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Sports: Hall of Fame

Inductees Honored

Department of Athletics and Recreation Hall of Fame inductees

FAME: Ten former athletes and an alumna known as “Rochester’s First Lady in Sports” were inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Department of Athletics and Recreation during the College’s Meliora Weekend celebration last October. The new class includes Jean Cardinale Giambrone ’42, a former writer for the Rochester Times-Union who became the first woman reporter granted full press credentials to cover the Masters golf tournament.

The 2004 inductees include (back row, left to right) Howard Pratt ’60, ’66 (PhD) (tennis), Scott Milener ’90 (tennis), J. Nelson Hoffman ’55 (soccer and basketball), George Hole ’60 (football and track), Rick Magere ’72 (football); (front row, left to right) Daniel McShea, accepting for the late Joseph McShea ’24 (football, wrestling, and track), Kerry-Anne Murphy Dempsey ’86 (track), Jean Cardinale Giambrone ’42, Aileen Beneroff Binder ’80 (field hockey, soccer, and basketball), Karen Price Pavlicin ’87 (volleyball), David Vaccaro ’88, ’94S (MBA) (soccer). (Photo by Susan Kost)