HR0794 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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HOUSE RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, Five individuals and one team were inducted into the Centralia Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday, December 27, 2005, including Bob Bogle, Teena Magoulias-Shafer, Larry Smith, Fay Vaccaro, Ron Wimpy, and the 1954-55 Centralia Junior College basketball team; and

WHEREAS, Bob Bogle had a 189-93 record as head boys' basketball coach and athletic director at Centralia High School and led the Orphans to 20-win seasons five times, including trips to the Sweet 16 in 1988 and 1993; and

WHEREAS, Teena Magoulias-Shafer, a standout athlete as well as a coach, teacher, mentor and friend to many of Centralia's female athlete was a coach in four sports at Centralia Junior High School for 29 seasons, with a 287-125 record as softball coach and an 82-16 record and two Southern Illinois Junior High School Athletic Association titles as head girls' basketball coach; she remains active as head coach of the St. Mary's Lady Cardinals basketball team; and

WHEREAS, Larry Smith, a retired baseball coach at Kaskaskia College, had more than 800 wins to his credit in a 36-year coaching career; a total of 15 Blue Devils in Mr. Smith's tenure signed professional baseball contracts, and three of those, Larry Mohme, Bryan Eversgerd, and current Baltimore Orioles reliever Aaron Rakers, ended up playing in the Major Leagues; and

WHEREAS, Fay Vaccaro, this year's V.I.P. Award winner, was an outstanding fast-pitch softball pitcher; she pitched for the Centralia Paydays from 1956 to 1962, coached the girls' softball team at St. Mary's School from 1960 to 1982, and was a coach and mentor for many of Centralia's female athletes, including Ms. Magoulias-Shafer; Ms. Vaccaro also became known as an outstanding bowler; and

WHEREAS, Ron Wimpy was a two-team sports captain at Centralia Township High School who played both football and basketball in the final season of A.L. Trout's long and distinguished coaching career at CTHS and whose game-winning basket in a 1951 game ended the Mt. Vernon Rams' 46-game winning streak; and

WHEREAS, The 1954-55 Centralia Junior College basketball team, coached by Sports Hall of Fame member Chuck Mundell, had a 20-5 record and won the Central Illinois Conference championship while ranking in the top 10 nationally in scoring with an average of 91 points per game; therefore, be it

RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we congratulate each of the 2005 inductees of the Centralia Sports Hall of Fame; and be it further

RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be presented to each inductee as an expression of our esteem.