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The Case Reserve Athletic Club inducted nine new members into its Hall of Fame at an October 6 banquet. The following are this year's inductees:
Bill Dewalt Jr. was a varsity athlete for WRU in the early 1940s, playing football in 1941 and 1942 and basketball in 1941-42 and 1942-43. He lettered in football both seasons as the team finished Big Four champions both years. His honors included Cleveland News All-Big Four in 1941 and 1942, Cleveland Press All-Big Four in 1942, and All-Ohio second team in 1942. Dewalt was a member of the Delta Upsilon fraternity at WRU and was the president for two years. He was also a member of the student council and was its president for one year. Some other activities he was involved with included intramural track and softball. After graduation, Dewalt spent 33 months in the U.S. Navy, including 15 months on a destroyer during the "Leyte Campaign" with Task Forces 38 and 58 for Japanese operations. Dewalt attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine from 1946-50 and Harvard Business School. He retired in 1988 from the general medicine practice in Portsmonth, Virginia, which he began in 1951. He currently resides in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
Dale Evans was a standout athlete at Western Reserve University in the late 1950s. All together Evans earned 10 letters at WRU at a time when freshman were ineligible for varsity awards, but he was the freshman football team captain and basketball co-captain. He won three letters in football, three in basketball, and two in baseball and track. His football career included three All-Conference selections and he was the captain of the basketball team in 1959. Evans won the William Trophy as Outstanding Senior Athlete, was a Small College All-Beta Team selection, and received a National Honorary Athletic Fraternity Award for Sigma Delta Psi, of which he was a member. He also excelled in intramurals, winning the Epee in fencing, was a two-time heavyweight boxing champion, and held the underwater distance swim record. Evans was drafted by the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles upon graduation, but decided against pro football and in favor of Naval flight school. Evans was a U.S. Navy carrier pilot from 1959-64 and then worked as a commercial airline pilot with Northwest Airlines from 1964-89. He retired in 1989 as a 747 captain from Northwest and resides in Minnetrista, Maine.
Erwin Grabisna excelled in football and track while a student-athlete at CWRU in the mid to late 1980s. Grabisna won nine varsity letters -- three in football (1985, 1986, and 1987), three in indoor track (1986, 1987, and 1988), and three in outdoor track (1986, 1987, and 1988). His football career consisted of two Little All-America selections; All-Conference (North Coast Athletic Conference) in 1986, 1987, and 1988; and team captain and MVP in 1988. In track he set CWRU, University Athletic Association, and NCAC records in the discus and hammer on his way to be named an All-American as a senior. He also won the UAA and NCAC MVP Award his senior year. He finished second in the discus and hammer at the 1988 NCAA Division III Championships. The Los Angeles Raiders drafted Grabisna in the sixth round of the National Football League College Draft in 1988. He attended the Raiders training camp in 1988, the New York Jets training camp in 1989, and the Philadelphia Eagles training camp in 1991. Grabisna played in the World League for the Raleigh Durham Skyhawks in 1991 and the Frankfurt Galaxy in 1982. He then moved on the Arena Football Leagues, where he spent time with the Detroit Drive from 1992-93 and the Albany Firebirds in 1994. Grabisna was a member of the Detroit Drive when they won the 1992 Arena Football League Championship. The electrical engineering major was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Case Western Reserve and graduated with honors. During his professional playing career, Grabisna was an installation engineer at ABB Process Automation from 1989-90, and he was ranked first in his class upon receiving his M.B.A. from Ohio State University in 1995. Since 1995 he has been an application engineer at National Instruments, where he has held positions as field sales engineer, district sales manager, and currently area sales manager since. He resides in Columbus.
Pat Kilpatrick participated in four sports while attending Flora Stone Mather College in the late 1940s. She then went on to attend graduate school at WRU and graduated in 1951. She was a honor key member in the Women's Athletic Association at Mather College, was a part of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, and was an honorary member of the Mortar Board. The basis of her election into the Hall of Fame comes from her work as a physical education instructor and coach. Kilpatrick was an instructor and assistant professor of physical education at WRU and CWRU from 1962-72, an advisor to WAA from 1966-72, the president of the women's physical education section for the Ohio College Association in 1970, and chair of the women's P.E. department from 1970-72. Kilpatrick acted as the CWRU faculty representative to the NCAC from 1986-92 and the UAA from 1988-1992. She was honored as one of WRU's most outstanding alumni in 1986 and co-chaired the campaign to build the Veale Center. An award in her name is given each year to a senior athlete at CWRU who is a four-year varsity participant with the highest accumulative grade point average. After 30 years of service at CWRU, Kilpatrick retired in 1992 as vice president and University marshal to enjoy life with her children and grandchildren. She is a longtime volunteer at her church and received the Bishop's Medal in November 1999. Kilpatrick resides in Hudson.
Peggy Musser Carrasquillo excelled in women's basketball at CWRU in the early 1980s. Carrasquillo won four varsity letters at CWRU. She was team captain for two years and won the Emily K. Andrews Award in 1983 for scholarship and service. During the 1982-83 season, she became CWRU's all-time leading a scorer with 657 points and also set records in rebounding, steals, and assists. She is currently ninth in career field goal attempts (847). She averaged 14 points per game and shot 45 percent from the field during her four-year career. Carrasquillo received the Outstanding Civil Engineering Student Award in 1983. She went on to receive her master's degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas in 1985 and soon after went to work as a research engineer and then as a consultant in the area of construction and concrete materials. Carrasquillo is the mother of three young sons. She resides in Austin, Texas.
Hal Lebovitz attended Adelbert College in the late 1930s. Although he is not necessarily being inducted for his athletic accomplishments, Lebovitz did play varsity basketball and the team won a couple of Big Four titles. Lebovitz was involved in many activities while in school, including the Adelbert Honor Key, Warion Society, sports editor of the Reserve Tribune, and features editor of the Reserve Red Cat. Upon graduation he coached freshman basketball at WRU in 1938. Lebovitz then coached football, basketball, baseball, and taught chemistry and math at Euclid Central High School from 1938-46. He received his master's degree in 1942 from Adelbert. Lebovitz also had a long and successful career officiating football, basketball, and baseball on virtually all levels. He has covered sports as a writer for over 50 years. The longtime Cleveland-based scribe began covering baseball in 1946 with the now-defunct Cleveland News, and covered the Cleveland Indians as the paper's beat writer from 1950 until the News folded in 1960. Lebovitz then moved to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, covering baseball until 1964, when he became the paper's sports editor, a position he held for over 20 years. He was also a regular contributor to The Sporting News from 1947-93. Lebovitz served as president of the Baseball Writers' Association of America in 1966 and presided over the inductions of Casey Stengel and Ted Williams into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Since 1984 he has been a columnist for six daily newspapers, five of them in Ohio. This is Lebovitz's 11th hall of fame induction. Lebovitz's most recent and most prestigious induction came last winter, when he won the 1999 J.G. Taylor Spink Award, which honors a baseball writer for meritorious contributions to baseball writing. He received the award and a certificate during the National Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony last July in Cooperstown, New York. Lebovitz is recognized in the "Scribes & Mikemen" exhibit in the library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He currently resides in University Heights, Ohio.
Joseph Girlando played basketball at CIT in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Girlando earned three varsity letters and was an All-President's Athletic Conference selection in 1956 and 1957. Girlando captained his 1957 team, tallying 373 total points that season for an average of 22.2 per game. He was Cleveland's leading scorer that year and ended his four-year career with 1,115 career points -- good enough for 9th place at the time. Girlando was also a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and worked as a project engineer in the nuclear fuel division of Olin-Mathieson Chemical Corporation in New Haven, Connecticut. Unfortunately his life ended early in1958 when he died in a plane crash at Tri-City Airport in Midland, Michigan.
Michael Caesar was a standout swimmer for CIT in the early to middle 1960s. He won three varsity letters in his four years on the swimming team. Caesar was a co-captain during his senior year and an All-President's Athletic Conference selection in 1963, when he won the 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle and set four PAC records. He also set 11 CIT records during his four years there. Caesar was also a member of Phi Kappa Tau, Theta Tau, and Alpha Phi Omega. Upon graduation, Caesar went to work in the defense electronic industry from 1965-77. He worked for Grumman Aircraft, Sperry Gyroscope, Harris Corporation, RCA, Global Communications. His positions included systems engineer, field engineer, and technical training. Since 1982, he has worked at Podiatric Medical Business in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.