 Randy
Bates of Lincoln chosen as Hall's new executive director.
Bates retired in May as the activities director at Norris High School and will
assume his duties on March 1, succeeding Dick Beechner of Kearney, who served as
the foundation's executive director seven years.
Bates has been a teacher, coach and administrator for the past 39 years in
Pennsylvania, Iowa and Nebraska. He said he's excited about helping the Hall of
Fame reach its goal of establishing a permanent home for the Hall in the
Nebraska School Activities Association's office building in Lincoln.
"One of the biggest values I see to any hall of fame ... is inspiring kids for
the future," Bates said. "They look at things. They see the pictures. They read
the inscriptions and hopefully will hear and see it all when we get the thing up
and running. Maybe they'll set a goal for who they want to be. There's not
enough role models and heroes in our society for them to look up to."
Welcome to the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundation Website!
The Hall of Fame Foundation is a non-profit organization operating for more than 20 years with the idea of preserving the history of high school sports. It makes several awards annually honoring individuals and teams and has inducted more than 240 athletes, coaches and/or contributors, including some of the great names in Nebraska sports such as Gale Sayers, Johnny Rodgers, Carol Frost, the Fischer family, Tom Kropp, Nancy Kindig-Malone, Bob Gibson, Bob Boozer, Amy Stephens and Tom Osborne.
www.nebhalloffame.org
We Have a Good Cause: Please Help Us Out
The Hall of Fame officialy kicked off its capital fund drive
with a goal of $1.5. Thanks to a sizeable donation by a person preferring anonymity, the drive has reached $500,000.
The goal has been determined as a minimum requirement to provide an entertaining, modern presentation of Nebraska high school sports' past in the 7,000 square foot area.
"We anticipate we will begin to furnish the hall as soon as we get to the halfway point," said Bob Whitehouse, president of the foundation board of directors. "We're paying rent now and we've started working on schematics."
Fund drive chairman is Steve Johnsen, director of the the Nebraska Coaches Association, also officed in the NSAA complex. For more information or to make a contribution, please contact Johnsen (steve@ncacoach.org), Hall of Fame executive director Dick Beechner (golopers@aol.com), president Whitehouse (Bob.Whitehouse@ops.org) or any of the board members listed elsewhere in this website (board).
 The NSAA's new building...
where the Hall of Fame will have a home. |
A 1934 poster promoting
wth first 6-man football
game. See interesting story
about
this Nebraska created game.
Dale Butler, right, receives award
from President Whitehouse
at induction ceremony.
**Please forward any stories/web casts/pod casts on the Hall of Fame throughout
the year to golopers@aol.com,
buck_mahoney@charter.net or
jensenpub@hamilton.net**
LINCOLN - The Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame Foundation added
11 athletes, five coaches, two contributors and a referee to the hall at its
induction ceremony at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 27, at the Lied Center in
Lincoln.
It was the Hall of Fame's 16th induction ceremony.
Miracle
On Vine Street
Go
here
to see a video clip of one of the greatest moments in Nebraska High School
Sports, the Miracle on Vine Street in 1971. Dick Janda's excellent news work 10
years later re-plays and analyses the last minute heroics.
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