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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Expositor, 1995-08-09, Page 181S -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, August 9, 1985 Hockey players hold reunion More than 50 former hockey Players, including record -mak- ing hockey coach Ron Mason, met at the Seaforth Golf and Country Club on Saturday for a special reunion. Some of the former hockey players had played on the Ontario championship team. A Seaforth team won three Inter- mediate 'B' championships in a row, an Ontario record. Ron Mason, now a successful university hockey coach, recalled playing in 1949 in the old rink. He left the Seaforth area to play in Peterborough in 1956. He went to St. Lawrence Co1- lege out east. He has coached for 28 years, including Lake Superior State in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Bowling Green, Ohio. He has been at Michigan State coaching for 16 years. Mason said the reunion is a great idea because without it he wouldn't have the same com- pelling reason to come back home. "It's great to be back here," said Mason at Saturday's reun- ion. "You walk in and you know just about everybody." One of the more colourful hockey players to attend Saturday's reunion was Ralph former import from Stratford who returned to Seaforth to live about four years ago. "I haven't seen these guys for 30 or 40 years," said McFadden. "If we put them on skates, and took away 30 years, we could beat anybody." McFadden earned the name 'Farmer' when he was growing up in Stratford and was derided as just a farm kid. His first pair of skates were ladies' skates. He soon proved himself quite a hockey player. That's what brought him to Seaforth. He left the area at one time for a successful coaching career. He coached the Junior 'B' team in Burlington, which was a farm team for the Detroit Red \Vings. He also coached a Jr. 'A' team in Hamrk, I. He also ,Adciee efereein his hockey talents. Ralph's son Bruce, himself a former Seaforth hockey player and Junior referee, also attended the get-together as part of the Homecoming week- end. Another person attending the hockey reunion was Dalton Shine, a Monkton-area import who played around, 1952-53. He called the Seaforth team a gutsy, little hockey club that never gave up. TWO ACES IN GOLF - Bill MacLean and his father Norman can now both claim to have hit holes in one...on the same hole at the same golf course. Family `aces' 30 years apart More than thirty years ago the first person to make a hole - in -one at Seaforth Golf and Country Club was a 14 -year- old named Bill MacLean. Last week, on August 5, Bill saw someone make a hole -in - one on the same hole on the same course. This time, it was his father Norman MacLean, 76, who scored the ace. When Bill made his hole -in - one about 32 years ago he was golfing with his father and with Rod Doig. On Saturday, it was Norman and Bill golfing together again when the second ace was made. "His was a better shot than mine," insists Norman's son Bill. TIM CUMMING PII TTO CLOWNIN' AROUND - Sharon Kelly gives a candy to a youngster during the parade. MOBILITY BUS - Shown in front of a mobility bus are Cathy Metelnik and Maureen Ross. They brought retirement home residents to the Dublin area. TIM CUMMING PHOTO HOCKEY PLAYERS RE -UNITE - These are some of the hockey players who attended Saturday's Homecoming reunion of those who played Intermediate and Junior B hockey in Seaforth (Some of the years they -played hockey in Seaforth are in brackets but may not be restricted to tl-ose years). The hockey veterans are, kneeling or sitting at front: Allan Carter (1970-'74), Tom Dick (1964-'70), Don Morton (Jr. '52, Int. 1960's); front row, Bill Baroer (1926-'35), Gar Baker (1938 to present), Jack Cheoros B 1935-'36), Ralph 'Farmer' McFadden (Championship 1940-'41), Jack Nicholson (1940-'41), Guss Boussey (1947-'48), Roy McGonigle (Arena manager from 1953 on); second row, Emie Smith (1956-'58), Harold 'Coog' Knight (1948-'50), Jim Baynham (Oldtimers 1991 -present), Murray Henderson (1969 -present), Bob Beuttenmiller (1960 -present), Jack McLlwain (1960 -present), Ed Dotmage (1960 -present), Ray Anstett (1960-95); third row, Frank Sills (played in Seaforth from 1920's, played Junior A with St. Michael's College in Toronto, played Jr. B in Seaforth), Ken Doig (too many years to count), George Suplat (Oldtimers '77-78), Bob Johnston ('76-80), Bill Weber ('68 to present), Don Stone ('53-'55), Jack Muir (1951-55), Gord Waiters ('53-'55), Bill German (circa 1958), Kevin Bell ('53-'54); fourth row, Ron Satter (Jr. b '53-'55), Bill Muir (mid -1960's Intermediate), Earl Barton ('53-'55), Dalton Shine ('52-'53), Doug Aitcheson; filth row, George Coveney (1976-'86), Roger Pauli (1959), Bruce McFadden (1959), Bob Cheoros (1976-'86), Ray Henderson (1959-'71) and Mary Shantz (1952). 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