HOF Pictures

** Below are Committee and Inductee pictures.  Not all are listed below and if you have pictures, please contact us via the contact us page at https://vsdaa.org/contact-us.  Inductee awards are for the following categories – ACES (A – Arts; C – Community Service; E – Education; S- Sports) **

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2024

1982-83 Wrestling Team

1982-1983 Wrestling Team
Unordered: Dareell Drake, Henry Balthazar, Henry Mosley, Andrew Gravely, Brian Edwards, Marc Redner, Randy Grady, Mario Chavis, Timothy Mitchell, Leon Shearin, Ernest Ray, Jerry Brown, Charles Gunter, Wesley Arey, Byron Heath, Timmy Quesenberry, Brian Kelly, Jake Hairston, Mike Hayes, Willie Collier, Tommy Cook, Darryl Oliver, Mark Fletcher, Marvin Johnson, Rodney Cutshall, Carrington Coles, Steve Faulkner and David Compton. 
Managers Stan Wisely, Timmy Krance and Rodney Williams.
Coaches Rick Synder, Bill Bowman and J.H. Cline.

1983-84 Wrestling Team

1983-84 Wrestling Team
Unordered: Darrell Drake, Henry Balthazar, Henry Mosley, Andrew Gravely, Corey Smoot, Randy Grady, Mario Chavis, Timmothy Mitchell, Ron McBride, Billy Mason, Leon Shearin, Ernest Ray, Gary Truman, Wesley Arey, Troy Stevenson, Timmy Quesenberry, Isa Abusitan and Carrington Coles.
Managers Steve Hale, David Compton, Timmy Krance, Stan Wisely, Jerry Brown and Rodney Williams.
Coaches Rick Synder, Bill Bowman and J.H. Cline.

1983-84 Girls Basketball Team

1983-84 Girls Basketball Team
Unordered: Catherin Cook, Lisa Bott, Chris Miller, Mattie Horsley, Lois Young, Barbara Johnson, Rosemary Fuller, Carol Harper, Teresa Shifflett, Kim Tyree, Tonia Saunders, Pammie Hawkins.
Coach Jefferson Lawson III.

 

Committee

Janice Couch-DillmanJanice Couch-Dillman
Chair
Rocco DeVitoRocco DeVito
Advisor
Daphne CoxDaphne Cox
Recording Secretary
Rhonda Jennings-AreyRhonda Jennings-Arey
Corresponding Secretary
Tracey MawyerTracey Mawyer Edwin MartinEdwin Martin
Treasurer
Steve DeaversSteven Deavers William W.William W.  

 

Black and White photo showing the HOF banner on a podium, see link below for more pictures

Pictures of the HOF event by Nikki Stevenson can be found at https://nikkistevenson.passgallery.com/-vsdaahalloffame/gallery?sfnsn=mo#8.

 

2022

** 2022 Reunion was postponed to 2024 due to covid and other unforeseen challenges **

 

2020

** HOF and Reunion was delayed due to Coronavirus (Covid-19) **

 

2018


Inductees
Left to Right: Wayne Frick, Robert Arnold Augusta, Donnie Dove, Steve Daniels, Sallie Mae Pauley, Leonard Earl Wright, Jim Foglesong

 

Committee
Front row: Clifton Lockridge, Janice Dillman, Rhonda Jennings-Arey, Rocco DeVito

Back row: Steven Deavers, Daphne Cox

 

2014


Inductees
Left to Right: Troy Stevenson, Tracy Waddell, Rachel Bavister, Coach Al Deuel, Race Drake, Kay Martin

 

1980 Track Team

1981 Track Team

 


1980-1981 Track Inductees
** Need Names, only remember 2-3 here **

2014 HOF bookmark, 40th anniversary, picture is the HOF logo, Committee - Chair Rocco DeVito, Janice Dillman, Race Drake, Edwin Martin, Frances Marzolf

 

2013

1982 Cheerleaders - young, photo obviously taken in the Healy Hall near the Auditorium

1982 Cheerleaders - old

1982-1983 Cheerleaders

 

2010

2010 Inductees and 82-83 Cheerleaders

 


Inductees
Left to Right: Mel Carter, Ken Potter, Daphne Cox, Bill Webb

 

1969-70 cheerleaders - young


1969-1970 Cheerleaders
Left to Right: Ruth (Freeman) Rowan, Vicky (Hall) Milford, Coach Shirley (Roop) Werner, Peggy (Barbour) LeFors, Linda (Collins) Blehm, Gloria (Hite) Shrum, Christine (Hiller) Barnett

 

2008

1959, 1964 and 1970 Mason Dixon Basketball Team Champions

1959 HOF Team

1959 Basketball Team

1959 Basketball Team

1964 Basketball Team

1964 HOF Inductees

1964 Basketball Team

1970 HOF Team, possibly the Basketball team

1970 Basketball Team

 

2006

No information provided.

 

2004

Three (3) Undefeated Football Teams

1939 Football Team

1939 Football Team

1954 Football Team

1954 Football Team

1969 Football Team

1969 Football Team

 

2003

pictures identitical with quality differences (blurred vs clearer on bottom picture) - Left to Right - Edwin Martin, Kenneth Minnis, Billy Elliott, Betty Roop Young, Glenn Patterson and Tonia Saunders

 

2000

picture not clear enough to identify names off their plaques and need help identifying them.Back row: Bryan McGee, Jim Kiser, Gina Tester, Randy Wheeler, Stan Byers
Front row: Charles Keen, Kim Tyree, Carolyn Harper, Jimmy Dickens

 

1998

left to right (front) - Clifton Lockridge, Ruby Ann Foster Sebrell, Edward Carney; back row - Ronnie Blaylock, Anthony Panella and Ross Shoop

 

1997

Left to Right - leora Hinnant, Grady Spency (inducted in '96 and unable to make it then till now), Elizabeth Harper, Joe Shinpaugh Jr and Gertie Galloway (niece of Robert Aumon and mary Agnew Bass)

1996

Left to right - Winnie Inabinett for David T. Inabinett, Clifton M. Belew, Montana Houchins, Rocco DeVito for Job Turner

 

1994

1994 Inductees

Front (L-R): Rocco DeVito Jr, Siblings of Deceased Harvey N. Cunningham, Bennie Lacks, J. Matthew Searls
Back (L-R): Bobby Mawyer Jr., Steven Shrum, Ronald Noel, ??? Sherman Harper

 

1988

Left to Right - Chairman Race Drake Jr inducts James E. Burnette, George Wayne Heppert and John Abner Caudle Jr

 

1987

Race Drake Jr (right), committee chairman inducts Roco J. DeVito Jr

Rocco J. DeVito Jr.  (right)

Others Inducted were  Johnny L. Olinger of Valcross, GA, Durston M. Winesburg of Simi Valley, CA, and W. Leroy Christian of Mclean, VA.  (No picture of these people here.)

 

1985

Left to Right - Rodney E. Quillen, ??? and William RamosLeft to Right – Rodney E. Quillen, J.C. Lewellyn and William Ramos

 

1984

Left to Right - Coach T.C. Lewellyn inducts Conley H. Dishon, Leo Yates for Jack Yates and Doughlas Kidd

 

1983

Left to right (front) - Leo Yates Jr for Dock Yates, Thomas Harmon, J.C. Lewellyn, Helen Spady for George Spady and Thomas Sullivan; (back row) Jesse Smith, Olin Creasy, Gordon Landes, Leo Yates, Ernest Prillaman, Ray Parks Jr, Ryland Thomas

 

1980

Coch T.C. Lewellyn (left) inducts Bernard Moore, Obbie Nunn and Lewis Roop for excellence in sports in years past, 1980 at Holiday Inn

 

 

1976

Possibly the 1976 HOF inductee, photo was not labeled hence the question

Jeraold Grizzle

 

1974

VA Guide cover page showing HOF Rocco DeVito (right) presenting to Thomas Lewellyn (left) an award. It should be noted that Rocco started HOF work in 1974 also.VA Guide cover picture (page 2): Rocco DeVito (right), founder and chairman of VSD Sports Hall of Fame, presenting an initial VSD Sports Hall of Fame plague to Thomas C. Lewellyn at the recent Homecoming affair.

A copy of this Virginia Guide issue can be found here also – https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=VGD19741201.1.2&e=——-en-20–1–txt-txIN——–.

 

 

1958
(Origin Story, aka: birth of HOF)

Article by Aumon Bass in the Virginia Guide 1958, Deaf teachers and staff framed were Miss Susan Wilcox Harwood (1843-1863), Henry Adolphus Bear (1858-1899), Thomas jefferson Williams (1869-1904), William Meade Berkeley (1871-1900), Rev. John Walter Michaels D.D. (1882-1884)  article continues - Hartwell macon Chamberlayne (1890-1905), Stephen Clarence jones (1896-1898 and 1900-1921), Rueben Swipe Weaver (1898-1937), Charles Henry Williams (1905-1921), T. Carlton Lewellyn (1913-1919), Mrs. Florence Williams Nicholson (1917-1945), R. Aumon Bass (1925-1959), Joseph Weart Healy (1939-1958)