2009 Hall of Fame and Awards Dinner
April 18th, 2009

This year's dinner brought our best turn out yet.  We had 96 guests come to cheer Mark Coddaire and George Davis into the Hall of Fame.  We also did our annual awards - more on those in a bit, and we gave out a record six scholarships to local athletes.  One of the highlights of the evening (for me) was getting to see Ben Fudge.  Ben was up to see the marathon and cheer on some folks from the St Pete Runners Club.  We was kind enough to spend his evening with us.

Ben Fudge and the St Pete Runners (Ben the young guy one form the right)

Hall of Fame Members (front l-r): Peg Donovan (2008), Gerard Ottaviano (2008), Jimmy Shelton (2006), Dave Dunham (2002); (back l-r): Dave Camire (1998), Tom Carroll (2000), Jack Peirce (2003), George Davis (2009), Mark Coddaire (2009), Phil Riley (2007)

We started the evening with the usual 2008 Year in Review slide show.  You can download the slide show from this page.  Also available on the page are links to all the pictures used in the slide show.

After Dinner we brought up our scholarship athletes.

(l-r) Stephen Wahome, Ailish Hanly, Nicole Skotz, Glenn, Gina Butler, John O’Shea, Jasmine Mahotiere

 You can read all about these fine student athletes on this page.

We then recognized our 2008 award winners:

We had co-Male Runners of the Year - Dave Oliver and Bill Dixon.

Dave was the USATF-NE Grand Prix Senior Champion

This is Bill Dixon in his Tom Foltz disguise - oh - no wait - Bill was in France - this is Tom Foltz standing in for Bill.  Bill was the USATF-NE Grand Prix Veteran Champion and the USATF Club National XC Champion.

The Female Runner of the Year was Patty Foltz

Patty was the USATF-NE Grand Prix Veteran Champion and the USATF Club National XC Champion.

Our volunteer of the Year was Jim Baluta and the Race Director of the Year was Mark Coddaire

Jim is the lead of the course setup crew for the Baystate Marathon and Mark is the director of the Baystate Marathon

After the awards it was on to the main even to the night - the Hall of Fame inductions - emceed by Jack Pierce and Gerard Ottaviano.

We inducted George Davis - long time coach of GLRR.  He was introduced by Dave Dunham, Dave Camire and Peg Donovan

George Davis

Dave Camire, George Davis, Peg Donovan, Dave Dunham

We inducted Mark Coddaire - the longest tenured President in club history.  He was introduced by his son Phil Coddaire, Phil Riley, Tom Carroll, Casey Moulton and Erin Donovan.

It was a great evening - if you were there - you already know this.  If you missed it - well - don't miss it next year.

Here are shots from dinner: