Induction Class Of 2003

A competitor from the age of eight, Ann Schwartz Coletti became a tireless three-sport standout during her High School athletic career • competing in field hockey, gymnastics, and outdoor track and field.

In gymnastics, Anne competed in all four individual events and the "all-around" event. A team captain, she set school records in uneven parallel bars, balance beam, floor exercise, and all-around. She was selected as a Conference All-Star during 1983, 84, and 85. In track and field, Anne competed in the 100 and 200-meter sprints, 4x100 meter relay, long jump, and high jump. During her senior year, Anne was a Conference All-Star, running undefeated in dual meets in both the 100 and 200-meter events.

Graduating salutatorian of the class of 1985, Anne's equally impressive athletic presence became most notable when she was selected as the first female recipient of the "Athlete of the Year" Award, and the first female recipient of the James P. Murphy Memorial Award. She also received the United States Army Reserve National Scholar Athlete Award and the Presidential Academic Fitness Award.

Anne graduated magna cum laude from Brown University, class of 1989, with a BA in Health and Society, and in 1997, she earned her MS in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health.

Anne is currently employed by Family Health International as an Epidemiologist and Senior Scientist and is a guest lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health. Sponsored by the National Institute of Health, she is responsible for the development and conduct of clinical research to identify safe and effective biomedical interventions to prevent HIV infections worldwide. Anne currently resides in Reading with her husband, Joe, and their dog and cat.

Donna Fields is a 1982 graduate of New Bedford High School. She was a two-sport standout who excelled in both basketball and track and Field.

Donna was the first girl to start on the varsity basketball team as a freshman and achieved the role of tri-captain as early as her sophomore year. After an 11-7 record during her freshman year, the basketball team that included fellow Hall of Fame member Cathy (Johnson) Houtman reeled off seasons of 18-1, 13-1, and 11-3 during the following three years and qualified for the state tournament in each of those seasons.

As gifted as Donna was on the basketball court, she was simply marvelous on the track. As a freshman, Donna set the school 880 yard record (2:18.6) which was a record that stood for thirteen years. She captured the Class A title in the half mile during her freshman year. She also was a member of arguably the two greatest relay teams ever assembled in girls' track history. The 4x880 yard relay and the 4x440 yard relay teams set State Coaches' Invitational (over 80 schools compete) meet records that still stand to this day. Those times (9:38 and 4:00.1) are still New Bedford High School record as well.

Donna's proudest individual track moment is still racing Falmouth's nationally ranked Nancy Buguey who had never lost a dual meet in her four years of high school until she met someone else who had never tasted defeat as well. That someone was Donna Fields who was coached by New Bedford girls' coach Ron Barboza. She continued her unbeaten streak with her victory over one of the Whaler's fiercest track rivals.

Today, Donna resides in Simpsonville, South Carolina. She is the proud mother of Harold, age sixteen, who is a two hundred-forty pound football player and daughters Melanie, age fourteen and Julia, age six. Donna (Fields) Mays' husband Richard unfortunately passed away in 1999.

When people recall the outstanding Whaler track teams and athletes of the 1970's Mark Thornhill's name is always at the top of the list. A graduate of the class of 1977 and Tri-Captain of that year's winter and spring track teams, Mark's individual and team accomplishments are truly outstanding. By Mark's junior year in 1976, championships and records were becoming nearly routine. His team was the Class A champion and at that meet Mark set the school record in the 300-yard low hurdles with a second-place finish and anchored the winning 4x440 relay team. The most memorable event of that season came one week later at the All-State Class meet in Brockton. With New Bedford trailing North Quincy by one point heading into the final event, the Whalers needed a fifth-place finish in the 440 relay to win. Running the anchor leg, Mark took the baton in seventh place, well behind the lead pack. He electrified the crowd with a time of 49.1 and took second place, giving his Whaler team the All-State title. Three days later he teamed with Wayne Souza and Roger Ogden to win the Massachusetts State Decathlon team title along with a record in the 440 of 49.8.

Mark's senior season successes surpassed even his previous year's accomplishments. He captured two gold medals during the winter by winning the Class A State title in the 660-yard run in a time of 1:15 flat and by anchoring the winning 4x440 relay team. That spring season however, established Mark as one of the premier runners in New England and as one of the best ever in Whaler track and field history. With individual championships in the 440 at the Boston College Invitational, the Massachusetts Boys Invitational and the State Class A Championships in which he tied the school record of 49.6, Mark's senior season was on the verge of being spectacular. His final race at Bowdoin College in Maine definitely earned that description. In a torrential downpour, Mark came from 10 yards behind in the final hundred yards to out lean a competitor at the finish line and capture the New England High School 440 title. All of his championships that season came in at under 50 seconds and he recorded a personal best of 21 feet 5 inches in the long jump as well.

Mark has been employed at Greater New Bedford Voc-Tech since 1986 and conducts the operations of Voc-Tech Aqua Lab. He continues to make news in Track and Field as Voc-Tech's head track coach for the 17 seasons. His teams at Voc-Tech have won four straight State Vocational Championships from 1999 to 2002, six South Coast Conference Indoor Championships and one Spring SCC Title. He has been the N England Track and Field Clinic Director since 1991 and is a member of the Massachusetts State Track Coach Executive Board. In 1996 Mark was recognized by the United States Track & Field Association as one of nation's top high school track coaches at its convention in San Francisco. He has two children, Kathryn Andrew, and still resides in New Bedford. Outside of track he can be found doing his favorite hobby, ya racing his sailboat Pieces of Eight.

Lawrence "Loo" Harriman is a 1972 graduate of New Bedford High School. Lee excelled in football, basketball and baseball for the "Whalers", lettering in all three sports in his sophomore, junior and senior years.

As a co-captain of the football team, he was named to the Bristol County All-Star Teams in both his junior and senior years, 1st as a defensive back and as a quarterback his senior season. He was a member of two league championship teams in basketball and was selected to the Bristol County All Star Team his senior year. Also, a co-captain of the baseball team as a pitcher/outfielder he had a career pitching record of 15-4 and batted 290 for two league championship teams and a state runner-up team.

Lee was selected "Athlete of the Week" by the New Bedford Standard Times a total of 9 times through his days as a "Whaler", 3 in football, 2 in basketball and 4 in baseball.

After graduating from New Bedford High School, he attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on a football scholarship. As quarterback of the freshmen team, he set 3 frosh passing records: most TD passes, most passes completed and total passing yards. As a starter for the "Minutemen" his sophomore, junior and senior years Lee was an outstanding receiver and earned several all-star awards. He was All-Yankee Conference in both his junior and senior years and a 2nd team All-Now England and All-American Honorable Mention his senior year. Lee was drafted by the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League, but his career was cut short by a shoulder injury.

Lee is currently a regional representative of OSP and lives in Goodlettsville, Tennessee with his wife Susan and their children Kelly, Kristen and Leo.

Brian Baptiste was a multi-talented, successful athlete in soccer and basketball on both the high school and college levels. He possesses many talents which he continues to implement in his profession today as a college basketball coach.

Brian is a 1971 graduate of New Bedford High School where was an outstanding soccer & basketball player. He was a SEMA Soccer League All Star and a valuable member of the 1970 and 1971 Eastern Massachusetts Championship teams. His basketball accomplishments on the high school level were also very impressive. He was the leading scorer among a field of excellent players as a junior. As a senior, he was selected tri-captain and went on once again to be the leading scorer in 1971. Additional honors included being a member of the 1st Team All-Taunton Gazette in his junior and senior years and a member of The Standard Times All-Star Team as a senior.

While attending Worcester Academy, Brian was chosen to be co-captain of the soccer team and received the coveted MVP award in basketball. As a full basketball scholarship recipient, he enjoyed an outstanding playing career at A.I.C. and earned the prestigious Mr. Hustle Award as a senior.

Brian Baptiste has been the head basketball coach at UMD for twenty years. Through his leadership, the Corsairs have qualified for post-season play in 16 of those years including 11 NCAA Division Ill invitations. His team earned a berth in the Division Ill Final Four in 1993, which is basketball history at UMD. Under his guidance, the Corsairs have captured 12 LEC regular season and 10 post-season playoff championships in the conference's 17-year history. He was named coach of the year by the NABC, led the LEC coaches 6 times, and the NEBC Association. Brian has a career record of 397 wins and 155 losses at UMD. He is respected by his peers as a hardworking, innovative coach who has great knowledge of the game, which has made him a consistent winner.

Baptiste resides in Dartmouth, MA with his wife Kathryn. They have four daughters: Jeana (19), Alaina (18), Erica (13), and Rachael (10).

After playing junior varsity football as a sophomore, Dave began his high school running career by establishing tenth grade school records in both the mile and two mile. These early accomplishments were indications of several incredible performances to follow in the coming years.

He began his junior year by finishing second in the Eastern Massachusetts Division I Cross Country Championships. He was poised to challenge for the Class A indoor mile title when tragedy struck.

David's mother passed away the morning of the Class A's which obviously prevented David from competing that day but also had a profound impact on the remainder of Dave's high school life. Losing his mother left David parentless and in the foster care system. In spite of this obstacle, Dave came back as a junior in the spring to capture the Class A mile title, finish as a runner-up in both the State and New England's and record a personal best time for the season of 4:15.4.

The "Chief's" senior year saw him win the Class A indoor mile title and finish third in the prestigious Eastern States Meet. His time of 4:19.2 is still the indoor school record. Outdoors, David combined with Keith Francis, Richard Nichols and Steve Caton to win the New Relays distance medley in a time of 10:07.6. This was the second fastest all-time performance in US history by a high school.

Dave anchored in 4:14.4 He went on to win the Class A and State two Mile in 9:26.

Upon graduation in 1971, David received a scholarship to attend the University of Tennessee. As a

"Volunteer", David's collegiate highlights were running as fourth man on Tennessee's SEC championship cross country team as a freshman and following that up by being a key varsity runner on the Volunteer's NCAA cross country team championship as a sophomore. His proudest moment as a collegiate athlete was winning the USA Junior Nationals in three events (9:18 steeplechase,

3:54 in the 1500 meters and 15:00 in the 5000 meters) as he ran all three events in a three-hour period.

Today, David and his wife Kathy reside in Wareham, and he works as a counselor for Gosnold Hospital in Falmouth.

John worked at M.C.I. Bridgewater for 20 years as a correction officer and teacher. He was also the proprietor of "Brennan's" and "The Tavern". He currently lives in New Bedford with his wife of 47 years, Joan Anderson, and they have five children and five grandchildren. Three sports, he earned notable awards in each. In soccer he was Honorable Mention All-State and in both basketball and baseball he was selected 1st team All Bristol County. The Baston Herald also selected John as All-State 1st team in basketball.

John received major league tryouts with the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals, but it was his basketball skills that earned him a full scholarship to U-Mass Amherst. While, attending U-Mass he lettered in soccer, basketball and baseball.

Following his college days John served in the U.S. Army. It is here that he began his long coaching career at Killeen Base, Texas. Currently he is the Head Boys Soccer coach at Fairhaven High School but through the past 35 years he has coached soccer, basketball and baseball at Holy Family, Diman Regional Voc-Tech, Old Rochester Regional, Apponequet and Coyle Cassidy High Schools.

John worked at M.C.I. Bridgewater for 20 years as a correction officer and teacher. He was also the proprietor of "Brennan's" and "The Tavern". He currently lives in New Bedford with his wife of 47 years, Joan Anderson, and they have five  children and five grandchildren.

Tonight, we pay tribute to Fred E. Kelley who for more than four decades was a leading exponent of athletics, physical education and fair play. We are hailing a man for the many noteworthy achievements he left behind as his monument in the betterment of our community. No one did more in the pioneering of physical education in the New Bedford Public Schools.

Fred was the original Physical Fitness Man of Greater New Bedford and retired after 40 years as physical instructor in the New Bedford Public Schools. From that distant day in 1922 when he became the city's community winter director at Mt. Pleasant School and summer Director at Brooklawn Park, Kelley served faithfully and tirelessly.

During that span he also became a top-notch catcher in baseball and also showed himself as capable in basketball, soccer, and ice hockey, taught figure skating, and became an outstanding gymnast performing professionally on stage. He also coached and managed teams and served as an official.

Fred was also prominent with work at boys' camps, serving Cathedral Camp as baseball coach, the Tabor Summer Camp as waterfront director and baseball coach, the Ted Williams Baseball Camp as Director, and Camp Sea Space. One of his proudest

achievements were his long and meritorious association with the North End Guild. But while the Guild did not gain him the renown as did his other contributions, it gave him great satisfaction as well as thanks from many prominent men in the community who enjoyed the benefits of Kelley's work with them as youngsters.

One of the things we admire most about Fred Kelley, athlete, teacher, and official, is Fred Kelley, the self-made man, a symbol of clean living, fair play and fine principle. Fred was happily married to Margaret (Norton) Kelley for almost 50 years. The five children they raised have all shared many fond memories of a wonderful father who joyfully included them in many of his antics.

Leo was born in Fall River in 1903 and graduated from New Bedford High School in 1921.

As a student, Leo was a key figure on New Bedford's football, basketball and baseball teams. But it was his ability as a distance runner that made Leo world famous.

Upon graduation, Leo first attended Assumption College before graduating from Holy Cross. While at Holy Cross, he had developed into a world-class 1500 meter and 300 meter runner. Larrivee was one of the most popular athletes ever to wear the purple at Holy Cross. He was the former intercollegiate champion and was possessed with great stamina and determination. What he lacked in build, he more than made up for in courage.

While there were numerous high-water marks in the scintillating track career of the New Bedford runner, one of the most memorable came in the 1924 Olympics in Paris when he was the first American to finish the 1500 meter event. Leo was anchorman on the famous Holy Cross 1600 meter relay team which shattered the world record at Newark, New Jersey in 1926. And he was only two-tenths of a second behind Joie Ray when Joie Ray set the world mile record in Madison Square Garden. Larrivee was clocked in 4:12.1.

Unfortunately, while studying medicine at Loyola University in Chicago, Leo met his untimely death in an auto accident in 1928. He was so respected by the international athletic community that the K. of C. Games (a former international indoor meet held at Boston Garden) named a race after Leo. Over the years, some of the all-time greats (such as the legendary Paavo Nurmi) of the track world have added their illustrious names to the list of victors of the Leo Larrivee Two-Mile Trophy.

*much of this biography was taken from a Standard Times article written by George Patzer in the late 50's