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The
First Decade
1981- First Dinner held at Brown University Sharp
Refectroy. First Class
inducted includes 3 of RI's Olympians, John Higgins, Clara
Lamore Walker,
and Doris Brennan Weir.
1982- The Class of '82 includes Olympian Basil Fransis,
and Red Cross and
Lifeguarding legend's Commodore Wilbert Longfellow and Captain
Roger
Wheeler. Dinner is held at the Pawtucket Country Club.
1983- Red Cross standouts Edmond Mongeon and Frank
Moody are inducted with
this class.
1984- Inductees include two of the greats in high school
coaching, Jim
Lynch and Ellis Mayers. The only visit of the Hall of Fame
to the Alpine
Country Club.
1985- One of RI outstanding high school coaches, Ed
Golden, along with
Leonard Gath, outstanding diver, are inducted with the class
of '85. The
First of what will be twelve years of dinners at the Quonset
Point
Officer's Club.
1986- Longtime Brown Head Coach Edward Reed, along
with Carl Slader, with
over 50 years of Red Cross involvement, are members of the
class of '86.
1987- Class of '87 includes standout swimmer Richard
Burrows and
outstanding coach Harold Miroff.
1988- East Providence native Peter Solomon, one of
RI's greastest
swimmers, along with Alice Sullivan, longtime volunteer and
key in the
developement of girl's swimming are inducted with the class
of '88.
1989- Class of '89 includes Constance Drew, longtimne
swimming intructor,
and Gerald Jennings, All-American Diver and outstanding Coach.
1990- David Thuber, All-American swimmer, and Michael
Weskott, Head Coach
of the University of Rhode Island, are inducted along with
the class of
'90. The Tenth anniversary dinner includes many of the Hall's
previous
inductees, and each person in attendance left with a commemorative
paperweight.
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