Aquinas College

Inducted in 2003, came to Aquinas from Lansing St. Mary's High School in 1955 and played basketball for the College for three years. He led the team to consecutive winning seasons (1958-59, '59-'60) for the first time in the school's history. He was an all-time leading scorer and rebounder when he left Aquinas and remains eleventh on the all-time scoring list and ninth in rebounding. In 1958-59, he scored a total of 422 points in an 18-game season, for a 23.4 ppg average. In 1960, he scored 40 points in a game against Detroit Tech, which, at the time, was the second highest point total in a single game in school history. After being drafted into the military for four years, he worked at Steelcase Corporation while earning a degree in social work at Grand Valley State Colleges. He worked for the Grand Rapids Board of Education until his retirement in July of 1999.