In consideration of the absence of the annual induction banquet in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Hall of Fame Committee voted to celebrate the inductees not honored previously in 2020/21 along with the 2022 nominees.

The inductees for the 2022 class are Denice Fredericks, and Thomas and Doris Patnode. The 2020/21 class to be honored are Larry Barney, Jack LaDuke and Howard Riley.

The banquet will begin at 6 p.m. with a cocktail reception and dinner to follow. Tickets are $42 and are available through Oct. 28 at the Olympic Center box office located on the ground floor of the conference center.

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Denice Fredericks

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Denice Fredericks worked as the North Elba town clerk and deputy town clerk to the supervisor for 25 years and has been an election inspector for Essex County for over 35 years. She has demonstrated exceptional dedication to the children in Lake Placid’s community. Fredericks volunteers with the North Elba Christmas Community Fund, organizes the Lake Placid Backpack Program, and has been a Merit Badge Counselor for the Boy Scouts. She served as treasurer for the North Elba Community Lunch Program, volunteered at the Ecumenical Food Pantry, organized Operation Shoe Box to send to military troops overseas, and was a member of the St. Eustace Vestry and currently serves on the Altar Guild at St. Eustace.

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Thomas and Doris Patnode

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Thomas and Doris Patnode are remembered for their involvement and dedication to community youth and the Lake Placid Pee Wee Association. Tom served as president for several years and coached youth baseball teams and umpired. He also organized and ran the annual International Hockey tournaments during that time. Doris was active in fundraising for the Lake Placid Pee Wee Association and both were often seen volunteering to work the concession stands at games. Doris became known as an outstanding organizer for the speedskating community regionally and nationally. She became a national official for US Speed Skating. Doris was named the chairman of speedskating for the 1980 Olympic Winter Games, and Tom assisted in ice preparations for the Olympic events held on the James C. Sheffield Speed Skating Oval.

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Larry Barney

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Larry Barney grew up in Lake Placid and has coached for more than 45 years through the Lake Placid Pee Wee Association. His dedication to the youth of Lake Placid, coaching both baseball and hockey, is commendable. Barney was instrumental in putting women’s hockey on the map, winning sectional and state championships, earning a ticket to the National Championships four times and coaching two players who went on to become members of the women’s U.S. Olympic ice hockey team.

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Jack LaDuke

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Jack LaDuke has a long history of photographing and sharing the region’s local stories with the world. He was the audio-visual director for the 1980 Olympic Winter Games and continued to promote the Olympic Region as a news reporter with Channel 3 News and the Public Broadcasting Station. LaDuke still regularly produces stories about the Adirondacks for “Mountain Lake Journal,” PBS, and is assigned frequent photography assignments for the Plattsburgh Press-Republican.

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Howard Riley

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Howard Riley is a treasured historian and journalist and has been a longtime promoter of the Olympic Region. He was editor of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise and later editor of the Lake Placid News. He was one of the first staff members of the 1980 Olympic Winter Games and author of the 12 official reports from the Lake Placid Olympic Organizing Committee to the International Olympic Committee. He went to Europe with the Lake Placid Olympic Bid Team as a reporter in January 1973. He was the final general manager of the Lake Placid Club. Riley is one of the best-known storytellers of the region, and his weekly column in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise continues to highlight the community’s history. His civic contributions include being the mayor, trustee and village manager of Saranac Lake; was town judge for several years and is presently deputy supervisor of the town of Harrietstown.

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Lake Placid Hall of Fame

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The Lake Placid Hall of Fame began in 1983 and has inducted more than 140 individuals, as well as the members of the 1948 U.S. Olympic four-man bobsled team and the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team.

To be considered for induction into the Lake Placid Hall of Fame, individuals should be past or current residents of the Olympic region or have some significant connection to the area. Carefully selected by Hall of Fame Committee members, all nominees must have made significant sports, cultural or civic contributions to the region, or their endeavors must have enhanced the historical heritage of the area.

The Lake Placid Hall of Fame Committee includes: Nancie Battaglia, Bob Birk, Mark Gilligan, Doug Hoffman, Emily Kilburn-Politi, Butch Martin, Don McMullen, John Morgan and Tricia Preston.

For more information on the Lake Placid Hall of Fame, including information on past inductees, log on to lakeplacidlegacysites.com/about-us/history/hall-of-fame/.