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WADA presents
Distinguished Service Awards
By Mike Bates
Information Coordinator, WADA
Individuals who have made significant contributions
to high school sports in 2004 were honored recently by the Wisconsin Athletic
Directors Association.
The recipients were recognized
during the WADA’s Distinguished Service Awards Banquet at the Paper Valley
Hotel in Appleton in November.
Each of the seven districts in Wisconsin selects the individual(s)
outside the field of interscholastic athletic administration based on their
contributions to interscholastic athletics.
District 1 Clayton Jorgenson, Grantsburg
For more than 40 years, Clayton
Jorgenson has been an integral part of the Grantsburg community, the
Grantsburg School District, and the Pirate athletic program.
As a teacher, principal,
volunteer coach, program coordinator, and youth official, Jorgenson has demonstrated
the importance of service to youth.
Now retired, he still spends countless hours working to improve and
beautify the school campus, and helps provide the athletes of Grantsburg with
one of the finest athletic complexes in northwestern Wisconsin.
District 2 Paul Mirman, Stevens Point
A teacher at Stevens Point Area
High School, Paul Mirman has done wonders by volunteering his time to help
promote high school athletics in Stevens Point.
Some of his accomplishments: Mirman designed and raised money to
build all of the athletic & academic trophy cases, raise funds and order
the numerous banners for the SPASH field house, order the end-of-year
plaques, place orders for SPASH apparel, and through his efforts, SPASH has
new sand volleyball courts.
District 3 Kirby Symes, River Falls
A well-known sports figure from
the northwestern part of the state, Kirby Symes was a social studies and
history teacher, coach and athletic director for 34 years at Ellsworth High
School, until he retired in 1989.
Symes has been a Meet Official
for 30 consecutive years for the WIAA State Track & Field Meet, has been
the Athletic Trainer at River Falls High School since his retirement, and
served on the River Falls Library Foundation Board. He coached various sports,
and his teams have won numerous conference, regional and sectional
championships.
District 4 Jerry Krueger, Oshkosh
A very familiar and faithful
athletic volunteer around Oshkosh West High School for the past 30 years is
Jerry Krueger, who has lived in Oshkosh for 64 years.
Now retired, Krueger has been on
the “chain gang” for all levels of OW football for 30 seasons, and has been
involved in numerous facility and equipment projects. He also has been very active in the
school’s Booster Club, helping with raffles, concessions, etc. Krueger is known around the Fox
Valley Association as the “wing-span guy” for his 50-50 raffles.
District 5 Al Fagerli, Janesville
A sports & news reporter for
WCLO Radio in Janesville for 24 years, Al Fagerli serves the WCLO listening
area of Janesville, Beloit, Milton, Evansville, Edgerton, Orfordville and
Fort Atkinson.
He has done over 1,300 sports
broadcasts as the main sports broadcaster for the station. Over the past several years, Fagerli
has done 80-plus broadcasts per school year, often doing one basketball game
in the afternoon at one location and then another game that evening in a
different location on radio am 1230.
District 6 Bud & Tudy Korth, Kewaskum,
Jane Korth, Kewaskum & Jonesy
Korth, Kewaskum
For 40 years, the Korth family –
Bud, Tudy, Jonesy and Jane – has owned and operated the Hon-E-Kor Golf Course
in Kewaskum, and the student-athletes of Kewaskum have enjoyed the benefit of
such a fine facility. The
community has also benefited, as Kewaskum has never had to pay a course fee,
compliments of the Korths.
In addition, Bud & Tudy have
sponsored a plaque for Kewaskum all-conference football players, Jonesy has
been a volunteer football coach for the high school and youth programs and is
also President of the Kewaskum Youth Football Club, and, Jane schedules the
Kewaskum events, including golf meets, WIAA tournaments and fundraising
functions.
District 7 Anthony J. (Tony) Cuda, Wauwatosa
For the past 10 years, Wauwatosa West
has been fortunate to have the presence of Tony Cuda, whose expertise is
concessions. Since 1994, the
school’s Athletic Booster Club has raised approximately $150,000 – and Cuda
has orchestrated about $50,000 of that total.
A father of three ’Tosa West
students, who all but one have graduated, he has taken this type of
fundraising from infancy to adulthood.
In 10 years of service, concessions have gone from “food on a cart” to
“under a tent” to “concrete buildings.”
More details about the DSA Awards recipients,
from 2004 and previous years, may be found on the WADA web site at
www.wadawi.org.
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The web site for
the WADA is www.wadawi.org and Mike
Bates may be reached via e-mail
at mbates1@new.rr.com.
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