Chris Shovlin stopped by Teleforum with Frank Sparks this morning to talk about the 2017 Class of the Midland Hall of Fame presented by Joe Spanik. The event gets underway on Sunday July 2,2017 in Alumni Hall at 10th Street and Beaver Avenue on the Lincoln Park campus. Doors open at Noon with the program beginning at 1:00 p.m. Tickets are on sale now through 4 p.m. tomorrow June 28th at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center Box Office and by phone at 724-576-4644 Option 2 during regular business hours and on-line at http://lincolnparkarts.org/event/midlandsportshalloffame/ at any time. Cash, major credit cards, and checks are being accepted. Make checks payable to Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center – memo MSHOF. NO TICKETS WILL BE SOLD AT THE DOOR.
This years class is:
1961-62 Midland High School Basketball, 1970 Midland High School Football, Lawrence Andres, Alex Della Valle, Janet DiTullio, A. Donald “Speed” Edmiston, Kevin Kirkland, Lorenzo McCauley, Al Monaco, Sr., and Ronald Perkins.
Midland Sports Hall of Fame Scholarship Recipients: This year, the Midland Sports Hall of Fame Committee voted to extend its college scholarship application criteria to include not just graduating students who are current residents of the Borough of Midland, but also to children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc. of graduates of Midland High School. Recipients: Rennell Cummings II lives in Midland and is a 2017 graduate of Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School. He will major in Psychology and play basketball at Bowling Green State University. Leah Nichols of Midland is also a 2017 Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School graduate. She will major in Allied Health / Nursing at the Community College of Beaver County this fall. Alexis Scelp resides in Industry and is a 2017 graduate of Western Beaver High School. She will major in Nursing at the Community College of Beaver County.
