Hall of Fame

In 1978 the Michigan Speech Coaches Association (the precursor to MSCI) adopted a resolution to create a permanent Hall of Fame for Michigan speech coaches. The list has been maintained for years and a large permanent plaque, with the name of each inductee and the date of their induction hangs in the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. The names of nominees were submitted, without the nominee's knowledge, by members of the organization. Nominees were to have coached a minimum of ten years in the state of Michigan and were to have distinguished themselves in state wide competition in Debate, Forensics, Discusison or Drama. Great care was taken by nominators to articulate the honoree's achievements and accomplishments because election into the HoF had to be unanimous by the officers of MSCA. Not all nominees were elected on thier first nomination. The same standards should be exhibited today. Here is a list of all Hall of Fame members. If you know of a long-time professional in the Michigan speech coaches' community who deserves to be nominated, contact Bette Collins, Historian, or Kirstin Carolin, President to obtain a nomination form and guidelines. These are the men and women upon whose shoulders we stand.

1978

  • Enabling motion passed at General Membership Meeting 6/7/78.
  • Executive Council enacted rules for the same on 10/7/98

2007

  • Amy Bushey, HH Dow HS
  • Melissa Middleton, Lake Orion HS

2006

  • Kirstin Carolin, Shelby Township Eisenhower HS
  • Chad Daniels, Cass City HS

2005

2004

  • Laurel Scheidt, Portage Northern HS
  • Gayle Dawson

2003

2002

  • Marianne Kiefer, Regina HS

2001

  • Anita Wellman, Detroit Northern HS
  • Scott Warrow, Beverly Hills Groves HS

2000

  • Nancy\ Lauer, Birmingham Brother Rice HS
  • Joyce Morehouse, Cranbrook Kingswood
  • C. Michael Terrill, Pigeon Laker HS
  • Steve Pfannes, Shelby Township Eisenhower HS

1999

  • No Award Given

1998

  • Pat Bates, Sterling Heights Henry Ford II HS
  • Rebecca Knack, East Grand Rapids HS

1997

  • Connie Ford, Charlevoix HS
  • Jerry Hennessey, Frankenmuth HS
  • Denise Kling, Wayland HS
  • Brian Snell, Portage Northern HS

1996

  • Kevin Schneider, Holland HS
  • Sharron Smith, Beaverton HS
  • Rev. Lewis Vandermeer, Grand Rapids Christian HS

1995

  • Debora Marsh, Dexter HS
  • Bernard Nummer, Roseville HS
  • Lou Price, Battle Creek Central HS

1994

  • Kathy Brown, Utica HS

1993

  • Patricia Clees, Bloomfield Hills Andover HS
  • Bette Kashi, Troy Athens HS
  • Nancy Shannon, Washington Eisenhower HS
  • Nancy Webster, Bloomfield Hills, The Roeper School

1992

  • David Bassett, Clinton Twp. Chippewa Valley HS
  • Kathy Mulay, Portage Central HS

1991

  • Mary Haab, Portage Central HS
  • Richard Wirth, Warren HS (posthumously)

1990

  • Diane Feenstra, Holland HS
  • Mike Nolan, Traverse City HS
  • Richard Ryan, Marquette HS

1989

  • Steve Marsh, Plymouth CEP HS
  • Marcene Telfer, Battle Creek Harper Creek HS

1988

  • No Award Given

1987

  • Peter Shaheen, Birmingham Seaholm HS

1986

  • John McKendry, Muskegon Mona Shore HS
  • Carol Prestgard, Sterling Heights Henry Ford II HS
  • Barbara Shaheen, Birmingham Groves, HS

1985

  • No Award Given

1984

  • Jerry Bluhm, Birmingham Brother Rice HS
  • Barbara Burmeister, Hart HS
  • John Lawson, Ann Arbor Greenhills HS / Detroit Bishop Borgess HS
  • Robert McBroom, Sterling Heights Stevenson HS

1983

  • Dennis Anderson, Caro HS
  • William Coelius, Chelsea HS
  • Rick Horst, Taylor Truman HS
  • Jim Springston, Berkley HS/Waterford Mott HS
  • Robert VanCamp, Sterling Heights Henry Ford II HS

1982

  • John Klemme, Birmingham Seaholm HS

1981

  • Marcia Keger, Ann Arbor Huron HS
  • Roger Mattens, Battle Creek Central HS
  • Judy Rohm, Albion HS

1980

  • Charles W. Barr II, East Lansing HS
  • Robert Clements, Taylor Kennedy HS
  • Ethel Fleener, Albion HS
  • Adrienne Klemme, Wayne Memorial HS
  • Joanne Pietscher, Bad Axe, HS
  • Dennis Raymond, Gaylord HS
  • David White, Belleville HS

1979

  • George Croll, Livonia Stevenson HS
  • Jayne Greco, Royal Oak Kimball HS
  • Bayard Gum, Oscoda HS
  • Jim Haeck, Hamady HS
  • Janette Horst, Ypsilanti HS
  • Leonora McFarlin
  • James Menchinger, Portage Northern HS
  • Margaret Miller, Kalamazoo Central HS
  • Wallace Mollema, Jr., Three Rivers HS
  • Raymond Monte, Ionia HS
  • Lloyd Smith, Jr., Farmington HS
  • James Telfer, Marshall HS
  • Peg Turner, Flint Kearsley, HS
  • Arthur Voisin, Southfield Lathrup HS