The Atlanta Sports Hall Of Fame will induct its next class of Hall of Famers at its fifth Annual Induction Ceremony on Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 7 p.m. at the Emory Conference Center and Hotel. Tickets to the event, which is open to the public, are $100. Individuals can make a reservation by calling Bev Bennett at 770-394-3359. Find more information at www.AtlantaSportsHallofFame.org.
The new inductees are: Olympic Medalist, Edith McGuire Duvall; NBA Great, Walt “Clyde” Frazier; Legendary Georgia Tech Football Coach, John Heisman; High School Coaching Pioneer, Calvin “Monk” Jones; Georgia Tech Two Time All-American, Roger Kaiser; and the Braves broadcast team of Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren.
These six new inductees will join Hank Aaron, Furman Bisher, Bobby Jones, Dominique Wilkins, and the 20 other sports icons already in the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame.
Special recognition will be given to the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame “Stars of the Year” including: Emory University’s National Championship Girls Volley Ball Team, Atlanta Falcon’s Head Coach Mike Smith, and Wesleyan High School’s Anne Marie Armstrong. In addition the first ever Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame “Heritage Award” will be presented to the 1996 Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games Organizing Committee.
The Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame Foundation is a Georgia non-profit corporation and is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation with the IRS.
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