Inductees for 2008 Hall of Achievement Announced

HAVERFORD -- The Haverford College Athletic Department proudly announced on Monday afternoon the list of honored inductees for the 2008 Thomas Glasser '82 Hall of Achievement.

The 1942 Football Team was the first and only unbeaten and untied football team at the College. John "Beef" Meader '43 captained a squad that outscored their opponents 177 to 54 over the course of their seven game schedule. In a thrilling finale to the 1942 campaign, Haverford posted a come-from-behind victory over Swarthmore College with reserve Dee Crabtree successfully kicking his first and only point after attempt following a Chuck Boteler score to propel the team to a 14-13 win.

A Haverford tennis team leader and member of a graduating class that accumulated four successive Middle Atlantic League championships and an astounding four year record of 45-6, G. Diehl Mateer, Jr. '50 achieved even greater success on the squash courts. A two-time winner of the National Intercollegiate ('48, '49) singles squash championship, Mateer is the only three-time winner of the Eastern Collegiate title ('48, '49, '50). The Philadelphia native was as highly accomplished in doubles action as in singles, winning eight doubles championships from 1948 through 1950. Beyond his collegiate years the Episcopal Academy graduate won six more national singles titles and eight more doubles championships which eventually earned Mateer entrance into the National Intercollegiate Squash Racquet's Hall of Fame in 1990.

The all-time leading scorer in Haverford men's basketball history, Dick Voith '77 is also the only player at the College to break the 2,000 point plateau. A single-season scoring record of 702 points led Voith to be named an NCAA Division III All-American following his senior season, a distinction that remains his alone for the Haverford men's basketball program. Voith was a three-time All-Middle Atlantic Conference First Team selection and led the league in scoring three times. His most memorable moment in a storied career may well have come in his senior season when the Fords traveled to Franklin & Marshall College -- the 5th-ranked team in the nation -- for an MAC tournament semifinal contest. Voith's buzzer-beater capped the 70-68 upset for the visiting Fords.

A three-time NCAA D-III champion, Kevin Foley '83 owned the honor of being the only three-time 1,500 meter outdoor track champion until 2006. No D-III runner in any race ever crossed the finish line ahead of Foley over his last three championship track seasons. Within the Haverford program he owned a combination of five indoor and outdoor records that survived for a decade following his graduation. One of the cross country program's lead runners, Foley led the Fords harriers to their only IC4A team title with his first collegiate individual crown at the IC4A Championship meet in 1980.

One of the true pioneers of the Haverford women's cross country program, Jen Maranzano '94 helped establish a tradition of success as one of the greatest long distance runners in Haverford's history. In 1993 Maranzano led her Centennial Conference champion teammates to a 10th place NCAA D-III Championship finish -- still the best finish in the women's cross country program's history -- after capturing the Centennial meet's individual crown. A four-time All-American, twice in indoor track and twice in cross country, Maranzano's indoor 5,000m and outdoor 5,000m and 10,000m team records remain unchallenged. She closed out her Haverford career as the co-winner of the Varsity Cup awarded to the most outstanding athlete in her graduating class.

The induction ceremony will take place on October 4 in Founders Great Hall on the campus of the College.

The Hall of Achievement is dedicated to the memory of Thomas Glasser '82. Glasser was his graduating class' Varsity Cup winner, was awarded the Ernest F. Walton 1890 Cup as the top male track and field athlete in both his junior and senior years, and was a gold medal winner in the 4x400 meter relay at the 1981 Maccabiah Games in Israel.