Twenty-three former student-athletes and coaches were inducted into Penn’s Athletic Hall of Fame during a ceremony over Homecoming Weekend in November. According to Steve Bilsky W’71, Penn’s athletic director, the new class of inductees “spans 88 years of outstanding athletic achievement on the playing fields, swimming pool and basketball courts, and by inducting them into our Hall of Fame, we will be able to celebrate their greatness in the spirit and proud tradition of Penn Athletics.”
This year’s inductees are:
- DeBenneville “Bert” Bell C’20 (football)
- Eliot W. Berry C’71 (football, squash, tennis)
- Doris Beshunsky Ed’47 GEd’48 (swimming)
- Lawrance A. Brown W’22 (track & field)
- Barbara Cantwell-Wheeler W’82 (gymnastics)
- Nathaniel “Nate” J. Cartmell W’07 (track & field)
- Sean P. Colgan C’77 (crew)
- Robert L. Cragg Jr. C’75 (diving)
- Elizabeth Crothers Hawthorne Ed’46 GEd’48 (basketball, field hockey, lacrosse, tennis)
- Denis Elton Cochran-Fikes C’74 WG’79 (cross country, track & field)
- Elizabeth “Nicky” Hitchens C’89 (field hockey)
- Louis Kozloff C’65 M’69 (swimming)
- John
“Jack” W. McCloskey Ed’48 GEd’52 (baseball, basketball,
football, baseball coach 1955-65 and basketball coach 1956-66) - Josiah C. McCracken M’01 Hon’27 (football, track & field)
- Andrew Muhlstock W’75 (baseball)
- Jeffrey L. Neuman W’66 WG’67 (basketball)
- Donald M. Norbury W’60 (golf)
- Robert K. Parmacek W’53 (fencing)
- Stanley V. Pawlak C’66 (basketball)
- David S. Pottruck C’70 WG’72 (football, wrestling)
- Lawson Robertson (track & field coach 1916-47)
- Lisa Romig Atkins C’82 (field hockey, lacrosse)
- Anne Townsend Ed’27 (basketball, field hockey, lacrosse)
The new class is the third to be inducted into the Hall since it was founded in 1996 by Bilsky, who himself became a member in 1998. The Hall was established in the memory of Jerome S. Shenker W’38 and is located in the Donaldson Room of Weightman Hall.
