MONMOUTH COLLEGE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
ANNOUNCED
Release Date:
September 3, 2001
A quartet of former Monmouth College student-athletes will
be inducted into the M Club Hall of Fame on Sept. 22 at 9:30 a.m. in the lower lobby of
Glennie Gymnasium.
For the first time, the event, which has been previously held
during Homecoming Weekend, will be held on its own separate Athletic Alumni Weekend and will
also include informal gatherings of athletes and a Saturday luncheon at noon in the Highlander
Room in Stockdale Center.
All former Monmouth College athletes in the area are invited
to return to campus for the weekend, which begins Friday afternoon with a golf outing at
Gibson Woods. Following the Saturday induction ceremony, the athletic alumni are invited to
attend the luncheon, which will feature a presentation by President Richard Giese on the state
of the college and the plans for a new recreation complex.
The public is invited to the induction ceremony, which is
free of charge. Those wishing to attend the post-induction luncheon should make a reservation
by calling 309-457-2323.
The inductees this year include
Bruce Stotlar ’71 of Springfield, Ill., one of only
three Fighting Scots male athletes to earn all-conference recognition in three separate
sports; Dick Corn ’72, a floor general for the
Fighting Scots basketball team who’s gone on to coach Pinckneyville High School to a pair of
Illinois Class A state basketball titles; Grant Minor ’74 of Washington, Penn., an all-conference lineman who played center on the
undefeated 1972 Fighting Scots team; and Angie
Hickerson ’87 of Washington, D.C., the only MC woman to ever win the Midwest Conference
cross country meet.
Stotlar earned his all-conference honors in football,
wrestling and baseball. He made his biggest mark in the latter sport, leading the nation in
home runs per at bat in 1971, when he slugged a school-record 10 roundtrippers in 64 at-bats.
He also led the nation in slugging percentage (.951).
Corn scored 554 points in his career, which was characterized
by tough defense and his “coach on the floor” style of play. Three years after his graduation,
Corn took over the head coaching duties at PHS and has guided the Panthers to 573 victories.
His team has reached the
state championship game three times, winning the crown in 1994 and 2001.
Minor
starred as a lineman who paved the way for Hall of Fame running backs Dennis Plummer and Ron
Baker. Besides earning two first team All-MWC honors in football, Minor competed on the swim
team and was a member of the 1974 Fighting Scots golf team which went 19-0 in dual meets.
Hickerson was a volleyball standout at nearby Avon High School and played the sport her first
two autumns on campus. As a junior, she switched to cross country and won the conference meet
as a senior. She also excelled in track, earning four varsity letters and two MVP honors in
the sport. Fourteen years after her career ended, she remains in the top 10 of the outdoor
track and field honor roll in five events.
Released
by the Office of College Communications
Barry McNamara, Associate Director of College Communications
Phone: 309-457-2117
Fax: 309-457-2330
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