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HONOURARY 2008 CHAIRPERSON - Jamie Roach

 

Some time in Grade 8, around 1976, it happened. Basketball worked its spell on Jamie Roach. For kids in Sussex at that time, their only exposure to the sport was through gym class or watching the Sonics, under the direction of Peter McAleenan, who had arrived in Sussex just a couple of years earlier.

 

Cable TV was in its infancy in Sussex but didn't carry CBS, which aired the NBA games. The odd Boston game was available on another channel, but if you lived in the country, tough luck, cable didn't reach that far. As basketball surged in popularity, so did sales of basketball nets and eventually a net was set up in Roach's farmyard garage. Magazines like Basketball Digest were gobbled up in a distant attempt to follow the pros and many a night in bed was spent listening to gravel-voiced Johnny Most calling the Boston games on radio when the faraway signal permitted.

 

After graduating from Sussex Regional High School in 1981, Roach toiled on the family farm, but developed a passion for the arts; mainly drawing, painting and photography. It led to the beginning of a journalism career in 1987.

Over the next 20 years, he became a mainstay at the Kings County Record, working in several roles including chief editor, sports editor, photographer, general reporter and graphic designer. He has also won several Canadian and Atlantic community newspaper awards. 

 

The sports beat has followed Roach all along as has his DTC involvement. He was away at art college when the first DTC packed the SRHS gym in 1987, but has been there for every one since - including many years as a committee member.

 

"Looking back on the DTC, the John Ryan years rank as my favourite memories," he said. "It was a special time for the tournament and the sport in Sussex. The Classic caught on quickly with the public and crowds flocked to the gym for the event, usually resulting in standing-room only attendance when the Sonics played."

 

Roach said the year the Sonic boys won the NBIAA title in 1991 with a dramatic second-half comeback in the title game against the Fredericton Black Kats was definitely a great highlight as well. The Sonics also repeated as DTC champs that year.

 

"The Dairy Town Classic has raised the bar very high in terms of a first-class high school basketball tournament," he said. "It is professionally organized and carried out; and the competition is top-notch."

GUEST SPEAKER - BANQUET, Friday , 2007 - Darrell Turnbull

Darrell grew up in the tiny community of Williamsburg, the oldest of five children, on a family farm. He had responsibilities typical of a son on a farm and it was from these responsibilities that he attributes many of the values and beliefs that he holds today. He understood at an early age what hard work was, what it meant to have people depend on you, and the feeling of satisfaction when a task was completed to the best of your ability.  

Darrell graduated from Stanley High School in 1975. He then attended UNB in Fredericton, first in the faculty of Forestry, and then in Education. While at UNB he was approached to play basketball by then coach Don Nelson, but he declined because of the work committment he had in Forestry. He regrets that decision even to today, that he did not seize that opportunity and at least try.

Darrell’s first teaching job was at Tobique Valley High School in Plaster Rock from 1981 to 1986 and then he transferred to Carleton North High School in Bristol NB where he still teaches.  Mr. Russell Cook, principal of Carleton North at the time, was largely responsible for his transfer to Carleton North. Russell was a basketball nut and he was aware of the girls program that Darrell had started at Tobique Valley and the quick success they were having with that program. In just three years they were able to compete with the AA' schools in the area, even though they were an A' school.

With Russell’s unwavering support, Darrell was able to build a girls basketball program to be very proud of, and one that is

one of the best at any high school level, in not just NB, but in the Maritimes. In the twenty year history (1987 - 2007) of the Final Twelve format, where NB crowns it Provincial Champions at the Aitkin University Centre at UNB in Fredericton, Carleton North varsity girls have played in 14 finals winning 9 of those.

 Besides working in the high school programs Darrell helped start the Northern Carleton Minor Basketball Association. He has also coached at the mini and middle school level and have been fortunate to work with good students, good athletes and supportive parents which has helped the programs to be successful in developing a strong feeder foundation for the girls high school program.

A total of 13 girls have gone on from Carleton North to play basketball at the university level, the most recent one being Jillian Sipprell, with the Varsity Reds.

 

 Darrell has been married to Mary for 25 years. It is true that behind every good man is a better woman! They have two children, Eryn  in her fourth at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, NS and she will graduate this year with a Bachelor of Science degree. Joshua is in his first year of Mechanical Engineering at UNB in Fredericton. Darrell had the great fortune to have been able to teach and coach both of his children in high school and they have many memorable and fond basketball memories to share. 

With the graduation of Joshua from high school this past June, Darrell decided to put the clipboard away and focus his energy with other interests. Darrell will always be a strong advocate of the "game". It has been a significant part of his life.  He will continue to encourage, support and work with young student athletes that wish to learn and experience all that the game of basketball has to offer.

  In 1994, Darrell was honoured with the Peg McAleenan Award as the NBIAA High School Girls Coach of the Year.

   

PAST GUEST SPEAKERS

2007 - Jeff Speedy

2006 - Fred Nykamp

2005 - Micheal Bishop
2004 - Don Walker
2003 - Gary Young
2002 - Jim Charters
2001 - Renee Poirier
2000 - Peter Corby
1999 - Meaghan Kenny
1998 - Brian Forsythe
1997 - Tim Hynes
1996 - John Ryan
1995 - Clint Hamilton
1994 - Jim Thorburn
1993 - Dick Steeves
1992 - Brian Forbes
1991 - Don Grant
1990 - Don Nelson
1989 - Rob Upshaw
1988 - Tom Hanley
1987 - Tony Tamaro

PAST HONORARY CHAIRPERSONS

2007 - Ron Harvey

2006 - Michael Swift

2005 - Micheal & Mary Maxwell
2004 - Danny & Cheryl Keith
2003 - Gordon & Irene Lewis
2002 - Shirley Robinson
2001 - John Robinson Sr.
2000 - Linda Colpitts
1999 - Allan Stafford
1998 - Doug Doney
1997 - Ian & Brenda Leask
1996 - Gary & Sheila Nixon
1995 - Hans & Sandra Lammens
1994 - Jim & Eileen Ryan
1993 - Jackie & Cecil McGarrigle
1992 - Allan Charters
1991 - John Muscroft
1990 - Andrea Dwyer
1989 - George Keays
1988 - Jarvis McQuinn
1987 - Donald Reicker

 
 

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