Wedemeyer inducted into National High School Hall of Fame




Hawai'i's Charlie Wedemeyer, a three-sport, all-star athlete at Punahou School in the 1960s, yesterday was inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame in Indianapolis.

The ceremony was the closing event of the National Federation of State High School Associations. Wedemeyer, his wife Lucy, and family attended the event. Keith Amemiya, executive director of the Hawai'i High School Athletic Association, also attended.

Wedemeyer was one of 12 in this year's class, which included athletes Clyde Duncan, Jim Johnson, Jim Plunkett and Terry Steinbach; coaches John Bagonzi, Lewis Benitz, Rick Insell and Joan Wells; officials Jane Hansen and Sam Short and reporter Tim Stevens.

Wedemeyer, an all-league pick in football, basketball and baseball, was selected The Advertiser's Hawai'i Athlete of the Decade for the 1960s. He went on to play football for Michigan State, and then coached high school football.

For the past 30 years, Wedemeyer, who lives in Los Gatos, Calif., has battled amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease.

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