Full Text of HR0794 94th General Assembly
HR0794 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Five individuals and one team were inducted into | 3 |
| the Centralia Sports Hall of Fame on Tuesday, December 27, | 4 |
| 2005, including Bob Bogle, Teena Magoulias-Shafer, Larry | 5 |
| Smith, Fay Vaccaro, Ron Wimpy, and the 1954-55 Centralia Junior | 6 |
| College basketball team; and
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| WHEREAS, Bob Bogle had a 189-93 record as head boys' | 8 |
| basketball coach and athletic director at Centralia High School | 9 |
| and led the Orphans to 20-win seasons five times, including | 10 |
| trips to the Sweet 16 in 1988 and 1993; and
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| WHEREAS, Teena Magoulias-Shafer, a standout athlete as | 12 |
| well as a coach, teacher, mentor and friend to many of | 13 |
| Centralia's female athlete was a coach in four sports at | 14 |
| Centralia Junior High School for 29 seasons, with a 287-125 | 15 |
| record as softball coach and an 82-16 record and two Southern | 16 |
| Illinois Junior High School Athletic Association titles as head | 17 |
| girls' basketball coach; she remains active as head coach of | 18 |
| the St. Mary's Lady Cardinals basketball team; and
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| WHEREAS, Larry Smith, a retired baseball coach at Kaskaskia | 20 |
| College, had more than 800 wins to his credit in a 36-year | 21 |
| coaching career; a total of 15 Blue Devils in Mr. Smith's | 22 |
| tenure signed professional baseball contracts, and three of | 23 |
| those, Larry Mohme, Bryan Eversgerd, and current Baltimore | 24 |
| Orioles reliever Aaron Rakers, ended up playing in the Major | 25 |
| Leagues; and
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| WHEREAS, Fay Vaccaro, this year's V.I.P. Award winner, was | 27 |
| an outstanding fast-pitch softball pitcher; she pitched for the | 28 |
| Centralia Paydays from 1956 to 1962, coached the girls' | 29 |
| softball team at St. Mary's School from 1960 to 1982, and was a | 30 |
| coach and mentor for many of Centralia's female athletes, | 31 |
| including Ms. Magoulias-Shafer; Ms. Vaccaro also became known |
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| as an outstanding bowler; and
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| WHEREAS, Ron Wimpy was a two-team sports captain at | 3 |
| Centralia Township High School who played both football and | 4 |
| basketball in the final season of A.L. Trout's long and | 5 |
| distinguished coaching career at CTHS and whose game-winning | 6 |
| basket in a 1951 game ended the Mt. Vernon Rams' 46-game | 7 |
| winning streak; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, The 1954-55 Centralia Junior College basketball | 9 |
| team, coached by Sports Hall of Fame member Chuck Mundell, had | 10 |
| a 20-5 record and won the Central Illinois Conference | 11 |
| championship while ranking in the top 10 nationally in scoring | 12 |
| with an average of 91 points per game; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 14 |
| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 15 |
| we congratulate each of the 2005 inductees of the Centralia | 16 |
| Sports Hall of Fame; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to each inductee as an expression of our esteem.
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