Featured Inductee: Alan (Beefy) Bathe - Hockey

Year Inducted: 2012
Birth Date: May 12, 1927
Home Town: Oshawa

More about Alan (Beefy) Bathe:
Born in Oshawa on May 12, 1927, Beefy played minor hockey in the city before graduating to the Oshawa Generals for the 1945-46 season.  The next season he won an OHA Junior B title with the Toronto DeLasalle Oaklands.  Alan also attended the Toronto Maple Leafs camp for two years.  Following that he played senior hockey, including a season with the Toronto Marlboros in 1947-48.  Beefy spent the 1948-49 year as a player-coach with the Ayr Raiders in Scotland.  He eventually returned to Oshawa, started a family and career in the construction business and returned to his minor hockey roots.  He served as coach, advisor and sponsor in Oshawa Minor Hockey in the 1950\'s, 60\'s and 70\'s. Among his many highlights were taking the 1972 Oshawa Parkway TV Midgets on a tour of Sweden.  He then guided the same team to an All-Ontario Championship and won the North American Silver Stick Tournament and an All-Ontario Championship with the Oshawa Bantam Hockey Team.  Beefy was also awarded by the Ontario Minor Hockey Association for his dedication and contributions. Beefy was responsible for converting Terry O\'Reilly from a goalie to a forward during his bantam year. In other sports, Alan was an avid golfer and after switching from playing left handed to the right, he carried a Two Handi-cap competing annually in the Club Championships at the Oshawa Golf Club.  He curled and also played junior and senior baseball.