Jan. 11, 2004
NORFOLK, VA. B Luke Newman, president of the Greenwich Kitchens Centerwill be honored as the 27th recipient of the Bud Metheny Award at the ACS Systems "Meet the Stars" Banquet, Friday, Jan. 23rd at the Sheraton Norfolk-Waterside. The banquet begins with a social at 6:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 7:30 p.m. This year=s keynote speaker will be BaltimoreOriole pitching great and baseball Hall of Famer Jim Palmer.
Tickets for the banquet are $50, and on sale at the Old Dominion Athletic Ticket office in the Athletic Administration Building (683-5484). The Greenwich Kitchens Baseball Clinic will be held Saturday, Jan. 24 in the Old Dominion University fieldhouse. Tickets are $5 for the session, beginning at 9 a.m. Proceeds from the dinner and clinic support baseball scholarships at Old Dominion.
This year marks the tenth anniversary for Greenwich Kitchens with the Old Dominion baseballclinic. Greenwich Kitchens became the event's first title sponsor in 1995.
"This is quite an honor," said Newman. "It has been a positive and an enjoyable relationshipfor myself, and our company with Old Dominion University, and it's athletic department. Ilook forward to continuing this great relationship."
Newman has been active and supportive of local youth sports. He coached baseball for twoyears in the Virginia Beach Youth Leagues, as well as youth basketball for six years in Norfolk.
Closer to Newman's heart is his work with the National Kidney Foundation.A kidney recipient himself, Newman has served as a director on the state board for the National Kidney Foundation. As an athlete, he competed in the World Transplant Games in both basketball and golf. He also competed in the Salt Lake City Games in 1996 and in the Columbus, Ohio games in 1998.
Newman is a 1970 graduate of Carolton Oaks (now Norfolk Collegiate) High School. As anundergrad at Old Dominion, he became a member of the student senate and was very activein school activities, which included following the Monarch baseball teams under the directionof Bud Metheny as well as the Monarch and Lady Monarch basketball teams. He currently serves as a Director of the Board of the ODU Intercollegiate Foundation.
For more information about the clinic and banquet, please contact the Athletic Ticket Officeat 683-5484.PREVIOUS BUD METHENY WINNERS1978Dave Rosenfield General Manager, Norfolk Tides Co-Founder of ODU Clinic1979George KotaridesPresident, Milton=s Pizza1980Ed NagourneyRices Nachman Dept. Store Co-Founder of ODU Clinic1981Bud MethenyFormer Old Dominion baseball coach1982George McClellandFormer Executive Sports Editor The Virginian Pilot/Ledger-Star newspapers1983Charlie SuggReal Estate Assessor, City of Norfolk1984Don FettPresident, Waymar, Inc.1985Clyde McCulloughFormer major league scout1986Abe GoldblattSportswriter, The Virginian Pilot/Ledger Star1987Richard J. DavisPresident, Tidewater Professional Sports, Inc.1988Harry PostoveMajor League Scout1989Hank FoilesFoiles Insurance, former major leaguer1990Lewis D.HirschlerHofheimer=s Inc,1991Richard AlexanderUmpire1992Bob RathbunFormer sports anchor,WTKR TV WTAR Radio1993Sandra PickinFounder of the Peninsula Muscular Dystrophy Benefit Baseball Tournament1994John T. CallahanFormer President of Tidewater Baseball League1995Gary WrightTidewater Summer League, AAU1996Paul FraimMayor of Norfolk1997Roy L.Burton,Jr.Founder of Willard-Lakewood Athletic Association & the Granby Booster Club1998Paul VestalPresident Greenbrier Athletic Assoc.1999Ken YoungPresident, Norfolk Tides Baseball Team2000Lester BangsLocal Baseball Scout2001Warren SpiveyPresident Spivey Rentals2002Bill SwanFormer Head Baseball Coach at Virginia Wesleyan & Former Assistant Baseball Coach at ODU.2003Tim MillerChairman ACS Systems & Engineering