N.C. Athletic Directors Association Names 14th Hall of Fame Class

Three members have been named by the North Carolina Athletic Directors Association as the 14th class for induction in its own Hall of Fame.

Tom Brown of Maiden, Vicki Hamilton of Charlotte, and Joe White of Charlotte will become the newest members of the NCADA Hall of Fame. The three will be recognized at the annual North Carolina Athletic Directors Association state conference at the Grove Park Inn with the Hall of Fame banquet scheduled for March 18.

The NCADA Hall of Fame has been established to recognize achievement and excellence for athletic administration. The inductees are honored at the NCADA¹s annual state convention, and a permanent display honoring the athletic directors¹ Hall of Fame is located in the offices of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association in Chapel Hill. The new class brings to 58 the number in the Hall.

This year¹s inductees include:

TOM BROWN

Tom Brown is one of the state¹s most successful high school football coaches, with a career record of 352-117-7, primarily at Maiden High School in Catawba County. In addition to coaching, he has served as an athletic director for 40 years.

Born in Lewistown, PA., Tom came to Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory in 1961, where he played for Clarence Stasavich and Hanley Painter on some outstanding football teams, and then after graduating from L-R went into coaching and athletic administration.

Brown was an assistant coach at Lenoir under former Lenoir-Rhyne standout and current New York Giant assistant Mike Pope before moving to Maiden as head coach and athletic director in 1966. He also had a brief coaching stint at Bunker Hill. His Maiden teams have won 21 conference championships and a pair of state titles.

He also spent two years working for Servomation Corporation in Hickory, where he worked closely with former Wake Forest basketball coach Horace ³Bones² McKinney.

VICKI HAMILTON

Vicki Hamilton has been the athletic director for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system for 15 years, and she was North Carolina¹s first female athletic director for a school system.

A graduate of Virginia Intermont College, Vicki received her master¹s degree in health and physical education from Appalachian State University. She began her career as a teacher and coach at Erwin Junior High in Salisbury and also taught and coached at Appalachian State and the University of South Carolina. She joined CMS as a secondary curriculum coordinator and then served as a principal at four different schools before becoming the system athletic director.

A former member of the NCHSAA Board of Directors, she has been involved with many innovations in athletics in Charlotte, including an Emmy-nominated monthly public television show, a high school football internship program with the National Football League and the Carolina Panthers, and a seminar for the mothers of high school football players.

JOE WHITE

A 37-year career in coaching and education for Joe White began at Wilson Fike before he moved to Charlotte, where he spent the bulk of his time. He first coached at North Mecklenburg and then in 1966 became the inaugural head football coach and athletic director at Olympic.

A high school standout in LaGrange, Ga., White attended Wake Forest on a football scholarship and later earned his master¹s at East Carolina. After his retirement from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, he was elected to two terms on the Charlotte City Council and is currently in his fifth year as chairperson of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of
Education.

White has received numerous awards for his service and is the current treasurer of the North Carolina School Boards Association, from whom he has received a Lifetime Achievement Award. He is currently a member of the NCHSAA Board of Directors. 

Honorees in the charter class, inducted in 1995, included NCHSAA executive director Charlie Adams, former Charlotte-Mecklenburg director of athletics Dave Harris, Russ Blunt of Durham¹s Hillside High School, long-time Greenville Rose athletic director and NCADA executive secretary Richard ³Bud² Phillips; former High Point athletic administrator A.J. ³Tony²
Simeon, and Norma Harbin of Winston-Salem, the first female athletic director at a 4-A school in North Carolina.

Willie Bradshaw of Durham, Mike Brown of Wilmington, Jack Groce of Boone, Red Hoffman of Wilkesboro, Leon Brogden of Wilmington and Homer Thompson of Winston-Salem joined the Hall in 1996. The 1997 inductees included Ruth Pool of Durham, Bill Eutsler of Rockingham, Shu Carlton of Gastonia, Gilbert Ferrell of Wilson and Thell Overman of Wallace, while in ¹98 the Hall welcomed Jim Blake of Durham, Wat Holyfield of Raleigh, Carroll King of Raleigh, Benny Pearce of Fayetteville, Jerry McGee of Elizabeth City and Dudley Whitley of Rocky Mount.

The 1999 inductees were Dave Johnson of Charlotte, Glenn Nixon of Clayton, Bob Sawyer of Greensboro and George Whitfield of Greenville, while in 2000 Don Patrick of Newton-Conover, Bill Carver of Fayetteville and Simon Terrell of Chapel Hill joined the Hall.

The 2001 inductees included Carl Bolick of Charlotte, Herman Bryson of Winston-Salem, Ed Peeler of Shelby and Chip Gill of Durham. The 2002 honorees were Dick Knox of Chapel Hill, Jack Musten of Winston-Salem, Don Saine of Gastonia and Sue Shinn of High Point.

In 2002 Tim Brayboy of Cary, Hilda Worthington of Farmville, Roger Thrift of New Bern, Spike Corbin of Wilmington and Richard Murray of Ahoskie were inducted. The 2003 honorees included Mac Cumbo of East Flat Rock, Boyce Dietz of Bryson City, Roger Dixon currently of Myrtle Beach, SC., Debbie Jones of Charlotte and Jim Hayes of Charlotte. The 2004 induction class included Alton ³Tunney² Brooks of Lumberton, Paul Gay of Sanford, Joel Long of Raleigh and Dave Thomas of Goldsboro.

The 2005 honorees were Cheryl Brewer of North Moore and Mac Morris and Phil Weaver of the North Carolina Coaches¹ Association in Greensboro, and last year the inductees were Ralph Holloway of Morehead City, Harold Robinson of Williamston and Doyle Whitfield of Dudley.