VOLUME 13, NO. 1     DEC 1999

Sports sextet enters famous hall

Six former WPI athletes were inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday, Sept. 24, during Homecoming. The newest members of this esteemed fraternity are Michael P. Shebek '53, Allen H. Hoffman '63, Kenneth B. Adrian '65, Bruce J. Carbone '85, David V. Berthiaume '91 and John A. Roy '93.

Captain of the football and baseball teams, Shebek lettered in these sports during each of his WPI years. He was a sterling shortstop who also demonstrated his surefootedness on the boards by lettering in basketball. Hoffman, a mechanical engineering professor who has been teaching at his alma mater since 1970, is a three-year letter-winner in cross country and a four-year letterer in track who pounded his way to the victory circle in seven of 11 cross country meets in 1962, the year he served as team captain.

Adrian captained the golf team to three undefeated seasons in 1963, 1964 and 1965 and earned four letters in the sport. He was a New England Intramural Golf Association match-play qualifier in 1963, the year the team took part in the NCAA College Division Tournament.

A talented swimmer and diver, Carbone holds the top spot in WPI's record books for the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke and the 400-meter individual medley. As a freshman he qualified in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke. He went on to earn four letters in swimming, then capped his career by qualifying for the nationals in the 200-meter breast stroke and 400-meter individual medley in his senior year. Berthiaume, the only WPI cross-country runner to qualify for the nationals, is a four-year letter-winner who set the school record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. He was team captain during his senior year and was named to the All-New England team in cross country. With his WPI record of 43 wins and six losses, including 14 pins, wrestler

Roy is seventh all-time; he also holds 10th place for fastest pin (17 seconds).

He was an NCAA finalist, a GTE Scholar All-American, a three-time NECCWA champion, a three-time NCAA All American and a four-time All-New England champ.