Athletic Hall of Fame 1985 Inductees

Dr. M. Frank Creason, 1951

Letterman in Football.

Member of the Zeta Chi fraternity and Baker B-Club. Serving as pledge class president and membership chairman of Zeta Chi.

Earned master’s and doctorate degrees in education at Colorado State College, Greeley.

While teaching at Ohio University, he wrote and directed two federal projects, national teaching aid program for paraprofessionals, and national teaching corps programs as an instructor or team-teaching methods.

Co-founder of the Wildcat Booster Club and has served as co-chairman and the chairman of 1978 and 1984.

Has been awarded the “Big Orange” award three different years for outstanding support of Baker Athletics.

Winner of Person of the Year Award by student senate, 1983.

Has served as Baker trustee for eight years, and is now listed as charter trustee.

Former vice president and program chairman of Optimist Club. Treasurer and vice president of Administrators Club, and member of the Phi Delta Kappa and Mu Sigma, education and music fraternities. Respectively, also chaired several church committees, as well as being a member of the board of directors and officer for the Automobile Association of Kansas City and Kansas City, Kansas Chamber of Commerce. Successful fund raiser for Baker University, being involved in telethons for the Baker fund and the Wildcat Booster Club, as well as the George F. Collins, Jr., Sports and Convention Center.

Served as the Chairman of the Collins Center Building Committee.

John C. Lewis, 1953

Earned 12 varsity letters in football, basketball and track while in school at Baker. Prior to attending Baker, he graduated from Holton High School, where he was coached by Ed Dissinger, ’36, also a member of Baker’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

Co-captain of the 1953 football team. President of the “B” Club. Member of Delta Tau Delta.

Received A.B. degree from Baker University in 1953. Received an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Graduated with distinction from the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

Attended the Navy’s Officer Candidate School and was commissioned as a Supply Corps Officer. During his 23-year Navy career, he held a number of material and financial management positions, both in the United States and overseas. Just prior to his retirement from the Navy in 1976 with the rank of captain, he was the Supply Officer at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, one of the Navy’s largest industrial facilities.

Served the office of the President-Elect of the United States as a member of the Presidential Transition Team, where he prepared two comprehensive management reports for the incoming administration. Summarizing the operations of the Federal Supply service and the Federal Property Resources Service. Both organizations of the General Services Administration.

Serves as a Vice President of CACI, Inc., an international professional and high technology services organization with clients in government and commerce. Currently developing logistics and material management systems for public and private sector use.

Frank W. McDonald, 1920

Participated as an integral part of the football, basketball and track teams at Baker, lettering in each.

Was elected captain of the state championship basketball team that lost only one game in 1919.

Served as president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and the Baker University Athletic Association.

Worked three summers on the Chautauqua circuit where he became well acquainted with the honorable William Jennings Bryan.

Spent 13 years at Haskell Indian School serving as assistant football coach, head coach of basketball and track, chairman of the stadium financial committee and director of athletics.

Responsible for the fund-raising and building of Haskell Stadium dedicated in 1926.

Organized and served as president of the Young Democrat Club of Douglas County. Later served as State President of the Young Democrats.

Close personal friend and consultant to former Kansas governors George Docking and Robert Docking. Served as chairman of their gubernatorial campaigns.

Founded and owned the McDonald Beverage Company of Lawrence, Kan.

Served eight years as chairman of the Kansas Turnpike Authority.

Previously inducted into the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame and the State of Kansas Athletic Hall of Fame.