Bud Colwell, born May 4, 1923, has given back to his hometown "sporting community” more than he has taken.

  BUILDER

• Played major role in keeping minor hockey alive
• (At age 16) organizer, manager, player, coach - Connell Road Canadians
• High School Hockey Coach
• Acting coach/player - Legionnaires
• Organizer / coach Pee-Wees and Midgets (implementing fair play and innovative ideas)
• Treasurer
• Referee
• For over 40 years, committee member and volunteer superintendent ambitiously pursuing his dream of making the Woodstock Golf Club one of the finest courses in NB
• Junior Golf Organizer
• One of first board of directors - sports council
• Co-founder - Junior Chamber of Commerce

           Athletic Category:

• Won senior Woodstock Golf Club championships: 1942 (Junior), 1954, 1959 - now honorary member
• Scratch handicap
• Course record - 64 in 1958, then shot 63, which remained unbeaten until 1970
• Army all-star hockey team winger - (WWII 1942 - 46)
• Key playmaker / goal scorer - Legionnaires

Whether coaching, playing the sport himself, or bettering the conditions for others, Bud has unknowingly, but in more ways than one, "PICKED HIS SPOT” on our Sports Wall of Fame.

~ INDUCTION, MAY 10TH, 1997 ~