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Past and current inductees
Marshfield Hall of Fame 2007
Andy
(Thompson) Crouse:
Thompson, a 1985 graduate of Marshfield, was a three-sport standout for
the Pirates, with her best sport volleyball. She played on three
district champion teams for the Pirates, earning district co-most
valuable player honors her senior year while helping the Pirates place
third at state. She was first-team all-league and second-team all-state
as a junior and senior. In track and field, Thompson ranks in
Marshfield’s top 10 in the 100, 200 and 400 meters, as well as both
relays. Her senior year, she joined Jill Schultz, Julia Worthen and
Julie Goodrich on a team that set the 4x100-meter state meet 4x100-meter
relay record while tying Churchill for first place with a time of 48.51
seconds. Marshfield finished third in the team race. Thompson also
played on Marshfield’s varsity basketball team for three years. She went
on to play for two NCAA Division-II national champion teams at Portland
state, as a defensive specialist her freshman year and setter her senior
season. She has twice been inducted into the Portland State Hall of
Fame. Andy married former Marshfield basketball player Randy Crouse in
1991 and they have two daughters, Mady and Mylee. Andy is a teacher in
the Tigard-Tualatin School District and coaches her daughter’s
volleyball teams.
Lou
Leberti: Leberti, a 1965 Marshfield
graduate, was honored for his role as an ongoing booster for the
Pirates. As a student at Marshfield, he played on the football and
basketball teams. Following high school, he served three years in the
U.S. Army before returning to the South Coast. In 1984, Leberti and his
wife, Kathie, also a Marshfield graduate, purchased Camco, a vending
company now known as Vend West Services. Leberti’s long support for
South Coast youth started in the 1980s, when he volunteered to coach
basketball through the Jaycee program at Milner Crest Elementary School
when the Coos Bay School District cut physical education, athletics and
activities from its elementary school budget. He was an active volunteer
and donor for SWOYA, which became the Boys & Girls Club of Southwestern
Oregon. When his daughters, Kim and Tammie, entered Marshfield High
School, Leberti became an active member of the Marshfield Booster Club,
serving as a board member for 15 years. He was instrumental in keeping
athletics going when the program was zero funded by the school district
for the 1988-1989 school year and was responsible for starting the
popular Meet the Pirates Night program. Outside of his involvement in
schools, he also is an active member of the Coos Bay Lions Club and was
part of the team that successfully lobbied the Oregon School Activities
Association for Marshfield to host the Class 3A state wrestling
tournament in the 1990s. He also is part of several other community
groups and boards. His daughter, Tammie (Leberti) Montiel is
Marshfield’s volleyball coach, while her husband, Floyd, coaches the
softball team.
Ernest
Manders, M.D.: Dr.
Manders, who graduated from Marshfield in 1963, was a standout football
player for the Pirates, but has made his name since high school in
academics. He was an all-state football player as a junior and senior
and was selected to play in the Shrine Game his senior year. He also was
editor of the Mahiscan and a National Merit Scholar. He also met his
wife, Sandra (Burles) Manders at Marshfield. After graduating from
Marshfield, Manders received his undergraduate education at Harvard
College and then attended Harvard Medical School. After a surgical
internship at the University of Michigan, he worked for two years as a
research associate in the Laboratory of Viral Oncology at the National
Institutes of Health. He returned to the University of Michigan, where
he completed his training in general surgery and plastic surgery, joined
the faculty at Penn State University in 1981 and has been a professor of
surgery at the University of Pittsburgh since 1977. He is a member of
seven national surgery or plastic surgery groups, including the American
College of Surgeons and American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgeons. His methods for reconstructing the scalp with tissue expansion
and his designs for tissue expanders used to reconstruct breasts after
mastectomies have become standard for use around the world. Away from
school, Manders was a Scout master for 12 years and received the Silver
Beaver, the highest honor for adult leaders in Boy Scouts. Ernest and
Sandra Manders have four children, Ernie, Jonathan, Christian and
Joanna, who all graduated in the top three of their high school classes
and went on to receive Ivy League educations.
Butch
Shields:
Shields, a 1965 Marshfield graduate, played varsity basketball and
football for three years for Marshfield before becoming an active member
of the Marshfield Booster Club. Shields studied at Southwestern Oregon
Community College and Oregon State University before returning to Coos
Bay to start his family and his career. Shields and his wife, Jacque,
also a 1965 graduate, have two sons, Troy and Todd, who graduated from
Marshfield. Shields started working for Coos Trucking Co., which later
became Gold Coast Truck Repair. He now owns that company. Shields served
as a board member for the Marshfield Booster Club for more than 20 years
and still is an active member. He joined Lou Leberti in keeping sports
alive when Marshfield dropped funding for the athletic program in the
1988-89 school year. Through his company, Shields helps keep
Marshfield’s athletic vehicles running properly and decorated in
Marshfield purple and gold at no cost to the school district. Gold Coast
Truck Repair also sponsors many activities at Marshfield. Shields joined
the board of directors for Southwestern Oregon Youth Activities when
that organization was formed in 1985 after the school district dropped
funding for elementary school athletics. Shields also was a founding
member for the Boys & Girls Club of Southwestern Oregon, the successor
for SWOYA. He started and chaired an auction that has raised more than
$1 million for the two organizations. He also was a founding board
member for the Bay Area Sportsman’s Association, which raises money to
support wildlife and youth activities in the Bay Area. He currently is
on the fundraising committee for the Barview Area Charleston Area Parks
Association’s baseball fields project. He has received several awards
for his support for the community’s youth, including the Judge Richard
Barron Award in 1992 for exceptional contributions to Coos County Youth
and in 2000 for significantly enhancing the lives of at-risk youth.
Shields also is an Eagle Scout and served as a Scout master for several
years when his sons were growing up. He also was involved in the Bay
Area Jaycees.
Stan
Solomon:
Solomon was honored for a long history of coaching in the Coos Bay
School District that continues more than 40 years after his arrival in
the community. Solomon was a 1957 graduate of McKinley High School in
Honolulu, where he was most valuable player of Hawaii’s East-West
Coaches Football Game. He then studied at Willamette University, where
he was an all-conference running back three straight years, twice being
named a first-team All-American in NAIA. He graduated from Willamette
University in 1962 and is a member of the school’s hall of fame. That
fall, he was hired at Charleston Elementary School to teach physical
education for fifth through eighth grades and coach the eighth-grade
football, basketball and track teams. In 1964, he moved on to coach the
same sports at the new Millicoma Junior High School. He became a teacher
at Marshfield High School in 1966 and continued at the school until
retiring in 1994. He was an assistant football coach from 1966 to 1996
and was the defensive coordinator on the 1992 state champion team. He
also was head girls basketball coach from 1977 to 1989, with eight
winning seasons. The 1979-80 team won the consolation title at the state
tournament and finished with a 24-5 record. The 1988-89 team reached the
state tournament. Solomon was an assistant coach at Marshfield from 1966
to 1972 and then the head coach until 1996, including the 1983 girls
team that placed third at the state meet. He has been an assistant coach
since 1997 and has directly coached 12 individual state champions,
including five pole vaulters in the last decade. (Willamette
University Hall of Fame)
(Note added 2009: Sadly, Solly passed away suddenly on January
16th, 2009. Four months later, Moriah Roberge set the state high
school championship pole vault record for 4A-5A-6A competition at 12' 9
1/2".)
Kent
Wigle: Wigle
has made his mark at Marshfield as football coach, where he is entering
his 20th season at the helm of the Pirates. A 1965 graduate of Riddle
High School, Wigle went on to play football and baseball from Southern
Oregon State College (now Southern Oregon University). He earned a
bachelor’s degree at Southern Oregon in 1970 and a master’s degree in
1975 from the University of Oregon. His teaching and coaching career
started at South Umpqua High School in 1970. He coached football and
baseball at South Umpqua. His baseball teams won two state titles and
finished second three times, while his football squads were champions or
co-champions three times and runners-up once. Wigle came to Marshfield
as head coach in 1988 and has put together a 164-48 record. His teams
have reached the state playoff 17 of 19 seasons, including a state title
in 1992 and a runner-up finish in 1994. His overall football total of
298 wins ranks second in Oregon history. Wigle has been named Midwestern
League Coach of the Year seven times and his teams from 1994 to 2000 won
55 straight league games, a Class 4A (now 5A) state record. He was the
Oregon Football Coach of the Year in 1992 and the Western Region Coach
of the Year in 1996. His greatest coaching recognition came when he was
named the 2005 National Coach of the Year by the National Federation of
State High School Athletic Associations. Wigle and his wife, Susan, have
been married since 1975. In addition to his coaching work, he served
nine years as a member of the Coos Country Club Board, including three
years as president. He has been a member of the Oregon Coaches
Association for 37 years, served 12 years as an OSAA basketball
official, has been a Lions Club member for 25 years and was a
fundraising spokesman for the Boy Scouts for three years.
1955 State
Champion football team:
The squad beat Gresham 19-0 in the state title game and
was the second of three straight Marshfield teams to win or share the
state championship. The head coach was Pete Susick, and his assistants
were Chet Haliski, Tony Koreiva, Walt Paczesniak and Dean Sheldon. The
team finished the season 11-0 and beat Medford and Washington in the
playoffs before topping Gresham. The team only gave up 47 points all
season and had five shutouts. Its closest game was its 20-6 win over
Medford in the playoff opener. Team members included Lary Hines, George
Gresham, Don Ford, Bob Grant, Gary Smith, Bob Ferguson, Ted Wood,
Clayton Smith, Larry Tankersley, George Duffield, Don Messerle, Lynn
Matthews, Jerry Tankersley, Jim Johnson, Gary Scott, Kent Scoville,
Bernie Lewis, E. Wiser, Bill Grant, Stan Rucas, Fritz Page, Rick Lodwick,
Dave Smith, Daryl Barbee, Tim Bullard, Tom Jenkins, Steve Pennington,
Chuck Russell, Larry Bick, Michael Whitty, Jack Hoffman, Leonard
Creasey, Barry Bullard, Don Brandon, Bob Peterson, Hardy Spurgeon, Jack
Baysinger, Dave Bingham, Lyle Fowler, Gary Kvalheim, Denny Baker, Roger
Johnson, Chuck Amsbarry, Sandy Fraser, Dale Cardwell and managers
Patrick Mobley, Tom Storm, Bob Bestor, Jon Peterson and Dick Wood.
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