Eleven Join Athletics Hall of Fame
Date: October 17,2008

Eleven men and women who have played roles in shaping the athletic
successes of the University of Rochester will be inducted into the
Athletics and Recreation Hall of Fame as part of the yearly Meliora
Weekend festivities.


Induction ceremonies will be held on Friday evening, October 17, in the
Multi-Activities Room of the Robert Goergen Athletic Center. This is the
seventeenth group of men and women to join the Hall of Fame. The first
induction ceremony was held in 1992.


Kenneth DeHaven, M.D.
Initiated the University's Athletic Medicine Department in 1975...Team
physician from 1975-2004...Established team concept in regard to
injuries... Initiated a series of procedures to develop and expand
treatment procedures for injuries. In 1989, he developed University Sports
Medicine consisting of physicians specializing in sports medicine
collaborating with sports therapy, with physical therapists specializing
in sports rehabilitation and athletic trainers... Worked at the Cleveland
Clinic Orthopaedic Staff, 1972-75... Has served as president of nearly
every major professional society of which he was a member: American
Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), American Orthopaedic Society for
Sports Medicine (AOSSM), Arthoscopy Association of North America, and
International Society of the Knee... Honored multiple times, including the
University's Lysle "Spike" Garnish Citation in 1986, the Elliott Cushing
Award from the Rochester Press Radio Club in 1995, and induction into the
AOSSM Hall of Fame in 2006... Played football at Dartmouth College,
culminating in Honorable Mention All-America honors in 1960... Received a
B.A. from Dartmouth in 1961 and continued education and received a
Dartmouth Medical School B.M.S. Cum Laude in 1963...Received a M.D. from
Northwestern University Medical School in 1965.

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