can continue the<br />
honoured tradition of sportsmanship and competition.<br />
The Future Hall of Famers education campaign is a fantastic program that has achieved great<br />
success with students across Nova Scotia. By sharing the true life stories of our sports heroes, the<br />
program demonstrates that initial failures are learning experiences and that to accomplish their<br />
dreams, they have to stay the course.<br />
Students can also learn more about our sports heritage at the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame,<br />
which features a vast collection of sports memorabilia and fun facts <strong>for</strong> everyone to enjoy. I encourage everyone to check it out!<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Darrell Dexter<br />
Premier of Nova Scotia<br />
Chairman’s Message<br />
On behalf of the Board Directors, I wish to welcome and congratulate this year’s Inductees<br />
to The Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame. You are now members of a sports hall that takes<br />
pride in educating, entertaining and inspiring others to reach their dreams.<br />
2011 has been an exciting year. The Induction Awards Ceremonies caps off another great year<br />
of attendance with 80,000 plus visitors to the Hall. The Future Hall of Famers education program<br />
has been expanded to include a full-time education coordinator who works with existing and<br />
future Hall of Famers to share life stories, motivate and inspire <strong>you</strong>th across Nova Scotia.<br />
NSSHF has completed another successful year, developing a five-year strategic plan, updating<br />
by-laws and strengthening the collection management program. We are in the process of cataloguing<br />
and digitizing the entire collection of over 7,000 items to adhere to national museum standards<br />
and to have the collection available to the public online.<br />
Preserving those great stories and achievements of our sport heroes has remained the priority of NSSHF. We couldn’t do<br />
it without the generous support of our friends of the Hall, corporate sponsors, staff and volunteers.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Floyd R. Gaetz<br />
Chair of the Board<br />
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Bringing the Hall’s Artifacts<br />
to the World Online<br />
The Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame is working on<br />
an exciting digitization project. A major goal of<br />
the project is to make Nova Scotian sport heritage<br />
more accessible to the public. That way, all Nova Scotians,<br />
no matter where they live, will have better access to their<br />
heritage online. In fact, in<strong>for</strong>mation and photos are and will<br />
be available to the whole world to study and enjoy. About<br />
3,000 photos of artifacts have already been put online.<br />
The artifact records and photographs can be accessed by<br />
the public online through the Artifacts Canada database.<br />
A link to this site is available on the Hall of Fame’s website,<br />
The pocket watch with chain and the medallion were<br />
presented to Edward “Nedder” Healey when he won the<br />
Nova Scotia amateur boxing welterweight championship<br />
in 1922. The next year he won the Canadian title. Healey<br />
fought more than 225 amateur and professional bouts, with<br />
an ability to outwit his opponents. Never knocked off his feet,<br />
he lost only eight professional bouts. Healey was inducted to<br />
the Hall of Fame with the original class in 1980.<br />
by Tinisha Stilling<br />
under “Collections”. Visitors can peruse in<strong>for</strong>mation on<br />
everything sport-related, from equipment to trophies to<br />
athletes and builders.<br />
The Hall of Fame is part of the Association of Nova Scotia<br />
Museums, which is working on a new public database that is<br />
estimated to be up and running in about a year. With added<br />
and improved features, such as better genealogical research<br />
abilities, more photos and links to online content, including<br />
videos, it will be much more user-friendly and interactive<br />
than Artifacts Canada. The Hall of Fame is continuing to<br />
work hard on the project with the goal that a photograph<br />
of each artifact will be added by the time its new public<br />
These hockey sticks represent both the early days and<br />
recent years – showing the difference between a basic<br />
single piece of wood stick and the modern composite<br />
stick, which rarely breaks and has more flexibility with<br />
less weight.<br />
database arrives.<br />
Highlights of the<br />
improvements made<br />
to the collection over<br />
the last year:<br />
• Over 2,000<br />
artifacts have been<br />
catalogued bringing<br />
the total number<br />
of artifacts in the<br />
collection to over<br />
7,000.<br />
• Forty per cent of<br />
the collection has<br />
been photographed<br />
with the photos<br />
accessible online.<br />
• Work has started<br />
on a new public<br />
database which will<br />
provide the world<br />
with better access to<br />
Nova Scotia’s rich<br />
sport heritage<br />
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This Hall of Fame display shows the evolution<br />
of hockey sticks from the 1800s through modern<br />
day, and from wood to light and flexible material<br />
composites. The first sticks (top in picture) were<br />
carved from a single piece of wood, but by the<br />
1930s, were made of pieces of wood laminated<br />
together, preventing them from breaking as easily<br />
while adding some flexibility.<br />
In the 1960s, players started curving their blades,<br />
giving them greater control of the puck and<br />
influencing their shots. In the 1970s, the first<br />
fibreglass sticks were made–stronger and lighter<br />
than their wooden ancestors. By the 1980s,<br />
aluminum sticks, with replacement wooden<br />
blades, were introduced and gained popularity<br />
among professional players in the 1990s.<br />
Today, both the wooden stick and aluminum<br />
stick have become rarer among pros as new<br />
composite sticks made of materials such as<br />
fibreglass and carbon fibre have become a less<br />
durable, but lighter-weight, option. The wooden<br />
stick, however, is still a less expensive alternative to composite<br />
sticks and still is a popular choice <strong>for</strong> amateur players.<br />
Below: The 116 th Dartmouth Natal Day Regatta was held in August<br />
2011, hosted by the Banook Canoe Club. The club was founded in<br />
1903 and began holding the regatta, along with other sport events<br />
and concerts, a year later. This trophy, displayed at the Hall, was<br />
presented to the Junior Singles winner in 1907.<br />
Above: This typewriter belonged to W.J. “Ace” Foley, a long-time<br />
sports writer and sports editor at the Halifax Chronicle Herald and<br />
Mail Star. He started his newspaper career in 1920 as a copy boy,<br />
spending, he said, as much time at the Halifax Herald as he did in<br />
school.<br />
He said in a book he wrote to commemorate 50 years as sports editor,<br />
“I’ve been in almost every nook and cranny of Nova Scotia at one<br />
time or another.”<br />
His writings promoted Nova Scotia sport and sport heritage <strong>for</strong> more<br />
than 60 years. He was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1982.<br />
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Left: This Babe Ruth<br />
autographed baseball sits<br />
proudly on display at the<br />
Hall. It was signed by the<br />
Baseball Hall of Fame<br />
member, considered the<br />
greatest of the greats,<br />
during a visit to Halifax<br />
on August 1, 1942 (after<br />
his retirement from the<br />
game) <strong>for</strong> the official<br />
opening of a recreation<br />
centre <strong>for</strong> the Royal<br />
Canadian Navy at Wanderers Grounds.<br />
That weekend, during an exhibition game between Halifax and<br />
Toronto, The Babe stepped to the plate and hit a few pitches <strong>for</strong> the<br />
5,000 spectators. It has always been rumoured that he hit one into the<br />
Public Gardens, probably 500 feet away. After his hitting exhibition,<br />
he tossed autographed baseballs into the crowd.<br />
Former New York Yankee Babe Ruth has another tie to Nova Scotia.<br />
Raised in an orphan’s home in Baltimore, the man who developed<br />
Ruth’s baseball skills was Cape Breton native, Brother Matthias. The<br />
Babe often vacationed in Nova Scoria where he fished and played<br />
golf.<br />
Above: It is recorded that quoits were already being played on<br />
McNabs Island in 1762. The ring toss like game has its origins in<br />
ancient Greece. The Romans brought the game to England, where<br />
it caught on quickly. A popular game at sea, it is no surprise that it<br />
quickly made its way across the ocean to Nova Scotia.<br />
Quoit rings were made of brass, copper or iron in the past. Today, the<br />
rings are often made of lighter materials, such as rope or rubber, but<br />
heavier metal rings can still be found.<br />
In the photo: Brass quoit rings and a Studley Quoit Club trophy<br />
1908. The Studley Quoit Club was opened in 1858 on the<br />
Northwest Arm, when the game was becoming extremely popular<br />
in Nova Scotia.<br />
Right: Phil Scott,<br />
nine-time log-rolling<br />
world champion from<br />
Barrington, NS, wore<br />
these shoes to compete<br />
in his demanding sport.<br />
These spiked shoes were<br />
popular in the 1960s and<br />
1970s when Scott was in<br />
his heyday, but today logrollers<br />
wear a modified<br />
soccer shoe. In the past,<br />
the bottoms of the shoes<br />
were made of a very hard<br />
wood and leather to prevent the spikes from pulling through. Today,<br />
the wooden bottoms have been replaced by plastic and rubber. Scott<br />
was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1987.<br />
Left: Katie Wooler, a<br />
museum assistant at the<br />
Nova Scotia Sport Hall<br />
of Fame, stands besides<br />
a penny farthing bicycle,<br />
named <strong>for</strong> British coins<br />
of the 19 th century. With<br />
its giant front wheel and<br />
small rear wheel, the penny<br />
farthing was not the safest<br />
of vehicles, but it did make<br />
an important contribution<br />
to the development of the<br />
bicycle. Manufactured<br />
between 1870 and 1885, the penny farthing had a cult following,<br />
willing to pay approximately a month’s income <strong>for</strong> the popular bike.<br />
Clubs were <strong>for</strong>med. Cyclists competed in races, organized intercity<br />
trips, and were featured in newspapers.<br />
A new model of the penny farthing, called the “Excelsior”,<br />
manufactured in the 1880s, offered a lighter frame and other design<br />
improvements. Bicycle mania reached Halifax in the 1880’s and<br />
1890’s and became a social trend, with groups of cyclists meeting<br />
at the Public Gardens and Point Pleasant Park <strong>for</strong> evening rides.<br />
The city’s official bicycle club was the Halifax Ramblers, which has<br />
been reincarnated today as the Nova Scotia Ramblers Bicycle Club,<br />
offering trail rides and special events.<br />
Cliff Shand, an inductee in the Sport Hall of Fame <strong>for</strong> cycling,<br />
competed on a penny farthing bike as part of the Wanderers Amateur<br />
Athletic Club in the late 1880’s.<br />
Tinisha Stilling is Collections Coordinator at the Nova Scotia<br />
Sport Hall of Fame. In the last year, she has created a collection<br />
policy, improved the storage area, made changes to the viewing<br />
area and catalogued many of the artifacts and pictures.<br />
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Education Program Having<br />
a Positive Impact<br />
Hall of Fame Builder Bernie Chisholm speaks to a group of students about dedication and determination to become the best they can be in both<br />
athletics and life during a Hall of Fame education presentation at St. Andrews Consolidated School in Antigonish. Ken MacNeil (r), a member of<br />
the inducted Robertson softball team that won the National Midget Softball Championship in 1984, observes.<br />
The ears of a <strong>you</strong>ngster in Berwick perked up as he<br />
listened to Hall of Fame Education Coordinator<br />
Leah McInnis talk of an inductee from his home<br />
town. Burns Wesley Pierce, she told the school group, was a<br />
distance bicycle racer in the heyday of the sport in the early<br />
1900s. He held records in amateur and professional longdistance<br />
and endurance racing. When she mentioned that<br />
he lived very near the school, in a distinctive red brick house<br />
at 107 Foster Street, the boy called out, “That’s my house.<br />
That’s where I live.” Leah was later told by the teacher that<br />
the 12-year-old boy was excited <strong>for</strong> days afterward, telling<br />
his friends, and anyone who would listen, that the famous<br />
cyclist lived in HIS house.<br />
“I’ve learned through this spring and summer, speaking<br />
to more than 4,000 <strong>you</strong>ngsters at schools and summer<br />
camps, both on their home turf and at the Hall, that <strong>you</strong><br />
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can go anywhere in Nova Scotia and find a sport hero in a<br />
community,” Leah says. “Whether an athlete or builder, we<br />
are truly rich in sport history.”<br />
Leah has made presentations, with the help of Hall of Fame<br />
member Mickey Fox and Olympic athlete Sarah Conrad, to<br />
groups throughout the province. Fox and Conrad have been<br />
at the Tim Hortons Camp in Tatamagouche to speak with<br />
children from across the region. Leah has been from one<br />
end of the province to the other, showing artifacts, videos<br />
and PowerPoint presentations from Digby to Inverness and<br />
Sydney.<br />
believing is the first step in doing, whether the person wants<br />
to be an athlete, artist or an educator.<br />
Her goal as she moves into the fall season and reaches out<br />
to schools across the province is to get more Hall of Fame<br />
members involved as speakers.<br />
“The children want to see their heroes. There’s certainly<br />
a different dynamic when they hear directly from someone<br />
who has accomplished what these people have done in sport.<br />
They can be very inspiring to <strong>you</strong>ng people.”<br />
Above: During an education program presentation, Hall of Fame<br />
Education Coordinator, Leah McInnis, tells a student about a<br />
Hall of Fame member overcoming difficulties to succeed in sport.<br />
“I tell the stories of (marathon runner) Johnny Miles<br />
and (Paralympic gold medalist)<br />
Andrew Haley who overcame such<br />
odds to become champions. I can<br />
tell the kids are paying attention<br />
because they are wide-eyed and<br />
listening intently when I talk of<br />
these sport heroes.”<br />
She tries to make the stories<br />
inspirational, relating how there<br />
have been bumps in the road<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e the athletes achieved glory,<br />
how they believed in themselves<br />
to achieve (Haley lost a leg and<br />
part of a lung to cancer), and how<br />
Right: Olympic<br />
snowboarder<br />
Sarah Conrad (r)<br />
celebrates success<br />
with children<br />
at the Tim<br />
Hortons Camp in<br />
Tatamagouche,<br />
Nova Scotia.<br />
Sarah appeared<br />
as part of the<br />
Sport Hall of<br />
Fame Education<br />
Program.<br />
Right: Hall of Fame Inductee Mickey<br />
Fox shows the basketball skills that<br />
gained him entry at an education session<br />
at the Tim Hortons Camp.<br />
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Below: Two members of the Antigonish Boys and Girls<br />
Club try on skates during a Hall-run education program.<br />
Left, is the Starr skate that a club member tries on over her<br />
shoe. Right, a <strong>you</strong>ngster tries on a Sidney Crosby replica<br />
skate.<br />
Above: During a Hall education program at<br />
Rev. H.J. MacDonald School in Heatherton,<br />
a Grade 6 student at holds a Starr Co. skate,<br />
circa 1900. The skate is attached by laces to the<br />
bottom of a shoe or boot.<br />
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presents<br />
2011 Nova Scotia<br />
Sport Hall of Fame<br />
Induction Awards<br />
www.micco.ca<br />
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Team Jones<br />
1999-2004<br />
Team<br />
by Joel Jacobson<br />
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Sometimes winning a Canadian<br />
championship warrants<br />
induction to a provincial sport<br />
hall of fame.<br />
Sometimes winning a world<br />
title guarantees induction to the<br />
provincial AND national sport halls<br />
of fame.<br />
When <strong>you</strong> win five Canadian<br />
championships, two World golds<br />
and a World silver to what are <strong>you</strong><br />
entitled?<br />
Admiration, adulation,<br />
recognition as the best of the best<br />
and, of course, induction to the<br />
sport hall of fame in the province<br />
where the athlete(s) call home. The<br />
Canadian Hall is yet to come, but it<br />
will – and soon.<br />
The Jones curling team set a<br />
Canadian record that could take a<br />
while to be beaten – five championships in six years and four<br />
in a row. Skip Colleen Jones, third Kim Kelly, second Mary-<br />
Anne Arsenault and lead Nancy Delahunt set a standard <strong>for</strong><br />
excellence in women’s curling between 1999 and 2004 with<br />
Canadian titles in 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, plus<br />
World titles in 2001 and 2004 and a World second in 2003.<br />
Alternates Laine Peters, Mary Sue Rad<strong>for</strong>d and coaches Peter<br />
Corkum and Ken Bagnell helped ensure success.<br />
“Their work ethic was unmatched,” says coach/psychologist<br />
Bagnell who was with the Jones foursome from 2001 to 2005.<br />
“The amount of work, the amount of practice, set the bar<br />
<strong>for</strong> what people do in curling and in sport all over the world.<br />
“The girls spent a lot of time together,” he continues. “Being<br />
able to live with a new set of sisters and still per<strong>for</strong>m on the<br />
ice is difficult. But they won Nationals four years in a row<br />
(2001-2004), which had never been done be<strong>for</strong>e. With two<br />
World Championships and a silver medal in four years, that<br />
kind of domination is remarkable.”<br />
Colleen skipped the first of 16 Nova Scotia champion teams<br />
at age 19 in 1978. Four years later, she became the <strong>you</strong>ngest<br />
ever to win a Canadian curling championship. By 1999, the<br />
pieces of the dominant team were in place.<br />
Nancy and Colleen had been friends <strong>for</strong> years and remain<br />
very close. When Mary-Anne became the final piece of the<br />
puzzle in 1999 (Kelly was with the team from 1989), Nancy<br />
Kim Kelly and Mary-Anne Arsenault guide skip Colleen Jones’ rock down the ice.<br />
says the quartet had a chemistry together “but the three of<br />
us brought out the best in Colleen. I’ve never met anyone<br />
with a more insatiable appetite <strong>for</strong> winning than Colleen,<br />
but <strong>for</strong> her to be the best, she had to be com<strong>for</strong>table with<br />
us – and she was.”<br />
Nancy adds, “There was no other Colleen Jones. I never<br />
saw anyone across the country like her. She taught us how to<br />
win and what it means to win.”<br />
Colleen reflects on her beginnings in curling. “I went to<br />
the rink with my older sisters when I was <strong>you</strong>ng and loved<br />
hanging out and being social. After a couple of years, the<br />
sport seemed easy and I wanted more. In 1976, we went to<br />
Junior Nationals, and didn’t do very well, but that was a taste<br />
at that level and I wanted more of that, too.”<br />
On The Button<br />
Career Highlights:<br />
• Five Canadian Women’s Curling Championships<br />
• Two World Women’s Curling Championships<br />
• One World Women’s Silver Championship<br />
• Four Canadian titles in succession – record never<br />
topped<br />
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Kim Kelly (r) suggests the perfect shot to win an end as Nancy Delahunt, Mary-Anne<br />
Arsenault and skip Colleen Jones listen to the advice.<br />
She was second stone on that team but the next year, when<br />
asked to skip, Colleen readily accepted. “I wanted to throw last<br />
rock. I knew I could do it and didn’t really feel the pressure.”<br />
She admits that she was practising a lot – more than anyone<br />
else – and that built the confidence that she could make<br />
whatever shot faced her.<br />
Kim Kelly has several defining curling moments. “The<br />
first was winning that first Canadian title in 1999. Then the<br />
Worlds in 2001 and the third, the Continental Cup of 2002.”<br />
She admits there was constant pressure to win. “Canadians<br />
expect per<strong>for</strong>mance because we ARE Canada (and it’s a<br />
Canadian game). At the Worlds in 1999, there was so much<br />
pressure and we weren’t ready <strong>for</strong> that. Until <strong>you</strong> experience<br />
it, <strong>you</strong> don’t know how smothering wearing the Maple Leaf<br />
can be.”<br />
By 2001, after a heart-wrenching loss to Kelly<br />
Law in a Scott Tournament of Hearts preliminary<br />
game to make the team 3-4, the team sat with coach<br />
Bagnell and he let them vent. It worked. They won<br />
four in a row, made the playoffs and won.<br />
Kelly says that defined who they were and became.<br />
“We had tenacity and <strong>for</strong>titude. I think what brings<br />
the biggest smile to my face is thinking of the Worlds<br />
win that year. Colleen had never won and really<br />
we worked hard at our relationship and developed<br />
tremendous respect <strong>for</strong> each other.”<br />
Nancy says about 2001’s win at Worlds. “I’ve<br />
known Colleen since high school and always<br />
pulled <strong>for</strong> her. This time was great. I knew she<br />
deserved it and was thrilled <strong>for</strong> her, as much as<br />
<strong>for</strong> all of us.”<br />
Winning again and again took teamwork,<br />
dedication to practise and play, even with families<br />
and work commitments.<br />
Colleen says her first win at Nationals in<br />
1982 was huge, a breakthrough <strong>for</strong> the Atlantic<br />
Provinces.<br />
Seventeen years later, 1999, they won the<br />
Nationals (The Scotties) again.<br />
“That was a major thrill and an amazing feeling,<br />
BUT it was quickly silenced by the (loss at)<br />
Worlds. We felt we had let people down and after<br />
we lost at Canadians in 2000, we thought 1999’s Scotties was<br />
a fluke. But we won in 2001, and then won the Worlds, and<br />
got on a ride (four Nationals in a row) that was very special.”<br />
She confesses winning four in a row resulted from a lot<br />
of breaks, things going the right way each game <strong>for</strong> a week<br />
and then in playoffs, every roll, every draw, double takeout,<br />
runback, going perfectly.<br />
“You look <strong>for</strong> consistency, but it’s hard to do,” she says.<br />
Joel Jacobson is a <strong>for</strong>mer columnist with the Halifax Chronicle<br />
Herald and now a freelance journalist, guest speaker and Master<br />
of Ceremonies.<br />
The Colleen Jones rink won the World Championship in<br />
Norway in 2004. Team members (l to r) were Colleen<br />
Jones, Kim Kelly, Mary-Anne Arsenault, Nancy Delahunt,<br />
Mary Sue Rad<strong>for</strong>d - 5th, Ken Bagnell - Team Coach and<br />
Elaine Dagg-Jackson - National Team Coach.<br />
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Congratulations<br />
Colleen Jones!<br />
CBC Nova Scotia is proud to<br />
celebrate Colleen Jones’s<br />
induction into the Nova Scotia<br />
Sports Hall of Fame.<br />
The Nova Scotia<br />
Curling Association<br />
congratulates<br />
Team Jones<br />
on their induction into the<br />
Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame.<br />
cbc.ca<br />
Client: Colleen Jones<br />
Art Director: Eric V<br />
Run Date: Sept, 2011<br />
PUB: Globe<br />
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Will Njoku<br />
Athlete<br />
by Joel Jacobson<br />
You look at Will Njoku – 6’9” tall, lean,<br />
built to play basketball – and <strong>you</strong> think,<br />
“Wow! Things must have been easy<br />
<strong>for</strong> a guy of that size to excel at this sport.”<br />
Not so!<br />
The Ghana-born, Halifax-educated and raised<br />
<strong>you</strong>ng man was challenged from the get-go. He<br />
was a soccer player who came into basketball in<br />
Grade 7 and didn’t really blossom until his high<br />
school years.<br />
Coming out of a stellar academic and basketball experience<br />
at Halifax West High School under coach Nick Morash, Will was<br />
recruited by dozens of Division I schools in the United States – Duke,<br />
Duquesne and Western Kentucky among them – and across Canada.<br />
“I felt I was needed at home,” says Will today, recalling his decision to<br />
stay in Halifax. His father had died when Will was in Grade 9 and being<br />
the oldest son, he felt the need to help support his mother, two sisters and<br />
brother by being the role model.<br />
Will chose Saint Mary’s over his mother’s wishes <strong>for</strong> him to attend Dalhousie.<br />
“When I worked out at Saint Mary’s, they were friendly compared to<br />
Dal where it was tough to get into the gym. Mother’s are always right,”<br />
Will says with a smile. “And with 20-20 hindsight, maybe she would<br />
have been right, but I have great feelings toward Saint Mary’s,<br />
the players I was with, the coaches, and the overall experience.”<br />
The Saint Mary’s experience resulted in a National<br />
Championship and Will’s selection as the outstanding<br />
university player in Canada in 1993. It also exposed him to<br />
the Canadian National Team program to which he was chosen<br />
and <strong>for</strong> whom he played <strong>for</strong> 10 years. Playing <strong>for</strong> Canada also moved<br />
Will closer to a dream he had had since he was eight years old.<br />
“I saw a story in the newspaper about how happy a guy was to represent<br />
Canada and finish 10th at the Olympics,” he recalls. “I started making a<br />
scrapbook about the Olympics. It became my goal.”<br />
By age 16, Will was on the Canadian Junior National Team and moved<br />
<strong>for</strong>ward from there. His experience with the National Team, alongside<br />
players like NBAers Steve Nash and Rick Fox, included playing in a couple<br />
of World Championships.<br />
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“Our big chance to get to the Olympics<br />
was a qualifying tournament in 1996. We<br />
were in the final four with Brazil, Puerto<br />
Rico and (host) Argentina. We had to win<br />
one game to get to Atlanta, but lost to<br />
Brazil and Puerto Rico. I was the only one<br />
in our dressing room crying because I knew<br />
I had missed the goal I had lived <strong>for</strong>.”<br />
Will gained dozens of honours in high<br />
school and university basketball – MVPs<br />
at <strong>you</strong>th, junior high and high school<br />
levels; Provincial Juvenile Player of the<br />
Year; member of the Nova Scotia Canada<br />
Games team in 1989; Rookie of the Year<br />
at Saint Mary’s in 1991 and then first and<br />
second team all-AUS be<strong>for</strong>e being AUS<br />
MVP in 1992 and 1993, and All-Canadian<br />
in 1993 and 1994.<br />
Left: Will won many awards in minor<br />
basketball while dreaming of the day he’d<br />
play on the Canadian National Team.<br />
Will’s Wowzers<br />
Career Highlights:<br />
• CIS MVP, 1993<br />
• AUS MVP, 1993 and 1994<br />
• All Canadian, 1993 and 1994<br />
• Halifax Metro High School MVP, 1990<br />
• Canadian Junior Men’s Team, 1991<br />
• Canadian Senior Men’s Team, 1993-1998<br />
• Drafted NBA Indiana Pacers 41st overall, 1994<br />
• Portuguese League all-star, 1998<br />
• Most rebounds in one game CIS Final 8 – 21<br />
• 2nd all-time leading scorer at Saint Mary’s<br />
University<br />
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We were encouraged to be honest, respectful and get a<br />
good education. There was extreme discipline in our home<br />
and I used basketball to isolate myself from that, to have<br />
fun, be with teammates and friends. But I learned amazing<br />
qualities from my parents and am so proud of the sacrifices<br />
they made <strong>for</strong> us.”<br />
Today Will runs a motivational company – Will2Win<br />
– that encourages people to use their skills and talents to<br />
become better at what they do, to set goals and strive to<br />
reach them.<br />
“God has been good to me to help others, kids specifically,<br />
see me as someone who can be a mentor and help them<br />
achieve the best they can be,” Will says.<br />
Joel Jacobson has been Chairman of Induction Night since<br />
1984.<br />
He had an NBA tr<strong>you</strong>t with Phoenix in 1993 and was<br />
selected by Indiana 41st in 1994, the only Halifax-raised<br />
player to be drafted to the NBA. His chance to play in<br />
the pro league was hampered by numbers that year as the<br />
Pacers had several players competing <strong>for</strong> a spot or two.<br />
Will played minor pro ball in the States be<strong>for</strong>e embarking<br />
on a 10-year European career in France, Germany, Turkey,<br />
Portugal, Kosovo, Macedonia and Belgium.<br />
“You went where the best money was and the best<br />
chance to play was,” says Will of his nomadic tour of<br />
European basketball. But he adds he was eager to travel,<br />
learn about all these countries, and grow as a person. The<br />
experience was valuable to him.<br />
He stresses people don’t realize the dedication needed<br />
to play at the highest levels. “I was lucky. I learned<br />
discipline at home. I was raised in an immigrant family<br />
where my mum and dad worked to support their kids.<br />
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On the court and in life, he<br />
plays to win.<br />
Congratulations to <strong>for</strong>mer Husky Will Njoku <strong>for</strong> his 2011<br />
induction into the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame.<br />
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Steve Pound<br />
Athlete<br />
by Joel Jacobson<br />
Steve Pound was a skinny freshman when he first<br />
stepped on the basketball court at Acadia University<br />
in 1968.<br />
Despite a high school career that saw him average 40<br />
points a game in his senior season, tops in the United States,<br />
and despite being recruited by more than 30 American<br />
Division I and II schools, Steve chose Acadia because, on<br />
his campus visit, academics, not basketball, were stressed.<br />
“I think I was more mature than the average 18-year-old,”<br />
Steve says today. “I came from a difficult family situation,<br />
had lived away from my parents (who were divorced) at<br />
times, and had to make many of my own decisions. Coming<br />
to Acadia just continued that, even though as a freshman,<br />
I was living totally away from home <strong>for</strong> the first time and<br />
had to learn to budget my time.”<br />
He did everything well.<br />
His school work was consistently good. In fact, he had<br />
the top Grade Point Average in his graduating class in 1972.<br />
His basketball improved because, in 1968, coach Gib<br />
Chapman made him a point guard (passer) instead of the<br />
shooting guard he was in high school. “The fact we had<br />
Brian Heaney as a shooter, and he was a senior that year,<br />
helped me improve my total game by being <strong>for</strong>ced to learn<br />
a new position.”<br />
Steve learned it well. He was an Atlantic University Sport<br />
all-star and helped Acadia win the league title.<br />
In 1969-70, with Steve back in the shooting role, the<br />
Axemen finished 22-4. His scoring feats were legendary as he<br />
led the nation in scoring and was a unanimous All-Canadian.<br />
The next season was the highlight <strong>for</strong> Steve. As team<br />
captain and an AUS All-Star, he led the Axemen to a 30-2<br />
record and the National Championship in a tournament<br />
played in Wolfville.<br />
As a senior, he set an all-time Acadia four-year scoring<br />
record when he passed the 2,000 point plateau, topping<br />
Heaney’s 1,917. Again captain and All-Canadian, Steve<br />
led the Axemen into the Nationals again where they lost in<br />
the championship<br />
game.<br />
Twice Acadia’s<br />
Athlete of the Year, a<br />
three-time member of<br />
the university’s Sport Hall<br />
of Fame, and an inductee<br />
to the New England High<br />
School Basketball Hall of<br />
Fame, Steve received his BA<br />
from Acadia, a Master’s in<br />
Education at Dalhousie<br />
and PhD in Education<br />
Leadership from Laval<br />
University.<br />
Steve helped Halifax<br />
Wandlyn Motor Inn win<br />
the Canadian Senior A<br />
Championship in 1973 by<br />
averaging 47 points in the<br />
event and being MVP of<br />
the tournament. The next<br />
year, his team advanced to<br />
the final.<br />
He played professional<br />
ball in England <strong>for</strong> a year,<br />
leading the league in scoring<br />
with a 30-point-plus-per-game<br />
average, including a 55-point<br />
ef<strong>for</strong>t that remains in the Guinness<br />
Book of Records as the most points<br />
scored in an English pro league<br />
game.<br />
Steve loved to shoot. He could<br />
score on a picture-perfect jumper<br />
from around the key and from<br />
what is now three-point territory<br />
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(imagine how many points he’d have scored if the threepoint<br />
line was in effect when he played) and on drives to<br />
the hoop. His game was multi-dimensional as his defense<br />
and tenacity was important to every team per<strong>for</strong>mance, too.<br />
Steve eventually became a principal at Quebec (City) High<br />
School where, under his coaching, the basketball team won<br />
80 per cent of its games, two Quebec Small High School<br />
Provincial Championships and, in 1985, went 69-2.<br />
He later was an assistant coach at Acadia while serving<br />
as Alumni Association director. He returned to his<br />
native Maine in the early 2000s where he was a school<br />
superintendent until retirement two years ago. Today he is<br />
associate director of work<strong>for</strong>ce development <strong>for</strong> Cianbro<br />
Institute, a Maine-based company with 3,000 employees<br />
in 41 states.<br />
“My high school basketball coach, George Wentworth,<br />
probably challenged me more than anyone else,” says Steve.<br />
“At my first practise as a Grade 9 freshman, he told me<br />
‘You’re the worst shooter I’ve ever seen.’ He knew it would<br />
make me mad and that I’d work hard to show him. I did<br />
and kept improving. That really changed my life.”<br />
Pound Points<br />
Career Highlights:<br />
• All-time leading Acadia scorer – more than 2,000<br />
points<br />
• Four-time AUS All-Star<br />
• CIS All-Canadian and MVP, 1969-1970<br />
• CIS Scoring Champion, 1969-1970<br />
• CIS Champion – Acadia, 1971<br />
• Canadian Senior A Men’s Champions, 1972-1973<br />
• Twice Acadia Athlete of the Year<br />
• USA top high-school scorer in 1968 – 40 pts per game<br />
• USA High-School All-American, 1968<br />
• Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame – Team<br />
• Acadia Sport Hall of Fame – Athlete and Team<br />
• New England High-School Basketball Hall of Fame<br />
Steve credits coaches and teammates <strong>for</strong> the success he had<br />
but is quick to add, “Good people like George, Gib, and<br />
Jim Logue (an assistant at Acadia) supported me, challenged<br />
me, and made me a better person.”<br />
The 1971 CIS champion Acadia Axemen. Steve Pound is second from right, kneeling in front.<br />
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Above: Acadia and Steve Pound (12)<br />
celebrate the 1971 CIS Championship<br />
win by cutting down the nets at Acadia’s<br />
War Memorial Gymnasium.<br />
Right: Acadia Alumni Association<br />
director Bill Parker congratulates Steve<br />
Pound (left) and Rick Eaton on their<br />
title win.<br />
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Congratulations<br />
on <strong>you</strong>r induction<br />
into the<br />
Nova Scotia Sport<br />
Hall of Fame<br />
Stand Up and Cheer<br />
<strong>for</strong> Acadia’s newest<br />
Nova Scotia Sport<br />
Hall of Fame members.<br />
Steve Pound (’72 & ’75)<br />
Nancy (Taylor) Delahunt (’82)<br />
Congratulations!<br />
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Congratulations<br />
Steve<br />
on <strong>you</strong>r induction<br />
to the<br />
Hall of Fame<br />
congratulates<br />
WILL NJOKU,<br />
STEVE POUND<br />
CAROLYN SAVOY<br />
&<br />
The Gaetz Family<br />
L-R Back Row: Manager Willis Porter, Tom Staines, Fred Moczulski, Tom Farrington, Trainer Harvey Mills.<br />
Middle Row: Bruiser McGee, Jon Beausang, Terry Condon, Freeman Schofield, Paul Talbot.<br />
Front Row: Gary Folker, Coach Gib Chapman, Co-Captain Steve Pound, Co-Captain Rick Eaton, Assistant<br />
Coach Jim Logue, Peter Phipps. Trophy: McGee Trophy – C.I.A.U. National Championship Trophy<br />
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Cecilia Branch, Halifax,<br />
center, is pictured with<br />
teammates at University of<br />
Nevada at Las Vegas. She<br />
was inducted to the Nova<br />
Scotia Sport Hall of Fame<br />
in 1991 and holds 65 Nova<br />
Scotia track and field records.<br />
Branch set a Canadian high<br />
school record in the 100m<br />
hurdles in 1973 and was<br />
rated third in the country in<br />
the 100m hurdles. She was<br />
a member of the Canadian<br />
Pan-Am Games track team<br />
in 1979, and the Canadian<br />
Olympic team in 1980. She<br />
was the Canadian indoor<br />
and outdoor 60m hurdles<br />
champion in 1985, the same<br />
year she was America’s Cup<br />
100 metre hurdle champion.<br />
She was named UNLV’s most<br />
outstanding per<strong>for</strong>mer twice<br />
and was a bronze medalist<br />
in AIAW Track and Field<br />
Championships.<br />
The members of the<br />
Atlantic Division CanoeKayak Canada<br />
applaud<br />
Mike Scarola<br />
on his induction to the Sport Hall of Fame<br />
and being a role model<br />
<strong>for</strong> sprint paddlers to follow.<br />
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The Office of Health and Wellness<br />
recognizes the contributions of the<br />
honoured members of<br />
The Nova<br />
Scotia Sport<br />
Hall of Fame<br />
THE<br />
ORIGINAL<br />
SPORT HALL<br />
OF FAME<br />
INDUCTEES<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Alfred “Ackie” Allbon •<br />
Hector “Hec” Andrews •<br />
Sam R. Balcom •<br />
Marty Barry •<br />
Wally Barteaux •<br />
Fabie Bates •<br />
D. Stanley Bauld<br />
Joey Beaton<br />
Richard Beazley •<br />
Vaughan Black •<br />
Neddy Borne •<br />
Arthur J. Brady •<br />
Henry “Ducky” Brooks •<br />
Frank Brown •<br />
George Brown •<br />
Freddie Cameron •<br />
“Hockey Jack” Campbell •<br />
Mike Carney •<br />
Frank Carroll •<br />
Carroll Charleton •<br />
D.R. “Dempsey” Chisholm •<br />
Roy Chisholm •<br />
Frank Condon •<br />
Jack Condon •<br />
Johnny Conroy •<br />
Thurston Cook •<br />
Joe Crockett •<br />
George Cutten •<br />
Art Dalton •<br />
Robie Davison •<br />
Claire DeMont •<br />
George Dixon •<br />
W.R. “Tee” Doyle •<br />
Burns Dunbar •<br />
Bill Dunphy •<br />
Vern Eville •<br />
Layton Ferguson •<br />
Robert “Burglar” Ferguson •<br />
Vincent Ferguson •<br />
Leon Fluck •<br />
Charlie Foley •<br />
Tom Foley •<br />
Bob Forward •<br />
Jack Stan Fraser •<br />
Jimmy Fraser •<br />
Bob Goodhew •<br />
Louis “Louie” Graham •<br />
Chester Gregory •<br />
John “Hap” Hanlon •<br />
Reg Hart •<br />
Roy Haverstock •<br />
Nedder Healey •<br />
William A. Henry •<br />
Maureen MacDonald<br />
Minister<br />
Charles “Tiny” Herman •<br />
Grant Holmes •<br />
Vernon “Newt” Hopper •<br />
John “Timmie” Hunter •<br />
Roy Hunter •<br />
Nedder Hurley •<br />
Gordon B. Isnor •<br />
Roy Isnor •<br />
Stanton Jackson •<br />
Waldon Kennedy •<br />
Alf Kirby •<br />
Gordon “Doggie” Kuhn •<br />
Robert Laidlaw •<br />
Ves Laing •<br />
Mellish Lane •<br />
Sam Lang<strong>for</strong>d •<br />
George Latham •<br />
Jack Learment •<br />
Sammy Lesser •<br />
Fergie Little •<br />
Tommy Little •<br />
Lester Lowther •<br />
Mark & Mike Lynch •<br />
Victor MacAulay •<br />
Ritchie MacCoy •<br />
“Big” Alex MacDonald •<br />
Ian MacDonald •<br />
Jack D. MacDonald •<br />
R.J. MacDonald •<br />
Roddie MacDonald •<br />
Toby MacDonald •<br />
John MacIntyre •<br />
“Mickey” MacIntyre •<br />
Hughie MacKinnon •<br />
Clarence “Coot” MacLean •<br />
Kirk MacLellan •<br />
Silas MacLellan •<br />
Wilbert Martel •<br />
Jimmy Martin •<br />
Stephen “Duke” McIsaac •<br />
Bill McKay •<br />
Jack McKenna •<br />
Sandy McMullin •<br />
Aileen Meagher •<br />
Bert “Basket” Messervy<br />
Johnny Miles •<br />
Leigh Miller •<br />
Billy Mooney •<br />
Frank Morrison •<br />
Ernie Mosher •<br />
Tom Mullane •<br />
Jack Munroe •<br />
Mike Murphy •<br />
A.V. “Chummie” Murray •<br />
Frank Nicks •<br />
Con Olson •<br />
Gerald “Jigger” O’Neil •<br />
John W. O’Neill •<br />
Jim “Hank” O’Rourke •<br />
Billy Parsons •<br />
Charles Patterson Sr. •<br />
Charles Patterson 2nd •<br />
Charlie Paul •<br />
Gertrude Phinney •<br />
Billy Pickering •<br />
Burns Wesley Pierce •<br />
Wyman Porter •<br />
Billy Rawley •<br />
Vaughan Reagh •<br />
Walter Rice •<br />
Billy Richardson •<br />
Harvey Richardson •<br />
“Nugget” Richmond •<br />
Percy Ring •<br />
Mickey Roach •<br />
Alf Rogers •<br />
William C. Ross •<br />
Fritz Schaefer •<br />
Cliff Shand •<br />
Howard Shaw •<br />
Lou Shaw •<br />
Lou Siderski •<br />
Billy Smith •<br />
Ted Stackhouse •<br />
Frank Stephen •<br />
Bill “Red” Stuart •<br />
Dave Thomson •<br />
George Tracy •<br />
Jimmy Trott •<br />
Jack Twaddle •<br />
Angus Walters •<br />
Terrence “Tiger” Warrington •<br />
Russel T. Ward •<br />
George Weatherbee •<br />
Neddie Weaver •<br />
Steven Whelan •<br />
Neil Wilkie •<br />
James “Minute” Wilkie •<br />
Benny Woodworth •<br />
TEAM<br />
Jubilee Four Oared Crew of 1930<br />
(Rowing)<br />
Ross Foley Four Oared Crew<br />
(Rowing)<br />
St. Mary’s Four Oared Crew of<br />
1909 (Rowing)<br />
Smith-Nickerson Four Oared Crew<br />
(Rowing)<br />
1980<br />
ATHLETE<br />
David Amadio •<br />
Paul Andrea<br />
Don Bauld<br />
Len Boss •<br />
Joe “Beef” Cameron •<br />
Dr. W.A. “Buddy” Condy •<br />
John Devison<br />
Foster “Moxie” Dickson •<br />
P. “Skit” Ferguson<br />
Fred Fox •<br />
Lawson Fowler •<br />
Tyrone Gardiner<br />
Doug Grant<br />
Art Hafey<br />
John “Junior” Hanna •<br />
Jimmy Hawboldt •<br />
Robert Hayes •<br />
J. “Bert” Hirschfeld •<br />
Dorothy Holmes<br />
Vida Large •<br />
Parker MacDonald<br />
Steve “Kid” MacDonald •<br />
Allister MacNeil<br />
Avard Mann •<br />
S. “Chook” Maxwell •<br />
Joseph “Joey” Mullins •<br />
Roy Oliver •<br />
Bevil “Bev” Piers •<br />
Blair Richardson •<br />
Richie Spears<br />
Sherman White •<br />
R. “Tic” Williams •<br />
Frances J. Woodbury •<br />
BUILDER<br />
Bob Beaton •<br />
A. Garnet Brown •<br />
Ted Cumming<br />
John Cechetto<br />
Hanson Dowell •<br />
Danny Gallivan •<br />
Eddie Gillis •<br />
Jack Gray •<br />
Don Henderson •<br />
Clarence Johnson •<br />
Fred Kelly •<br />
Art Lightfoot •<br />
Frank McGibbon •<br />
Leo “Pop” McKenna •<br />
John MacCarthy •<br />
Charles MacVicar •<br />
Hugh Noble •<br />
Victor deB. Oland •<br />
John Piers •<br />
Dannie Seaman •<br />
H.L. “Bud” Thorbourne •<br />
Harry Trainor •<br />
Abbie Warden •<br />
George Warden •<br />
TEAM<br />
Acadia University “Axemen”<br />
Basketball 1971<br />
Caledonia Rugby 1937<br />
Halifax “Atlantics” Hockey 1952-<br />
53-54<br />
Halifax Queen Elizabeth “Lions”<br />
Basketball 1950<br />
Halifax “Wolverines” Hockey<br />
1934-35<br />
Kentville “Glooscap” Curling 1951<br />
Kentville Wildcats Hockey 1926-27<br />
New Glasgow High School<br />
Track and Field 1937<br />
New Water<strong>for</strong>d Central High School<br />
Basketball 1961<br />
New Water<strong>for</strong>d “Strands” Basketball<br />
1946-47-48<br />
St. Agnes Juvenile Basketball -<br />
New Water<strong>for</strong>d 1932<br />
Stellarton “Albions” Baseball<br />
1951-52-53<br />
Sydney Millionaires Hockey 1941<br />
Truro “Bearcats” Senior Baseball<br />
1946<br />
Truro Bearcats “Seven Survivors”<br />
Hockey 1930-31<br />
Truro “Slugs” Girls Softball 1945-<br />
46-50<br />
1981<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Edith Bauld<br />
John Alexander “Johnny” Clark •<br />
Delmore William “Buddy” Daye •<br />
James Goode “Jimmy” Gray •<br />
John Edward McCurdy<br />
Jesse Elroy Mitchell<br />
BUILDER<br />
Nathan Scoville “Nate” Bain •<br />
Harold William “Harry” Butler •<br />
Captain John Theodore Cruikshank •<br />
James Archibald “J.A.” Ferguson •<br />
Judge Julian Elliot Hudson •<br />
Donald John Loney •<br />
John “Jack” Thomas •<br />
Freda Noble Wales •<br />
TEAM<br />
Acadia University Men’s Basketball<br />
1930<br />
Halifax Curling Club Men’s 1927<br />
Liverpool Jets Senior Women’s<br />
Softball 1965-67<br />
Liverpool Larrupers Senior<br />
Baseball 1939-41<br />
Yarmouth Gateways Senior<br />
Baseball 1929-35<br />
1982<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Norman “Normie” Ferguson<br />
George Ross Harper<br />
Christopher “Chris” Hook<br />
Maisie Howard •<br />
Richard “Kid” Howard •<br />
Rita Lohnes<br />
Lowell MacDonald<br />
Gary Walter MacMahon<br />
MacKenzie “Kenzie” MacNeil •<br />
Gerald “Tarp” Walsh •<br />
BUILDER<br />
John E. “Gee” Ahern •<br />
Gerald St. Clair “Jerry” Bauld •<br />
TEAM<br />
Acadia Senior Men’s Varsity<br />
Basketball 1964-65<br />
Acadia Senior Women’s Varsity<br />
Swim 1977-78<br />
Bridgetown Men’s Lawn Bowling<br />
1973-75<br />
International Dory Racing - Lloyd<br />
Heisler & Russell Langille<br />
1952-55<br />
Springhill “Fencebusters” Baseball<br />
1927-28<br />
MEDIA AWARD<br />
W.J. “Ace” Foley •<br />
1983<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Clyde Gray<br />
George “Rock-A-Bye” Ross •<br />
BUILDER<br />
Frank Baldwin •<br />
TEAM<br />
World Championship Sailing<br />
Glen Dexter, Andreas Josenhans,<br />
Alexander “Sandy” MacMillan<br />
1977, 1980<br />
MEDIA AWARD<br />
Alex Nickerson •<br />
1984<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Marjorie Bailey Brown<br />
Lyle Carter<br />
Gerald Mielke •<br />
Wayne Smith<br />
BUILDER<br />
John “Brother” MacDonald •<br />
Jimmy McDonald •<br />
MEDIA AWARD<br />
Earl R.J. Morton •<br />
1985<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Susan Mason (MacLeod)<br />
Thomas Melvin “Ike” Murray<br />
Beverley “Bev” Wade •<br />
BUILDER<br />
Frederick Robert “Fred” Lynch •<br />
Les Topshee •<br />
MEDIA AWARD<br />
Dr. Cecil MacLean •<br />
1986<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Sylvester “Daddy” Bubar •<br />
Nancy Ellen Garapick<br />
Gerald “Gerry” Leslie Glinz •<br />
Marty Martinello •<br />
BUILDER<br />
Steve MacDonald<br />
Gordon S. Mont<br />
TEAM<br />
Saint Mary’s University Football 1973
1987<br />
ATHLETE<br />
John “Jack” Fritz •<br />
Phil Scott<br />
Francis “Rocky” MacDougall •<br />
BUILDER<br />
Janet Merry<br />
Owen N. Sawler •<br />
TEAM<br />
Shearwater Flyers Football 1957<br />
1988<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Douglas “Dugger” McNeil<br />
David Piers<br />
Earl Arthur Ryan •<br />
Garfield MacDonald •<br />
BUILDER<br />
George “Porgy” Kehoe •<br />
Annie Longard •<br />
Gladys Longard •<br />
TEAM<br />
Brookfield Elks Softball 1980<br />
1989<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Hugh Alexander Campbell<br />
Herbert MacLeod •<br />
Sydney Hale Roy •<br />
Reginald J. Muise<br />
BUILDER<br />
John Brophy<br />
Nigel Kemp<br />
Donald Wheeler •<br />
TEAM<br />
Stellarton Monarchs Senior<br />
Softball 1937-38<br />
1990<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Reginald “Reg” Beazley •<br />
Peter Hope<br />
Sam Wareham •<br />
Jerry Byers •<br />
BUILDER<br />
Robert “Bob” Kaplan<br />
Herman Kaplan •<br />
Alfred “Alf” LeJeune<br />
TEAM<br />
Windsor Maple Leafs Senior<br />
Hockey 1963-64<br />
1991<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Walter Dann<br />
Hilliard Graves<br />
Angus “Sonny” MacDonald •<br />
John Myketyn •<br />
Billy O’Donnell<br />
BUILDER<br />
John Fortunato •<br />
Keith MacKenzie<br />
Rod Shoveller •<br />
1992<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Fred Cuvelier •<br />
Ismet “Hum” Joseph •<br />
Wayne Maxner<br />
BUILDER<br />
Darius “Pat” Patterson •<br />
Bob Sayer<br />
TEAM<br />
Saint Francis Xavier Hockey 1950-51<br />
1993<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Leo Amadio •<br />
Andrew Cole<br />
Elizabeth Connor •<br />
Robert McCall •<br />
Robert Mills<br />
Miriam Penney •<br />
Doug Sulliman<br />
BUILDER<br />
James Creighton •<br />
Bill Kingston •<br />
1994<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Paul Boutilier<br />
Ann Dodge<br />
Peter Doig<br />
Karin Maessen<br />
BUILDER<br />
Robert “Bob” Douglas •<br />
Frank Garner<br />
TEAM<br />
Saint Francis Xavier Football 1966<br />
1995<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Josephine Laba •<br />
Paul MacLean<br />
Marie Moore<br />
Ralph Simmons •<br />
BUILDER<br />
Gussie MacLellan •<br />
Ken Mantin<br />
TEAM<br />
Nova Scotia Women’s Field<br />
Hockey 1975<br />
1996<br />
ATHLETE<br />
David Crabbe<br />
Edna Lockhart Duncanson •<br />
Duncan MacIntyre<br />
Marie McNeil Bowness<br />
Karen Fraser Moore<br />
BUILDER<br />
Taylor Gordon<br />
Fred MacGillivray, Sr. •<br />
Joyce Myers •<br />
1997<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Jamie Bone<br />
Rick Bowness<br />
Edwin Crowell<br />
John “Jook” Munroe<br />
Bob Piers<br />
BUILDER<br />
George Athanasiou<br />
Dr. William Stanish<br />
Dorothy Walker<br />
TEAM<br />
Nova Scotia Voyageurs Hockey<br />
1971-72<br />
1998<br />
ATHLETE<br />
William “Bill” Carter •<br />
Wilson Parsons<br />
William “Bill” Riley<br />
Ken Shea<br />
BUILDER<br />
Elizabeth Chard •<br />
Lois MacGregor<br />
Bob Wong<br />
TEAM<br />
Saint Mary’s University Basketball<br />
1972-73<br />
1999<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Dave Downey<br />
Duncan Gillis •<br />
Mike Henderson<br />
Mike McPhee<br />
BUILDER<br />
Bob Boucher •<br />
Pat Connolly<br />
John MacGlashen<br />
TEAM<br />
Halifax Arcade Ladies Softball<br />
1946-49<br />
2000<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Donald “Chick” Charlton •<br />
William Hannon<br />
Kevin Morrison<br />
Lawrence “Butch” O’Hearn<br />
BUILDER<br />
Kell Antoft •<br />
Brian Langley<br />
Al Yarr<br />
TEAM<br />
Sydney Millionaires Hockey<br />
1948-49<br />
2001<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Cecilia Branch<br />
Donald MacVicar<br />
Kathy MacCormack Spurr<br />
BUILDER<br />
Laurie Power •<br />
Ginny Smith<br />
TEAM<br />
Thorburn Mohawks Maritime Junior<br />
Softball 1963-65<br />
1981 Canada Games Junior Boys<br />
Softball<br />
2002<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Fabian Joseph<br />
Cliff Roach •<br />
Mark Smith<br />
BUILDER<br />
Terry Henderson<br />
Alexander “Sandy” Young •<br />
TEAM<br />
Dalhousie University Volleyball<br />
1982<br />
Saint Mary’s Junior Hockey 1948<br />
2003<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Rick Anderson<br />
Jim Beckman<br />
Malcolm Davis<br />
Graham MacIntyre<br />
Clyde Roy •<br />
Barry Shakespeare •<br />
BUILDER<br />
Jerome Bruhm<br />
Leo Fahey<br />
TEAM<br />
Saint Francis Xavier Football 1963<br />
MEDIA<br />
Hugh Townsend<br />
2004<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Art Dorrington<br />
Hugh Little •<br />
Gerry MacMillan<br />
Kathy Powers<br />
Tyrone Williams<br />
BUILDER<br />
Bernie Chisholm<br />
Hugh Matheson<br />
Gail Rice<br />
William James Roue •<br />
TEAM<br />
Glace Bay Colonels 1987<br />
MEDIA<br />
Donnie MacIsaac •<br />
2005<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Neil Amadio •<br />
John Cassidy<br />
Jackie Hayden<br />
David “Ducky” Webber<br />
BUILDER<br />
John Paris Jr.<br />
Susan Smith<br />
Murray Sleep •<br />
TEAM<br />
Antigonish Robertson’s Midget<br />
Softball 1984<br />
Nova Scotia Canada Games Men’s<br />
Basketball 1987<br />
MEDIA<br />
Al Hollingsworth<br />
2006<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Terry Baker<br />
Chris Clarke<br />
John Giovannetti<br />
David Pinkney Sr. •<br />
Ken Reardon<br />
BUILDER<br />
David Andrews<br />
Muriel Fage •<br />
Courtney Malcolm<br />
TEAM<br />
Judy Lugar and Morag McLean<br />
Sailing<br />
Fisherman’s Market Midget Boys<br />
Fast Pitch Softball 1981<br />
2007<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Frank Dorrington<br />
Stan Hennigar Jr.<br />
Fred Lake •<br />
Penny LaRocque<br />
Charles Smith •<br />
Wendell Young<br />
BUILDER<br />
Steve Konchalski<br />
Don Koharski<br />
Dick MacLean •<br />
2008<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Don Brien<br />
Peter Corkum<br />
Al MacInnis<br />
Carroll Morgan<br />
BUILDER<br />
Wayne Finck<br />
David Fraser<br />
Arnold Patterson •<br />
TEAM<br />
Amherst Ramblers Hockey<br />
1960-61<br />
2009<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Bruce Beaton<br />
Mickey Fox<br />
Brian Heaney<br />
Jody Hennigar<br />
Gordie Smith<br />
BUILDER<br />
Roy Clements •<br />
Gus Fahey<br />
TEAM<br />
Acadia University Men’s Basketball<br />
1976-77<br />
2010<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Janice Cossar<br />
Mike Forgeron<br />
Robyn Meagher<br />
Gary Sabean<br />
Cindy Tye<br />
Ross Webb<br />
BUILDER<br />
Carl “Bucky” Buchanan<br />
Kevin Heisler<br />
Rick Rivers<br />
2011<br />
ATHLETE<br />
Will Njoku<br />
Steve Pound<br />
Cam Russell<br />
Michael Scarola<br />
BUILDER<br />
Hubert Earle<br />
Carolyn Savoy<br />
TEAM<br />
Team Jones 1999-2004<br />
• Deceased
Cam Russell<br />
Athlete<br />
It may be hard to picture now, but Cam Russell was a skilled<br />
offensive defenceman who rarely took penalties when<br />
he was a minor hockey player.<br />
It wasn’t until he got to the higher levels<br />
that he adopted the rugged stay-athome<br />
style that produced a 10-<br />
year NHL career.<br />
“Growing up I scored a lot of<br />
points and was almost always<br />
voted most gentlemanly player<br />
on my teams. I used to always<br />
win those Esso medals <strong>for</strong><br />
most sportsmanlike,” the Cole<br />
Harbour product said with a<br />
laugh. “The role I played as<br />
a kid was as a power-play<br />
guy and just an all-around<br />
defenceman. It was more<br />
when I went to Chicago<br />
and I was looking<br />
around and seeing that<br />
role had been taken by<br />
four or five other guys;<br />
I thought ‘what can I<br />
do to stay here?’ It<br />
was just a matter of<br />
survival. I just had<br />
to figure out<br />
what to do<br />
to make<br />
it.”<br />
by Willy Palov<br />
As a third-round<br />
pick trying to make the<br />
Blackhawks in the late 1980s<br />
and early ‘90s Russell used<br />
his six-foot-four, 200-pound<br />
frame to his advantage, literally<br />
fighting his way into the big<br />
leagues. He accumulated<br />
872 penalties to go with<br />
30 points during a<br />
10-year, 396-game<br />
NHL career, mostly<br />
in Chicago. In 1991,<br />
Russell’s Hawks made<br />
the Stanley Cup final<br />
which they eventually lost<br />
to Pittsburgh.<br />
“I was always the type<br />
of guy that found it hard to<br />
look in the mirror if I didn’t<br />
do what I was supposed to do<br />
out there,” said Russell, who<br />
also spent half a season with<br />
the Colorado Avalanche.<br />
“I think deep down<br />
everyone knows<br />
what needs<br />
to be done.<br />
It wasn’t easy, but<br />
<strong>for</strong> me,<br />
living with the guilt or<br />
not<br />
being able to look at myself in the<br />
mirror would’ve been a lot harder.”<br />
Long-time teammate Stephane Matteau was<br />
quick to say how highly Russell was regarded in the<br />
dressing room <strong>for</strong> always having his friends’ backs.<br />
“I played four years of junior with him in Hull and<br />
then we played together in Chicago, so I got to know<br />
him really well,” Matteau said. “To me, he was the gutsiest<br />
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But the rough-and-tumble role took its toll. Russell had numerous injuries<br />
and a dozen surgeries during his playing career and it was a major shoulder<br />
reconstruction in 1999 that <strong>for</strong>ced him into early retirement.<br />
“I was only 30 at the time,” Russell said. “I had two torn rotator cuffs in<br />
my shoulder and a torn labrum. They cut me open in the front and then<br />
down the deltoid so I just never got the range of motion back. I knew what<br />
I had to do. I filed <strong>for</strong> my disability and they sent me to an independent<br />
medical evaluator and he deemed me unable to play because of the limited<br />
range of motion and the lack of strength. To this day, there are still lots of<br />
things I can’t do with my left arm. <br />
“It was tough, but <strong>you</strong> know what, it was my 12th operation so <strong>you</strong> start<br />
to think about <strong>you</strong>r quality of life after hockey. I’d had spinal fusion, I had<br />
a big operation on my face where I broke four bones in my face, I had my<br />
nose fixed three times, had my knees done and obviously my shoulder. I<br />
player I ever played with. He wasn’t<br />
the biggest or the toughest, but he<br />
was the gutsiest. He was incredible.<br />
I still talk about this guy all the time<br />
when I tell stories.<br />
“He cared about everyone and<br />
even though he knew in some battles<br />
that he went into, it wasn’t a fair<br />
fight, he would still go. He gained<br />
a lot of respect from his teammates<br />
that way.”<br />
Top: Cam dreamed of an NHL career<br />
when he was playing minor hockey in<br />
Dartmouth.<br />
Right: Cam’s dream came true as he played<br />
ten seasons in hockey’s top league.<br />
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just knew it was time. My body had had enough.<br />
It’s one thing if <strong>you</strong>’re scoring goals but if <strong>you</strong>’re<br />
playing the kind of game I had to play, it definitely<br />
takes its toll on <strong>you</strong>.”<br />
Willy Palov covers the Halifax Mooseheads and<br />
the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League <strong>for</strong> The<br />
Chronicle Herald.<br />
Below: Early in his career, Cam checks a Minnesota North Star<br />
player.<br />
Cam’s Clips<br />
Career Highlights:<br />
• Ten years in NHL<br />
• 396 regular season games<br />
• Stanley Cup finalist<br />
• Stay-at-home defenceman<br />
• 30 points<br />
• 872 penalty minutes<br />
• Twice QMJHL champion with Hull Olympiques<br />
• Played in two Memorial Cup championships<br />
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on all <strong>you</strong>r hard work, dedication<br />
and success. We applaud <strong>you</strong>.<br />
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Sincerely,<br />
Hockey Nova Scotia board, staff and 23,000 members.<br />
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Mike Scarola<br />
Athlete<br />
by Joel Jacobson<br />
Mike Scarola was always smaller than the rest of<br />
the kids but that meant he had to work harder<br />
to keep up.<br />
The desire to improve, to beat the bigger<br />
kids, pushed him to become better,<br />
better than almost everyone else in<br />
the world.<br />
Eventually, Mike Scarola<br />
was able to surpass almost<br />
all his teammates and<br />
competitors on the<br />
world stage, winning<br />
gold, silver and bronze<br />
medals at world canoe<br />
championships,<br />
World Cups, and<br />
being top six<br />
at the 2004<br />
Olympic<br />
Games.<br />
Mike learned to paddle on<br />
Lake Banook in Dartmouth. With<br />
three canoe clubs available on that<br />
world-class water, much was available<br />
to a nine-year-old hankering to get<br />
into a boat.<br />
“I had to wait a month after I joined<br />
Senobe Club because I wasn’t strong<br />
enough to pass the swim test,” he recalls<br />
with a smile. “I worked hard, I passed and I<br />
was on my way. I picked up the paddling<br />
technique quickly but, as the other<br />
kids grew, I fell behind. Even<br />
though I outworked<br />
everyone<br />
and really liked it, I<br />
didn’t really think I’d ever do well.”<br />
He certainly did well. He had solid<br />
coaching, and role models like eventual<br />
Olympic medallist Steve Giles of Lake<br />
Echo with whom he trained often,<br />
and Larry Cain, a Canadian<br />
paddling gold medalist who,<br />
when in Dartmouth <strong>for</strong><br />
Nationals, was awed by <strong>you</strong>ng<br />
Mike.<br />
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“I was really struck by him,” he recalls. “He put status<br />
in paddling.”<br />
At 13, in 1989, Mike went to his first National<br />
Championships, <strong>you</strong>ng, and racing out of his age class. As<br />
the helmsman of the four-man boat, he couldn’t keep the<br />
craft in its lane. The team was disqualified.<br />
“One of our guys, older and bigger, screamed at me and<br />
said, ‘I knew <strong>you</strong> weren’t strong enough to steer.’ That<br />
just gave me the inspiration to get stronger and work even<br />
harder. “<br />
Mike made the Nova Scotia Canada Games team at 17<br />
and won gold in the solo 6,000 metres. He competed at<br />
Junior Worlds at 18.<br />
Yet, when he moved to senior paddling, he feared his peers<br />
were still bigger and stronger. He lacked confidence and<br />
almost quit. He was training at half level but then moved<br />
to Cheema Aquatic Club in Waverly.<br />
Mike came under the tutelage of Laszlo (Chum)<br />
Latorovszki who dealt with <strong>you</strong>ng athletes with a different<br />
approach.<br />
Magnificent Mike<br />
Career Highlights:<br />
• 19-time Canadian National Senior Champion<br />
• Sixth-place, Olympic Games, Athens 2004<br />
• Gold and silver medals, 1993 Canada Games<br />
• Four gold medals, World Cups, 2001<br />
• Bronze medal, C2 Sprint World Championships, 2002<br />
• Six silver medals, World Cups, 2000 through 2004<br />
• Silver medal, World University Championships, 2002<br />
• Silver medal, C2 Marathon World Championships,<br />
2000<br />
“He worked his athletes really hard, knocked fitness into<br />
them, and I started to love the sport again. I saw quick<br />
improvements and by age 21, made the National team and<br />
competed at Worlds. Chum was the biggest influence. He<br />
entrenched that working harder than everyone else would<br />
pay off.”<br />
Mike says focus, determination, a willingness to outwork<br />
his competitors, and want it more, was the way<br />
he operated – and it did pay off.<br />
By 2000, at age 24, he was medalling regularly<br />
on the world stage. Between 2000 and 2004, he<br />
won four golds, six silvers and two bronze medals<br />
at World Cups—all at either C2 500 or 1,000<br />
metres. Between 1997 and 2003, he was a solid<br />
competitor at World Sprint Championships.<br />
In 2000, on his home course, he won silver in C2<br />
40km at the World Marathon Championships. He<br />
was second in C2 1,000 at the World University<br />
Games in 2002, the same year he earned third at<br />
the World Sprint Championships in C2 1,000.<br />
The capper was making the Canadian Olympic<br />
team in 2004 where he and long-time C2 partner<br />
Richard Dalton of Dartmouth finished sixth in<br />
the C2 1,000 metre race.<br />
“Richard and I partnered in 1999 and stayed<br />
together until 2004. We narrowly missed<br />
qualifying <strong>for</strong> the Canadian Olympic team in<br />
2000, but later that year we beat the Olympic crew<br />
five times. Richard and I had a tight relationship.<br />
We lived in the same room <strong>for</strong> five-six months a<br />
Mike Scarola and Richard Dalton cool down after a race.<br />
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year while training, were always on the water together <strong>for</strong> 10<br />
to 14 practises a week. We really complemented each other.<br />
He benefitted from my organizational skills and I learned<br />
from watching a great paddler who had a work ethic and<br />
focus second to none.”<br />
Mike retired six months after Athens, in January 2005.<br />
“The transition is the biggest challenge <strong>for</strong> a national athlete,<br />
You have to have something else to focus on and I did.”<br />
He had married his long-time girlfriend, Barb Locke.<br />
They had a child, with two more to follow, and Mike had<br />
completed his business degree at Saint Mary’s University<br />
and an MBA at Dalhousie.<br />
Almost 30 at the time, he had been part of RBC’s Esteem<br />
Team (as an Olympic athlete speaking to <strong>you</strong>ngsters<br />
and corporate groups to inspire them to set goals and<br />
be successful), was president of the Atlantic chapter of<br />
Olympians Canada, and a member of Canoe Kayak<br />
Canada’s High Per<strong>for</strong>mance Committee.<br />
“I had a job with RBC (in investment banking) and it<br />
was time to prove myself in another area. Sure I missed<br />
paddling <strong>for</strong> a few years but I’m getting back into it at this<br />
year’s senior men’s war canoe and in a<br />
senior men’s C4 boat. Where we end<br />
up is not as important as it once was,<br />
even though I really want to win.”<br />
Mike says the most valuable<br />
takeaway from paddling has been<br />
learning that hard work, focus and<br />
planning can ensure <strong>you</strong> overcome<br />
hurdles. “What seems impossible at<br />
the start can become reality. Learning<br />
that in sport can transfer to how <strong>you</strong><br />
approach life.”<br />
Joel Jacobson is a <strong>for</strong>mer daily newspaper<br />
columnist who now writes and edits<br />
the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame<br />
newsletter, On The Go, and coordinates<br />
the Hall of Fame Induction Night.<br />
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Hubert Earle<br />
Builder<br />
by Joel Jacobson<br />
Hubert Earle confesses he’s allergic to pain.<br />
He boxed once in a practice gym, was<br />
knocked senseless and decided that wasn’t <strong>for</strong><br />
him.<br />
He is obviously a quick learner. He decided, if he wanted to be<br />
part of the sport, it would be as an official and administrator. Forty<br />
years later, he’s the director of combat sport <strong>for</strong> the Nova Scotia Boxing<br />
Authority, an organization he chaired <strong>for</strong> several years. Hubert works with<br />
the provincial government’s Department of Health and Wellness, <strong>for</strong>merly<br />
Health Promotion and Protection.<br />
Hubert Earle is also a world class boxing referee, still officiating<br />
world title bouts in far-flung places around the globe. In his home,<br />
Hubert Earle has a wall of pictures, boxing<br />
posters and presentation plaques<br />
recognizing<br />
some of the<br />
hundreds<br />
of fights<br />
h e ’ s<br />
officiated.<br />
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Left & below: Hubert Earle per<strong>for</strong>ms two<br />
of the most difficult tasks of a boxing referee,<br />
leaving himself open to a wild punch and<br />
breaking the fighters from a clinch.<br />
Hubert is a builder in the true sense. He has volunteered<br />
thousands of hours to write and re-write rules and<br />
regulations that make his sports safer <strong>for</strong> the competitors,<br />
and more understanding to the coaches, trainers,<br />
promoters and spectators.<br />
He has worked hard to get where he is, never<br />
considering the compensation that comes with<br />
some phases of his job (he says it has cost him<br />
plenty of money from his pocket to referee<br />
around the world in lost wages from jobs<br />
and minor expenses not covered by the<br />
World Boxing Association that hires<br />
him).<br />
He has been a student all his life,<br />
learning what he can about each<br />
area of the combat sports. When the<br />
viability of mixed martial arts was an<br />
issue as it came to Nova Scotia, Hubert<br />
got into the ring with men half his age and<br />
more to learn what the competitors saw and<br />
felt. He spent six months in pain and basically on<br />
the couch after his first “rolling” session (MMA’s<br />
equivalent to boxing’s sparring). He never rolled<br />
again, but truly knew what went on in the cage.<br />
In the late 1990s, while heading the Authority,<br />
Hubert initiated mandatory infectious disease testing<br />
and head CT scans throughout Canada. He drafted<br />
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Left: One of Hubert’s<br />
proudest moments<br />
was walking into<br />
Madison Square<br />
Garden in New<br />
York as the first<br />
Nova Scotian and<br />
Canadian to referee<br />
a major boxing<br />
match in what is<br />
known as the mecca<br />
of boxing.<br />
a manual of guidelines <strong>for</strong> Canadian Boxing Association<br />
referees, runs medical seminars as he shows doctors what a<br />
ring doctor needs to know, and sessions <strong>for</strong> ring officials.<br />
He also oversees annual updates of rules and regulations <strong>for</strong><br />
boxing and MMA in Nova Scotia.<br />
“I always liked boxing,” he says. “I’d go to the fights at the<br />
Forum and yell at the referees if I thought they were wrong.<br />
One day, someone sitting near me said, ‘If <strong>you</strong> think <strong>you</strong>’re<br />
so good, why don’t <strong>you</strong> try it.’ ”<br />
Hubert laughs, as he does often when he gets embarrassed<br />
talking about himself. “I decided I could have the best seat<br />
in the house – in the ring - , not pay <strong>for</strong> a ticket and be paid<br />
to do something I enjoyed,” he says.<br />
He trained with Hall of<br />
Famer Bobby Beaton <strong>for</strong><br />
three years and finally was<br />
assigned a bout. That started<br />
a local career that blossomed<br />
to international when the<br />
very shy Hubert finally spoke<br />
with another Hall of Famer,<br />
Murray Sleep, who was with<br />
the WBA.<br />
“What took <strong>you</strong> so long (to<br />
approach me)?, asked Sleep,<br />
and, recognizing Hubert’s<br />
talent, arranged <strong>for</strong> him to<br />
get world fights.<br />
“My knees were shaking<br />
when I did my first one, in<br />
Fort Worth ,Texas, with welterweight Donald Curry,” says<br />
Hubert. “But, even today, those start-of-bout jitters are gone<br />
in seconds and <strong>you</strong> go to work.”<br />
He admits stepping through the ropes still gives him<br />
his greatest thrill even though what he does <strong>for</strong> the Boxing<br />
Authority has, through concern <strong>for</strong> safety, far greater impact<br />
on the men and women who compete in boxing and mixed<br />
martial arts.<br />
Hubert’s Hot Shots<br />
Career Highlights:<br />
• Ring Official, World Boxing Association<br />
Refereed dozens of major world boxing championships<br />
• Referee-in-Chief, Nova Scotia Boxing Authority<br />
• Referee-in-Chief, Canadian Professional Boxing<br />
Federation<br />
• Referee, New York State Athletic Commission<br />
• Director of Combat Sports, NSBA<br />
• Trained officials <strong>for</strong> NSBA<br />
• Amended rules, instituted mandatory CT scans and<br />
infectious disease testing in Canadian combat sports<br />
Below: Hubert points Roy Jones Jr. to the corner after an early<br />
knockdown of Joe Calzaghe at Madison Square Garden in New<br />
York. Refereeing there was a highlight of Hubert’s illustrious officiating<br />
career. Calzaghe came back to win a decision.<br />
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Carolyn Savoy<br />
Builder<br />
by Katherine Wooler<br />
“ The team is everything.”<br />
That’s Dr. Carolyn<br />
Savoy’s philosophy, one<br />
that has enabled her to amass<br />
858 wins in almost 40 years as a<br />
basketball coach.<br />
During her 32 years as<br />
coach of Dalhousie women’s<br />
basketball team (1977-2009),<br />
and seven earlier years at St.<br />
Francis Xavier University,<br />
Savoy set a Canadian<br />
Interuniversity<br />
Sport (CIS)<br />
standard<br />
<strong>for</strong><br />
career wins. Her Dal Tigers won 11 regular<br />
season Atlantic University Sport (AUS)<br />
championships, five playoff titles, and won<br />
silver at the CIS 1980 women’s championship.<br />
Between 1979 and 1982, Dr. Savoy’s Tigers went<br />
on a winning streak of 49 consecutive AUS league<br />
games. Savoy was a five-time AUS Coach of the Year.<br />
The “team” concept of the student-athlete, and<br />
building relationships, have been at the <strong>for</strong>efront of<br />
Savoy’s coaching mantra.<br />
Her students, while succeeding on the<br />
court, have accomplished a 100 per cent<br />
graduation rate, <strong>for</strong> those who have<br />
been in her program <strong>for</strong> between three<br />
and five years. Sixteen of her athletes<br />
have been named All-Canadians.<br />
Five have become members of the<br />
Canadian National Team.<br />
She finds it all “extremely<br />
rewarding. I’m not a maker of<br />
basketball players,” she says,<br />
“but a maker of people.”<br />
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Carolyn’s Contributions<br />
Career Highlights:<br />
• Record 858 CIS wins as coach<br />
• 75 per cent winning record<br />
• 11 AUS league titles<br />
• Five AUS conference (playoff) titles<br />
• Five-time AUS Coach of the Year<br />
• 16 players named All-Canadian<br />
• Five players on Canadian National Team<br />
• 100 per cent graduation record <strong>for</strong> athletes playing 3-5<br />
years<br />
• President of Basketball Nova Scotia<br />
• Basketball Canada Board of Directors, 1998-1987<br />
• Saint John, New Brunswick, Sports Hall of Fame, 2003<br />
Coach Carolyn Savoy hugs Sue Parke of the 1996 AUS champion<br />
Tigers on Senior Night in a 1997 pre-game ceremony. Most universities<br />
honour graduating players at their final home game.<br />
Carolyn Savoy urges better per<strong>for</strong>mance from her team as AUS all-star<br />
Alex Legge listens intently.<br />
Her student athletes admit the coach has been tough,<br />
demanding and intense on the practice and game floor, but<br />
has been a willing mentor and listening post off of it.<br />
Kelly Donald, who played <strong>for</strong> the Tigers under Carolyn’s<br />
direction <strong>for</strong> four years, says, “Looking back, I wouldn’t want<br />
to do anything differently.” She now applies many of Carolyn’s<br />
coaching techniques to her own coaching endeavors at local<br />
high schools.<br />
Leah Girdwood, a Tiger from 2003-2008, said “Carolyn<br />
made it very clear what was demanded. She expected<br />
per<strong>for</strong>mance and we loved that about her. But she would also<br />
go to bat and do anything <strong>for</strong> her players. She always had<br />
our interest at heart – in athletics, the classroom or socially.<br />
She just wanted the best <strong>for</strong> us and <strong>for</strong> us to give our best.”<br />
Kelly agrees, and comments on the respect Carolyn had<br />
<strong>for</strong> the game and her players. “She always wore suits to big<br />
games. You knew she meant business when she was wearing<br />
one of her suits, and she had a large variety of them.”<br />
Building a relationship is what Savoy believes to be the<br />
most important part of coaching, something carried <strong>for</strong>ward<br />
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y many of her <strong>for</strong>mer players who have become coaches at<br />
the school and club level. She facilitated healthy relationshipbuilding<br />
by creating a successful mentorship program where<br />
mentors aid Dalhousie players in delivering presentations<br />
to high school teams. This leadership-oriented program<br />
is included in the stream of coaching courses that Savoy<br />
introduced to Dalhousie’s School of Health and Human<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>mance, where she taught <strong>for</strong> more than 30 years and<br />
from which she retired as an associate professor last June.<br />
Savoy was a guest coach with Basketball Canada <strong>for</strong> two<br />
decades, coach of Nova Scotia’s 2001 Canada Games women’s<br />
basketball team, served as president of Basketball Nova Scotia,<br />
president of the Dalhousie Faculty Association, and was an<br />
assistant coach under Pat Summitt at University of Tennessee<br />
in 1991, when the Lady Vols won the NCAA Championship.<br />
With her level-four coaching certification, and PhD in<br />
Sport Psychology from University of Tennessee (1992), Savoy<br />
has written two books, The Art of Coaching and Psychological<br />
Training Programs <strong>for</strong> Team Sport Athletes, as well as numerous<br />
articles on coaching and sport psychology.<br />
Dr. Savoy gives equal credit <strong>for</strong> her career to her team<br />
members, emphasizing that Dalhousie students, alumni,<br />
and sponsors have helped her get to where she is today. “The<br />
players are my legacy,” she adds.<br />
Katherine Wooler works as a museum<br />
assistant <strong>for</strong> The Nova Scotia Sport<br />
Hall of Fame, while pursuing her<br />
final year of a Combined Honours<br />
in English and Creative Writing at<br />
Dalhousie University. She is also a<br />
writer <strong>for</strong> DalNews.<br />
Carolyn gives wise counsel during a<br />
time-out at a Tigers home game.<br />
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Stellar Inductees<br />
Top left: Janice Cossar is congratulated by<br />
her brothers John and Darren, both of whom<br />
presented her Induction Pin.<br />
Top right: Rick Rivers explains the sport of<br />
football to MC Bruce Rainnie.<br />
Middle left: Bucky Buchanan (r) receives his<br />
pin from long-time friend Russ MacNeil.<br />
Middle right: Robyn Meagher enjoys the<br />
commentary as her Hall of Fame career is<br />
highlighted.<br />
Bottom left: Pat Daly (middle) was named Hall<br />
of Fame Volunteer of the Year. John Randles Jr.<br />
(l) presented his plaque after Hall CEO Bill<br />
Robinson outlined his accomplishments.<br />
Bottom right: Members of the large audience<br />
cheer loudly as Mike Forgeron’s rowing feats were<br />
described.<br />
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Top left: Kevin Heisler describes the challenges of being a track<br />
& field builder.<br />
Top middle: International karate champion Gary Sabean proudly<br />
enters the induction ceremony.<br />
Top right: Mike Forgeron beams as he joins the Hall of Fame.<br />
Middle left: Ross Webb tells Bruce Rainnie how easy it is to score<br />
hundreds of soccer goals.<br />
Middle right: One of many displays enjoyed by the large crowd<br />
attending Induction Night.<br />
Bottom left: Cindy Tye (middle) enjoys her moment with <strong>for</strong>mer<br />
teammates Stephanie Carlisle (l) and Dana Holmes Giles.<br />
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Induction Procedure Meets With Success<br />
Transparency, expanded committee participation highlight process<br />
The revamped selection process <strong>for</strong> inductees to the<br />
Hall of Fame, introduced in 2009, has proved to be<br />
very successful, creating transparency and expanded<br />
participation while ensuring the province’s best athletes, teams<br />
and builders continue to gain the recognition they deserve.<br />
Hall of Fame executive director Bill Robinson says a 24-person<br />
review panel from across the province, all sport-knowledgeable<br />
people, reviews the nominees, usually between 80 and 100 of<br />
them annually.<br />
Using a weighted point system, each of the 24 ranks his<br />
or her top 10 in the athlete-team category and top five<br />
builders.<br />
Two short lists – top point getters in athlete-team and<br />
builder categories – in alphabetical order, are then presented<br />
to a final 12-member selection committee, consisting of<br />
regional representatives with sport background expertise.<br />
That committee meets in person to review the final list of<br />
nominees, with open and detailed discussion taking place<br />
on each nominee.<br />
A transparent first-ballot vote narrows the list, with the<br />
top four vote getters in the athlete-team category receiving<br />
automatic election. Those others receiving at least 50 per<br />
cent of the first-ballot vote are then placed on a second<br />
ballot, and require at least 75 per cent of the vote to attain<br />
election. A maximum of six new members in the category<br />
can be elected each year.<br />
The process is similar <strong>for</strong> builders with a maximum of<br />
two to be elected each year, unless there are extenuating<br />
circumstances.<br />
Chair of the Hall of Fame selection process is Hall of Fame<br />
member Mark Smith, elected as an athlete in 2002.<br />
Members of the two committees welcomed the new process<br />
in 2009 and have seen its success in the years following.<br />
Nominations are accepted until January 31 each year. The<br />
selection process moves through committees from March<br />
through May.<br />
S e l e c t i o n Committee Personnel<br />
2011 Selection Review Panel 2011 Selection Committee<br />
Ray Bradshaw<br />
Richard Burton<br />
Bo Chisholm<br />
Nancy Delahunt<br />
George Hallett<br />
Mike Henderson<br />
Paul Hollingsworth<br />
Nevin Jackson<br />
Albert Johnson<br />
Nigel Kemp<br />
Bill Kiely<br />
Dave LeBlanc<br />
Gail MacDougall<br />
Lois MacGregor<br />
Glen MacKinnon<br />
Dave MacLean<br />
Rick Pottie<br />
Bruce Rainnie<br />
Carol Rizzetto<br />
Rick Swain<br />
Hugh Townsend<br />
Blaine Whynott<br />
Cecil Wright<br />
Chairman<br />
Mark Smith<br />
Kevin Cameron<br />
George Hallett<br />
Mike Henderson<br />
Paul Hollingsworth<br />
Albert Johnson<br />
Bill Kiely<br />
Kathy MacCormack Spurr<br />
Karen Moore<br />
Dianne Norman<br />
Gordie Sutherland<br />
Hugh Townsend<br />
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Past Chairs<br />
of the<br />
Hall of Fame<br />
Jim Bayer<br />
Wolfville<br />
1983 – 1985<br />
Hugh Noble<br />
Halifax<br />
1977 – 1979<br />
Bill White<br />
Wolfville<br />
1986 – 1991<br />
Dorothy Walker<br />
Centreville<br />
1980 – 1983<br />
Eleanor Norrie<br />
Truro<br />
1991 – 1993<br />
Board of<br />
Directors<br />
Chairman........................................... Floyd Gaetz<br />
Vice Chairman....................... Dr. William Stanish<br />
Cape Breton Region..................... Dave MacLean<br />
Central Region....................................Don Mills<br />
Fundy Region.................................... Kelly Kolke<br />
Highland Region...................... Marc Champoux<br />
South Shore Region................... Mike Boudreau<br />
Valley Region........................... Gerry MacMillan<br />
Director-At-Large............. Stephanie O’Connor<br />
Director-At-Large.......................... Mark Smith<br />
Liaison............................................... Blaise Landry<br />
Treasurer......................................... Rob Randall<br />
Past Chairman..........................Fred MacGillivray<br />
Staff<br />
CEO.................................................Bill Robinson<br />
Facility & Communications<br />
Manager........................................Shane Mailman<br />
Administration & Special Events<br />
Coordinator..................................Karolyn Sevcik<br />
Education Coordinator.................Leah McInnis<br />
Collections Coordinator........... Tinisha Stilling<br />
Auditors<br />
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Legal Counsel<br />
Stephen Russell<br />
Russell Piggott Jones<br />
Tom Lynch<br />
Halifax<br />
1993 – 1998<br />
Danny Gallivan<br />
Halifax<br />
1998 – 2001<br />
Fred MacGillivray<br />
Halifax<br />
2002 – 2010<br />
Incorporation<br />
1983<br />
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O u r Mission<br />
To honour, promote and preserve the sport history of Nova Scotia.<br />
O u r V i s i o n<br />
To be the best provincial Sport Hall of Fame in Canada.<br />
Administration<br />
The Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame is administered by a Board of Directors which consists of six regional representatives,<br />
a chairman, past chairman, directors-at-large, and a treasurer. The Board meets regularly to ensure sound management<br />
policy and direction in the program operations of the Hall.<br />
Objectives<br />
To permanently record in<strong>for</strong>mation and achievements of historical significance to sport in Nova Scotia;<br />
To research, catalogue, file and make available to the general public, including without limitation, students, writers, schools<br />
and universities, in<strong>for</strong>mation and achievements of historical significance to sport in Nova Scotia;<br />
To publish books, periodicals, pamphlets and other literature recording in<strong>for</strong>mation on the achievement of sports individuals,<br />
teams, and organizations of historical significance to sport in Nova Scotia, <strong>for</strong> distribution to members of the public;<br />
To conduct programs of education <strong>for</strong> organizations in the community, including without limitation, schools, universities<br />
and special care homes, <strong>for</strong> the purpose of educating the public with in<strong>for</strong>mation and achievements of historical significance to<br />
sport in Nova Scotia;<br />
To maintain an archives of sport in Nova Scotia and exhibit to the public, literature, artifacts, photographs and other media<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation of historical significance to sport in Nova Scotia;<br />
To recognize, honour and pay tribute to individuals, teams or organizations who have achieved extraordinary distinction in, have<br />
given distinguished service to, and who have made major contributions to the development and advancement of sport in Nova<br />
Scotia.<br />
Hall of Fame Nominations<br />
The selection process <strong>for</strong> induction into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame is the responsibility of a 24-person review<br />
panel and the provincial selection committee. The 24-person panel reviews all nominations <strong>for</strong> final recommendation<br />
to the provincial selection committee. The provincial selection committee, which consists of 12 people, including<br />
a provincial chairperson, carefully scrutinizes the final recommendations. Upon their review, under the terms and criteria<br />
<strong>for</strong> entry into the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame, the final candidates are selected and announced as inductees annually.<br />
Nominations <strong>for</strong> candidates are open to the general public and are received annually at the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of<br />
Fame with a January 31 st deadline.<br />
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