Centennial Sports Night

Hi Marty/Bob, Thanks for the promo on the Centennial Sports Night and the request for memorabilia for our show. We had a number of responses to the request and received photos,trophies(some going back to the 1930's) team jackets and even an old Royal George Volleyball/basketball jersey,all of which will be part of a permanent show in a special display case which will be built in the Cynthia Coull Arena. The event was reallly well attended (app 200 people) and very well-received according to all reports and comments.By way of some background  prior to circa 1954-1955, when the GPAA was founded, most sport in GFPK was primarily organized by those playing on the respective teams into various athletic clubs and consequently we had the Eagles and Meteors and Cardinals in the twenties and thirties and during our era ,the forties and fifties, there were  The Maroons,Monarchs,Legion and finally The Warriors. By the time the Warriors closed shop in 1964, The GPAA had expanded its mandate and was essentially running and organizing all of the sports programs in the community which eliminated the need for any of these many independent athletic clubs.  In reviewing the list of those who were going to attend the reunion we discovered that there were  people who had played on those teams of the 40's and 50's and 60's who would be in town and so we decided to theme the event around them, members of the GFPK Sports Wall of Fame and a few other outstanding athletes who had won national championships.  Attached are some photos  from the night which highlighted some of the people who made significant contributions to the sports history and heritage of Our Little Town. Again thanks for all your support. JMcC. Many thanks to Normand(aka Bruce field Jr) Simard and Bruce Field for the photos 

PS-- Thanks to the Organizing Committee , Red Drummond, Bruce Wilkins, Alan Globensky, Cliff Walker, Wayne Brown, John Riley, Doug Paquette, Fred Goodall and  Normand Simard and special thanks to Betty Drummond and Diane McConachie

Thanks John McC

#1 partial crowd shot

# 1b partial crowd shot

#2 Red Drummond,Joanne Miller,Al Roach,George Graham, Doug Paquette ,Gus Richardson

#3 Winston Swinwood,Gary Farber,Dawn Dewick, Ken McConachie(my baby brother), Alfie Davis and wife,Wayne Brown, Diana Giles

#4 The ubiquitous ,50 year plus official "Park" photographer Bruce Field

#5 Stewart"Buck" Holingdrake(with cap) first GFPK Director of Recreation

#6 Back row-- Jim Davis ,representing his Dad who won 6 golden gloves championships-- (5 heavy weight and 1 light heavyweight) ,Ralph Stone and Abby Sones(Maroons) Ted Newbury(Monarchs) Beryl Rodrigues (National High Schol Girls basketball Championship and 4th place in javelin in Pan American Games) George Graham(Golden Gloves Welterweight Champion),Fred Goodall ,org committee, Myself (org committee) Herb Holmes ( Legion fastball)

Froont row-- John Riley(org Committee) Back Hollingdrake (Maroons), Art Farinha( Wall of Famer) Steve Zatylny(Wall of Famer) Bruce Wilkins (Wall of Famer and org committee)

#7 Abby Sones, Buck Hollingdrake,Ralph Stone,Ted Newbury, Jim Small (Legion fastball), myself and Herb Holmes

#8,9,10,11 Warriors luncheon at Miss Italia's

#8 left side-- Arabella Bremner(Allardyce), Flo Thompson(Parrish) Betty Drummond, Diane McConachie(Gregory) Shirley Anne Robinson, Wally Robinson

#9 left side--  Cheryl Paquette, Diana Giles (guest) John McConachie, Red Drummond, Bruce Thompson

#10 left side-- Bev Morley(St. Germain) Carol Hollingdrake,George Hollingdrake, Right side Doug Paquette, Cheryl Paquette

#11 Steve Messner far left -(guest) Joyce Normandeau, Betty Menary, Charley Menary. Mavis Richardson(guest) Carol Davis(Giles--Warriors ass't scorekeeper) Gus Richardson(guest) Sue Graham , George Graham, Arabella Bremner.

#12 Ted Newbury and nieces Suzanne and Elizabeth Newbury. Ted ,at 87 years of age was the oldest of the honourees , could hit a softball a country  mile and is still very active