Six chosen for Harwood Hall of Fame

Six people will be inducted this year into the Harwood Union High School Hall of Fame.

The six chosen in the Hall of Fame’s sixth class are Stu Campbell, a Harwood teacher; Barb Burns Maynard, a Harwood coach; Richard Russell, a 1951 graduate of Waterbury High School; and Harwood graduates Tim Chant (1981), Codi Collins Brown (2004) and Greg Mehuron (2008).

They will be honored at induction ceremonies Sept. 12.

Dwight Fiske and Mitch Casey co-chair the Harwood Union Hall of Fame Committee. The goal, Fiske said, is “to elect individuals or groups who represent the best that Harwood, Waitsfield and Waterbury high schools and their respective communities have to offer.”

Stuart D. Campbell

Campbell, who died in 2008, was a tireless advocate of the sport of skiing and had a profound influence on millions of skiers.

He was an English teacher, ski coach, author and consultant who grew up in Bennington and earned a bachelor’s degree in American literature in 1964 from Middlebury College. At Middlebury, he competed in slalom, giant slalom, cross-country and ski jumping.

He taught English literature and coached skiing at Harwood and at the Valley Junior Racing Club, and became technical director of the Sepp Ruschp Ski School at Stowe Mountain Resort.

In the late 1970s, he went to Heavenly Valley in California as director of skier services — overseeing the ski school and professional, celebrity and the 1985 World Cup ski races.

He returned to Stowe in 1997 and led development, construction and opening of the Country Club of Vermont in Waterbury Center as he pursued a late-in-life passion for golf.

Stu was an equipment consultant for 16 manufacturers, and ski instruction was at the core of his life’s work.

However, it was through his tireless writing that he has reached his greatest audience. He was technical and instructional editor of SKI Magazine for more than 30 years, reaching millions of readers with his illustrated quick tips. He wrote books on skiing, gardening and alternative house design.

The Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum in Stowe awarded Campbell the first Paul Robbins Ski Journalism Award in 2008 for lifetime commitment to ski journalism with ethics, humor and good taste. He was inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Hall of Fame in 2009.

Richard L. Russell

Russell played soccer, basketball and baseball at Waterbury High School, and was a member of the state Northern Class B basketball champions in 1951 and the state runner-up basketball team in 1951. He was the class president for three years, and was on the student council, and received the coveted Balfour Award.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Vermont in 1955 and played baseball for UVM for three years. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force through the ROTC program and retired as a colonel in 1982. He graduated from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces and is an honor graduate of the Defense Language Institute.

Russell piled up 4,680 flying hours, including more than 2,000 hours in the F-100 Super Sabre, with 215 combat hours and 110 combat missions. He received the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with cluster, Air Medal with five clusters, Combat Readiness Medal with three clusters, Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Silver Star, Vietnam Campaign Medal with four clusters and Vietnam Service Medal.

Russell taught English at Harwood from 1984 to 1994 and was president of the Harwood Union Teachers Association from 1988 to 1992.

Barbara Burns Maynard

Maynard coached field hockey, basketball, softball and golf at Harwood. She earned a bachelor’s degree in 1975 from the University of Vermont and a master’s degree in education in 1993. She served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, and joined the Harwood faculty in 1976 to teach physical education and coach. She coached field hockey for 28 years, 1977 to 2005, including 26 years of varsity; junior varsity basketball for seven years; softball for 31 years, including 25 years of varsity; and golf for four years.

Her field hockey teams won state championships in 1979, 1982 and 1988, and finished second in 1989 and 1994. Her teams won state golf championships in 2003 and 2004 and finished second in 2002 and 2005.

In 1982, she founded the Vermont Field Hockey Association and co-founded the Vermont-New Hampshire Twin State Field Hockey Classic, which began in 1984. She received the 1998 National Association for Girls and Women in Sport Pathfinder Award. She was selected for the Northeast Women’s Hall of Fame in 2002 and for the Vermont Principals’ Association Hall of Fame in 2006.

Timothy J. Chant

Chant, a 1981 Harwood graduate, played soccer for four years, basketball for three years and baseball for one year and spent two years on the track team. He was all-state in soccer, and was selected for regional all-star teams in soccer and basketball.

Chant was on Harwood’s state championship baseball team in 1978, won the state triple-jump championship in 1981, represented Vermont in the New England Track and Field Championships in 1981, and earned the Harwood’s 1981 scholar-athlete award.

Chant is now is a wellness educator at Westwood High School in Warwick, R.I.

Codi Collins Brown

Brown, a 2004 Harwood graduate, played soccer for three years, basketball for four years (and was team captain for two seasons) and softball for four years (captain for three seasons).

She was on the 2001 Harwood softball team that finished second in Division 2, was a four-year regional all-star in softball, and played in Vermont-New Hampshire Twin State Softball Game. She represented Vermont at the 2004 American Softball Association Nationals in North Carolina and received the ASA Gold Glove Award for her defensive ability.

Brown was a member of the National Honor Society and received the Harwood’s 2004 Outstanding Female Athlete Award.

She received the Central Vermont Academic Scholarship to Norwich University; she earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing, with highest honors, in 2008.

Brown is a registered nurse at the University of Vermont Medical Center’s inpatient hematology/oncology department, and is certified in chemotherapy and stem cell transplant.

Gregory J. Mehuron

Mehuron, a 2008 Harwood graduate, played soccer, basketball and baseball and competed in track and field. He was captain of the basketball and baseball teams, and played on the Harwood team that won the Division 2 state championship in 2007. He was selected for the Capital All-League second team.

In 2008, he was selected as male finalist for January Athlete of the Month by the Vermont Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, was the Times Argus Basketball Player of the Year, Capital Division Basketball Player of the Year, and a third-team all-star for the Burlington Free Press. He played in the Vermont Basketball Coaches Association Senior All-Star Game and the Vermont-New Hampshire Twin State Basketball Game. He was a regional baseball all-star in 2007 and 2008.

Mehuron’s work ethic, athletic abilities, leadership and team attitude earned him Harwood’s 2008 Robert Fielder Award for the most outstanding male athlete.

Mehuron is site manager for Vermont Professional Construction and Painting and is assistant baseball coach at Lyndon State College.

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The annual Hall of Fame Induction and Dinner will be held Saturday, Sept. 12, and highlights the Legends of Harwood Weekend. The weekend also features silent auctions, a golf tournament, and alumni games. All events are open to the public. Dinner tickets go on sale in late August.

For information about the Hall of Fame or nomination forms, visit harwood.org or email Dwight Fiske at mdwfiske@comcast.net or Mitch Casey at mitchcasey05@gmail.com.