Hall of Fame Inductees
Hall of Fame Inductees
Hall of Fame Inductees
Hugh F. Stephens ’41
Administrator, Baseball, Basketball
Induction: 1996
- Played baseball for four years and basketball for two at R-MC.
- Baseball captain as a junior and senior.
- 20-9 career record as a pitcher for the Yellow Jackets.
- Dean’s List each semester.
- Earned B.A. degree in English.
- Member of Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership fraternity.
- Member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
- Helped hometown Staunton win a Valley League title.
- Became athletic director at Henry Clay High School following graduation.
- Served in U.S. Air Force from 1942-46.
- Returned to Henry Clay High School in 1946.
- Named graduate manager of athletics at R-MC in 1948.
- Promoted to full-time athletic director and head baseball coach in 1949 at R-MC.
- 459-203-5 record (.692) on the diamond.
- Had 32 winning campaigns in 33 seasons for the Yellow Jackets before his retirement in 1982.
- Won State Small College title 10 times.
- Captured six Mason-Dixon Conference titles.
- Won Mason-Dixon Conference Southern Division 11 times.
- 1977 squad went 22-7 and earned R-MC’s first bid to NCAA Division II South Atlantic Regional.
- Won ODAC Championship twice.
- ODAC Coach of the Year in 1979.
- Two-time president of Mason-Dixon Conference.
- ODAC president from 1978-80.
- Oversaw addition of Crenshaw Gymnasium.
- Received Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from R-MC in 1990.
- Inducted into Virginia Sports Hall of Fame in 1994.
- R-MC legacy family, as granddaughter Jamie Deafenbaugh Dunn graduated from R-MC in 1998.
- Active member of Duncan Memorial United Methodist Church.
- President, secretary, and treasurer of Ashland Kiwanis Club.
- R-MC Baseball Field named in his honor (Hugh Stephens Field at Estes Park).
- Passed away in 1993 at the age of 75.