Welcome!

Board Meeting

Our next board meeting will be held on Monday, June 3rd, 2024, 12:00 noon, at the Bethel Learning Center located across the street from Bethel Middle School. Everyone welcome.

Board Member Elections

Elections were held. The following is your new 2024-25 Board and Directors.
President: Bob Niehl
Vice Presdient: Bryan Streleski
Vice President: Corey Belser
Secretary: Debbi Caramandi
Treasurer: Kellie Ham

Directors: Don Ash, Corey Belser, John Briel, Ed Burmester, Debbi Caramandi, Kellie Ham, Carolyn Jones, Terry Liefson, Bob Niehl, Easter Springsteen, Oscar Springsteen, Bryan Streleski, Mark Torgenson, John Zurfluh (BJ), John Zurfluh (LJ)

Award Ceremony Photos and Video

If you were unable to make it to our Award Ceremony in March we have photos and a video that you can look at and watch. The link to  the video is: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SbQiNjsNUi-R5TI0-9YN4VJE7S85hHxH/view or go to our website bethelhalloffame1.org and press our photo tab to see our photos and the link to our video.

Next Award Ceremony

Our next Award Ceremony won’t be until September of 2025. We are in the process of selecting
a date.

Award Ceremony

The Award Ceremony held Saturday, March 9th, 2024 was another success. We had over 225 guests. All inductees except for a few were able to attend. We wished Ed Niehl a Happy 100th Birthday. Our meal was served by GK FCCLA. Congratulations to the the following athletes, contributor, coach, family and team that was inducted.

Athletes                                                             Coach
Cory Belser, BHS ‘01                                    Kevin Aoki
Mark Belvin, BHS ‘70
Travis Brock, BHS ‘98                                     Contributors
Kim (Stone) Cuzner, BHS ‘99                      Dan Caramandi
Kim (Leifson) Dickerson, BHS ‘90
John Doyle, BHS ’80                                       Family
Kim Georgia, SLHS ‘90                                 The DuRochers – John ‘81, Corrina ‘81, Johnny and Amanda
Loni (Ainslie) Parks, BHS ‘01
Dave Rich, BHS ’55
Kayla (Reno) Waldauser, GKHS ‘09
Jamie Walker, GKHS ‘09                                                  

Team                                                                                             
Coach Pat Mullen, Assistant Coaches Russ Leslie, Ken Iverson, Managers Denise Clements, Heather Coatney, Lacey Lindsay and Earl Brothers.  Roster: Virgil Matthews, Ron Hobbs, Jimmy Ball, Josh Allar, Dwayne Barnes, Jerrell Everson, Nate Gall, Corey Belser, Kevin Hill, Kaelen Moore, Duane Hill and Nick Moore.

To download a copy of the 2024 Award Ceremony Program go to our Sponsor tab. This year we video taped our program. Go to our photo tab to see our video and photos of this years ceremony.

We are always accepting nominations throughout the year. If you know of someone you would like to nominate go on to our website bethelhalloffame1.com, to our nominations tab and download our nomination form. We find the best way to get the form filled out completely is to work with the person you are nominating. Send the form in and we will contact you once we get the form.

Our next Award Ceremony will be held in eighteen months in September 2025.

Sponsor/Ad Request Form

If you would like to Sponsor or advertise in our next Awards Ceremony held in September 2025 go online and download the Sponsor Ad sheet and send it in or contact Kellie at khgraphics@aol.com.

Web Page/Facebook

We are looking for someone who might be interested in re-designing our web page and overlooking our facebook account. If you are interested or would like more information contact Bob Niehl at bobniehl@gmail.com.

Need Your Help

We are still trying to locate a few players on the BHS 1980 Boys Basketball Team, 1962 Wrestling Team and past inductees from the 1958 BHS Football Team. If you know how to get in touch or know someone that might know how to contact the following people please contact the following:
Basketball—Mike Mullen at 253-279-6218, mwmullen38@msn.com; Ed Burmester 253-820-3438, edandroseb@msn.com
Wrestling—Bob Niehl, 253-222-8292, bobniehl@gmail.com
or email Kellie Ham for Basketball, Wrestling or football to khgraphics@aol.com.

1980 Basketball Team Players – Tom Pierce
Managers – Preston Loveless, Manager and Gregg Goff

1962 Wresting Team
Wrestlers: Vic Hugdahl
Managers: Lloyd McAnich, Rich Piper, Pat Jupiter, Ken Scott.

1958 Football Team Players: Jay Brown, Gerald “Jerry” Crippen, Bruce Moore, Don Raper, Larry Stearns and Doug Woods.
Managers: Don Leigh, Jim Nichols, David Rennie, King Phelps.