1970
Elfie Carroll
From Forest Hills, NY and St. Petersburg, FL
Woman's national champion 1950, 1955 and 1958; runner-up 1951, 1952,1953, 1957 and 1960
National mixed doubles champion (with her husband) for four straight years - 1949, 1950, 1951 and 1952; runners-up 1953 and 1958
Alexander Carver
Men's national champion three years in a row - 1961, 1962 and 1963
Mixed national champion 1964; runner-up 1958, 1962, 1963 and 1968
Men's senior national champion 1963 and 1970; finalist 1968
Mary Adair Moore
1951, 1952, 1953 and 1954; finalist 1940, 1941, 1942 and 1950
Mixed national champion 1946; finalist 1939 and 1951
Known as Maizie, she was Madge Beck' s sister
1972
Philip W. Osborne
Founder, Fox Chapel Racket Club
Pioneered the development of Pittsburgh platform tennis.
An early proponent of the aluminum deck.
1973
Gordon S. Gray
Mixed national champion 1966; finalist men's open nationals that same year (the year he first took up platform tennis)
Mixed champion 1967 and 1968
Men's open finalist 1968
Men's open champion 1969, 1970 and 1971 - three in a row (a feat done only once previously); finalist 1972
1974
Richard J. Reilly, Jr.
House-builder turned platform tennis court manufacturing pioneer
Developed a better system for tightening screens; hinged snow boards
Did away with the four upper-corner braces
Added walnut chips (and later granular aluminum) to the deck paint for traction on courts
Developed the aluminum court
Expanded platform tennis to Canada, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Indonesia and Poland to name a few.
1976
John R. Moses
Fox Meadow fixture
Captain, Yale tennis team.
Youngest men's nationals finalist ever at 19 years old.
Youngest men's open national champion at 23 years old.
Nationals champion 1947 and 1957.
Nationals finalist 1943, 1948, 1953 and 1955.
Mixed national champion 1955.
Introduced Kansas City to platform tennis.
Also a number-one ranked squash player.
Susan Wasch
Youngest woman to be inducted into the Hall of Fame
Fifth-ranked woman in total number of points earned for winning and running-up in APTA championship play
Youngest mixed doubles nationals finalist (1957)
Mixed doubles champion 1972; finalist 1960, 1965 and 1973
Women's open national champion at age 24 (for many years the youngest to ever win the title)
National champion four times - 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1965; finalist 1964 and 1967
Only platform tennis player to be highlighted in Sports Illustrated'sFaces in the Crowd (after winning the mixed national championship in 1972 with her brother and despite a 7-year layoff from the sport)
1979
Eldredge L. Bermingham
Built the first courts in the Pittsburgh area in 1960
Introduced the sport to the area via scrambles tournaments (where half the team had to be from another town)
And in so doing he helped introduce platform tennis to Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati and Toledo
Founded the Western Pennsylvania Platform Tennis Association in 1967 (the first regional organization)
APTA Director 1973-75
Peggy Stanton
Winner of 4 national women's championships (1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970); nationals finalist 1971
Winner of senior women's nationals in 1974 and 1977; finalist 1976
Finalist, national mixed 1969
Worked for more and better tournaments, bigger draws and prizes
First woman Director of the APTA
First APTA Women's Tournament Director